Clive Swift
Born: 1936-02-09 in Liverpool, England, UK
Died: 2019-02-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
Clive Swift was a British actor known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys.
Filmography
2023
- Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances as Self (archive footage)
2015
- SunTrap as Colin
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family as Edward Whiteley
2013
- Excalibur: Behind the Movie as Self
2012
- Cuckoo as Dr. Rafferty
2009
- The Old Guys as Roy
2007
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
- Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned as Mr. Copper
2005
2004
- Hustle as Yusef
2003
- 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure as Additional Voices (voice)
2002
- Born and Bred as Rev. Eustacius Brewer
- Young Arthur as Illtud
1999
- Aristocrats as King George II
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Felix Hope
- The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket as Richard
1993
- Peak Practice as Norman Shorthose
1992
- Heartbeat as Victor Kellerman
1991
- The War That Never Ends as Athenagoras
1990
- Keeping Up Appearances as Richard Bucket
- Othello as Brabantio / Gratiano
1988
- Gentlemen and Players as Sammy
- Young Toscanini
- Journey's End as Captain Hardy
1987
- Inspector Morse as Dr Bartlett
- Cause Célèbre as P.P. Croom Johnson
- Pack of Lies as Ellis
1986
- ScreenPlay as James
- A Very Peculiar Practice as Professor Piers Platt
- First Among Equals as Alec Pimkin
- All Together Now as James
1985
- The Ray Bradbury Theater as St. John Court
- Black Silk as Oliver Hollingsworth
- The Pickwick Papers as Mr. Tupman
- Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks as Professor Jobel
- What Mad Pursuit as Bonwit Steinhauser
1984
- A Passage to India as Major Callendar
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre as Lord Cerimon
- Memed My Hawk as Magistrate
1983
- Storyboard as Hewes
- Martin Luther, Heretic as Johann Tetzel
1982
- The Barchester Chronicles as Dr Proudie
- Praying Mantis as Dr. Faure
1981
- Excalibur as Ector
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
- The Potsdam Quartet as Aaron Green
1980
- Cribb as Dr Probert
- The Nesbitts Are Coming
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as Hastie Lanyon
- An Ordered Life as Director of Austrian State Radio
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Latham
- Henry IV Part 1 as Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
- Home-Movies as Alec Thorne
1978
- Send in the Girls as Mr Fenton
- Bless Me Father as Fred Dobie
- The Sailor's Return as Reverend Pottock
- Foreign Affairs as Adamson
1977
- BBC2 Play of the Week as Frank
- The Kitchen as Frank
1976
- Victorian Scandals as William Hepworth-Dixon
- Clayhanger as Albert Benbow
- Beasts as 'Bunny' Nettleton
- Beloved as William Hepworth-Dixon
- Romeo and Juliet as Friar Lawrence
- Beasts: The Dummy as 'Bunny' Nettleton
- Buffet as Air steward
1975
- Shadows as Devine
- Goodbye as Savory
- The Breakthrough as Robbie
1974
- Playhouse as Robbie
- South Riding as Alfred E. Huggins
- South Riding
1973
- Man at the Top as Massey
- The National Health as Ash
1972
- Villains as Mr Clough
- The Frighteners as Machen
- Dead of Night as Dan
- Frenzy as Johnny Porter
- Death Line as Inspector Richardson
- The Exorcism as Dan
- A Warning to the Curious as Dr. Black
1971
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as Dr. Black
- The Stalls of Barchester as Dr. Black
1970
- Play for Today as Savory
- The Misfit as Gerald
- Waugh on Crime
- Roll On Four O'Clock as Max Fielder
- Mad Jack
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Max Fielder
- Dombey and Son as Major Bagstock
- Birthday
1968
- The Expert as Graham Richards
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Snug
- All's Well That Ends Well as Parolles
1965
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Inspector Waugh
- Knock on Any Door as Arkwright
- Catch Us If You Can as Duffie
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Neil
- Theatre 625
1963
- Doctor Who as Jobel
- Dig This Rhubarb
1956
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Ellis