Warren Clarke: Career highlights
Actor Warren Clarke, who died today after a "short illness," has played some memorable roles in his career.
Movie Career
His first major film role was in Stanley Kubrick's controversial cult classic 'A Clockwork Orange (1971) where a twenty-something Clarke appeared alongside Malcolm McDowell as Dim, a half-witted yet violently evil droog.'
He also appeared in Charlton Heston's epic Antony and Cleopatra (1972) and as a Russian dissident in Clint Eastwood action movie Firefox (1982). Clarke also appeared in S.O.S Titanic (1979), Hawk the Slayer (1980) Masada (1981), Enigma (1983), Lassiter (1984), Top Secret! (1984), Ishtar (1987) and I.D. (1995).
TV and Comedy appearances
With appearances in Coronation Street and the Avengers already under his belt as a young man, Clarke went on to appear in numerous television series and films in a wide variety of roles.
Warren Clarke has also appeared in Gone to the Dogs, The Jewel in the Crown and the first series of Second World War drama Wish Me Luck.
He also starred in the BBC Drama The Invisibles, a clip of which can be seen below:
Other brief television appearances included Lovejoy, All Creatures Great and Small and The Onedin Line. He was was also known for his starring role in BBC series Down To Earth, about a family who leave the rat race to relocate to rural Devon.
Clarke played perhaps his most memorable regular role as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel in the 90's TV crime drama Dalziel and Pascoe.
The Oldham-born actor played the surly copper for 61 episodes, providing the yin to the yang provided by Colin Buchanan's Peter Pascoe. He starred as the ageing, gritty detective in the TV adaptation of Reginald Hill's stories about the chalk-and-cheese colleagues for 12 series from 1996 until its conclusion in 2007.