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Clive Merrison
Known for: ActingClive 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 18
The English Patient
+5
as Fenelon-Barnes 
Julius Caesar
as Catullus 
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Mr. Gilbert 
Firefox
+1
as Major Lanyev 
Escape to Victory
+1
as The Forger 
Heavenly Creatures
as Dr. Henry Hulme 
The History Boys
+2
as Headmaster 
The Borgias
as Ascanio Sforza 
Up at the Villa
as Archibald Grey 
Photographing Fairies
as Gardner 
Stalin
as Molotov 
The Sign of Four
+3
as Bartholomew Sholto 
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Weston 
Janice Beard 45 WPM
as Tobo 
The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence) 
Coming Out of the Ice
as Bikov 
A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit 
Riddles of the Sphinx
as Chris