Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

Date of Birth: 16 December 1917
Place of Birth: Minehead, Somerset, England, UK

Date of Death: 19 March 2008
Place of Death: Sri Lanka

Also Known As: E.G. Obrien; Charles Willis

* = television
+ = computer game

1949
Captain Video and His Video Rangers (scripts) *
Captain Video

1952
Tales of Tomorrow: All the Time in the World (13 June 1952) (story) *

1965
Horizon: 28 July 1965 (performer (himself)) *

1966
Horizon: 27 February 1966 (performer (himself)) *

People To Watch: Arthur C. Clarke (20 February 1966) (performer (himself)) *

Towards Tomorrow: Robot (28 December 1967) (performer (himself)) *

1968
2001: A Space Odyssey (script; short story (The Sentinel - uncredited))
2001 Odissea nello spazio - Italian title
2001, l'odyssée de l'espace - French title
2001, una odisea del espacio - Argentinian title
2001: Avaruusseikkailu - Finnish title
2001: Een zwerftocht in de ruimte - Dutch title
2001: En romodyssé - Norwegian title
2001: Odisea del espacio - Argentinian title
2001: Odisséia no Espaço - Portugese title
2001: Odyseja kosmiczna - Polish title
2001: Odyssee im Weltraum - German title
2001: Uma Odisséia no Espaço - Brazilian title
2001: Una odisea del espacio - Spanish title
2001: Una odissea en l'espai - Catalan Spanish title
2001: Ürodüsszeia - Hungarian title
År 2001 ett rymdäventyr - Swedish title
Rumrejsen år 2001 - Danish title

Towards Tomorrow: World in a Box (18 January 1968) (performer (himself)) *

1972
Arthur C. Clarke: The 2001 Ideas of the Prophet of the Space Age (performer (himself))

1977
The Sky at Night: Suns, Space-Ships and Bug-Eyed Monsters (14 December 1977) (performer (himself)) *

Time Out of Mind: Arthur C. Clarke (17 September 1979) (performer (himself)) *

1980
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: The Journey Begins (2 September 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Monsters of the Deep (9 September 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Ancient Wisdom (16 September 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: The Missing Apeman (23 September 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Giants For the Gods (30 September 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Monsters of the Lakes (7 October 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: The Great Siberian Explosion (14 October 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: The Riddle of the Stones (21 October 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Out of the Blue (28 October 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: U.F.O.'s (4 November 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Dragons, Dinosaurs and Giant Snakes (11 November 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Strange Skies (25 November 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Clarke's Cabinet of Curiosities (25 November 1980) (performer (himself)) *

Baddegama (performer (Leonard Woolf))
Das Dorf im Dschungel - German title

Newsnight: 10 September 1980 (performer (himself)) *

1982
The Goodies: Bigfoot (23 January 1982) (character) *
The Goodies: In Search of Bigfoot
The Goodies: In Search of Arthur C. Clarke

1983
Good Morning Britain: 15 May 1983 (performer (himself)) *

1984
2010 (novel; performer (man on park bench – uncredited))
2010 - Das Jahr, in dem wir Kontakt aufnehmen - German title
2010 - L'année du premier contact (L'odyssée continue) - French title
2010 - L'anno del contatto - Italian title
2010 année du premier contact - French Belgian title
2010 året då vi får kontakt - Swedish title
2010, odisea dos - Spanish title
2010: The Year We Make Contact
O Ano do Contacto - Portugese title
Avaruusseikkailu 2010 - Finnish video title

2010: The Odyssey Continues (performer (himself - uncredited))

Horizon Special: Beyond the Moon (21 July 1984) (performer (himself)) *

1985
Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Warnings From the Future? (3 April 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Things That Go Bump in the Night (10 April 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: From Mind to Mind (17 April 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Stigmata - The Wounds of Christ? (24 April 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Ghosts, Apparitions and Haunted Houses (1 May 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Fairies, Phantoms and Fantastic Photographs (22 May 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: An Element of the Divine (5 June 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Walking on Fire (12 June 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Messages From the Dead? (19 June 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Roots of Evil (26 June 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Metal Bending, Magic and Mind Over Matter (3 July 1985) (performer (himself)) *

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers: Strange Powers - The Verdict (10 July 1985) (performer (himself)) *

The Twilight Zone: The Star (story) *

1993
Arthur C. Clarke: Before 2001 (script, performer (himself))

Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (9 April 1993) (performer (himself)) *

Great Books: 2001: A Space Odyssey (date uncertain) (subject of episode) *

Great Westerners: The Failed Recluse (28 May 1993) (performer (himself)) *

1994
Trapped in Space (short story (Breaking Strain))
Gefangen im All - German title

Without Warning (performer (himself)) *
Tod aus dem All - German title
Utan varning - Swedish title

1995
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe (performer (himself / host)) *

This Is Your Life: Arthur C. Clarke (11 January 1995) (performer (himself)) *

1996
Cinefile: Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man (performer (himself)) *

Future Fantastic: Brainstorm (performer (himself)) *

Rama (performer (himself)) +

1997
Fear of a Calm Blue Sea (8 November 1997) (performer (himself)) *

Hollywood Aliens and Monsters (performer (himself in archive footage)) *
Monstres et extraterrestres à Hollywood - French Canadian title
To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill – alternative title

Many Happy Returns (performer (himself)) *

Mastermind: 23 June 1997 (subject of questions in quiz show) *

The Works: The Man Who Saw the Future (13 July 1997) (performer (himself)) *

1998
Hal's Birthday: An Internet Odyssey (1 March 1998) (performer (himself)) *

The Sci-Files: Children of Frankenstein (30 May 1998) (performer (himself)) *

The Sci-Files: Spaceships and Aliens (6 June 1998) (performer (himself)) *

2001
2001: HAL's Legacy (performer (himself)) *

2001: The Making of a Myth (13 January 2001) (performer (himself)) *

The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself))

The Android Prophecy: A History of Robots in Film (22 September 2001) (performer (himself)) *

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (performer (himself))
Maailma Kubrickin silmin - Finnish title
Stanley Kubrick - ohjaajan muotokuva - Finnish title
Stanley Kubrick: Una vida através del cine - Mexican title
Stanley Kubrick: Una vida en imágenes - Spanish title
Stanley Kubrick: Une vie en images - French title

2003
The Sky at Night: Mars, the Next Frontier (performer (himself)) *

1958
News: 14 April 1958 (performer (himself)) *

1977
The Nine O'Clock News: 10 January 1977 (performer (himself)) *

1985
The Nine O'Clock News: 28 June 1985 (performer (himself)) *

Wogan: 1 March 1985 (performer (himself)) *

1994
How Do They Do That?: 5 April 1994 (performer (himself)) *

1995
It's For You: The Life and Times of the Telephone: Close Encounter (4 October 1995) (performer (himself)) *

1996
The Colours of Infinity (script; performer (himself)) *

The Hollow State: Part One (28 September 1996) (performer (himself)) *

The Nine O'Clock News: 25 October 1996 (performer (himself)) *

1997
Newsnight: 8 October 1997 (performer (himself)) *

Seven Wonders of the World: Arthur C. Clarke (30 March 1997) (performer (himself)) *

1998
BBC Breakfast News: 2 February 1998 (performer (himself)) *

The Nine O'Clock News: 5 February 1998 (performer (himself)) *

The Nine O'Clock News: 29 December 1998 (performer (himself)) *

1999
2000 Today (31 December 1999) (performer (himself)) *

2001
Letadlo: 24 January 2001 (performer (himself)) *

2003
To Mars By A-Bomb: The Secret Mission of Project Orion (26 March 2003) (performer (himself)) *

REFERENCES

PERIODICALS

Film Comment vol.20 no.6 (November/December 1984) pp.60-61 (USA)
interview

Films vol.5 no.4 (April 1985) pp.10-11 (UK)
article

Media Studies Journal vol.13 (Spring/Summer 1999) pp.120-129 (USA)
article (Peering forward by Christopher Dornan)

Millimeter vol.5 no.3 (March 1977) pp.40-42, 46 (USA)
article

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.52 no.614 (March 1985) p.96 (UK)
article (Ring around the moons by Philip Strick)

Sight and Sound vol.54 no.3 (Summer 1985) pp.184-185 (UK)
article

Total Film no.141 (June 2008) p.16 (UK)
illustrated obituary (RIP Arthur C Clarke)

Starburst no.28 (1980) pp.38-40 (UK)
interview

Last Updated: 23 November, 2008