Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-02-09

Deathday

2019-02-01 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Liverpool, England, UK

Also Known As

Clive Walter Swift

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

7.5%

Doctor Who

Mar 26, 2005

6.0%

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

Mar 2, 2003

7.0%

Excalibur

Apr 10, 1981

7.1%

Frenzy

May 25, 1972

7.9%

Doctor Who

Nov 23, 1963

7.5%

Midsomer Murders

Mar 23, 1997

6.8%

A Passage to India

Dec 14, 1984

7.6%

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

Dec 25, 2007

7.6%

Hustle

Feb 24, 2004

7.6%

Keeping Up Appearances

Oct 29, 1990

7.8%

Inspector Morse

Jan 6, 1987

5.8%

Death Line

Oct 13, 1972

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Acting

2023

Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances as Self (archive footage)

2015

Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family as Edward Whiteley

2013

Excalibur: Behind the Movie as Self

2012

Cuckoo as Dr. Rafferty

2009

The Old Guys as Roy

2007		Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned as Mr. Copper
2007		The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self

2005

Doctor Who as Mr Copper

2004

Hustle as Yusef

2003

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure as Additional Voices (voice)

2002		Young Arthur as Illtud
2002		Born and Bred as Reverend Brewer

1999

Aristocrats as King George II

1997		The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket as Richard
1997		Midsomer Murders as Felix Hope

1993

Peak Practice as Norman Shorthose

1992

Heartbeat as Victor Kellerman

1991

The War That Never Ends as Athenagoras

1990		Keeping Up Appearances as Richard Bucket
1990		Othello as Brabantio / Gratiano

1988		Young Toscanini
1988		Gentlemen and Players as Sammy
1988		Journey's End as Captain Hardy

1987		Cause Célèbre as P.P. Croom Johnson
1987		Pack of Lies as Ellis
1987		Inspector Morse as Dr Bartlett

1986		First Among Equals as Alec Pimkin
1986		All Together Now as James
1986		A Very Peculiar Practice

1985		What Mad Pursuit as Bonwit Steinhauser
1985		The Ray Bradbury Theater as St. John Court
1985		Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks as Professor Jobel
1985		The Pickwick Papers as Mr. Tupman
1985		The Pickwick Papers as Mr. Tupman

1984		A Passage to India as Major Callendar
1984		Pericles, Prince of Tyre as Lord Cerimon
1984		Memed My Hawk as Magistrate

1983

Martin Luther, Heretic as Johann Tetzel

1982		The Barchester Chronicles as Dr. Proudie
1982		Praying Mantis as Dr. Faure

1981		Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981		The Potsdam Quartet as Aaron Green
1981		Excalibur as Ector

1980		Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as Hastie Lanyon
1980		An Ordered Life as Director of Austrian State Radio
1980		The Nesbitts Are Coming
1980		The Gentle Touch

1979		Henry IV Part 1 as Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
1979		Home-Movies as Alec Thorne
1979		Tales of the Unexpected as Latham

1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare as Lord Cerimon
1978		The Sailor's Return as Reverend Pottock
1978		Bless Me Father as Fred Dobie
1978		Foreign Affairs as Adamson
1978		Hazell

1977

The Kitchen as Frank

1976		Beasts: The Dummy as 'Bunny' Nettleton
1976		Buffet as Air steward
1976		Beasts as 'Bunny' Nettleton
1976		Beloved as William Hepworth-Dixon
1976		Romeo and Juliet as Friar Lawrence
1976		Victorian Scandals as William Hepworth-Dixon

1975		Shadows
1975		Goodbye as Savory
1975		The Breakthrough as Robbie

1974		South Riding
1974		Playhouse

1973		The National Health
1973		Man at the Top as Massey

1972		A Warning to the Curious as Dr. Black
1972		Dead of Night as Dan
1972		Dead of Night: The Exorcism as Dan
1972		Death Line as Inspector Richardson
1972		The Frighteners as Machen
1972		Frenzy as Johnny Porter

1971		The Stalls of Barchester as Dr. Black
1971		A Ghost Story for Christmas as Dr. Black

1970		Roll On Four O'Clock as Max Fielder
1970		Waugh on Crime
1970		Play for Today as Savory
1970		Play for Today as Air Steward
1970		Mad Jack

1969		Dombey and Son as Major Bagstock
1969		Birthday

1968		A Midsummer Night's Dream as Snug
1968		The Expert as Graham Richards
1968		All's Well That Ends Well as Parolles

1965

Catch Us If You Can as Duffie

1963

Doctor Who as Jobel

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Ellis