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