Clive Swift
Acting • Born 1936-02-09 – Died 2019-02-01
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.
Filmography
96 credits
Frenzy
Movie • 1972
Johnny Porter
Death Line
Movie • 1972
Inspector Richardson
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1976
Friar Lawrence
The Sailor's Return
Movie • 1978
Reverend Pottock
Beasts: The Dummy
Movie • 1976
'Bunny' Nettleton
Cause Célèbre
Movie • 1987
P.P. Croom Johnson
Young Toscanini
Movie • 1988
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1968
Snug
Henry IV Part 1
Movie • 1979
Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
Othello
Movie • 1990
Brabantio / Gratiano
Birthday
Movie • 1969
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Movie • 1980
Hastie Lanyon
Catch Us If You Can
Movie • 1965
Duffie
The Stalls of Barchester
Movie • 1971
Dr. Black
A Warning to the Curious
Movie • 1972
Dr. Black
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
Movie • 2003
Additional Voices (voice)
All Together Now
Movie • 1986
James
Mad Jack
Movie • 1970
The Kitchen
Movie • 1977
Frank
Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
South Riding
Movie • 1974
The War That Never Ends
Movie • 1991
Athenagoras
The National Health
Movie • 1973
Ash
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie • 1968
Parolles
Young Arthur
Movie • 2002
Illtud
Man at the Top
Movie • 1973
Massey
Praying Mantis
Movie • 1982
Dr. Faure
Excalibur
Movie • 1981
Ector
The Breakthrough
Movie • 1975
Robbie
Pack of Lies
Movie • 1987
Ellis
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
Movie • 1997
Richard
Journey's End
Movie • 1988
Captain Hardy
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
Movie • 2007
Mr. Copper
A Passage to India
Movie • 1984
Major Callendar
Roll On Four O'Clock
Movie • 1970
Max Fielder
What Mad Pursuit
Movie • 1985
Bonwit Steinhauser
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Movie • 1984
Lord Cerimon
Aristocrats
Movie • 1999
King George II
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
Movie • 1985
Professor Jobel
Goodbye
Movie • 1975
Savory
Buffet
Movie • 1976
Air steward
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Movie • 2013
Self
Martin Luther, Heretic
Movie • 1983
Johann Tetzel
An Ordered Life
Movie • 1980
Director of Austrian State Radio
Home-Movies
Movie • 1979
Alec Thorne
The Potsdam Quartet
Movie • 1981
Aaron Green
Foreign Affairs
Movie • 1978
Adamson
Beloved
Movie • 1976
William Hepworth-Dixon
Memed My Hawk
Movie • 1984
Magistrate
The Exorcism
Movie • 1972
Dan
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie • 2005
Self
Keeping Up Appearances
TV • 1990
Richard Bucket
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Jobel
The Gentle Touch
TV • 1980
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Latham
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Victor Kellerman
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Dr Bartlett
The Ray Bradbury Theater
TV • 1985
St. John Court
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Ellis
Beasts
TV • 1976
'Bunny' Nettleton
Gentlemen and Players
TV • 1988
Sammy
The Expert
TV • 1968
Graham Richards
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Old Guys
TV • 2009
Roy
First Among Equals
TV • 1986
Alec Pimkin
Cuckoo
TV • 2012
Dr. Rafferty
Waugh on Crime
TV • 1970
The Nesbitts Are Coming
TV • 1980
The Pickwick Papers
TV • 1985
Mr. Tupman
Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Norman Shorthose
Bless Me Father
TV • 1978
Fred Dobie
Shadows
TV • 1975
Devine
Hustle
TV • 2004
Yusef
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV • 1971
Dr. Black
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
TV • 1981
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
TV • 2015
Edward Whiteley
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Felix Hope
Dombey and Son
TV • 1969
Major Bagstock
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Air Steward
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Savory
The Frighteners
TV • 1972
Machen
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Robbie
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Alec Thorne
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Director of Austrian State Radio
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Aaron Green
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
Frank
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
Adamson
The Misfit
TV • 1970
Gerald
Born and Bred
TV • 2002
Rev. Eustacius Brewer
Dead of Night
TV • 1972
Dan
Clayhanger
TV • 1976
Albert Benbow
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV • 1986
Professor Piers Platt
South Riding
TV • 1974
Alfred E. Huggins
The Barchester Chronicles
TV • 1982
Dr Proudie
Victorian Scandals
TV • 1976
William Hepworth-Dixon