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Looking for reviews of Jack Birkett movies? Cinafilm has a total of 143 reviews across 4 movies.
Movies starring Jack Birkett have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
The Garden - released in 1990 - is Jack Birkett's highest rated movie, with a score of 64% based on 3 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jack Birkett is The Tempest - released in 1979 - with a score of 57% based on 12 reviews.
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.
Jack Birkett has acted in films with Karl Johnson, Ken Campbell, Toyah Willcox and Claire Davenport.
Jack Birkett has worked with these film directors: Derek Jarman and Franc Roddam.
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