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Clive Merrison
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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), De…
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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.
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Mr. Gilbert
Bert & Dickie
as Clement Attlee
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
as Dan Corrigan
The History Boys
as Headmaster
Open Wide
as Prison Governor
No Poster
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
as Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
as William Godwin
The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)
The Discovery of Heaven
as Theo Kern
Pandaemonium
as Dr Gillman
Care
as Desmond Pickering
Up at the Villa
as Archibald Grey
Saving Grace
as Quentin Rhodes
Janice Beard 45 WPM
as Tobo
Human, All Too Human
as Reader
Photographing Fairies
as Gardner
True Blue
as Jack Garnet
The English Patient
as Fenelon-Barnes
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Desmond Fairchild
Heavenly Creatures
as Dr. Henry Hulme
No Poster
Anna Lee: Headcase
as Mr. Emburey
Stalin
as Molotov
Rebecca's Daughters
as Sir Henry
The Spirit of Man
as Claude Delmas
Thin Air
as Leonard Draeger
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as Deputy Chief Caretaker
Cariani and the Courtesans
as Moretti
Monsignor Quixote
as Shop Assistant
The Sign of Four
as Bartholomew Sholto
Submariners
The Falklands Factor
as "Junius"
The Bad Sister
as Paul
Coming Out of the Ice
as Bikov
Firefox
as Major Lanyev
Escape to Victory
as The Forger
The Cause
as Rennie
Dead Man's Kit
as Commander Maybury
No Poster
Feelifax
as Cooker(voice)
No Poster
Thank You, Comrades
as Preobrazhenski
No Poster
The Girl Who Walked Quickly
as Godolt
Stronger Than the Sun
as Gregory
The After Dinner Joke
as Dent
A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit
Riddles of the Sphinx
as Chris
No Poster
Cork and Bottle
as John Bottle
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Weston
Come Dancing
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
as Jim Callum