Jack Birkett


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Actor

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...

Place of Birth: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

Date of Birth: Jun 11, 1934

Date of Death: May 10, 2010


Filmography

Actor (8 Known Credits)


The Garden

Pontius (Orlando)

El vent de l'illa

Gobernador

Caravaggio

The Pope

Troilus and Cressida

Thersites (as The Incredible Orlando)

The Tempest

Caliban, a savage and deformed slave

Jubilee

Borgia Ginz (as Orlando)

The Garden (1990)
Pontius (Orlando)
Invalid
Gobernador
Caravaggio (1986)
The Pope
Thersites (as The Incredible Orlando)
The Tempest (1979)
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave
Jubilee (1978)
Borgia Ginz (as Orlando)
Harlequin

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