Clive Swift

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-02-09 (83 years old)

Deathday

2019-02-01

Place of Birth

Liverpool, England, UK

Clive Swift

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.

Acting

1972

Frenzy

as Johnny Porter

1972

Death Line

as Inspector Richardson

1976

Romeo and Juliet

as Friar Lawrence

1978

The Sailor's Return

as Reverend Pottock

1976

Beasts: The Dummy

as 'Bunny' Nettleton

1987

Cause Célèbre

as P.P. Croom Johnson

1979

Henry IV Part 1

as Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester

1990

Othello

as Brabantio / Gratiano

1971

1965

1980

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

as Hastie Lanyon

1972

2003

1986

1977

The Kitchen

as Frank

2023

1991

2002

Young Arthur

as Illtud

1973

1982

Praying Mantis

as Dr. Faure

1981

Excalibur

as Ector

1975

1987

Pack of Lies

as Ellis

1988

Journey's End

as Captain Hardy

1984

A Passage to India

as Major Callendar

1970

Roll On Four O'Clock

as Max Fielder

1985

What Mad Pursuit

as Bonwit Steinhauser

1984

1999

Aristocrats

as King George II

1975

Goodbye

as Savory

1976

Buffet

as Air steward

1983

Martin Luther, Heretic

as Johann Tetzel

1980

An Ordered Life

as Director of Austrian State Radio

1979

Home-Movies

as Alec Thorne

1981

The Potsdam Quartet

as Aaron Green

1978

Foreign Affairs

as Adamson

1976

Beloved

as William Hepworth-Dixon

1984

Memed My Hawk

as Magistrate

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