Clive Merrison
Acting
- Born:
- 1945-09-15
- Place of birth:
- Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Bert & Dickie
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
Monday Monday
Lewis
The History Boys
Open Wide
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Peep Show
Julius Caesar
Foyle's War
Believe Nothing
The Falklands Play
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Discovery of Heaven
Pandaemonium
Care
Up at the Villa
Saving Grace
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Janice Beard 45 WPM
Life Support
Human, All Too Human
How Do You Want Me?
Mortimer's Law
Photographing Fairies
Lexx
Midsomer Murders
True Blue
The English Patient
Testament: The Bible in Animation
An Awfully Big Adventure
Space Precinct
Heavenly Creatures
Pie in the Sky
Anna Lee: Headcase
Stalin
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Rebecca's Daughters
Archer's Goon
Time Riders
Drop the Dead Donkey
The Spirit of Man
The Labours of Erica
Double First
A Very British Coup
Thin Air
Thin Air
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Cariani and the Courtesans
Call Me Mister
Mann's Best Friends
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
Lytton's Diary
Monsignor Quixote
The Bill
Freud
The Kit Curran Radio Show
Charlie
The Sign of Four
Submariners
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Reilly: Ace of Spies
The Falklands Factor
The Bad Sister
Coming Out of the Ice
Firefox
Shine on Harvey Moon
Bergerac
The Borgias
Escape to Victory
Private Schulz
The Cause
Wolcott
Dead Man's Kit
Feelifax
Yes Minister
Spy!
Thank You, Comrades
Out
The Girl Who Walked Quickly
Stronger Than the Sun
Mixed Blessings
The After Dinner Joke
A Christmas Carol
Riddles of the Sphinx
Here I Stand...
Cork and Bottle
When the Boat Comes In
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Great Performances
Come Dancing
Counterstrike
Judge Dee
ITV Playhouse
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Doctor Who