
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

A Passage to India (1984)
as Major Callendar

Death Line (1972)
as Inspector Richardson

Excalibur: Behind the Movie (2013)
as Self

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

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

The War That Never Ends (1991)
as Athenagoras

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
as Snug
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
as Self

Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
as Lord Cerimon

The Exorcism (1972)
as Dan

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

Catch Us If You Can (1965)
as Duffie

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

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1980)
as Hastie Lanyon

Man at the Top (1973)
as Massey

Memed My Hawk (1984)
as Magistrate
Birthday (1969)
Actor

Martin Luther, Heretic (1983)
as Johann Tetzel

Beloved (1976)
as William Hepworth-Dixon

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

Home-Movies (1979)
as Alec Thorne
All's Well That Ends Well (1968)
as Parolles

Pack of Lies (1987)
as Ellis

The National Health (1973)
as Ash

Goodbye (1975)
as Savory

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

Romeo and Juliet (1976)
as Friar Lawrence

Young Toscanini (1988)
Actor

The Sailor's Return (1978)
as Reverend Pottock

Roll On Four O'Clock (1970)
as Max Fielder

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

Othello (1990)
as Brabantio / Gratiano

The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
as Dr. Black

The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket (1997)
as Richard

Aristocrats (1999)
as King George II

What Mad Pursuit (1985)
as Bonwit Steinhauser
Young Arthur (2002)
as Illtud

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

Praying Mantis (1982)
as Dr. Faure

The Breakthrough (1975)
as Robbie

South Riding (1974)
Actor

Journey's End (1988)
as Captain Hardy

The Kitchen (1977)
as Frank

Mad Jack (1970)
Actor

Foreign Affairs (1978)
as Adamson

All Together Now (1986)
as James

Buffet (1976)
as Air steward

The Potsdam Quartet (1981)
as Aaron Green





