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The following year, Marker was voted the most compulsive male character in a TV Times poll.Burke – who was always known as Alfie – was born in Peckham, south-east London, to Irish parents. 1:30 PM PDT Alfred Burke was born on February 28, 1918 in Peckham, London, England.

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IMDb TV IMDb Originals Latest Trailers. Alfred Burke on IMDb: Awards, nominations, and wins. Born in London's south-east district of Peckham, the son of Sarah Ann O'Leary and William Burke, he was educated at Leo Street Boys' School and Walworth Central School. The character was intended as a British rival to Raymond Chandler's American gumshoe Philip Marlowe. Barton had unearthed a previously unperformed scene in which the stern and implacable father promised his daughter's hand in marriage, as long as Peer atoned for all his sins. In 1765, a young English boy named Jim Hawkins becomes involved with buccaneers during his quest to find pirate Captain Flint's treasure buried on a secret island.

Cynical, dour and world-weary, private eye Frank Marker is frequently the unwitting stooge in bigger criminal wheels in his attempts to make a tenuous living on the outskirts of London. Burke in The Angry Silence. He portrayed Richter as essentially decent, despite the dire obligations of war.After a recurring role in the series Sophia and Constance (1988), based on Arnold Bennett's novel The Old Wives' Tale, he continued to take small TV parts throughout his 70s and 80s.

The following year, he slid into the arms of a welcoming public as Marker.

All Titles TV Episodes Celebs Companies Keywords; Advanced Search. He was at Birmingham Rep for the three parts of Henry VI, which transferred to the Old Vic in London in 1953.By the late 1950s, Burke had established himself as a serious stage actor and a useful character actor in films including the war movies Bitter Victory (1957) and No Time to Die (1958). He can't afford a secretary, much less an assistant, and when he needs a car, he hires a runabout from the local garage.

on In between starring in seven series of Public Eye, he had leading roles at the Leeds Playhouse in Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV, in 1970, and in Pictures in a Bath of Acid, as the writer August Strindberg, in 1971.Burke enhanced his TV popularity with parts including the father in The Brontës of Haworth (1973), Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1977) and Major Richter, a German commandant in occupied Guernsey, in the series Enemy at the Door (1978). Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. He was an actor and writer, known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), The Avengers (1961) and Public Eye (1965).

He died on February 16, 2011 in Barnes, London. He was married to Barbara Bonelle Burke. He played the best ever Gonzalo in Nicholas Hytner's The Tempest (1988); a fine Lepidus in John Caird's Antony and Cleopatra (1992); a wonderfully frail but deserving old Adam in As You Like It, directed by David Thacker (1992); and a not-to-be-messed-with Escalus in Michael Boyd's Romeo and Juliet (2000). "An ABC TV press release introduced the character as a "thin, shabby, middle-aged man with a slightly grim sense of humour and an aura of cynical incorruptibility.

Filmography Actor (132) Writer (1) Soundtrack (1) Self (3) Get the IMDb App. Tue, Sep 08 He thought up the character's name himself – originally the detective was to be called Frank Marvin.

Alfred Burke. All Titles TV Episodes Celebs Companies Keywords; Advanced Search. All. "He could be defined in negatives.

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Before British cop drama Harrigan hits our cinema screens on September 20, we had the great pleasure of speaking to the lead role, Detective Harrigan himself, Stephen Tompkinson. This gave Burke's appearance in the fifth act as the Button Moulder, who comes to collect Peer's soul, an unusual and surprising resonance.• Alfred Burke, actor, born 28 February 1918; died 16 February 2011Actor best known as the private detective Frank Marker in the television series Public EyeBurke as the tough, unattached, self-sufficient Marker in A Mug Named Frank, a 1971 episode of Public Eye. Help Center Contributor Zone Polls. In 1964 his own script, Where Are They Now?, written under the pen name of Frank Hanna, was produced as a Play of the Week.

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