
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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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003)
as Additional Voices (voice)

Excalibur (1981)
as Ector

Death Line (1972)
as Inspector Richardson

The Exorcism (1972)
as Dan

A Passage to India (1984)
as Major Callendar

Beloved (1976)
as William Hepworth-Dixon

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
as Mr. Copper

Home-Movies (1979)
as Alec Thorne

Goodbye (1975)
as Savory

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1980)
as Hastie Lanyon
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
as Self

Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances (2023)
as Self (archive footage)

The National Health (1973)
as Ash

Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks (1985)
as Professor Jobel
Birthday (1969)
Actor

Memed My Hawk (1984)
as Magistrate

Romeo and Juliet (1976)
as Friar Lawrence

Beasts: The Dummy (1976)
as 'Bunny' Nettleton

Martin Luther, Heretic (1983)
as Johann Tetzel

What Mad Pursuit (1985)
as Bonwit Steinhauser

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
as Snug

Catch Us If You Can (1965)
as Duffie

Pack of Lies (1987)
as Ellis

Aristocrats (1999)
as King George II

Henry IV Part 1 (1979)
as Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester

The War That Never Ends (1991)
as Athenagoras

Man at the Top (1973)
as Massey

Cause Célèbre (1987)
as P.P. Croom Johnson

A Warning to the Curious (1972)
as Dr. Black

Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
as Lord Cerimon

Journey's End (1988)
as Captain Hardy

Excalibur: Behind the Movie (2013)
as Self

Othello (1990)
as Brabantio / Gratiano

Young Toscanini (1988)
Actor

Roll On Four O'Clock (1970)
as Max Fielder
Young Arthur (2002)
as Illtud

Mad Jack (1970)
Actor

The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
as Dr. Black
All's Well That Ends Well (1968)
as Parolles

The Sailor's Return (1978)
as Reverend Pottock

The Kitchen (1977)
as Frank

Foreign Affairs (1978)
as Adamson

Praying Mantis (1985)
as Dr. Faure

The Breakthrough (1975)
as Robbie

An Ordered Life (1980)
as Director of Austrian State Radio

South Riding (1974)
Actor

Buffet (1976)
as Air steward

The Potsdam Quartet (1981)
as Aaron Green

The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket (1997)
as Richard

All Together Now (1986)
as James





