Clive Merrison
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Clive Merrison (Clive Robert Merrison) – Welsh actor of film, television, stage and radio, born 15 September 1945 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Trained at Rose Bruford College and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is best known for voicing Sherlock Holmes in all 64 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 dramatizations (1989–1998) and the 16 episodes of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2002–2010), and for playing the Headmaster in The History Boys (2006) on stage and screen. His most notable film roles include Major Lanyev in Firefox (1982), the Forger in Escape to Victory (1981), Dr. Henry Hulme in Heavenly Creatures (1994), Fenelon-Barnes in The English Patient (1996), Desmond Fairchild in An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), and Mr. Gilbert in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018). On television he appeared in Doctor Who (1967), Yes, Prime Minister (1986), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), Stalin (1992), Peep Show (2010), and Midsomer Murders.
Known for
Credits
Escape to Victory (1981)
as The Forger
The English Patient (1996)
as Fenelon-Barnes
Pandaemonium (2001)
as Dr Gillman
Firefox (1982)
as Major Lanyev
Monsignor Quixote (1985)
as Shop Assistant
Open Wide (2005)
as Prison Governor
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
as Mr. Gilbert
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
as Dr. Henry Hulme
Saving Grace (2000)
as Quentin Rhodes
Cariani and the Courtesans (1987)
as Moretti
Janice Beard 45 WPM (1999)
as Tobo
The Bad Sister (1983)
as Paul
The History Boys (2006)
as Headmaster
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
as Desmond Fairchild
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (1987)
as Deputy Chief Caretaker
Stalin (1992)
as Molotov
Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
as Sir Henry
Up at the Villa (2000)
as Archibald Grey
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
as Weston
Thank You, Comrades (1978)
as Preobrazhenski
The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
as Theo Kern
The Sign of Four (1983)
as Bartholomew Sholto
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings (2010)
as Dan Corrigan
Human, All Too Human (1999)
as Reader
The Falklands Play (2002)
as Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)
The Girl Who Walked Quickly (1978)
as Godolt
Bert & Dickie (2012)
as Clement Attlee
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
as Jim Callum
Photographing Fairies (1997)
as Gardner
Come Dancing (1970)
Actor
Anna Lee: Headcase (1993)
as Mr. Emburey
Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
as Bikov
True Blue (1996)
as Jack Garnet
The Falklands Factor (1983)
as "Junius"
The After Dinner Joke (1978)
as Dent
Thin Air (1988)
as Leonard Draeger
Stronger Than the Sun (1978)
as Gregory
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster (2003)
as William Godwin
A Christmas Carol (1977)
as Bob Cratchit
Dead Man's Kit (1980)
as Commander Maybury
Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)
as Chris
The Spirit of Man (1989)
as Claude Delmas
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope (2004)
as Anthony Trollope
Cork and Bottle (1977)
as John Bottle
Care (2000)
as Desmond Pickering
Submariners (1983)
Actor
Feelifax (1980)
as Cooker(voice)
The Cause (1981)
as Rennie