Alan Clarke

Liverpool native 'Alan Clarke' (qv) got his start in the film business in Canada, where he studied acting and directing. Upon returning to England he got a job at ITV, then moved over to the BBC in 1969. He worked mostly in television, but he made a couple of feature films that got attention for their portrayal of the gritty and occasionally violent life of the British working class, notably _Scum (1979)_ (qv) and _Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)_ (qv), about aimless, sex-obsessed teenagers in a housing project. Another of his slice-of-life films was the hard-hitting made-for-TV movie _Made in Britain (1982)_ (qv), with an early performance by 'Tim Roth' (qv) as a violent, racist skinhead.'Alan Clarke' (qv) died of cancer in 1990::[email protected]