Clive Swift
Born February 9, 1936 · Liverpool, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Excalibur
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
Frenzy
A Passage to India
Death Line
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
The War That Never Ends
Beloved
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Martin Luther, Heretic
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Goodbye
Romeo and Juliet
Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
The Exorcism
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Memed My Hawk
What Mad Pursuit
Home-Movies
Pack of Lies
Young Toscanini
Cause Célèbre
Catch Us If You Can
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Henry IV Part 1
The National Health
Journey's End
Beasts: The Dummy
Aristocrats
The Sailor's Return
A Warning to the Curious
The Kitchen
The Potsdam Quartet
Praying Mantis
Othello
South Riding
The Stalls of Barchester
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
TV Shows
Peak Practice
Playhouse
Tales of the Unexpected
Theatre 625
Inspector Morse
The Wednesday Play
Keeping Up Appearances
BBC2 Play of the Week
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Cuckoo
ScreenPlay
The Expert
Born and Bred
A Ghost Story for Christmas
A Very Peculiar Practice
Shadows
The Frighteners
Clayhanger
Cribb
Beasts
Storyboard
The Misfit
Villains
South Riding
The Barchester Chronicles
First Among Equals
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Old Guys
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Dead of Night
Victorian Scandals
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
SunTrap
Bless Me Father
Armchair Theatre
The Pickwick Papers
