Jack Birkett
June 11, 1934 · 92 years old
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…
Known For
4 titles
Caravaggio
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Jubilee
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
The Garden
A nearly wordless visual narrative inter cuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones.
Troilus & Cressida
During the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek.