Alan John Scarfe

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Scarfe, Alan [a/k/a/ Clanash Farjeon] (8 June 1946 - )

An actor, director, life-long disbeliever, screen-writer, and poet, Scarfe is author of A Handbook for Attendants on the Insane: The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper, an examination of religious motivation behind the notorious killings in Whitechapel and much inhumane mayhem besides.

Scarfe, who was born in London, England, is the son of Gladys Ellen (née Hunt) and Neville Vincent Scarfe, both university professors. When married to Sara Botsford, the couple had a son who is an actor, Jonathan Scarfe.

Currently, Scarfe is married to actor Barbara March, and they have a daughter. Scarfe has two brothers: Colin Scarfe, who was a professor of astronomy at the University of Victoria; and Brian Scarfe, who was a professor of economics at the University of Manitoba, University of Alberta, University of Regina, a senior university administrator at Alberta and Regina, and an economics consultant.

Scarfe has also had guest roles as two separate Romulan characters in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Magistrate Augris in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Resistance".

A Genie Award-winning Canadian actor, he is a former Associate Director of the Stratford Festival and the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He won the 1985 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his role in Overnight and earned two other Genie nominations as well as a Gemini Award nomination.

In Gossip From Across the Pond (chelCpress, 2000), Warren Allen Smith described a 2004 telephone call from Scarfe:

• When Jesus's father phoned me from Canada, asking if I wanted to see his son that night in a telecast, I religiously complied. Alan Scarfe's son, Jonathan, was excellent. As Jesus in Judas, he played the role handsomely, dramatically dying in the plot that S&M-ers so enjoy.

• Scarfe, a Canadian who wrote an autobiography (sic) of Jack the Ripper and also is an actor, thinks, as does his son, that ethical humanism is universally imperative, that organized religion is bunk. Both should have been included in my Who's Who in Hell (Barricade Books, 2000) listing of more than 10,000 non-believers, for which I have profusely apologized. Now, I await a similar call from the Holy Ghost's father or, maybe, its mother. .

Mused Smith, not many Canadians are aware that Jesus's father was Canadian.

In 2005, Scarfe moved from Canada to Italy, where he sent mail signed "Il Barone (Alfonso di Scarpia"). In 2011 he was back in British Columbia.

Gargoyle Books has published Le Memorie di Jack Lo Squartatore (2008).

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