Most Recent Role: Mr Copper on Doctor Who (2005)
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Liverpool, England, UK
Birthday: 2-9-1936
Birth Name: Clive Walter Swift
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Liverpool, England, UK
Birthday: 2-9-1936
Birth Name: Clive Walter Swift
Most Recent Appearance
Voyage of the Damned
Tuesday 25 December 2007 on BBC-1
Location : The Titanic Cruise Liner; Earth Date : Christmas 2008 Enemies : The Hosts; Max Capricorn At the end of Last of the Time Lords , a ship crashes through the side of the TARDIS, mid flight, and a life ring bearing the name 'Titanic' is thrown towards the Doctor - what on Earth is...
Clive's ex-wife, Margaret Drabble, is writer A. S. Byatt's sister.
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Clive was in the unusual late-night comedy show Dig This Rhubarb. The show involved a panel discussing current 'hot' topics, but their arguments were founded in references to the topic in classical literature.
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In 1988 Clive appeared in the film Giovane Toscanini, Il, about the conductor Arturo Toscanini, which was released in the U.S. as Young Toscanini.
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His first movie role was in the 1965 British film Catch Us If You Can, which was released in the U.S. as Having A Wild Weekend.
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Clive's first filmed acting role was in the 1965 TV mini-series War Of The Roses, a collection of four of William Shakespeare's plays.
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Clive: I've been an actor since 1959, and I've done a hell of a lot of television over the years. It's amazing how much some of the fans know. I thought they knew more about me and what I did than I knew about myself!
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Clive: [On what he would have done if he wasn't an actor] I often wonder what the hell else I could've done. I suppose I would've tried to teach somebody something, God forbid.
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Other Appearances
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Born and Bred
Reverend Brewer |
Keeping Up Appearances
Richard Bucket (pronounced "Bouquet") |
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The Barchester Chronicles
Dr. Proudie |
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Inspector Waugh |
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A Very Peculiar Practice
Art and Illusion Prof. Piers Platt |
BBC Television Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre Lord Cerimon |
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BBC Television Shakespeare
King Henry the Fourth, Part I Thomas Percy |
BBC Television Shakespeare
King Henry the Fourth, Part II Thomas Percy |
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Beasts
The Dummy 'Bunny' Nettleton |
Bless Me, Father
Father & Mother Fred Dobie |
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The Weakest Link (UK)
Classic Sitcom Stars Contestant |
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Born and Bred
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James Bolam and Michael French star as father-and-son doctors in the family drama series set in the 1950s, a decade of great change for the National Health Service. GP Arthur Gilder (James... more Keeping Up Appearances
Keeping Up Appearances was one of the best and most popular British sitcoms, or 'Britcoms,' of all time. Patricia Routledge played Hyacinth Bucket, a woman who pretended to be upper-class... more
