Birth name Clive Walter Swift Influences Barry Humphries Medium Television Name Clive Swift | Nationality British Role Actor Years active 1965–present | |
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Books The job of acting, The performing world of the actor Movies and TV shows Similar People Patricia Routledge, Judy Cornwell, Josephine Tewson, Geoffrey Hughes, Mary Millar Died 1 February 2019 (aged 82) London, England | ||
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Clive Walter Swift (born 9 February 1936) is an English actor and songwriter. He is best known for his large role as Richard Bucket in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances, but has played many other notable film and television roles, including that of Roy in the British television series The Old Guys.
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- Patricia routledge clive swift
- Jean marsh and clive swift on frenzy
- Life and career
- Film
- Selected television roles
- Radio
- Stage
- References
Jean marsh and clive swift on frenzy
Life and career
Swift was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of Lily Rebecca (née Greenman) and Abram Sampson Swift. His elder brother, David, was also an actor. Both were educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where Clive read English literature. He was previously a teacher at LAMDA and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His family was Jewish.
During the 1970s, he appeared as Doctor Black in two of the BBC's M.R. James adaptations: The Stalls of Barchester and A Warning to the Curious. He is best known for his role on Keeping Up Appearances as Richard Bucket, the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth. Swift starred in the BBC adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles and appeared in the Doctor Who story Revelation of the Daleks. On 25 December 2007, he appeared in a Doctor Who Christmas special as Mr Copper. He also played Sir Ector, the adoptive father of King Arthur in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur.
Swift was formerly married to novelist Margaret Drabble (1960–75). He is the father of one daughter, Rebecca (who died in April 2017), known for running The Literary Consultancy in London, and two sons, Adam Swift, an academic, and Joe Swift, a TV gardener.
In addition to acting, he is a songwriter. Many of his songs are included in his show, Richard Bucket Overflows: An Audience with Clive Swift, which toured the UK in 2007 and Clive Swift Entertains, performing his own music and lyrics, which toured the UK in 2009. He also played the part of the Reverend Eustacius Brewer in Born and Bred, which aired on BBC 1 from 2002 to 2005.
Film
Selected television roles
Radio
Stage
1963 The Physicists. Aldwych Theatre. Played Inspector Richard Voss.