Birthday
1936/02/09
Day of death
2019/02/01 (83 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Also know as
Clive Walter 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.
(1972) Frenzy
as Johnny Porter
(1972) Death Line
as Inspector Richardson
(1976) Romeo and Juliet
as Friar Lawrence
(1978) The Sailor's Return
as Reverend Pottock
(1976) Beasts: The Dummy
as 'Bunny' Nettleton
(1987) Cause Célèbre
as P.P. Croom Johnson
(1988) Young Toscanini
as ---
(1968) A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Snug
(1979) Henry IV Part 1
as Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
(1990) Othello
as Brabantio / Gratiano
(1969) Birthday
as ---
(1971) The Stalls of Barchester
as Dr. Black
(1965) Catch Us If You Can
as Duffie
(1980) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
as Hastie Lanyon
(1972) A Warning to the Curious
as Dr. Black
(2003) 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
as Additional Voices (voice)
(1986) All Together Now
as James
(1972) Dead of Night: The Exorcism
as Dan
(1970) Mad Jack
as ---
(1977) The Kitchen
as Frank
(2023) Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
as Self (archive footage)
(1974) South Riding
as ---
(1991) The War That Never Ends
as Athenagoras
(1973) The National Health
as ---
(1968) All's Well That Ends Well
as Parolles
(2002) Young Arthur
as Illtud
(1973) Man at the Top
as Massey
(1982) Praying Mantis
as Dr. Faure
(1981) Excalibur
as Ector
(1975) The Breakthrough
as Robbie
(1987) Pack of Lies
as Ellis
(1997) The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
as Richard
(1988) Journey's End
as Captain Hardy
(2007) Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
as Mr. Copper
(1984) A Passage to India
as Major Callendar
(1985) The Pickwick Papers
as Mr. Tupman
(1970) Roll On Four O'Clock
as Max Fielder
(1985) What Mad Pursuit
as Bonwit Steinhauser
(1984) Pericles, Prince of Tyre
as Lord Cerimon
(1999) Aristocrats
as King George II
(1985) Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
as Professor Jobel
(1975) Goodbye
as Savory
(1976) Buffet
as Air steward
(2013) Excalibur: Behind the Movie
as Self
(1983) Martin Luther, Heretic
as Johann Tetzel
(1980) An Ordered Life
as Director of Austrian State Radio
(1979) Home-Movies
as Alec Thorne
(1981) The Potsdam Quartet
as Aaron Green
(1978) Foreign Affairs
as Adamson
(1976) Beloved
as William Hepworth-Dixon
(1990) Keeping Up Appearances
as Richard Bucket
(1963) Doctor Who
as Jobel
(1986) A Very Peculiar Practice
as ---
(1980) The Gentle Touch
as ---
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Latham
(1992) Heartbeat
as Victor Kellerman
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Dr Bartlett
(1985) The Ray Bradbury Theater
as St. John Court
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Ellis
(1976) Beasts
as 'Bunny' Nettleton
(1978) Hazell
as ---
(1988) Gentlemen and Players
as Sammy
(2002) Born and Bred
as Reverend Brewer
(1968) The Expert
as Graham Richards
(2007) The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
(1972) Dead of Night
as Dan
(2009) The Old Guys
as Roy
(1986) First Among Equals
as Alec Pimkin
(2012) Cuckoo
as Dr. Rafferty
(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare
as ---
(1970) Waugh on Crime
as ---
(1976) Victorian Scandals
as William Hepworth-Dixon
(1974) Playhouse
as ---
(1980) The Nesbitts Are Coming
as ---
(1985) The Pickwick Papers
as Mr. Tupman
(1993) Peak Practice
as Norman Shorthose
(1978) Bless Me Father
as Fred Dobie
(1975) Shadows
as ---
(2004) Hustle
as Yusef
(1971) A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Dr. Black
(1981) Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
as ---
(2015) Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
as Edward Whiteley
(1982) The Barchester Chronicles
as Dr. Proudie
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Felix Hope
(1969) Dombey and Son
as Major Bagstock
(2005) Doctor Who
as Mr Copper
(1970) Play for Today
as Air Steward
(1970) Play for Today
as Savory
(1972) The Frighteners
as Machen