Clive Merrison
Acting
1945-09-15 · Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
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
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018 · Movie
Bert & Dickie
2012 · Movie
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
2010 · Movie
Monday Monday
2009 · Series
Lewis
2007 · Series
The History Boys
2006 · Movie
Open Wide
2005 · Movie
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
2004 · Movie
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003 · Movie
Peep Show
2003 · Series
Julius Caesar
2002 · Series
Foyle's War
2002 · Series
Believe Nothing
2002 · Series
The Falklands Play
2002 · Movie
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002 · Series
The Discovery of Heaven
2001 · Movie
Pandaemonium
2001 · Movie
Care
2000 · Movie
Up at the Villa
2000 · Movie
Saving Grace
2000 · Movie
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999 · Series
Janice Beard 45 WPM
1999 · Movie
Life Support
1999 · Series
Human, All Too Human
1999 · Movie
How Do You Want Me?
1998 · Series
Mortimer's Law
1998 · Series
Photographing Fairies
1997 · Movie
Lexx
1997 · Series
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Series
True Blue
1996 · Movie
The English Patient
1996 · Movie
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996 · Series
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · Movie
Space Precinct
1994 · Series
Heavenly Creatures
1994 · Movie
Pie in the Sky
1994 · Series
Anna Lee: Headcase
1993 · Movie
Stalin
1992 · Movie
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Series
Rebecca's Daughters
1992 · Movie
Archer's Goon
1992 · Series
Time Riders
1991 · Series
Drop the Dead Donkey
1990 · Series
The Spirit of Man
1989 · Movie
The Labours of Erica
1989 · Series
Double First
1988 · Series
A Very British Coup
1988 · Series
Thin Air
1988 · Series
Thin Air
1988 · Movie
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987 · Movie
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987 · Movie
Call Me Mister
1986 · Series
Mann's Best Friends
1985 · Series
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985 · Series
Lytton's Diary
1985 · Series
Monsignor Quixote
1985 · Movie
The Bill
1984 · Series
Freud
1984 · Series
The Kit Curran Radio Show
1984 · Series
Charlie
1984 · Series
The Sign of Four
1983 · Movie
Submariners
1983 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983 · Series
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · Series
The Falklands Factor
1983 · Movie
The Bad Sister
1983 · Movie
Coming Out of the Ice
1982 · Movie
Firefox
1982 · Movie
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982 · Series
Bergerac
1981 · Series
The Borgias
1981 · Series
Escape to Victory
1981 · Movie
Private Schulz
1981 · Series
The Cause
1981 · Movie
Wolcott
1981 · Series
Dead Man's Kit
1980 · Movie
Feelifax
1980 · Movie
Yes Minister
1980 · Series
Spy!
1980 · Series
Thank You, Comrades
1978 · Movie
Out
1978 · Series
The Girl Who Walked Quickly
1978 · Movie
Stronger Than the Sun
1978 · Movie
Mixed Blessings
1978 · Series
The After Dinner Joke
1978 · Movie
A Christmas Carol
1977 · Movie
Riddles of the Sphinx
1977 · Movie
Here I Stand...
1977 · Series
Cork and Bottle
1977 · Movie
When the Boat Comes In
1976 · Series
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Come Dancing
1970 · Movie
Counterstrike
1969 · Series
Judge Dee
1969 · Series
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Series
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
1967 · Movie
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
Doctor Who
1963 · Series