Clive Merrison
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 15, 1945 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
- Credits
- 99
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
The English Patient
1996Movie
Fenelon-Barnes
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018Movie
Mr. Gilbert
Heavenly Creatures
1994Movie
Dr. Henry Hulme
Escape to Victory
1981Movie
The Forger
Doctor Who
1963TV
Jim Callum, Deputy Chief
Firefox
1982Movie
Major Lanyev
Filmography
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018Movie
Mr. Gilbert
Bert & Dickie
2012Movie
Clement Attlee
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
2010Movie
Dan Corrigan
Monday Monday
2009TV
Lewis
2007TV
Simon Flaxmore
The History Boys
2006Movie
Headmaster
Open Wide
2005Movie
Prison Governor
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
2004Movie
Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003Movie
William Godwin
Peep Show
2003TV
Dan Corrigan
Julius Caesar
2002TV
Catullus
Foyle's War
2002TV
Dr. Alan Redmund
Believe Nothing
2002TV
Edmund Bilyas
The Falklands Play
2002Movie
Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002TV
Geoffrey Cramond
The Discovery of Heaven
2001Movie
Theo Kern
Pandaemonium
2001Movie
Dr Gillman
Care
2000Movie
Desmond Pickering
Up at the Villa
2000Movie
Archibald Grey
Saving Grace
2000Movie
Quentin Rhodes
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999TV
Chamberlain
Janice Beard 45 WPM
1999Movie
Tobo
Life Support
1999TV
Lovat Alexander
Human, All Too Human
1999Movie
Reader
How Do You Want Me?
1998TV
Mortimer's Law
1998TV
Tegwyn
Photographing Fairies
1997Movie
Gardner
Lexx
1997TV
Professor Shnoog
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Colin Hawksley, Caleb Southwood
True Blue
1996Movie
Jack Garnet
The English Patient
1996Movie
Fenelon-Barnes
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996TV
Darius (voice)
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995Movie
Desmond Fairchild
Space Precinct
1994TV
Damon Reseda
Heavenly Creatures
1994Movie
Dr. Henry Hulme
Pie in the Sky
1994TV
Phil Bower
Anna Lee: Headcase
1993Movie
Mr. Emburey
Stalin
1992Movie
Molotov
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992TV
Macduff (voice)
Rebecca's Daughters
1992Movie
Sir Henry
Archer's Goon
1992TV
Hathaway
Time Riders
1991TV
Professor Crow
Drop the Dead Donkey
1990TV
Nicholas Waugh
The Spirit of Man
1989Movie
Claude Delmas
The Labours of Erica
1989TV
Double First
1988TV
A Very British Coup
1988TV
T.V. Interviewer
Thin Air
1988Movie
Leonard Draeger
Thin Air
1988TV
Leonard Draeger
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987Movie
Deputy Chief Caretaker
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987Movie
Moretti
Call Me Mister
1986TV
Mann's Best Friends
1985TV
Irvin
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985TV
Percival Fortescue
Lytton's Diary
1985TV
Harvey Sobell
Monsignor Quixote
1985Movie
Shop Assistant
The Bill
1984TV
Freud
1984TV
Tausk
The Kit Curran Radio Show
1984TV
Damien Appleby
Charlie
1984TV
Smith
The Sign of Four
1983Movie
Bartholomew Sholto
Submariners
1983Movie
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983TV
Richards
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983TV
Savinkov
The Falklands Factor
1983Movie
"Junius"
The Bad Sister
1983Movie
Paul
Coming Out of the Ice
1982Movie
Bikov
Firefox
1982Movie
Major Lanyev
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982TV
Dick Elliot
Bergerac
1981TV
Ackroyd
The Borgias
1981TV
Ascanio Sforza
Escape to Victory
1981Movie
The Forger
Private Schulz
1981TV
Kruger, Radio Announcer (voice)
The Cause
1981Movie
Rennie
Wolcott
1981TV
Jeremy Godden
Dead Man's Kit
1980Movie
Commander Maybury
Feelifax
1980Movie
Cooker(voice)
Yes Minister
1980TV
Spy!
1980TV
Bogden Stashinsky
Thank You, Comrades
1978Movie
Preobrazhenski
Out
1978TV
Dr. Whyte
The Girl Who Walked Quickly
1978Movie
Godolt
Stronger Than the Sun
1978Movie
Gregory
Mixed Blessings
1978TV
Vicar
The After Dinner Joke
1978Movie
Dent
A Christmas Carol
1977Movie
Bob Cratchit
Riddles of the Sphinx
1977Movie
Chris
Here I Stand...
1977TV
George Jacob Holyoake
Cork and Bottle
1977Movie
John Bottle
When the Boat Comes In
1976TV
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972Movie
Weston
Great Performances
1971TV
Shop Assistant
Come Dancing
1970Movie
Counterstrike
1969TV
Idris Evans
Judge Dee
1969TV
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
John Bottle
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
1967Movie
Jim Callum
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Ivor
Doctor Who
1963TV
Jim Callum, Deputy Chief