Jack Birkett est né le 11 juin 1934 à Angleterre, Royaume-Uni. Il était acteur. Il est connu pour Jubilee (1978), The Tempest (1979) et La promise (1985). Il est mort le 10 mai 2010 à Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni.
Born seeing, Birkett began to lose his sight in 1966, he then gradually became completely blind and was so for more than the last three decades his life.