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Clive Merrison - what members say


  • The History Boys
  • The History Boys review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 2.0 stars 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: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 41,687 members
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  • Pandaemonium (2001)
    Starring: Dexter Fletcher,  Samantha Morton,  Samuel West
    Director: Julien Temple
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 370 members
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  • Saving Grace on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Brenda Blethyn,  Tchéky Karyo,  Bill Bailey
    Director: Nigel Cole
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 5,630 members
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  • Heavenly Creatures - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Diana Kent,  Kate Winslet,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 419 members
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  • Heavenly Creatures on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Diana Kent,  Kate Winslet,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,549 members
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  • Armchair Thriller - Dead Man's Kit on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Larry Lamb,  Clive Merrison,  Cherie Lunghi
    Director: Colin Bucksey
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 50 members
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  • Riddles of the Sphinx - (1979)
    Starring: Dinah Stabb,  Merdel Jordine,  Rhiannon Tise
    Director: Laura Mulvey,  Peter Wollen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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
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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