1. Warren Clarke appeared in many films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
19 Facts About Warren Clarke
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Warren Clarke's father worked as a stained-glass maker and his mother as a secretary.
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Warren Clarke left Barlow Hall Secondary Modern School, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, aged 15 and began work at the Manchester Evening News as a copy boy.
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Warren Clarke later moved on to amateur dramatics and performed at Huddersfield Rep before working as an actor full-time.
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Warren Clarke played a Russian dissident in Clint Eastwood's Firefox.
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In Granada Television's series The Jewel in the Crown Warren Clarke played the role of the overtly homosexual 'Sophie' Dixon, and he was Colonel Krieger in the first series of LWT's Wish Me Luck.
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In 1989 Warren Clarke played Captain Lee in the film Crusoe.
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Warren Clarke starred in an episode of Lovejoy entitled "Bin Diving".
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Warren Clarke played Larry Patterson in Gone to the Dogs, which was followed by the series Gone to Seed, in which Clarke again starred.
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Warren Clarke appeared in Our Mutual Friend as Bradley Headstone.
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In Sleepers, alongside Nigel Havers, Warren Clarke played one of the two lead roles as two KGB sleeper agents living in Britain and leading their own lives until they are reactivated.
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Warren Clarke played Bamber in the ITV comedy-drama Moving Story.
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Between 2000 and 2003, Warren Clarke played Brian Addis, a father who moved his family from the bustle of London to a Devon farm, in the BBC TV series Down to Earth.
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Warren Clarke appeared as Mr Boythorn in the BBC One dramatisation of Bleak House and starred alongside Anthony Head in the BBC Drama The Invisibles and in the Channel 4 trilogy Red Riding.
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Warren Clarke guested as Robert Trevanion, the father of Stephen Tompkinson's character Danny Trevanion, in Wild at Heart in 2011, as innkeeper Samuel Quested in Midsomer Murders and as John Lacey in Call the Midwife.
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Warren Clarke was a keen golfer and had been a Manchester City supporter from the age of seven.
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Warren Clarke had a daughter, Georgia, by his second wife, Michelle.
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On 12 November 2014 Warren Clarke died in his sleep after a short illness.
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Amongst his financial problems, Warren Clarke had apparently lost money investing in the 2013 action film The Numbers Station.