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