Clive Russell

Scottish actor Clive Russell is known for television roles such as Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline in Ripper Street, Angus O'Connor in Happiness, Lord Lovat in Outlander, and Brynden Tully in Game of Thrones. He was brought up in Leven in Fife and began acting in 1980 as the police superintendent in Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, reprising the part on television in 1983. After British television and film work, he gained wider attention as Caleb Garth in the BBC miniseries Middlemarch, then earned a Genie nomination for Margaret's Museum. He played Ralph Fiennes' father in Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and appeared in Ladies in Lavender (2004), The 13th Warrior (1999), Sherlock Holmes (2009), The Wicker Tree, and Thor: The Dark World (2013) as Tyr. His many television credits include Still Game, Rab C Nesbitt, Cracker, and Hollyoaks, and he has also appeared in the video games Still Wakes the Deep and Soulframe.