Clive Swift

Clive Swift
Birth name	Clive Walter Swift
Born	9 February 1936 (1936-02-09) (age 75) Liverpool, England
Medium	Actor Songwriter
Nationality	British
Years active	1965–present
Genres	Character Comedy
Influences	Barry Humphries as old man Sandy Stone
Spouse	Margaret Drabble (1960–75)

Clive Walter Swift (born 9 February 1936) is an English, character comedy; actor and songwriter. He is best known for his role as character Richard Bucket in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances. He is less known for his role as character Roy in the British television series The Old Guys. Swift was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Lily Rebecca (née Greenman) and Abram Sampson Swift.^[1] He was educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read English literature. He was previously a teacher at LAMDA and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Swift has appeared in many TV series and movies.

In 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 most noted for his performance in Keeping Up Appearances, starring as Richard Bucket, the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth. He also 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 (1960-1975). He is the father of one daughter, Rebecca, who runs The Literary Consultancy in London's Free Word Centre and two sons, Adam Swift, an academic, and Joe Swift, a TV gardener. His brother, David Swift, is also an actor.

As well as 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, which aired on BBC 1,from 2002-2005.

Film

• Death Line (1972)
• Frenzy (1972)
• The National Health (1973)
• Man at the Top (1973)
• Romeo and Juliet (1976)
• Excalibur (1981)
• A Passage to India (1984)
• Gaston's War (1997)
• Othello (2004)

Television

• Hustle (TV series) as Yusef
• The Old Guys as Roy
• Born and Bred as Reverend Brewer
• Peak Practice as Norman Shorthose
• Aristocrats (TV mini-series) as King George II
• Keeping Up Appearances as Richard Bucket
• Doctor Who
  • Revelation of the Daleks as Jobel
  • Voyage of the Damned as Mr Copper
• Waugh on Crime as Inspector Waugh
• Beasts - "The Dummy" as Bunny
• First Among Equals as Alec Pimkin
• Inspector Morse - The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn as Doctor Bartlett
• The Liver Birds - as Jim Royle
• Stalls of Barchester
• A Warning to the Curious
• South Riding
• The Pickwick Papers (1985 television series)

Radio

• Oblomov as the Doctor
• The Right Time
• From Fact to Fiction - The Orchard as The Narrator
• Measure for Measure as Escalus
• "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities" as Nash

Stage

• Cymbeline (1962) as Cloten

Television roles

Year	Title	Role
1980	The Nesbitts Are Coming	Ernie Nesbitt
1985	The Pickwick Papers	Tracy Tupman
1985/2007	Doctor Who	Jobel/Mr. Copper
1990 to 1995	Keeping Up Appearances	Richard Bucket
2009 to Present	The Old Guys	Roy Bowden

References

1. ^ Clive Swift Biography (1936-)

• 1976. Clayhanger ATV television series. Albert Benbow
• 2012 Classic Serial - Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities

External links

• Clive Swift at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Swift, Clive
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Date of birth	9 February 1936
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
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