Alan Scarfe

Alan Scarfe, who died in 2024, worked as an actor, stage director and author in Britain and Canada. He was born in Harpenden, England, and trained at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in London. After starting as a classical stage performer, he took more than 100 major roles in theaters throughout Europe, Canada and the United States, including Shakespeare. He also directed plays and held associate director posts at the Stratford Festival from 1976 to 1977 and the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool from 1967 to 1968. For The Bay Boy he received the 1985 Genie Award for supporting actor; Deserters and Overnight earned him Genie nominations, and aka Albert Walker a Gemini nomination. On television he was Dr. Bradley Talmadge in Seven Days and guested on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. He later wrote novels as Clanash Farjeon and won BIBA awards.