Ernest Clark
Acting • Born 1912-02-12 – Died 1994-11-11
Biography
A distinguished stage actor, Ernest Clark was best known to British television viewers for his role as the crusty "Sir Geoffrey Loftus" in the long running "Doctor" comedy series during the 1970s. Born in Maida Vale, Clark was the son of a master builder and was educated at Marylebone Grammar School. His first job was as a reporter on a local newspaper and he was also a keen amateur actor. He made his first professional appearance at the Festival Theatre, Cambridge in 1937 and, throughout the 1930s and 40s, was rarely off the West End stage. In New York in 1950, he garnered rave reviews for his appearance in T.S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party". A prolific screen character actor, he was usually cast in cold, tight-lipped roles in British war films. He was vice-president of Equity, the British actor's union, from 1964-69 and president from 1970-73. An articulate, outspoken and often witty commentator for the acting profession, he always argued on the side of regulated entry into what he described as "an overcrowded industry". Clark's first two marriages were dissolved. His third wife was 'Julia Lockwood', the daughter of the British film star Margaret Lockwood. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Patrick Newley
Filmography
75 credits
Beau Brummell
Movie • 1954
Dr. Warren
Partners in Crime
Movie • 1961
Ashton
Sink the Bismarck!
Movie • 1960
Captain Ellis - 'Suffolk'
Father Brown
Movie • 1954
Bishop's Secretary
Ladies Who Do
Movie • 1963
Stockbroker
Doctor in the House
Movie • 1954
Dr. Parrish
Masquerade
Movie • 1965
Minister
Blind Spot
Movie • 1958
F. G. Fielding
The Executioner
Movie • 1970
Roper
The Man in the Sky
Movie • 1957
Maine
Finders Keepers
Movie • 1966
Air Marshal
The Dam Busters
Movie • 1955
Air Vice-Marshal The Hon. Ralph Cochrane G.B.E., K.C.B., A.F.C.
It!
Movie • 1967
Harold Grove
Queen of the Wild Frontier
Movie • 1993
Father (Voice)
Time to Remember
Movie • 1962
Cracknell
The Stable Door
Movie • 1966
Run a Crooked Mile
Movie • 1969
Chairman
The Birthday Present
Movie • 1957
Barrister
The Circus Clown
Movie • 1934
Vaudeville Act
1984
Movie • 1956
Outer Party Announcer
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie • 1958
Stryver
Reach for the Sky
Movie • 1956
Wing Commander Beiseigel
The Devil-Ship Pirates
Movie • 1964
Sir Basil Smeeton
The Cuckoo Patrol
Movie • 1967
Marshall
Salt & Pepper
Movie • 1968
Col. Balsom
Song of Norway
Movie • 1970
Councilman
Gandhi
Movie • 1982
Lord Hunter
Obsession
Movie • 1949
Arabesque
Movie • 1966
Beauchamp
The Secret of My Success
Movie • 1965
Earl of Aldershot's solicitor
Memed My Hawk
Movie • 1984
Hatche's Father
Boy With a Flute
Movie • 1964
Sir George Noble
A Touch of Larceny
Movie • 1960
Cmdr. Bates
The Safecracker
Movie • 1958
Major Adbury
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Movie • 1986
Chorus
The Pope Must Die
Movie • 1991
Abbot
A Woman of Mystery
Movie • 1958
Mr. Harvey
Tomorrow at Ten
Movie • 1963
Police Doctor
I Accuse!
Movie • 1958
Prosecutor at First Dreyfus Trial
Billy Liar
Movie • 1963
Prison Governor
Time Without Pity
Movie • 1957
Under Secretary
A Stitch in Time
Movie • 1963
Professor Crankshaw
The Baby and the Battleship
Movie • 1956
Cmdr. Geoffrey Digby
Nothing But the Best
Movie • 1964
Roberts
When We Are Married
Movie • 1949
Councillor Albert Parker
Three on a Spree
Movie • 1961
Colonel Drew
The Mudlark
Movie • 1950
Hammond
Master Spy
Movie • 1964
Dr. Pembury
Eye of the Devil
Movie • 1966
French Police Inspector (uncredited)
The Chequers Manoeuvre
Movie • 1968
The Brigadier
No Love for Johnnie
Movie • 1961
M.P. (uncredited)
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
The Scales of Justice
TV • 1962
Mr. Hayes
Interpol Calling
TV • 1959
Inspector MacAndrew
Doctor at Large
TV • 1971
Professor Loftus
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Doctor at Sea
TV • 1974
Maigret
TV • 1960
Doctor in Charge
TV • 1972
Professor Geoffrey Loftus
The Agatha Christie Hour
TV • 1982
Doctor on the Go
TV • 1975
Doctor at the Top
TV • 1991
The Cannon & Ball Show
TV • 1979
The Professor
The Cannon & Ball Show
TV • 1979
Self
The Invisible Man
TV • 1958
Sir Charles Anderson
All Creatures Great and Small
TV • 1978
Duke of Mannerton
Queenie
TV • 1987
Sir Philip Wentworth
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Pritchard
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Finch McComas
Richard the Lionheart
TV • 1962
Frederick
HMS Paradise
TV • 1964
Commander Trickett
Mixed Blessings
TV • 1978
Mr. Huntley
All Gas and Gaiters
TV • 1967
The Dean, The Very Reverend Lionel Pugh-Critchley
Drama 61-67
TV • 1961
Rex
Private Schulz
TV • 1981
Fritsch