Jack Birkett
Acting
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 …
Caravaggio
1986
The Pope
The Bride
1985
Blind Man
Jubilee
1978
Borgia Ginz (as Orlando)
The Garden
1990
Pontius (Orlando)
The Tempest
1979
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave
Moon Child
1989
Invalid
El vent de l’illa
1988
Gobernador
Troilus & Cressida
1981
Thersites
Good Bye G.O.D.
G.O.D.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1984
Titania
Flowers
1982
Mimosa/Black Bird