Clive Merrison

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.

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Inglise patsient 1996Movie as Fenelon-Barnes

Julius Caesar 2002TV show as Catullus

Guernsey Kirjandus- ja Kartulikoorepiruka Selts 2018Movie as Mr. Gilbert

Firefox 1982Movie as Major Lanyev

Escape to Victory 1981Movie as The Forger

Heavenly Creatures 1994Movie as Dr. Henry Hulme

The History Boys 2006Movie as Headmaster

The Borgias 1981TV show as Ascanio Sforza

Up at the Villa 2000Movie as Archibald Grey

Photographing Fairies 1997Movie as Gardner

Stalin 1992Movie as Molotov

The Sign of Four 1983Movie as Bartholomew Sholto

Henry VIII and His Six Wives 1972Movie as Weston

Janice Beard 45 WPM 1999Movie as Tobo

The Falklands Play 2002Movie as Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)

Coming Out of the Ice 1982Movie as Bikov

A Christmas Carol 1977Movie as Bob Cratchit

Riddles of the Sphinx 1977Movie as Chris