Actor
Clive 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. ...

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