Clive Swift

Clive Swift

Clive Swift was a British actor known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys.

Known For

Excalibur

as Ector

Frenzy

as Johnny Porter

Cast Credits

Young Arthur

as Illtud

Aristocrats

as King George II

Othello

as Brabantio / Gratiano

Journey's End

as Captain Hardy

Cause Célèbre

as P.P. Croom Johnson

Pack of Lies

as Ellis

What Mad Pursuit

as Bonwit Steinhauser

A Passage to India

as Major Callendar

Memed My Hawk

as Magistrate

Martin Luther, Heretic

as Johann Tetzel

Praying Mantis

as Dr. Faure

The Potsdam Quartet

as Aaron Green

Excalibur

as Ector

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

as Hastie Lanyon

An Ordered Life

as Director of Austrian State Radio

Henry IV Part 1

as Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester

Home-Movies

as Alec Thorne

The Sailor's Return

as Reverend Pottock

Foreign Affairs

as Adamson

The Kitchen

as Frank

Beasts: The Dummy

as 'Bunny' Nettleton

Buffet

as Air steward

Beloved

as William Hepworth-Dixon