Ernest Clark
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
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All Creatures Great and Small
Duke of Mannerton
The Beverly Hillbillies
BBC Play of the Month
Finch McComas
No Hiding Place
Gandhi
Lord Hunter
Maigret
Billy Liar
Prison Governor
Salt & Pepper
Col. Balsom
Finders Keepers
Air Marshal
Obsession
The Wednesday Play
Pritchard
Interpol Calling
Inspector MacAndrew
The Scales of Justice
Mr. Hayes
Beau Brummell
Dr. Warren
All Gas and Gaiters
The Dean, The Very Reverend Lionel Pugh-Critchley
1984
Outer Party Announcer
It!
Harold Grove
Master Spy
Dr. Pembury
The Safecracker
Major Adbury
Memed My Hawk
Hatche's Father
Masquerade
Minister
The Agatha Christie Hour
The Dam Busters
Air Vice-Marshal The Hon. Ralph Cochrane G.B.E., K.C.B., A.F.C.
Arabesque
Beauchamp
Eye of the Devil
French Police Inspector (uncredited)
The Mudlark
Hammond
The Executioner
Roper
Father Brown
Bishop's Secretary
Time Without Pity
Under Secretary
Ladies Who Do
Stockbroker
Boy With a Flute
Sir George Noble
A Touch of Larceny
Cmdr. Bates
Song of Norway
Councilman
Blind Spot
F. G. Fielding
The Invisible Man
Sir Charles Anderson
The Circus Clown
Vaudeville Act
Richard the Lionheart
Frederick
The Cuckoo Patrol
Marshall
Doctor in the House
Dr. Parrish
The Cannon & Ball Show
The Professor
The Cannon & Ball Show
Self
Nothing But the Best
Roberts
Run a Crooked Mile
Chairman
The Stable Door
Drama 61-67
Rex
Tomorrow at Ten
Police Doctor
Sink the Bismarck!
Captain Ellis - 'Suffolk'
When We Are Married
Councillor Albert Parker
Doctor in Charge
Professor Geoffrey Loftus
Mixed Blessings
Mr. Huntley
Time to Remember
Cracknell
Queenie
Sir Philip Wentworth
Doctor on the Go
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Chorus
Private Schulz
Partners in Crime
Ashton
HMS Paradise
Commander Trickett
Doctor at Sea
No Love for Johnnie
M.P. (uncredited)
A Tale of Two Cities
Stryver
Doctor at Large
Professor Loftus
Dead Head
The Man
The Pope Must Die
Abbot
A Stitch in Time
Professor Crankshaw
Reach for the Sky
Wing Commander Beiseigel
The Man in the Sky
Maine
The Secret of My Success
Earl of Aldershot's solicitor
The Baby and the Battleship
Cmdr. Geoffrey Digby
The Devil-Ship Pirates
Sir Basil Smeeton
I Accuse!
Prosecutor at First Dreyfus Trial
The Birthday Present
Barrister
Doctor at the Top
Three on a Spree
Colonel Drew
A Woman of Mystery
Mr. Harvey
Queen of the Wild Frontier
Father (Voice)
The Chequers Manoeuvre
The Brigadier