He also played Reverend Brewer in Born and Bred and Sir Hector in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur. Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936-1 February 2019) was an English actor who played Mr Jobel in Revelation of the Daleks and Mr Copper in Voyage of the Damned.He was due to play Gilbrook in the Big Finish audio story Creatures of Beauty, but was forced to pull out due to a family illness. You can tell them about my character. It was pretty bizarre in fairness but he was good in it. Seemed to pull it together in Season 16 (love him in that year) and varied from brilliant to silly and self-indulgent in Season 17. Jobel, Copper Testament to what a sod he'd been on set all month. (PROSE: Rose), Clive studied at Durham University where he was a part of a UFO society. https://theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/25/rebecca-swift-obituary. He was best known for his role as Richard Bucket, the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth (played by Patricia Routledge ) in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances , but played many other film and television roles. [3] Cook commented in 2017 that the interview had to be approved by Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner in order to be printed, and suspected they allowed it because Swift had been a "sod" on set. Serious-minded Shakespearean actor who felt slightly cursed by the TV sitcom role with which he became most associated, Clive Swift, above, with Keeping Up Appearances co-star Patricia Routledge in 1991 and, below, on his wedding day in 1960. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Doctor Who Production News @DoctorWhoPN. Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 - 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. He recovered his voice well enough to join the RSC the next year and became a fixture in Hall's newly formed company for almost a decade. "I decided if Richard was a really meek and submissive person, there was no conflict, because he'd be just a bit of fluff for Hyacinth: he said. Main roles: Just hit 'Like' on our Digital Spy Facebook page and 'Follow' on our @digitalspy Twitter account and you're all set, The Mandalorian's Pedro Pascal on season 3, Neighbours announces seven more returning cast. Speaking about his career, which started back in 1961, Clive explained: Ive always wanted to perform, which is slightly different [than being an actor]. In fact, it became such a favourite, that more than a decade later he was still remembered for playing the ever-doting Richard, and he had began to tire of it. Clive Swift, actor. 1 February 2019 Digital Spy participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. "Because it was a global success, it's given me a good pension that I might never have had.". I must have missed those DVDs, 'cause I haven't heard many people say that. I'm not getting paid, am I? K2k Posts: 200. Species: Born in 1942 in Washington DC, Tork became part of the band with Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Davy Jones in the mid-sixties, when they was formed as Americas Beatles counterpart. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Actor Clive Swift, known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 82. According to his agent, the actor died at his home on Friday after a short illness, surrounded by his family. After desperately attempting to escape the character, Swift eventually accepted the inevitable. Clive stared at it with a look of cold submissiveness, knowing he was about to be killed, (TV: Rose) and was shot. Stories: Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Swiss actor Ganz, one of the most prominent German-speaking actors, died on 16 February, aged 77. I'm sure you'll write something very nice. If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. The Sowetan later described the Rand Daily Mail under Louw as the "first white newspaper to regard blacks as human beings. (PROSE: Rose), Shortly after his meeting with Rose, Clive and his family went on a shopping trip and were in Queen's Arcade when the Autons were activated. he begins the interview, before asking a few questions later: "Why should I do this? Clive Swift, actor, was born on February 9, 1936. You should double-check all citations. Clive Swift, the character actor, who has died aged 82, was a stylish, incisive and distinctive member of the original Royal Shakespeare Company in its heyday before becoming a familiar supporting . Diverse roles from Shakespeare to Hitchcock and #DoctorWho to the much harangued husband of Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet). RIP the wonderful Clive Swift. Their daughter, Rebecca, co-founder of the Literary Consultancy, died in 2017. Does Unforgotten work without Nicola Walker? Actress Hannelore Elsner arrives for the screening of the movie 'Nobody Wants the Night', during the opening gala of the 65th Berlinale International Film Festival, in Berlin February 5, 2015. Wil Wheaton's cloying oozy interview of Peter and Jenna is super cringe. BBC. Hence why it's the Copper Foundation . I think they give a much better picture of Who history rather than. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Swift put his fine voice and relish for Elizabethan language to good use by turning secondary Shakespeare roles into original and eye-catching portrayals. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. Swift also played Sir Ector, the adoptive father of King Arthur in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur. Died 1 February 2019, in London, aged 82. . Despite his grumbling, there were compensations. She was 32. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. 10. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. 2022 Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. If youd like to join in, please sign in or register. Have you read the script? As medical director of the hospital for 10 years from 2006, he was keen for a constant dialogue between doctors treating patients and their colleagues in labs, Celebrated sports journalist died in January, aged 84. Stars: Eric Saward, Clive Swift, Graeme Harper, Trevor Cooper. Estate agent "Clive was a skilful and inventive actor with wide experience, as his successful career proved," she said. Welcome to the Digital Spy forums. One of the world's richest men, David Koch died aged 79 on august 23. "Perhaps the subtlest acting comes from Clive Swift as Cloten who turns the queen's loutish son into an epileptic young blimp or pygmy Churchill: Kenneth Tynan wrote of his performance alongside Vanessa Redgrave in William Gaskill's 1962 production of Cyrnbeline. Clive Swift and Janet Fielding just say what they think. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Jerrie Cobb, the nation's first female astronaut candidate, with a display of rockets at a national conference where the leading space experts gathered in Tulsa, Okla. Cobb died in Florida at the age of 88 on March 18, 2019. Im not getting paid, am I?, Asked about his character, he responded: You dont need me to tell you that. His first professional acting job was at Nottingham Playhouse, in the UK premiere of JB Priestleys take the Fool Away, in 1959. "There's no reason why 1 should talk to you," he snapped, making no attempt to conceal his contempt for the sci-fi show as an unworthy vehicle for his talents. The actor, who passed away this morning at . Flint quickly became one of the figureheads of British electronic music during the Nineties as a singer in the band The Prodigy. What a silly question. LOL, I feel like an idiot now (not for the first time)! That's what I perform. (Know he got ill, and his relationship with Lalla was apparently volatile.). EEAAO star gives tearful speech after historic win, The best Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom deals. "I was so excited I dried after the first line," he recalled. Forum Member 01/11/17 - 12:31 in Doctor Who #1. Keeping Up Appearances was the only TV sitcom he did, yet in the minds of many he was typecast forever as Richard Bucket. A quarter of a century after Clive Swift played Richard Bucket, the long-suffering and downtrodden husband of Patricia Routledge's matronly snob Hyacinth in the TV series Keeping Up Appearances, people were still offering him marital advice when he walked down the street. But it was the directors he was usually most difficult with. Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys. "Do people shout 'Richard' at you in the street?". Russell T Davies: "That Clive Swift interview worried me over the years. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Swift's many roles included a part in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film Frenzy and as King Arthur's adopted father in 1981 film Excalibur. People often single Tom out as being particularly grumpy, when in fact quite a few of the Doctors have been known as being slightly grumpy. As a serious-minded thespian of the old school who learnt his trade alongside Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen and the like, and was handpicked by Sir Peter Hall as an original member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Swift's frustration was perhaps understandable. Main jobs: Press J to jump to the feed. Have you read the script? Then he was subdued and occasionally rather knackered seeming in his last year. Clive Walter Swift was born in Liverpool in 1936, the second of four children to Abram Swift, and Lillie (ne Greenman), the owners of a Bootle furniture shop. Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? The 79-year-old, along with his brother Charles, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the political and lobbying system promoting a conservative agenda. Ben Finch, Michael Finch Keeping Up Appearances was first aired in 1990 and ran for five years, but Swift was initially reluctant to accept the part. The Q&A session, from Doctor Who Magazine in 2007 during the David Tennant era, has resurfaced online, and in it Swift spends a lot of the time attempting to lecture the journalist on their skills. . After the society booked the same venue as a Reclaim the Night Enclave, he and his friends left, but Caroline tracked him down to a bar and apologised. The celebrated writer of 11 novels was known for her searing works about slavery and the experiences of black women, including 1987s Beloved, the story of a runaway female slave for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. Clive Swift . Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. And he doesn't appear to have reacted well to new, young 'boss' Graham Williams after being well handled by Hinchcliffe. Born 9 February 1936, in Liverpool. So sorry to hear that Clive Swift has https://t.co/oAU3ugJwFC condolences to his family and to his son Joe. Children: Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Death date: He spent six years playing Richard opposite Dame Patricia Routledge. They talked through the night and entered into a relationship, getting married and having two sons, Ben and Michael. ", And when the writer asked him about his character in the show, he retorted: "You don't need me to tell you that. From what I've read over the years, Tom was fine for his first 3 Seasons, although didn't appear to be very welcoming to Louise J when Lis Sladen left during Season 14; maybe a mixture of lacking the chemistry he obviously had with the latter and not much liking the Leela character. You gave great copy.. Clive Swift was born on 9 February 1936 in Liverpool, England, UK. And of course with his first 3 years being so successful, his ego had probably started to really take off. (PROSE: Rose) By 2005, the family were living on Juke Street (TV: Rose, GAME: Security Bot) and Clive was working as an estate agent. Youre paying that actor; youre their employer, their boss."[5]. He was not habitually so chippy and he was widely admired and respected by colleagues for creating the Actors Centre, which he established in the late 1970s as a central London clubhouse and exchange for members who were "between jobs". Living with Hyacinth will do that to you. (AUDIO: Recruits). Didn't he claim to know who the next Doctor was after Matt Smith left? There are much bigger things than this." Actor Clive Swift, known to many as the long-suffering Richard Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, has died. Father: Which they did. I tell them to fuck off., Clive passed away this morning (Friday), and his agent confirmed his passing in a brief statement that read: After a short illness, Clive died peacefully at home this morning surrounded by his family., Benjamin Cook, who wrote the article, posted the fond memory online and jested: RIP, Clive. That's what I perform. Some of the hundreds of readers of his website who sent in their experiences about the Doctor addressed Clive directly; Josiah Rowe offered to find a scanner so he could send Clive a photograph and a letter from his grandfather from the First World War, A. Fergus asked if the Doctor was some sort of vigilante, and rewboss wrote that he wasn't sure if Clive was a conspiracy theorist while dismissing any notion of the Doctor being part of a conspiracy. Clive Swift Tribute - Doctor Who Scenes (R.I.P) | Tenakin#CliveSwift #Tribute #CliveSwiftTribute Swift has died following a short illness. On one occasion a lorry driver pulled up beside him at a traffic light and wound down his window to shout "Why don't you leave the old cow? ", He later did lighten up, revealing: "It wasn't until we'd been filming for two weeks that I realised that Mr Copper is an alien!". Second, also with DWM, is with Clive Swift (Mr. Copper, Voyage of the Damned) who hated being interviewed solely for this one role and started asking about money for the interview, mid interview. You're paying that actor; you're their employer, their boss." . A snippet of the Q&A session from Doctor Who Magazine resurfaced and sees the actor lecture a journalist on their skills. I should have been a little bit more responsible and not allowed that." "you have a duty of care. ", American actress and singer Doris Day holds a bouquet of roses at Le Bourget Airport in Paris after flying in from London. First appearance: Clive Swift was best known for playing the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping up Appearances, Writer and broadcaster equally at home among the highbrow and on TV died aged 80. Actor: Excalibur. Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 - 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. Man died after being run over while asleep on strangers driveway, Londons most valuable house could be yours if you have a spare 300,000,000, Note in chimney tells couple their house was 100 times cheaper 50 years ago, Police hunt after man set on fire in London attack, Stranger Things stage show coming to the West End and consider us spooked, who passed away this morning at the age of 82, Do not sell or share my personal information. (PROSE: Rose), As a child, Clive was interested in a variety of mysteries, including Big Foot, Sasquatch, the Mary Celeste, yeti, the Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness Monster, the Roswell crash and the panthers of Dartmoor. pic.twitter.com/ltEjMCgyzV, "Don't you know shorthand?" Why should I do this? Three decades later he played Hitchcock in a BBC radio play. A proud Christian and patriot, the much-loved politician spoke out against bigotry in a country of whose rising hate crime he became a victim, Cancer expert who forged an international reputation over 30 years at the Royal Marsden died on 10 January, aged 67. In December 2007 he appeared in the Doctor Who Christmas special Voyage of the Damned as Mr Copper, opposite Kyle Minogue. Shorthand? What is the most awkward interview in the shows history? After the journalist informed him that he is recording the interview, Clive retorted: "Don't you know shorthand? Read about our approach to external linking. Vella also appeared in HBO series The Sopranos. (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory), Clive went on to investigate his father's death and learn of the Daleks and the Doctor, the latter of whom he made his lifelong mission to fully understand and to solve the mystery of their numerous incarnations across time. He was not enormously successful in the face of Hyacinth's relentless social climbing. He died, aged 49, on 4 March. Votes: 22 It was pretty clear from listening to her DVD commentary for "Time Flight" that she just doesn't "get" Doctor Who, because Davison . Quite a lot of rather glib "phoned in" moments in Season 15. When Cook replied, "Maybe, but it means a lot to a great many of us," Swift terminated the interview. An unearthed interview with the late Clive Swift revealed that he had become bored with his iconic character Richard Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. How about you guys, awkward interviews spring to mind ? Canadian Jean Vanier founder of L'Arche communities poses for a photograph after he received the Templeton Prize at St Martins-in-the-Fields church in London. Clive J Finch known as CJ in his youth was a human conspiracy theorist who collected information on the Doctor and ran a conspiracy website, Doctor Who?. Actor Clive Swift, known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 82. Most journalists experience their fair share of bad interviews over their careers, but spare a thought for the one who had to interview a very grumpy Doctor Who star many moons . As it was Christmas Eve, the Doctor decided to give him a quick trip. Clive Swift, who has died aged 82, believed that unemployment was as natural, and possibly even as necessary, a part of an actor's life as employment, enabling him to experience, feel and think. The Doris Day Animal Foundation confirmed Day died early Monday, May 13, 2019, at her home in Carmel Valley, California. The marriage survived the semi-autobiographical exposure of Drabble's second novel, The Garrick Year (1964), about an actor married to a woman who has an affair. Dame Patricia said she was "deeply saddened" to hear of her former co-star's death. Im happy talking as myself. (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory) In 1963, when Clive was two years old, his father, Second Lieutenant Gary Jonathan Finch, was killed by an Imperial Dalek during the Shoreditch Incident and had his death covered up by the military. England "I so much admire what he brought to the barely sketched role of Hyacinth's husband and treasure the memories of our happy collaboration.". But it isn't. . However, he did manage to convey an air of exasperation in his hen-pecked resignation, heard at its sardonic best when she pronounced her surname "Bouquet" and he told her. Doctor Who Magazine contributor Benjamin Cook interviewed Swift about Mr Copper and Voyage of the Damned for DWM 391[2]. Clive Swift was born on February 9, 1936 in Liverpool, England, UK. I do it with a young girl, I tell stories about my career. "I could walk around unrecognised, but all that changed with Keeping Up Appearances," he complained. (This is nothing Tom hasn't strongly hinted at himself!) (PROSE: Rose), By 2005, Clive was maintaining a website, Doctor Who?, focused on the mysterious Doctor who kept appearing throughout recorded history. Swift spent six years playing Richard to Patricia Routledge's Hyacinth, He went on to appear with Roger Lloyd Pack in The Old Guys. Lovely to see them here together enjoying a bit of cricket. Maybe, but I actually prefer the journalists who don't give a shit. The actor, who was best known for being long-suffering Richard Bucket in the . Born in Liverpool in 1936, he had three children with his ex-wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble. We're experimenting with updating the wiki's look! She was 97. Born 9 February 1936, in Liverpool. For the special features of the official DVD release of the story, cast and crew look back at the making of Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks: Part One (1985). After graduating, his first night on stage as a professional actor, at Nottingham Playhouse in the premiere of JB Priestley's Take The Fool Away in 1959, was a disaster. The last led to a notoriously ill-mannered exchange when he was interviewed for a Doctor Who fan magazine. He is survived by Drabble and their sons Adam, professor of political theory at University College London, and Joe, a garden designer, presenter of BBC TV's Gardener's World and Times columnist. He played many other television and film roles. He was due to play Gilbrook in the Big Finish audio story Creatures of Beauty, but was forced to pull out due to a family illness. First one that springs to mind is Christopher H. 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