• Skip to content
 
  • Log in
  • Contact us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Spoken Word Archive
35 years
of performance poetry
  • Home
  • About
  • Artists & Shows
  • Our collection
  • Features
  • Get involved
  • Resources
You are here:
Home>Artists>Jack Klaff
Search by date
Search by artist
  • Lemn Sissay (95)
  • Jean 'Binta' Breeze (90)
  • Zena Edwards (88)
  • Patience Agbabi (84)
  • Francesca Beard (79)
  • Malika Booker (69)
  • Aoife Mannix (65)
  • El Crisis (61)
  • John Hegley (60)
  • Joolz Denby (56)

All artists

Search by venue
  • Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
  • Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Rich Mix (117)
  • Albany (London - Lewisham) (81)
  • Soho Theatre (68)
  • Nuffield (Southampton) (57)
  • Horseshoe (52)
  • Roebuck (51)
  • Victoria (Birmingham) (51)
  • Barbican (Plymouth) (48)

All venues

Jack Klaff

Contains 1 performance.

Taken from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Jack Klaff (born August 6, 1951) is an actor, writer, director and academic. Klaff has held four visiting professorships at Princeton University and was for four years Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Starlab in Brussels.[2] He attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School graduating in 1975.

He appeared briefly with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and in the 1970s and 1980s in self-written solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. Most of his theatre work since then has been in smaller "fringe" theatres in London and elsewhere.

One of his most notable roles was as James Bond movie henchman Apostis in the 1981 film For Your Eyes Only.  In the 1980s he also appeared in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Delve Special.

  • Shout: Voices Against Censorship

    Shout: Voices Against Censorship

    14 January 1989 at 
    ICA (3)
    Audience member Paul Steeples, taken from www.juliemyers.org.uk: I remember going to an event protesting about censorship, mainly to see Tony Benn performing with Test Department (which he did, and it was good). Halfway through the evening, Salman Rushdie got up on stage and said he had been made the subject ...
Latest comments
  • Bella on Contact usThe Spoken Word Archive is an amazing wealth of knowledge and history! It's so great to be able to track the progress of one's poetic heroes from grassroots to where they are now :) Thank you!
  • Fiona Marie on Lydia TomkiwThis is fascinating! It's sent me down an Algebra Suicide / Lydia Tomkiw researching wormhole.
Twitter
  • RT @VervePoetryPres: As promised, our submissions window is NOW OPEN for full collections until midnight on March 31st! They have already s…6 hours ago
  • Callout We are seeking fourteen #ArtistInResidence to join us for our SPINE Festival 2021. We are seeking artists… https://t.co/k42fS39oDU7 hours ago
Arts Council(opens in new window) Apples and Snakes(opens in new window) Heritage Lottery Fund(opens in new window)

Content released under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0. Website by CommunitySites