Clive Merrison
48 movies · 51 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 15, 1945 (age 81)
- 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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Clive Merrison: movies and TV shows
Acting (99)
- 2018 The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Mr. Gilbert
- 2012 Bert & Dickie
as Clement Attlee
- 2010 Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
as Dan Corrigan
- 2009
- 2007
- 2006 The History Boys
as Headmaster
- 2005 Open Wide
as Prison Governor
- 2004 The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
as Anthony Trollope
- 2003 Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
as William Godwin
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002 The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)
- 2002
- 2001 The Discovery of Heaven
as Theo Kern
- 2001 Pandaemonium
as Dr Gillman
- 2000 Care
as Desmond Pickering
- 2000 Up at the Villa
as Archibald Grey
- 2000 Saving Grace
as Quentin Rhodes
- 1999
- 1999 Janice Beard 45 WPM
as Tobo
- 1999
- 1999 Human, All Too Human
as Reader
- 1998
- 1998
- 1997 Photographing Fairies
as Gardner
- 1997
- 1997
- 1996 True Blue
as Jack Garnet
- 1996 The English Patient
as Fenelon-Barnes
- 1996
- 1995 An Awfully Big Adventure
as Desmond Fairchild
- 1994
- 1994 Heavenly Creatures
as Dr. Henry Hulme
- 1994
- 1993 Anna Lee: Headcase
as Mr. Emburey
- 1992 Stalin
as Molotov
- 1992
- 1992 Rebecca's Daughters
as Sir Henry
- 1992
- 1991
- 1990
- 1989 The Spirit of Man
as Claude Delmas
- 1989
- 1988
- 1988
- 1988 Thin Air
as Leonard Draeger
- 1988
- 1987 Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as Deputy Chief Caretaker
- 1987 Cariani and the Courtesans
as Moretti
- 1986
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985 Monsignor Quixote
as Shop Assistant
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984
- 1983 The Sign of Four
as Bartholomew Sholto
- 1983
- 1983
- 1983
- 1983 The Falklands Factor
as "Junius"
- 1983 The Bad Sister
as Paul
- 1982 Coming Out of the Ice
as Bikov
- 1982 Firefox
as Major Lanyev
- 1982
- 1981
- 1981
- 1981 Escape to Victory
as The Forger
- 1981
- 1981 The Cause
as Rennie
- 1981
- 1980 Dead Man's Kit
as Commander Maybury
- 1980 Feelifax
as Cooker(voice)
- 1980
- 1980
- 1978 Thank You, Comrades
as Preobrazhenski
- 1978
- 1978 The Girl Who Walked Quickly
as Godolt
- 1978 Stronger Than the Sun
as Gregory
- 1978
- 1978 The After Dinner Joke
as Dent
- 1977 A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit
- 1977 Riddles of the Sphinx
as Chris
- 1977
- 1977 Cork and Bottle
as John Bottle
- 1976
- 1972 Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Weston
- 1971
- 1970
- 1969
- 1969 Judge Dee · TV
- 1967
- 1967 Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
as Jim Callum
- 1965
- 1963