Clive Merrison
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 15, 1945 (age 81)
- Birthplace
- 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
Movie · as Mr. Gilbert
Bert & Dickie
Movie · as Clement Attlee
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
Movie · as Dan Corrigan
Monday Monday
TV · 3 eps
Lewis
TV · as Simon Flaxmore · 1 ep
The History Boys
Movie · as Headmaster
Open Wide
Movie · as Prison Governor
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
Movie · as Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Movie · as William Godwin
Peep Show
TV · as Dan Corrigan · 1 ep
The Falklands Play
Movie · as Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)
Believe Nothing
TV · as Edmund Bilyas · 1 ep
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
TV · as Geoffrey Cramond · 1 ep
Foyle's War
TV · as Dr. Alan Redmund · 1 ep
Julius Caesar
TV · as Catullus · 2 eps
Pandaemonium
Movie · as Dr Gillman
The Discovery of Heaven
Movie · as Theo Kern
Saving Grace
Movie · as Quentin Rhodes
Care
Movie · as Desmond Pickering
Up at the Villa
Movie · as Archibald Grey
Human, All Too Human
Movie · as Reader
Janice Beard 45 WPM
Movie · as Tobo
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
TV · as Chamberlain · 2 eps
Life Support
TV · as Lovat Alexander · 1 ep
How Do You Want Me?
TV · 12 eps
Mortimer's Law
TV · as Tegwyn · 6 eps
Photographing Fairies
Movie · as Gardner
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Colin Hawksley, Caleb Southwood · 1 ep
Lexx
TV · as Professor Shnoog · 1 ep
The English Patient
Movie · as Fenelon-Barnes
True Blue
Movie · as Jack Garnet
Testament: The Bible in Animation
TV · as Darius (voice) · 1 ep
An Awfully Big Adventure
Movie · as Desmond Fairchild
Heavenly Creatures
Movie · as Dr. Henry Hulme
Space Precinct
TV · as Damon Reseda · 1 ep
Pie in the Sky
TV · as Phil Bower · 1 ep
Anna Lee: Headcase
Movie · as Mr. Emburey
Stalin
Movie · as Molotov
Rebecca's Daughters
Movie · as Sir Henry
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV · as Macduff (voice) · 1 ep
Archer's Goon
TV · as Hathaway · 3 eps
Time Riders
TV · as Professor Crow · 2 eps
Drop the Dead Donkey
TV · as Nicholas Waugh · 1 ep
Chancer
TV · as Linton · 2 eps
The Spirit of Man
Movie · as Claude Delmas
The Labours of Erica
TV · 12 eps
Thin Air
Movie · as Leonard Draeger
Double First
TV · 7 eps
A Very British Coup
TV · as T.V. Interviewer · 3 eps
Thin Air
TV · as Leonard Draeger · 5 eps
Cariani and the Courtesans
Movie · as Moretti
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Movie · as Deputy Chief Caretaker
Call Me Mister
TV · 1 ep
Monsignor Quixote
Movie · as Shop Assistant
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
TV · as Percival Fortescue · 2 eps
Mann's Best Friends
TV · as Irvin · 6 eps
Lytton's Diary
TV · as Harvey Sobell · 1 ep
The Bill
TV · 2 eps
The Kit Curran Radio Show
TV · as Damien Appleby · 12 eps
Freud
TV · as Tausk · 1 ep
Charlie
TV · as Smith · 4 eps
The Sign of Four
Movie · as Bartholomew Sholto
Submariners
Movie
The Falklands Factor
Movie · as "Junius"
The Bad Sister
Movie · as Paul
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
TV · as Richards
Reilly: Ace of Spies
TV · as Savinkov · 5 eps
Firefox
Movie · as Major Lanyev
Coming Out of the Ice
Movie · as Bikov
Shine on Harvey Moon
TV · as Dick Elliot · 8 eps
Escape to Victory
Movie · as The Forger
The Cause
Movie · as Rennie
The Borgias
TV · as Ascanio Sforza · 10 eps
Bergerac
TV · as Ackroyd · 1 ep
Private Schulz
TV · as Kruger, Radio Announcer (voice) · 1 ep
Wolcott
TV · as Jeremy Godden · 2 eps
Dead Man's Kit
Movie · as Commander Maybury
Feelifax
Movie · as Cooker(voice)
Yes Minister
TV · 1 ep
Spy!
TV · as Bogden Stashinsky · 1 ep
Stronger Than the Sun
Movie · as Gregory
The After Dinner Joke
Movie · as Dent
The Girl Who Walked Quickly
Movie · as Godolt
Thank You, Comrades
Movie · as Preobrazhenski
Out
TV · as Dr. Whyte · 1 ep
Mixed Blessings
TV · as Vicar · 1 ep
A Christmas Carol
Movie · as Bob Cratchit
Riddles of the Sphinx
Movie · as Chris
Cork and Bottle
Movie · as John Bottle
Here I Stand...
TV · as George Jacob Holyoake · 1 ep
When the Boat Comes In
TV · 1 ep
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Movie · as Weston
Great Performances
TV · as Shop Assistant · 1 ep
Come Dancing
Movie
Judge Dee
TV
Counterstrike
TV · as Idris Evans · 1 ep
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Movie · as Jim Callum
ITV Playhouse
TV · as John Bottle · 1 ep
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Ivor · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Jim Callum, Deputy Chief · 2 eps