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