Jack Birkett

Nascimento : 1934-06-11, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

Morte : 2010-05-10

História

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 three decades his life. A regular cohort of the arthouse filmmaker Derek Jarman, Birkett appeared in Jubilee, The Tempest, Caravaggio and The Garden for the director. He retired from performing in the 1990s, living with his partner the Spanish artist and writer Nyako Nakar in Barcelona and London. He died on May 10, 2010 in London, aged 75.

Filmes

O Jardim
O Jardim
Pontius (Orlando)
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
Moon Child
Moon Child
Invalid
Adopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraordinary 12-year-old David begins an archetypal journey across two continents to find his destiny as Child of the Moon.
El vent de l'illa
El vent de l'illa
Gobernador
Caravaggio
Caravaggio
The Pope
A mais profunda reflexão de Derek Jarman sobre arte, sexualidade e identidade reconta a vida do famoso pintor renascentista por meio de suas telas brilhantes, quase blasfemas e seus flertes com o submundo. O filme incorpora a estética precisa do pintor em seus próprios elementos visuais.
A Prometida
A Prometida
Blind Man
O dr. Frankenstein dedica anos de pesquisa para construir o par perfeito para sua primeira criação monstruosa. Ele cria uma mulher, Eva, para casá-la com seu primeiro monstro. Contudo, Eva decide abandonar seu noivo, que não desiste de tê-la para si.
Troilus & Cressida
Troilus & Cressida
Thersites
The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for her distraught lover Troilus.
The Tempest
The Tempest
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.
Magnicídio
Magnicídio
Borgia Ginz (as Orlando)
A rainha Elizabeth I visita a Grã-Bretanha do final do século XX para encontrar uma paisagem deprimente onde a vida mudou desde seu tempo.
The Looking Glass Murders
The Looking Glass Murders
Harlequin
Made for Scottish TV and airing in 1970, "The Looking Glass Murders" is a filmed version of the mime improv play "Pierrot in Turquoise", which Lindsay Kemp and David Bowie first staged in 1967. Pierrot is a freaky mime who ventures into a mirror where he falls in love and rolls around with the equally grotesque Columbine. But when Columbine spurs him for Harlequin, Pierrot's jealousy takes over and drives him to murder. Cloud, perched on a ladder, watches over the proceedings and narrates in song.