Clive Swift
Known for: Acting
Born: February 9, 1936
Died: February 1, 2019
Place of birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Clive Swift was a British actor known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys.
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Filmography
51 movies · 52 TV shows, newest first
7.3
Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances
2023
10.0
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015
5.9
SunTrap
2015
NR
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
6.8
Cuckoo
2012
6.5
The Old Guys
2009
7.6
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
20074.5
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
20076.5
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
7.7
Hustle
2004
6.0
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
20038.0
Young Arthur
2002
9.0
Born and Bred
2002
6.0
Aristocrats
1999
9.5
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
6.5
Peak Practice
1993
7.2
Heartbeat
1992
5.0
The War That Never Ends
1991
7.7
Keeping Up Appearances
1990
7.3
Othello
1990
6.7
Young Toscanini
19886.5
Gentlemen and Players
1988
8.0
Journey's End
1988
5.6
Cause Célèbre
1987
6.8
Pack of Lies
1987
7.9
Inspector Morse
1987
7.0
First Among Equals
1986
NR
All Together Now
1986
6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
8.2
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986
10.0
What Mad Pursuit
1985NR
Black Silk
1985
6.9
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
8.7
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985
7.3
The Pickwick Papers
1985
6.8
A Passage to India
1984
7.5
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984
6.0
Memed My Hawk
1984
7.0
Martin Luther, Heretic
1983
8.0
Storyboard
1983
7.3
The Barchester Chronicles
1982
6.0
Praying Mantis
1982
6.3
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
NR
The Potsdam Quartet
1981
7.0
Excalibur
1981
6.2
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1980
NR
An Ordered Life
1980NR
The Nesbitts Are Coming
1980
8.0
Cribb
1980
7.3
Henry IV Part 1
1979NR
Home-Movies
1979
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
6.2
The Sailor's Return
1978
6.3
Bless Me Father
1978NR
Send in the Girls
1978
NR
Foreign Affairs
1978
NR
The Kitchen
1977
7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
4.3
Beasts: The Dummy
1976
9.0
Buffet
1976
6.4
Beasts
1976
NR
Beloved
1976
6.5
Romeo and Juliet
1976
10.0
Victorian Scandals
1976
6.0
Clayhanger
1976
6.8
Shadows
1975
9.0
Goodbye
1975
7.0
The Breakthrough
1975
NR
South Riding
1974
9.0
South Riding
1974
7.0
Playhouse
1974
7.0
The National Health
1973
5.2
Man at the Top
1973
7.0
A Warning to the Curious
1972
10.0
The Exorcism
1972
8.0
Dead of Night
1972
5.8
Death Line
1972
7.5
Villains
1972
8.5
The Frighteners
1972
7.1
Frenzy
1972
6.3
The Stalls of Barchester
1971
7.4
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
6.0
Roll On Four O'Clock
1970NR
Waugh on Crime
1970
6.6
Play for Today
1970
9.0
The Misfit
1970
9.0
Mad Jack
1970
10.0
Dombey and Son
1969
7.0
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
19699.0
Birthday
1969
6.3
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
9.0
The Expert
196810.0
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965NR
Knock on Any Door
1965
5.4
Catch Us If You Can
1965
5.2
The Wednesday Play
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
1964
7.9
Doctor Who
1963NR
Dig This Rhubarb
1963
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951