Clive Merrison

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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

• The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
• Bert & Dickie (2012)
• Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings (2010)
• The History Boys (2006)
• Open Wide (2005)
• The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope (2004)
• Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster (2003)
• The Falklands Play (2002)
• The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
• Pandaemonium (2001)
• Care (2000)
• Up at the Villa (2000)
• Saving Grace (2000)
• Janice Beard 45 WPM (1999)
• Human, All Too Human (1999)
• Photographing Fairies (1997)
• True Blue (1996)
• The English Patient (1996)
• An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
• Heavenly Creatures (1994)
• Anna Lee: Headcase (1993)
• Stalin (1992)
• Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
• The Spirit of Man (1989)
• Thin Air (1988)
• Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (1987)
• Cariani and the Courtesans (1987)
• Monsignor Quixote (1985)
• The Sign of Four (1983)
• Submariners (1983)
• The Falklands Factor (1983)
• The Bad Sister (1983)
• Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
• Firefox (1982)
• Escape to Victory (1981)
• The Cause (1981)
• Dead Man's Kit (1980)
• Feelifax (1980)
• Thank You, Comrades (1978)
• The Girl Who Walked Quickly (1978)
• Stronger Than the Sun (1978)
• The After Dinner Joke (1978)
• A Christmas Carol (1977)
• Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)
• Cork and Bottle (1977)
• Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
• Come Dancing (1970)
• Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)