O.B. Clarence(1870-1955)
- Actor
Stocky, bespectacled English character actor, whose career began in the
music halls. Educated at Dover College, Oliver Burchett Clarence acted
in repertory theatre from 1890. He then worked as a member of
actor-manager Frank Benson's troupe
for a number of years. During the First World War, he served as a
special constable. After the war, Clarence undertook extensive
classical training in Britain and America and subsequently accumulated
a long list of credits on London's Shakespearean stage. A regular in
British films from 1930, he was generally well-cast in period drama or
comedy, often as cloth-capped working class types, priests or likable
old dodderers. O.B. Clarence retired from acting at the age of eighty.
