Clive Merrison
Biography
Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor whose work spans film, television, stage and radio. He trained at Rose Bruford College, belonged to Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in the 1970s, and later acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company. On stage he played Antonin Artaud in Artaud at Rodez and the headmaster in Alan Bennett's The History Boys in its original National Theatre and Broadway runs, a part he repeated for the 2006 film. He is best known on radio, having voiced Sherlock Holmes in every episode of the BBC Radio 4 series from 1989 to 1998 and in the later series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, becoming the first actor to play Holmes in adaptations of all Arthur Conan Doyle's stories and novels. In film he appeared as Kate Winslet's father in Heavenly Creatures (1994), a forger in Escape to Victory (1981), a lawyer in Saving Grace (2000), and in The English Patient (1996).
81years old
Turns 82 on September 15in 309 days
- Born Tenby
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 37 years1981 to 2018
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Merrison played Sherlock Holmes on radio in BBC Radio 4 dramatizations from 5 November 1989 to 5 July 1998. He was the first actor to take the part in adaptations of every Arthur Conan Doyle story and novel about Holmes.
Clive Merrison movies on Netflix
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The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Clive Merrison shares two films with Penelope Wilton, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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All films by Anthony Minghella
All films by Peter Jackson
All films by Mike Newell
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