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