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.
Excalibur
as EctorA surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" chronicling Arthur Pendragon's...
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
as Additional Voices (voice)Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left...
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A Passage to India
as Major CallendarSet during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British...
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Frenzy
as Johnny PorterAfter a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a...
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Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
as Mr. CopperWhen disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling...
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Death Line
as Inspector RichardsonThere's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and...
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Excalibur: Behind the Movie
as SelfThis retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie,...
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A Warning to the Curious
as Dr. BlackPaxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
as SnugPeter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country...
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Aristocrats
as King George II18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters -...
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
as Hastie LanyonAdaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
as RichardDaisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this...
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Henry IV Part 1
as Thomas Percy, Earl of WorcesterHenry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the...
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Catch Us If You Can
as DuffieDinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
as Lord CerimonWhen Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight...
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The National Health
as uncreditedPeter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A...
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The Stalls of Barchester
as Dr. BlackScholar Dr. Black's seemingly mundane assignment of sorting through the assets of the Barchester...
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Young Toscanini
as uncreditedA fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
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Othello
as Brabantio / GratianoNoble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically...
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Buffet
as Air stewardA quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately;...
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Man at the Top
as MasseyNortherner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a...
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Journey's End
as Captain HardyA British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation...
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Dead of Night: The Exorcism
as DanFour wealthy, middle-class friends gather for a Christmas dinner in a country cottage only to...
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The Kitchen
as FrankAlvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen,...
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Cause Célèbre
as P.P. Croom JohnsonWhen the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions...
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Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
as Self (archive footage)Keeping Up Appearances remains one of Britain's best loved series. Running for 5 years...
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Praying Mantis
as Dr. FaureA middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised...
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The War That Never Ends
as AthenagorasThe Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news...
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South Riding
as uncreditedAn adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
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Beasts: The Dummy
as 'Bunny' NettletonA washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that...
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Martin Luther, Heretic
as Johann TetzelMartin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of...
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Mad Jack
as uncreditedPlay dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests...
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The Sailor's Return
as Reverend PottockBased on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown...
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The Pickwick Papers
as Mr. TupmanThe Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaption of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens,...
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Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
as Professor JobelAt the Tranquil Repose mortuary, the Doctor and Peri uncover a sinister plot to create a new...
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Young Arthur
as IlltudUnaired TV movie pilot for a TV series on the childhood of King Arthur.
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Goodbye
as Savory"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any...
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Roll On Four O'Clock
as Max FielderCompelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low...
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Pack of Lies
as EllisA British couple are shocked out of their suburban malaise when British intelligence agent...
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Beloved
as William Hepworth-DixonWhen Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own...
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Romeo and Juliet
as Friar LawrenceAdaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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What Mad Pursuit
as Bonwit SteinhauserIf you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote...
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The Potsdam Quartet
as Aaron Green' They're mortal enemies, we just hate each other. So surely if they can agree about the destiny...
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Foreign Affairs
as AdamsonMoscow is the setting for a reunion between Susan and Viktor - a reunion which leads to...
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The Breakthrough
as RobbieAn adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of...
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All Together Now
as JamesThe weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion. Then Mathew, the...
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Home-Movies
as Alec ThorneA 1979 production from BBC2 Playhouse by Denis Cannan
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as Director of Austrian State RadioColin Jeavons is the German composer Anton Webern who survives Naziism only to be shot by an...
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as Felix HopeThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Doctor Who
as Mr CopperThe Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...
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The Expert
as Graham RichardsThe Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series...
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Doctor Who
as JobelThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...
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Peak Practice
as Norman ShorthosePeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...
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Hustle
as YusefA motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Play for Today
as SavoryPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Play for Today
as Air StewardPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Heartbeat
as Victor KellermanSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Inspector Morse
as Dr BartlettInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as LathamA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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The BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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Playhouse
as uncreditedBBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic...
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The Ray Bradbury Theater
as St. John CourtA Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray...
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Keeping Up Appearances
as Richard BucketHyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in...
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Hazell
as uncreditedHazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private...
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Shadows
as uncreditedShadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for...
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The Frighteners
as MachenA horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.
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Cuckoo
as Dr. RaffertyCuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is...
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The Gentle Touch
as uncreditedThe Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television...
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A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Dr. BlackA strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing...
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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
as uncreditedWinston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of...
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A Very Peculiar Practice
as uncreditedA young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health...
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Born and Bred
as Reverend BrewerBorn and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005....
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as EllisHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Victorian Scandals
as William Hepworth-DixonFeaturing dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
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Beasts
as 'Bunny' NettletonBeasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a...
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Bless Me Father
as Fred DobieBless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye,...
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The Pickwick Papers
as Mr. TupmanMr Pickwick, Tupman, Winkle, Snodgrass and Sam Weller begin their travels through the England of...
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The Old Guys
as RoyThe Old Guys is a British comedy television series that revolves around two aging housemates:...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
as Edward WhiteleyValentine is famous for writing parenting guide books and being the perfect woman, wife and...
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The Barchester Chronicles
as Dr. ProudieAgainst the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into...
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First Among Equals
as Alec PimkinFirst Among Equals is a ten-part serial based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel First Among Equals,...
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Dead of Night
as DanDead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the...
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Dombey and Son
as Major BagstockCharles Dickens' classic novel is given its first television adaptation in this classic 1969 BBC...
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