Alan Clarke

See also Alan Clark, Allan Clarke

Alan Clarke (28 October, 1935 - 1990) was a film director, producer and writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England.

Much of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, and featured from 1969 onwards in The Wednesday Play, and Play for Today. His subject matter tended towards social realism, especially with respect to deprived or oppressed communities.

A number of his works achieved notoriety and widespread criticism from the more reactionary end of the media spectrum; such as Scum (1977), dealing with the subject of Borstals - youth prisons.