Clive Swift
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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.
Known for
Credits
Frenzy (1972)
as Johnny Porter
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Excalibur (1981)
as Ector
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003)
as Additional Voices (voice)
A Passage to India (1984)
as Major Callendar
Death Line (1972)
as Inspector Richardson
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
as Mr. Copper
Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
The Exorcism (1972)
as Dan
Aristocrats (1999)
as King George II
Young Toscanini (1988)
Actor
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
as Self
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
as Snug
Goodbye (1975)
as Savory
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1980)
as Hastie Lanyon
Beloved (1976)
as William Hepworth-Dixon
Memed My Hawk (1984)
as Magistrate
Pack of Lies (1987)
as Ellis
The National Health (1973)
as Ash
The War That Never Ends (1991)
as Athenagoras
Cause Célèbre (1987)
as P.P. Croom Johnson
Excalibur: Behind the Movie (2013)
as Self
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks (1985)
as Professor Jobel
Romeo and Juliet (1976)
as Friar Lawrence
Home-Movies (1979)
as Alec Thorne
Martin Luther, Heretic (1983)
as Johann Tetzel
Praying Mantis (1982)
as Dr. Faure
Catch Us If You Can (1965)
as Duffie
Othello (1990)
as Brabantio / Gratiano
Birthday (1969)
Actor
Henry IV Part 1 (1979)
as Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
Beasts: The Dummy (1976)
as 'Bunny' Nettleton
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
as Lord Cerimon
What Mad Pursuit (1985)
as Bonwit Steinhauser
Journey's End (1988)
as Captain Hardy
The Kitchen (1977)
as Frank
Man at the Top (1973)
as Massey
South Riding (1974)
Actor
A Warning to the Curious (1972)
as Dr. Black
The Breakthrough (1975)
as Robbie
The Sailor's Return (1978)
as Reverend Pottock
Young Arthur (2002)
as Illtud
Buffet (1976)
as Air steward
The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
as Dr. Black
An Ordered Life (1980)
as Director of Austrian State Radio
Foreign Affairs (1978)
as Adamson
The Potsdam Quartet (1981)
as Aaron Green
All's Well That Ends Well (1968)
as Parolles
All Together Now (1986)
as James
Mad Jack (1970)
Actor
Roll On Four O'Clock (1970)
as Max Fielder
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket (1997)
as Richard