Clive Merrison
Acting
Born: September 15, 1945 (age 81) · Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Highest Rated
Biography
Clive Merrison (Clive Robert Merrison) – Welsh actor of film, television, stage and radio, born 15 September 1945 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Trained at Rose Bruford College and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is best known for voicing Sherlock Holmes in all 64 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 dramatizations (1989–1998) and the 16 episodes of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2002–2010), and for playing the Headmaster in The History Boys (2006) on stage and screen. His most notable film roles include Major Lanyev in Firefox (1982), the Forger in Escape to Victory (1981), Dr. Henry Hulme in Heavenly Creatures (1994), Fenelon-Barnes in The English Patient (1996), Desmond Fairchild in An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), and Mr. Gilbert in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018). On television he appeared in Doctor Who (1967), Yes, Prime Minister (1986), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), Stalin (1992), Peep Show (2010), and Midsomer Murders.
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Movies (42)
The English Patient
Fenelon-Barnes
Firefox
Major Lanyev
Heavenly Creatures
Dr. Henry Hulme
Escape to Victory
The Forger
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Mr. Gilbert
Saving Grace
Quentin Rhodes
The History Boys
Headmaster
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Weston
The Discovery of Heaven
Theo Kern
An Awfully Big Adventure
Desmond Fairchild
Janice Beard 45 WPM
Tobo
The Sign of Four
Bartholomew Sholto
Up at the Villa
Archibald Grey
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Deputy Chief Caretaker
Stalin
Molotov
Photographing Fairies
Gardner
Coming Out of the Ice
Bikov
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Jim Callum
The After Dinner Joke
Dent
Bert & Dickie
Clement Attlee
Cariani and the Courtesans
Moretti
Pandaemonium
Dr Gillman
Monsignor Quixote
Shop Assistant
Stronger Than the Sun
Gregory
Rebecca's Daughters
Sir Henry
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
William Godwin
Thin Air
Leonard Draeger
The Bad Sister
Paul
True Blue
Jack Garnet
The Cause
Rennie
The Falklands Play
Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)
Open Wide
Prison Governor
The Spirit of Man
Claude Delmas
A Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit
Human, All Too Human
Reader
Dead Man's Kit
Commander Maybury
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
Dan Corrigan
Come Dancing
1970
The Falklands Factor
"Junius"
Submariners
1983
Care
Desmond Pickering
Riddles of the Sphinx
Chris
TV Shows (50)
Midsomer Murders
Colin Hawksley · 1 eps
Midsomer Murders
Caleb Southwood · 1 eps
Doctor Who
Jim Callum · 2 eps
Doctor Who
Deputy Chief · 4 eps
Great Performances
Shop Assistant · 1 eps
The Bill
2 eps
ITV Playhouse
John Bottle · 1 eps
Bergerac
Ackroyd · 1 eps
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Ivor · 1 eps
Lewis
Simon Flaxmore · 1 eps
Foyle's War
Dr. Alan Redmund · 1 eps
Lexx
Professor Shnoog · 1 eps
Peep Show
Dan Corrigan · 1 eps
Drop the Dead Donkey
Nicholas Waugh · 1 eps
Pie in the Sky
Phil Bower · 1 eps
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Geoffrey Cramond · 1 eps
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Macduff (voice) · 1 eps
Yes Minister
1 eps
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Richards · 1 eps
Space Precinct
Damon Reseda · 1 eps
Shine on Harvey Moon
Dick Elliot · 8 eps
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Savinkov · 5 eps
Private Schulz
Kruger · 1 eps
Private Schulz
Radio Announcer (voice) · 2 eps
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Chamberlain · 2 eps
Julius Caesar
Catullus · 2 eps
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
Percival Fortescue · 2 eps
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Darius (voice) · 1 eps
Lytton's Diary
Harvey Sobell · 1 eps
When the Boat Comes In
1 eps
Life Support
Lovat Alexander · 1 eps
How Do You Want Me?
12 eps
Mixed Blessings
Vicar · 1 eps
Out
Dr. Whyte · 1 eps
Believe Nothing
Edmund Bilyas · 1 eps
Call Me Mister
1 eps
Counterstrike
Idris Evans · 1 eps
A Very British Coup
T.V. Interviewer · 3 eps
Thin Air
Leonard Draeger · 5 eps
Wolcott
Jeremy Godden · 2 eps
Archer's Goon
Hathaway · 3 eps
Freud
Tausk · 1 eps
The Borgias
Ascanio Sforza · 10 eps
The Kit Curran Radio Show
Damien Appleby · 12 eps
Judge Dee
1969
Monday Monday
3 eps
Time Riders
Professor Crow · 2 eps
Charlie
Smith · 4 eps
Mann's Best Friends
Irvin · 6 eps