Jack Birkett
Birthday
1934/06/11
Day of death
2010/05/10 (75 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Also know as
Orlando, The Incredible Orlando, El Increíble Orlando, ジャック・バーケット
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1978) Jubilee
as Borgia Ginz (as Orlando)
(1970) The Looking Glass Murders
as Harlequin
Good Bye G.O.D.
as G.O.D.
(1985) The Bride
as Blind Man
(1986) Caravaggio
as The Pope
(1979) The Tempest
as Caliban, a savage and deformed slave
(1990) The Garden
as Pontius (Orlando)
(1981) Troilus & Cressida
as Thersites
(1992) Moon Child
as Invalid
(1988) El vent de l’illa
as Gobernador
(1979) Rising Stars
as Self