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The History Boys review by A customer from UK

Customer Review 23 June 2008
...ry tiresome after about three scenes. There's nothing wrong with the acting - Clive Merrison does a valiant job with the headmaster but his character is so one dimensional ... Read customer review

Clive Merrison - filmography

The History Boys on DVD (2006)
Starring: Jack Bagley, Samuel Anderson, Richard Griffiths
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Certificate:
Comedy adapted from the play by Alan Bennett. Eight bright, funny history students in the mid 1980s are pursuing an undergraduate place at the country's two finest universities. Their headmaster is obsessed with breaking into the ranks of those schools that regularly send boys up to Oxford and ..read more »

64% from 41,687 members

Midsomer Murders - Painted In Blood on DVD (2002)
Starring: Barbara Durkin, John Nettles, Clive Merrison
Director: Sarah Hellings
Certificate:
Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles) and Troy (Daniel Casey) are called in to investigate the possible murder of a body Barnaby's wife has found on the village green. They uncover more than they had expected, however, and the case only gets more complicated...

72% from 623 members

Pandaemonium (2001)
Starring: Dexter Fletcher, Samantha Morton, Samuel West
Director: Julien Temple
Certificate:
Biopic from director Julien Temple about the relationship between the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roache) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Meeting in the ferment of late-18th century radical politics, the two aspiring writers become firm friends and occasional rivals. Moving ..read more »

59% from 370 members
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Saving Grace on DVD (2000)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Tchéky Karyo, Bill Bailey
Director: Nigel Cole
Certificate:
Green-fingered widow Grace Trevethen (Brenda Blethyn) is faced with a cash-flow problem and wonders how she will be able to pay for the upkeep on her Cornish manor. The solution comes from the manor caretaker (Craig Ferguson): why not start growing and selling marijuana? That's exactly what Grace ..read more »

71% from 5,630 members

How Do You Want Me - Complete Series 1 And 2 (2 discs) on DVD (1998)
Starring: Peter Serafinowicz, Charlotte Coleman, Frank Finlay
Director: John Henderson
Certificate:
The complete collection of the popular sitcom starring Dylan Moran and Charlotte Coleman. Lisa (Coleman) and Ian Lyons (Moran), a newly married city couple, decide to move back to the rural village where Lisa grew up. Trendy comedy club owner Ian isn't too keen, but how bad can it be? He soon gets ..read more »

62% from 702 members

Heavenly Creatures - Blu-ray (1995)
Starring: Diana Kent, Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet
Director: Peter Jackson
Certificate:
Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey star in Peter Jackson's fantasy crime drama based on real events that took place in the 1950s. Dowdy teenager Pauline Parker (Lynskey)'s mundane existence in a New Zealand backwater is enlivened by the arrival of Juliet Hulme (Winslet), a sophisticated, precocious ..read more »

65% from 419 members

Heavenly Creatures on DVD (1995)
Starring: Diana Kent, Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet
Director: Peter Jackson
Certificate:
After winning a cult following for several offbeat and darkly witty gore films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson abruptly shifted gears with this stylish, compelling, and ultimately disturbing tale of two teenage girls whose friendship begins to fuel an ultimately fatal obsession. Pauline (..read more »

70% from 2,549 members

The Labours Of Erica (2 discs) on DVD (1989)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Geoffrey Davies, Clive Merrison
Director: John Howard Davies, John Stroud
Certificate:
All six episodes from the first series of the ITV sitcom starring Brenda Blethyn. When 30-something single mother Erica Parsons (Blethyn) rediscovers a list entitled 'twelve things I am going to do before I turn 40' in a long-lost teenage diary, she determines to live out her youthful dreams before ..read more »

57% from 25 members

Armchair Thriller - Dead Man's Kit on DVD (1980)
Starring: Larry Lamb, Clive Merrison, Cherie Lunghi
Director: Colin Bucksey
Certificate:
This final, feature-length episode in the Armchair Thriller series sees the navy accused of a cover-up when a jury returns a verdict of accidental death of a crew member on one of its ships. Larry Lamb stars as the Chief Petty Officer aboard, who believes the death is part of a much bigger conspiracy.

57% from 50 members

Riddles of the Sphinx - (1979)
Starring: Dinah Stabb, Merdel Jordine, Rhiannon Tise
Director: Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
Certificate:
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's visually accomplished and intellectually rigorous Riddles of the Sphinx is one of the most important avant-garde films to have emerged from Britain during the 1970s. The second collaboration between Mulvey and Wollen, both of whom are recognised as seminal figures ..read more »

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Due for release on 23rd September 2013

Riddles of the Sphinx - Blu-ray (1979)
Starring: Dinah Stabb, Merdel Jordine, Rhiannon Tise
Director: Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
Certificate:
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's visually accomplished and intellectually rigorous Riddles of the Sphinx is one of the most important avant-garde films to have emerged from Britain during the 1970s. The second collaboration between Mulvey and Wollen, both of whom are recognised as seminal figures ..read more »

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Due for release on 23rd September 2013

Doctor Who - The Tomb Of The Cybermen on DVD (1967)
Starring: Deborah Watling, Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines
Director: Morris Barry
Certificate:
Classic 'Doctor Who', believed lost for many years and only returned to the BBC archive in 1991. The Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Jamie and Victoria arrive on the Cybermen's adopted planet of Telos to find an archaeological group attempting to enter the Cyber tombs. But are their motives purely ..read more »

72% from 2,403 members

Clive Merrison facts

5 most recent films

The History Boys - 3.0 stars
Midsomer Murders - Painted In Blood - 3.5 stars
Pandaemonium - 3.0 stars
Saving Grace - 3.5 stars
How Do You Want Me - Complete Series 1 And 2 - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Doctor Who - The Tomb Of The Cybermen - 3.5 stars
Midsomer Murders - Painted In Blood - 3.5 stars
Saving Grace - 3.5 stars
Heavenly Creatures - 3.5 stars
Heavenly Creatures - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Riddles of the Sphinx - - 3 stars
Riddles of the Sphinx - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Armchair Thriller - Dead Man's Kit - 3.0 stars
The Labours Of Erica - 3.0 stars
Pandaemonium - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Bolam - 6 times - show films
Colin Douglas - 6 times - show films
Louie Ramsay - 6 times - show films
Judy Loe - 6 times - show films
Susan Jameson - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Reynolds - 7 times - show films
David Askey - 7 times - show films
Jonathan Alwyn - 7 times - show films
Ve - 6 times - show films
Anthony Minghella - 5 times - show films

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