Jack Birkett
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Jack Birkett was born on June 11, 1934 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. He was an actor, mime artist, dancer and singer, a contemporary of Lindsey Kemp and a key member of his troupe. Often billed as Orlando, or The Incredible Orlando, Birkett was born to a Romani family and worked as an arrist's model for David Hockney before finding work as a stage hand at Leeds' Grand Theatre in 1950. He began to lose his sight in 1966, he then gradually became completely blind and was so for more than the last ...
Known For
Filmography
The Garden
1990
as Pontius (Orlando)
Moon Child
1989
as Invalid
El vent de l’illa
1988
as Gobernador
Caravaggio
1986
as The Pope
The Bride
1985
as Blind Man
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1984
as Titania
Flowers
1982
as Mimosa/Black Bird
Troilus & Cressida
1981
as Thersites
The Tempest
1979
as Caliban, a savage and deformed slave
Rising Stars
1979
as Self
Jubilee
1978
as Borgia Ginz (as Orlando)
The Looking Glass Murders
1970
as Harlequin