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