Biography
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.
Acted in 89
2010s
- 2018
- 2012
Bert & Dickie
Clement Attlee
- 2010
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
Dan Corrigan
2000s
- 2009
Monday Monday
TV
- 2007
- 2006
The History Boys
Headmaster
- 2005
Open Wide
Prison Governor
- 2003
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
William Godwin
- 2002
Julius Caesar
Catullus · 2 episodes
Believe Nothing
Edmund Bilyas · 1 episode
The Falklands Play
Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)
- 2001
The Discovery of Heaven
Theo Kern
- 2000
Care
Desmond Pickering
Up at the Villa
Archibald Grey
1990s
- 1999
Janice Beard 45 WPM
Tobo
Life Support
Lovat Alexander · 1 episode
Human, All Too Human
Reader
- 1998
How Do You Want Me?
TV
- 1997
- 1996
True Blue
Jack Garnet
- 1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
Desmond Fairchild
- 1994
- 1992
Stalin
Molotov
Rebecca's Daughters
Sir Henry
Archer's Goon
Hathaway · 3 episodes
- 1991
Time Riders
Professor Crow · 2 episodes
- 1990
Chancer
Linton · 2 episodes
1980s
- 1989
The Spirit of Man
Claude Delmas
- 1988
A Very British Coup
T.V. Interviewer · 3 episodes
Thin Air
Leonard Draeger
- 1987
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Deputy Chief Caretaker
Cariani and the Courtesans
Moretti
- 1986
Call Me Mister
TV
- 1985
Mann's Best Friends
Irvin · 6 episodes
Lytton's Diary
Harvey Sobell · 1 episode
Monsignor Quixote
Shop Assistant
- 1984
The Kit Curran Radio Show
Damien Appleby · 12 episodes
Charlie
Smith · 4 episodes
- 1983
Submariners
Movie
The Falklands Factor
"Junius"
The Bad Sister
Paul
- 1982
- 1981
The Borgias
Ascanio Sforza · 10 episodes
The Cause
Rennie
Wolcott
Jeremy Godden · 2 episodes
- 1980
Dead Man's Kit
Commander Maybury
1970s
- 1978
Out
Dr. Whyte · 1 episode
Stronger Than the Sun
Gregory
Mixed Blessings
Vicar · 1 episode
The After Dinner Joke
Dent
- 1977
A Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit
Riddles of the Sphinx
Chris
- 1976
- 1972
- 1971
- 1970
Come Dancing
Movie
1960s
- 1969
Counterstrike
Idris Evans · 1 episode
Judge Dee
TV
- 1967
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Jim Callum
- 1965
- 1963
