Jameson Clark

Jameson Clark
Born	1907 Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
Died	January 4, 1984 (aged 76) Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire, Scotland

Jameson Clark (1907, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland – January 4, 1984, Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire, Scotland^[1]) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in 22 films and made many appearances on television.

Career

His first appearance in a major film was the British production Whisky Galore! in 1949, playing Constable Macrae, a role he would reprise in the 1957 follow-up, Rockets Galore!^[2] His early roles were all to a Scottish typecast, and he made 13 films (including The Maggie in 1954 and X the Unknown in 1956) portraying Scottish characters, before he was given the part of an English tugboat captain in 1958's The Key.^[3]

He appeared as McDougal in Ralph Thomas's 1959 re-make of John Buchan's The 39 Steps, which also starred Kenneth More as Richard Hannay.^[4] The last of his four films in that year was Charles Crichton's The Battle of the Sexes, playing Andrew Darling, with Peter Sellers and Robert Morley heading the cast.^[5]

After playing Sir Alan in the 1960 film Tunes of Glory,^[6] he portrayed the Constable in Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog, a 1961 film based on the novel by Eleanor Atkinson, which recounts the tale of the Skye Terrier who would not leave his master's grave.^[7]

Clark briefly appeared on television, playing Jamie Lang in "Whistle and I'll Come", a 1961 episode of the British police series No Hiding Place.^[8] After playing George Lockwood in the 1962 film A Pair of Briefs,^[9] Clark returned to TV in 1963 as a Foreman in "Diversion to Danger", an episode of the Suspense anthology-style series.^[10] He would remain on the small screen for the next six years, in such productions as The Troubleshooters and Dr. Finlay's Casebook, also re-surfacing in No Hiding Place, this time as Harry Armstrong in the 1963 episode "All Dead and Buried".^[3]

In 1969, Clark made his final film, Ring of Bright Water, playing the Storekeeper in the film about otters which starred real-life couple Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna.^[11] From then until his retirement in 1980, he concentrated once more on contributions to various television projects, amongst which were Sutherland's Law, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Play for Today and Enemy of the People.^[12]

Clark died in 1984 aged 76.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Whisky Galore! (1949)
• The Kidnappers (aka The Little Kidnappers) (1953)
• The Maggie (1954)
• Geordie (1955)
• X the Unknown (1956)
• Rockets Galore! (1957)
• The Long Haul (1957)
• The Key (1958)
• The 39 Steps (1959)
• Beyond This Place (aka Web of Evidence) (1959)
• The Bridal Path (1959)
• The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
• Tunes of Glory (1960)
• Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)
• A Pair of Briefs (1962)
• Ring of Bright Water (1969)

References

External links

• Jameson Clark at the Internet Movie Database