Biography

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

Son-in-law of Margaret Lockwood.

He was cremated and his ashes were interred at the Golders Green Crematorium in Golders Green, London, England.

His voice was dubbed over in Masquerade.

Bengal Lancers (1984) was closed down after two week because of money problems.

In Masquerade a scene filmed at London Airport had such a lot of background noise that Ernest's dialogue had to be dubbed at the studio but the films director wasn't around so it was attended to by a sound engineer but the director wasn't satisfied with it and with Ernest then not around it was done by someone else.