Warren Clarke, who has died aged 67 after a short illness, was a burly actor with a hangdog expression who came to prominence in anti-establishment films and stage plays before becoming one of televisions best-known faces.
He exploded on to the screen in Stanley Kubricks futuristic drama A Clockwork Orange (1971), the film based on Anthony Burgesss 1962 novella set in a Britain facing mass juvenile delinquency. Clarke played Dim, one of the droogs in the gang led by a charismatic sociopath (Malcolm McDowell) whom the state tries to rehabilitate through brainwashing. The scenes of rape, murder and mugging were passed for screening by the film censors, but subsequent claims that the film led to copycat violence caused Kubrick who described the story as a social satire to withdraw it from British distribution in 1974. Only after the directors death in 1999 was it again screened in cinemas.
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