Clive Merrison

About

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...

Known for

Midsomer MurdersSeries • 1997Doctor WhoSeries • 1963Great PerformancesSeries • 1971The BillSeries • 1984ITV PlayhouseSeries • 1967BergeracSeries • 1981Foyle's WarSeries • 2002LewisSeries • 2007LexxSeries • 1997Thirty-Minute TheatreSeries • 1965Pie in the SkySeries • 1994Peep ShowSeries • 2003Space PrecinctSeries • 1994The Inspector Lynley MysteriesSeries • 2002Drop the Dead DonkeySeries • 1990Yes MinisterSeries • 1980When the Boat Comes InSeries • 1976Shakespeare: The Animated TalesSeries • 1992Shine on Harvey MoonSeries • 1982Reilly: Ace of SpiesSeries • 1983Escape to VictoryMovie • 1981Agatha Christie's Partners in CrimeSeries • 1983The English PatientMovie • 1996The Magical Legend of the LeprechaunsSeries • 1999