Oz Clarke

Robert "Oz" Clarke (born 1949) is a British wine writer and broadcaster. Clarke’s parents were a chest physician and a nursing sister. He was brought up near Canterbury with a brother and a sister. Clarke became head chorister at the Canterbury Cathedral Choristers School and subsequently won a choral scholarship to the independent school, The King's School, Canterbury. He later attended Pembroke College, Oxford where he studied theology and psyc... more

Robert "Oz" Clarke (born 1949) is a British wine writer and broadcaster. Clarke’s parents were a chest physician and a nursing sister. He was brought up near Canterbury with a brother and a sister. Clarke became head chorister at the Canterbury Cathedral Choristers School and subsequently won a choral scholarship to the independent school, The King's School, Canterbury. He later attended Pembroke College, Oxford where he studied theology and psychology. He also co-founded and captained the wine-tasting team. Clarke lives in West London. Clarke started a career as a full time actor and singer working for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, The Old Vic and Chichester. In the West End, he played all the men in the Mitford Girls, Sweeney Todd and Peron in Evita. He played a bank robber in the 1978 film Superman, a Special Branch man in Who Dares Wins, and Balthasar in Stuart Burge's 1984 film of Much Ado About Nothing as well as singing in the 1984 BBC adaptation of The... less