Clive Swift
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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 15.418 |
| Birthday | 1936-02-09 |
| Place of Birth | Liverpool, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Clive Walter Swift, |
1972
Frenzy
7.107/867
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
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Frenzy
1972
Death Line
5.7/112
There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the lat...
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Death Line
1965
Catch Us If You Can
5.2/16
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat...
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Catch Us If You Can
1987
Cause Célèbre
6/4
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowe...
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Cause Célèbre
1971
The Stalls of Barchester
6.333/12
Scholar Dr. Black's seemingly mundane assignment of sorting through the assets of the Barchester Cathedral library takes an eerie turn when he comes a...
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The Stalls of Barchester
1972
A Warning to the Curious
6.909/33
Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according...
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A Warning to the Curious
1988
Young Toscanini
5.9/8
A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
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Young Toscanini
1990
Othello
7/2
Noble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically out of balance when secretly jealous, scheming confid...
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Othello
1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
5.3/6
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Com...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1979
Henry IV Part 1
7/3
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed '...
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Henry IV Part 1
1969
Birthday
0/0
Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.
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Birthday
1980
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
5.5/2
Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1970
Mad Jack
0/0
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
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Mad Jack
1974
South Riding
0/0
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
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South Riding
1973
The National Health
6.6/8
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it...
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The National Health
1968
All's Well That Ends Well
0/0
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company...
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All's Well That Ends Well
1973
Man at the Top
5.1/5
Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter R...
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Man at the Top
1982
Praying Mantis
7/1
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that on...
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Praying Mantis
1981
Excalibur
6.946/971
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his...
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Excalibur
1975
The Breakthrough
0/0
An adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of the BBC's "BBC2 Playhouse".
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The Breakthrough
1987
Pack of Lies
6.6/8
A British couple are shocked out of their suburban malaise when British intelligence agent Stewart shows up at their door and wants to use their house...
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Pack of Lies
1997
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
9/1
Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-special are clips from prevous episodes.
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The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
1988
Journey's End
7/1
A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.
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Journey's End
2007
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
7.5/187
When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new fri...
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Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
1984
A Passage to India
6.8/283
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a Bri...
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A Passage to India
1985
The Pickwick Papers
0/0
The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaption of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan Par...
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The Pickwick Papers
1970
Roll On Four O'Clock
6/1
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform...
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Roll On Four O'Clock
1985
What Mad Pursuit
0/0
If you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote your books, wouldn't you welcome with open arms the ch...
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What Mad Pursuit
1984
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
7/1
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shi...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1999
Aristocrats
6/1
18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, great-grandd...
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Aristocrats
1985
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
9/5
At the Tranquil Repose mortuary, the Doctor and Peri uncover a sinister plot to create a new breed of Daleks under the supervision of the mysterious G...
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Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1975
Goodbye
10/1
"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's wa...
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Goodbye
1976
Buffet
0/0
A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a busi...
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Buffet
2013
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
0/0
This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excalibur. Self-described as the toughest film he ever...
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Excalibur: Behind the Movie
1976
Beasts: The Dummy
0/1
A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play. Created as an episode of Ni...
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Beasts: The Dummy
2002
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
6.032/1136
Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt, w...
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
1986
All Together Now
0/0
The weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion. Then Mathew, the conductor, introduces James, a newcomer to the village, who...
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All Together Now
1972
Dead of Night: The Exorcism
7.5/2
Four wealthy, middle-class friends gather for a Christmas dinner in a country cottage only to find that the past will not rest while they feast.
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Dead of Night: The Exorcism
2023
Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
7/2
Keeping Up Appearances remains one of Britain's best loved series. Running for 5 years throughout the 90s, millions of viewers tuned in to watch the d...
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Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
1976
Romeo and Juliet
5/1
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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Romeo and Juliet
1978
The Sailor's Return
6/5
Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Ver...
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The Sailor's Return
1977
The Kitchen
0/0
Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his m...
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The Kitchen
1991
The War That Never Ends
0/0
The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and o...
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The War That Never Ends
2002
Young Arthur
0/0
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