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JACK KLAFF - TEDx  BRUSSELS. JACK KLAFF - TEDx BRUSSELS. DAVID BOHM DAVID BOHM

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WERNER HEISENBERG ON QUANTUM MECHANICS WERNER HEISENBERG ON QUANTUM MECHANICS

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WERNER HEISENBERG ON THE PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE WERNER HEISENBERG ON THE PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE

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CLIPS SHOWREELS APPEARANCES CLIPS SHOWREELS APPEARANCES STEVEN WEINBERG TALKS TO JACK KLAFF: PART I STEVEN WEINBERG TALKS TO JACK KLAFF: PART I

25 Aug 2009
58 min 12 sec

STEVEN WEINBERG TALKS TO JACK KLAFF: PART II STEVEN WEINBERG TALKS TO JACK KLAFF: PART II

25 Aug 2009
12 min 7 sec

ABRAHAM PAIS TALKS TO JACK KLAFF ABRAHAM PAIS TALKS TO JACK KLAFF

30 Aug 2000
42 min 6 sec

THE SHEBANG ARCHIVE THE SHEBANG ARCHIVE

Starlab's Magazine, edited by Jack Klaff

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Jack’s first movie rôle was in 'Star Wars'.

His first television gig was an episode of 'The Sweeney' which also featured Morecambe and Wise.

And his London stage debut involving wild sex scenes led bizarrely to long seasons at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

When people ask him what makes him ‘tick’, he is fond of talking about his father who ran a watch-making business in Johannesburg. Indeed, in the early 1960’s, Jack’s Dad fixed Nelson Mandela’s watch. It was that watch on which Mandela counted out the minutes, hours, days and years of his sentence. And it is to ideas of time, change, power and fairness that Jack returns again and again.

He read Law and Economics before seeking a different kind of justice - and another way of earning money - through storytelling.

As a writer/director, Jack's works have included ‘The Shakespeare Revue’ (West End), 'Maxim Shostakovitch' (HBO and Granada), 'Acid Test' (Granada Science), 'Reconstructed Heart' (Channel 4). He has written and performed on 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' (Channel 4.) His pieces 'New Circus' (Channel Four) and 'Three-Five-Silly-Twerp' (Radio 3) were nominated for the Golden Rose at Montreux and a Tinniswood Award respectively. His most recent radio play, ‘Flying Backwards’, was broadcast in June 2012.

Jack has also written and performed more than a dozen one-man shows. He has won two Fringe Firsts, the Jack Hargreaves Award for innovative TV Drama and, at the Edinburgh Festival, received the prestigious Herald Archangel Award 2010.

Klaff’s most recent solo pieces have included a piece about Hunger for V-22, ‘Gandhi’s Sandals for Tara Arts and ‘Newton – Tour de Force’ for Gravity Fields in Grantham.

Jack has over 200 television credits including leading roles in 'Vanity Fair'(BBC), 'Miner's Strike', 'Sherlock Holmes', 'Freddie and Max', 'Ruth Rendell's Road Rage', ''Midsomer Murders', 'Last Duel' and adaptations of his own works, ‘Nagging Doubt’, ‘The Fifty Minute Hour’, ‘Maybe Baby’ and ‘Readers’ Digest’.

He made a Celebration film for Granada with his son as a tribute to political dissidents in their family. Alongside Mariella Frostrup, Jack was a regular advocate on BBC Four TV’s ‘Battle of the Books’, with James Naughtie in the chair. He has just appeared as Arnold Brown’s Angel in a short animated film for Channel 4 directed by Jes Benstock.

Among his films: 'Star Wars', 'For Your Eyes Only', 'King David', 'Pasternak', '1871', 'Ten Pence', 'Threat', 'Dogma Hearing' and 'Anxious'.

His theatrical rôles have included Foppington, Trigorin, Atahuallpa, Gulliver, di Maggio, Macbeth, Iago, Theseus/Oberon, Claudius, Belch, Robert, the Blind Man in Bill Gaskill’s acclaimed production of 'Carver', Cardinal in 'Representative', Bohr in 'Copenhagen' - directed by Matthew Lloyd - and Orson Welles in 'Around the World'. He played Michael Mansfield QC in the highly-regarded verbatim piece 'Stockwell'; he was Max in 'Shrunk' and Sir William Bragg in 'Nature of Things'.

On radio he’s played Quasimodo, Tynan, Spode, ‘Utz’, Sea Wolf Oscar Wilde and Elgar (Two Sony Silver Certificates). Of late he has done some science explaining for Chris Evans (Radio 2) and read two Books of the Week (Radio 4): ‘Last Resort’ and ‘Tokyo Vice’.

As a teenager, Jack was an accomplished swimmer, hurdler, rugby player and debater.

He now works closely with Intelligence Squared. He has written a number of their online debates and he has taken part in several of their live events. Jack has taught or presented at institutions and festivals around the world, including Florida State University, Goldsmith’s, Oxford, Cambridge, Boston University, Bristol, Imperial College, the Cheltenham Festivals of Literature as well as Science, TEDx at the European Parliament and he has held four visiting professorships at Princeton. He was Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Starlab in Brussels from 1998-2002 and maintains his connection with that institution in its present incarnation in Barcelona.

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