{"id":45995,"date":"2017-04-12T19:12:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=45995"},"modified":"2017-04-12T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:42:25","slug":"vale-john-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2017\/04\/12\/vale-john-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – John Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Zealand-born Australian satirist, John Clarke, has passed away.<\/p>\n

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John Clarke (Left) with long-time on-screen sparring partner Bryan Dawe (Right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Within Australia John Clarke is best known as one half of the long running double-pronged satire team Clarke & Dawe<\/em>, with Bryan Dawe, which has screened regularly on both commercial television and the ABC since 1989. Clarke made a name for himself in New Zealand as the caricature Fred Dagg, a gumboot-wearing singlet loving farmer who poked gentle fun as the country’s ways. Transitioning to Australia, Clarke made a name for himself on commercial radio, on television (including appearance on The Gillies Report<\/em>) and in film, notably as the voice of Wal in Footrot Flats<\/em>, and more recently as the odious Bernie Fowler in Mick Molloy’s Crackerjack<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A master of deadpan, Clare could spin nasty and funny within a single line, and turned Australia’s Olympic glory into television gold as part of the ensemble of The Games<\/em>, an ABC television series centred around the country’s hosting of the 2000 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n

Among his feature film credits, John Clarke appeared in Never Say Die, Death in Brunswick<\/em>, and in TV-movie The Brush-off<\/em>.<\/p>\n

John Clarke was 68.<\/p>\n

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