Clive Swift

Clive Swift

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

09/02/1936

Day of Death

01/02/2019
(83) years old

Place of Birth

Liverpool, England, UK

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

Cast

2023

Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances

as Self (archive footage)

2003

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Advent...

as Additional Voices (voice)

2002

Young Arthur

as Illtud

1999

Aristocrats

as King George II

1991

The War That Never Ends

as Athenagoras

1990

Othello

as Brabantio / Gratiano

1988

Journey's End

as Captain Hardy

1987

Cause Célèbre

as P.P. Croom Johnson

1987

Pack of Lies

as Ellis

1986

All Together Now

as James

1985

What Mad Pursuit

as Bonwit Steinhauser

1984

A Passage to India

as Major Callendar

1984

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

as Lord Cerimon

1984

Memed My Hawk

as Magistrate

1983

Martin Luther, Heretic

as Johann Tetzel

1982

Praying Mantis

as Dr. Faure

1981

The Potsdam Quartet

as Aaron Green

1981

Excalibur

as Ector

1980

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

as Hastie Lanyon

1980

An Ordered Life

as Director of Austrian State Radio

1979

Henry IV Part 1

as Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester

1979

Home-Movies

as Alec Thorne

1978

The Sailor's Return

as Reverend Pottock

1978

Foreign Affairs

as Adamson

1977

The Kitchen

as Frank

1976

Beasts: The Dummy

as 'Bunny' Nettleton

1976

Buffet

as Air steward

1976

Beloved

as William Hepworth-Dixon

1976

Romeo and Juliet

as Friar Lawrence

1975

Goodbye

as Savory

1975

The Breakthrough

as Robbie

1973

Man at the Top

as Massey

1972

A Warning to the Curious

as Dr. Black

1972

The Exorcism

as Dan

1972

Death Line

as Inspector Richardson

1972

Frenzy

as Johnny Porter

1971

The Stalls of Barchester

as Dr. Black

1970

Roll On Four O'Clock

as Max Fielder

1965

Catch Us If You Can

as Duffie