Clive Merrison

Known for ActingBorn 1945-09-15 (age 81)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings

Mortimer's Law

Archer's Goon

The Spirit of Man

Charlie

The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster

The Girl Who Walked Quickly

Monsignor Quixote

Monday Monday

The Borgias

Pie in the Sky

Yes Minister

Peep Show

Foyle's War

The Labours of Erica

How Do You Want Me?

A Very British Coup

Cork and Bottle

Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen

Lewis

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

Out

Doctor Who

Shine on Harvey Moon

When the Boat Comes In

Midsomer Murders

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

The After Dinner Joke

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

Lytton's Diary

The English Patient

The Falklands Play

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Lexx

Testament: The Bible in Animation

Drop the Dead Donkey

Thin Air

Cariani and the Courtesans

Heavenly Creatures

The Falklands Factor

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Believe Nothing

Bergerac

Escape to Victory

Counterstrike

ITV Playhouse

The History Boys