Clive Swift
Date of birth: 1936-02-09
Place of birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Clive Walter Swift
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.
Movie Credits
Frenzy
1972-05-25
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal sla
Death Line
1972-10-13
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people
Romeo and Juliet
1976-09-26
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
The Sailor's Return
1978-11-15
Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to op
Beasts: The Dummy
1976-11-20
A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he h
Cause Célèbre
1987-08-23
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall
Young Toscanini
1988-10-07
A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968-09-30
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house
Henry IV Part 1
1979-12-09
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embitter
Othello
1990-06-23
Noble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically out
Birthday
1969-01-02
Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1980-11-20
Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
Catch Us If You Can
1965-07-15
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take
The Stalls of Barchester
1971-12-24
Scholar Dr. Black's seemingly mundane assignment of sorting through the assets of the Barchester Cat
A Warning to the Curious
1972-12-24
Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across o
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
2003-03-02
Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behin
All Together Now
1986-07-09
The weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion. Then Mathew, the conductor,
Mad Jack
1970-02-04
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against th
The Kitchen
1977-11-02
Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first pr
Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
2023-01-14
Keeping Up Appearances remains one of Britain's best loved series. Running for 5 years throughout th
South Riding
1974-09-16
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
The War That Never Ends
1991-03-28
The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broa
The National Health
1973-03-06
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A rioto
All's Well That Ends Well
1968-03-06
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of
Young Arthur
2002-05-02
Unaired TV movie pilot for a TV series on the childhood of King Arthur.
Man at the Top
1973-01-01
Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutica
Praying Mantis
1982-01-01
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as
Excalibur
1981-04-10
The King Arthur roars to life of Arthur's rise to power, the Knights of the Round Table, Merlin the
The Breakthrough
1975-01-08
An adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of the BB
Pack of Lies
1987-04-26
A British couple are shocked out of their suburban malaise when British intelligence agent Stewart s
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
1997-05-20
Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-spec
Journey's End
1988-01-01
A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
2007-12-25
When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling along
A Passage to India
1984-12-14
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an India
Roll On Four O'Clock
1970-12-19
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectati
What Mad Pursuit
1985-11-24
If you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote your
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984-12-08
When Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, discovers the dreaded answer to King Antiochus's riddle, he
Aristocrats
1999-06-20
18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Carol
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985-03-30
At the Tranquil Repose mortuary, the Doctor and Peri uncover a sinister plot to create a new breed o
Goodbye
1975-03-06
"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, bu
Buffet
1976-11-02
A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the e
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013-12-20
This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excal
Martin Luther, Heretic
1983-11-08
Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantis
An Ordered Life
1980-08-10
Colin Jeavons is the German composer Anton Webern who survives Naziism only to be shot by an America
Home-Movies
1979-12-05
A 1979 production from BBC2 Playhouse by Denis Cannan
The Potsdam Quartet
1981-05-13
' They're mortal enemies, we just hate each other. So surely if they can agree about the destiny of
Foreign Affairs
1978-01-25
Moscow is the setting for a reunion between Susan and Viktor - a reunion which leads to unforeseen c
Beloved
1976-10-15
When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion
Memed My Hawk
1984-05-10
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in ma
The Exorcism
1972-11-05
Four friends gather for Christmas dinner at an old cottage. Suddenly, there's a power failure and th