Chris Stuart-Clark
Chris Stuart-Clark attended the University of Cambridge and was a member of the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club at the same time as John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, David Hatch and Jonathan Lynn. He was a member of the original cast of the very successful revue "A Clump of Plinths" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, David Hatch and Jo Kendall) which later transferred to the West End in London under The New title "Cambridge Circus". When Chris Stuart-Clarke left comedy to become a schoolteacher, his place within the "Cambridge Circus" revue was taken over by Jonathan Lynn for the revue's tour of New Zealand and Broadway.
It is possible that the character name of "[...] Stuart-Clark" in the television medical comedy series "Doctor in the House" might have been named by Chris Stuart-Clark's Footlights friends, as a tribute to him, as the writers of the first series of the television comedy series were his University friends (John Cleese & Graham Chapman and Graeme Garden & Bill Oddie).
Further reading
Further information about Chris Stuart-Clark can be found in the book:
- From Fringe to Flying Circus - 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980' - Roger Wilmot, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980.
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