Alan Clarke
- Directing
- October 28, 1935 · Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK
- July 24, 1990
Biography
Alan John Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer. Clarke primarily worked for TV, writing and directing plays for Rediffusion, LWT, and the BBC. On film, he made only three features, the best known of which is the 1979 youth prison drama Scum, in fact an expansion of a Play for Today production.
Known for
Filmography
- Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today · Self
- Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light · Self
- Director: Alan Clarke
- The Firm · Director
- Elephant · Director
- Road · Director
- Christine · Director, Writer
- Rita, Sue and Bob Too · Director
- ScreenPlay · Director, Writer
- Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire · Director
- Alive from Off Center · Director
- Contact · Director
- Screen Two · Director
- Waterbag · Producer
- Stars of the Roller State Disco · Director
- The British Desk · Director
- Made in Britain · Director
- Tales Out of School · Director
- Brief Encounters · Director
- Baal · Director
- Psy-Warriors · Director
- Beloved Enemy · Director
- Vodka Cola · Producer, Director
- Scum · Director
- Nina · Director
- Danton's Death · Director, Writer
- Scum · Director
- Bukovsky · Self, Director
- Fast Hands · Director
- Plays for Britain · Director
- Diane · Writer, Director
- Funny Farm · Director
- A Follower for Emily · Director
- Penda's Fen · Director
- Playhouse · Director
- The Love-Girl and the Innocent · Director, Adaptation
- Man Above Men · Director
- Achilles Heel · Director
- Horatio Bottomley · Director
- The Edwardians · Director
- A Life Is Forever · Director
- To Encourage the Others · Director
- Horace · Director
- Under the Age · Director
- Everybody Say Cheese · Director
- The Hallelujah Handshake · Director
- I Can't See My Little Willie · Director
- Play for Today · Director
- Sovereign's Company · Director
- The Comic · Director
- The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel · Director
- The Ladies: Doreen · Director
- The Ladies: Joan · Director
- Plays of Today · Director
- The Gold Robbers · Director
- The Piano Tuner · Director
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Director
- Stand by Your Screen · Director
- The Company of Five · Director
- Thief · Director
- Nothing's Ever Over · Director
- The Fifty-Seventh Saturday · Director
- Stella · Director
- Never Mind How We Got Here, Where Are We? · Director
- Goodnight Albert · Director
- Got Yourself Sorted Out at All? · Director
- Sally Go Round the Moon · Director
- A Man of our Times · Director
- George's Room · Director
- Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To? · Director
- The Gentleman Caller · Director
- A Man Inside · Director
- Shelter · Director
- Half Hour Story · Director
- The Informer · Director
- Seven Deadly Sins · Assistant Unit Manager
- BBC Play of the Month · Director, Writer
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Director
- The Wednesday Play · Director