Clive Swift

Actor

Born: February 9, 1936
Died: February 1, 2019 (age 82)
From: 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.

Filmography (51)

Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances (2023)
Self (archive footage)
Excalibur: Behind the Movie (2013)
Self
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
Mr. Copper
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
Self
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003)
Additional Voices (voice)
Young Arthur
Young Arthur (2002)
Illtud
Aristocrats (1999)
King George II
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket (1997)
Richard
The War That Never Ends (1991)
Athenagoras
Othello (1990)
Brabantio / Gratiano
Young Toscanini (1988)
Journey's End (1988)
Captain Hardy
Cause Célèbre (1987)
P.P. Croom Johnson
Pack of Lies (1987)
Ellis
All Together Now (1986)
James
What Mad Pursuit (1985)
Bonwit Steinhauser
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks (1985)
Professor Jobel
A Passage to India (1984)
Major Callendar
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
Lord Cerimon
Memed My Hawk (1984)
Magistrate
Martin Luther, Heretic (1983)
Johann Tetzel
Praying Mantis (1982)
Dr. Faure
The Potsdam Quartet (1981)
Aaron Green
Excalibur (1981)
Ector
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1980)
Hastie Lanyon
An Ordered Life (1980)
Director of Austrian State Radio
Henry IV Part 1 (1979)
Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
Home-Movies (1979)
Alec Thorne
The Sailor's Return (1978)
Reverend Pottock
Foreign Affairs (1978)
Adamson