. Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today. His subject matter tended towards social realism, especially with respect to deprived or oppressed communities. As Dave Rolinson's book (see 'Further reading', below) on Clarke details, between 1962 and 1966 Clarke directed several plays at The Questors Theatre in Ealing, London. Between 1967 and 1969 he directed various ITV productions including plays by Alun Owen (Shelter, George’s Room, Stella, Thief, Gareth), Edna O’Brien (Which Of These Two Ladies Is He Married To? and Nothing’s Ever Over) and Roy Minton (The Gentleman Caller, Goodnight Albert, Stand By Your Screen). He also worked on the series The Informer, The Gold Robbers and A Man Of Our Times (but not, as Sight and Sound once claimed, Big Breadwinner Hog). Clarke continued to work for ITV through the 1970s but now made much of his work for the BBC. This included pieces for The Wednesday Play (Sovereign's Company 1970), Play for Today and Play of the Month. Distinctive work for these strands included further plays by Minton including Funny Farm (1975) and Scum (further details below), but also Sovereign’s Company (1970) by Don Shaw, The Hallelujah Handshake (1970) by Colin Welland and Penda’s Fen (1974) by David Rudkin. He also made To Encourage the Others (1972), a powerful drama documentary about the Derek Bentley case, and several documentaries, including Vodka Cola (1981) on multinational corporations. A number of his works achieved notoriety and widespread criticism from the conservative end of the political spectrum, including Scum (1977), dealing with the subject of borstals (youth prisons), which was banned by the BBC, and subsequently remade by Clarke as a feature film in 1979 (the original television version was eventually screened after his death). His 1982 television play Made in Britain, starring Tim Roth (in his television debut) as a racist skinhead and his negative relationship with authorities and racial minorities, was based on a screenplay by David Leland. He directed the feature film Rita, Sue and Bob Too released in 1987. Clarke's work in the 1980s is fiercely stark and political, including the David Leland plays Beloved Enemy (1981) on multinational corporations and Psy-Warriors (1981) on military interrogation. But he also directed David Bowie in Baal (1982) for the BBC, part of Clarke’s interest in Bertolt Brecht. His film work became more sparse, culminating in Contact (1984) on the British military presence in Northern Ireland, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985), Road (1987) and his short film (40 mins.) Elephant (1989) which dealt with 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland and featured a series of shootings with no narrative and hardly any dialogue; all were based on accounts of actual sectarian killings that had taken place in Belfast. The film took its title from Bernard MacLaverty's description of the troubles as "the elephant in our living room" - a reference to the collective denial of the underlying social problems of Northern Ireland. His final production, The Firm (1989), covered football hooliganism through the lead character played by Gary Oldman, but also the politics of Thatcher’s Britain. Clarke inspired a generation of actors, writers and directors, including Paul Greengrass, Stephen Frears, Tim Roth, Ray Winstone, Gary Oldman, Danny Brocklehurst and Iain MacDonald. Filmmaker Harmony Korine has cited Clarke as a major influence on his work. Clarke's son is Gabriel Clarke, an award-winning sports journalist with ITV.

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1991	Director: Alan Clarke
1977	Bukovsky as Self - Interviewer (voice)

Diğer Roller

1989	The Firm - Director
1989	Elephant - Director
1987	Road - Director
1987	Christine - Director
1987	Christine - Writer
1987	Rita, Sue and Bob Too - Director
1985	Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire - Director
1985	Contact - Director
1984	Stars of the Roller State Disco - Director
1984	The British Desk - Director
1983	Brief Encounters - Director
1982	Made in Britain - Director
1982	Baal - Director
1981	Psy-Warriors - Director
1981	Beloved Enemy - Director
1980	Vodka Cola - Director
1980	Vodka Cola - Producer
1979	Scum - Director
1978	Nina - Director
1978	Danton's Death - Director
1978	Danton's Death - Writer
1977	Scum - Director
1977	Bukovsky - Director
1977	Bukovsky - Producer
1976	Fast Hands - Director
1975	Diane - Director
1975	Diane - Writer
1975	Funny Farm - Director
1974	A Follower for Emily - Director
1974	Penda's Fen - Director
1973	The Love-Girl and the Innocent - Director
1973	Man Above Men - Director
1973	Achilles Heel - Director
1972	Horatio Bottomley - Director
1972	A Life Is Forever - Director
1972	To Encourage the Others - Director
1972	Horace - Director
1972	Under the Age - Director
1971	Everybody Say Cheese - Director
1970	The Hallelujah Handshake - Director
1970	I Can't See My Little Willie - Director
1970	Sovereign's Company - Director
1969	The Comic - Director
1969	The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel - Director
1969	The Piano Tuner - Director
1968	Stand by Your Screen - Director
1968	Thief - Director
1968	The Fifty-Seventh Saturday - Director
1968	Stella - Director
1968	Goodnight Albert - Director
1968	Sally Go Round the Moon - Director
1967	George's Room - Director
1967	The Gentleman Caller - Director
1967	Shelter - Director