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Clive Swift - what members say

A Warning To The Curious review by Fastflight from Amersham

A Warning to the Curious 8 March 2009
...n kind to the film overall. Much of the acting, with the exception of that from Clive Swift , now appears hammy and over the top and, apart from a couple of scenes, the wh... Read customer review

Doctor Who - Voyage Of The Damned review by A customer from Scotland

Atrocious - worst Xmas special yet. 22 February 2008
...good idea. This was poorly written, and generally badly performed (kudos to Clive Swift, the only one to emerge with self-respect intact). Davies scripts can be wonder... Read customer review

Clive Swift - filmography

The Old Guys - Season 1 on DVD (2009)
Starring: Roger Lloyd-Pack, Clive Swift, Jane Asher
Director: Dewi Humphreys
Certificate:
From the writers of Peep Show and The Thick of It comes a new comedy about settling into old age with style. House-mates Tom and Roy are the ying to each other's yang. Roy is well-read, organised, clean and sensitive. Tom, well, isn't. As both of them settle into retirement, they are faced with the ..read more »

60% from 81 members

Aristocrats (2 discs) on DVD (2009)
Starring: Serena Gordon, Alun Armstrong, Geraldine Somerville
Director: David Caffrey
Certificate:
Based on Stella Tillyard's bestseller that "made history sexy again" (London Sunday Times), this encore presentation of Aristocrats tells the true story of the bewitching Lennox sisters: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah. Great-granddaughters of King Charles II and his French mistress, they live ..read more »

69% from 246 members

Doctor Who - Voyage Of The Damned on DVD (2007)
Starring: David Tennant, Kylie Minogue, Geoffrey Palmer
Director: James Strong
Certificate:
The 2007 Doctor Who Christmas Special sees the Doctor crash land on the Titanic...

76% from 3,378 members

Born And Bred - Series 4 (4 discs) (2005)
Starring: James Bolam, Richard Wilson, Maggie Steed
Director: David Innes Edwards, Rob Evans, Ian Knox
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Features the last five episodes from the fourth series of the popular television drama that follows the post-war fortunes of Arthur Gilder and his family in the village of Ormston. Episodes include 'The Milk Of Human Kindness', 'Love Is Where It Falls', 'The Element Of Surprise', 'A Wrathful God' ..read more »

61% from 326 members
Currently unavailable

Born And Bred - Series 3 (4 discs) on DVD (2004)
Starring: James Bolam, Richard Wilson, Maggie Steed
Director: David Innes Edwards, Rob Evans, Ian Knox
Certificate:
Features the first five episodes from the third series of the popular television drama which follows the post-war fortunes of Arthur Gilder and his family. Episodes include: 'A Very Ormston Christmas', 'A Little Touch Of Harry', 'No Regrets', 'A Small Flourish' and 'Thick As Thieves'.

72% from 257 members

Keeping Up Appearances - Series 5 (2 discs) on DVD (1995)
Starring: Clive Swift, Patricia Routledge, Josephine Tewson
Director: Harold Snoad
Certificate:
Patricia Routledge has never been better than in the role of the terribly snobby Mrs. Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet'!) who goes to any length to maintain the impression that she is of a higher social standing than is actually the case. With her long-suffering husband Richard (Clive Swift) in tow--and ..read more »

78% from 411 members

Keeping Up Appearances - Series 3 And 4 (3 discs) on DVD (1990)
Starring: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Josephine Tewson
Director: Harold Snoad
Certificate:
Features series three and four of the television comedy hit.

66% from 1,272 member

Keeping Up Appearances - Series 1 And 2 (3 discs) on DVD (1990)
Starring: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Josephine Tewson
Director: Harold Snoad
Certificate:
Patricia Routledge has never been better than in the role of the terribly snobby Mrs. Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet'!) who goes to any length to maintain the impression that she is of a higher social standing than is actually the case. With her long-suffering husband Richard (Clive Swift) in tow (and ..read more »

66% from 1,564 member

Cause Celebre (1987)
Starring: Helen Mirren, David Morrissey, David Suchet
Director: John Gorrie
Certificate:
The true story of love, lust and murder that obsessed a nation.

85% from 2 members
Not available for rental

Doctor Who - Revelation Of The Daleks on DVD (1985)
Starring: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Terry Molloy
Director: Graeme Harper
Certificate:
The Great Healer works in the catacombs beneath Tranquil Repose, the galactically-famous final resting place for the dead and the not-quite-yet-dead. In the upper chambers the busy workers prepare the deceased for their final burial, while deep below the Great Healer is using their bodies for a ..read more »

67% from 1,977 member

A Passage To India on DVD (1984)
Starring: Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set ..read more »

70% from 2,659 members

Shadows - Series 3 - Complete (1978)
Starring: Ronald Hines, June Brown, Bryan Pringle
Director: Pamela Lonsdale, Vic Hughes, Michael Custance
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Atmospheric, superbly scripted and filled with the unexpected, this remarkable anthology series offers spine-tingling psychological and supernatural tales for younger viewers. Strongly remembered to this day, Shadows is one of the quintessential children s drama series of the 1970s. Producer Pamela ..read more »

35% from 2 members
Not available for rental

Clayhanger - The Complete Series (1976)
Starring: Janet Suzman, Peter McEnery, Harry Andrews
Director: David Reid, John Davies
Certificate:
A major series starring, amongst others, Janet Suzman, Peter McEnery, Harry Andrews, Denholm Elliott, Clive Swift and Denis Quilley, this stunning ATV-produced drama adapted the celebrated Clayhanger Family novels by Arnold Bennett, published between 1910 and 1918. The series is set in the ..read more »

68% from 10 members
Not available for rental

A Warning To The Curious (1972)
Starring: Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Certificate:
Based on a story by M R James this tells of three crowns buried on the Norfolk coast and how an amateur archaeologist invokes the avenging shade of the guardian of the crowns when he goes on a treasure hunt...

67% from 978 members
Not currently released

Clive Swift facts

5 most recent films

The Old Guys - Season 1 - 3.0 stars
Aristocrats - 3.5 stars
Doctor Who - Voyage Of The Damned - 4.0 stars
Born And Bred - Series 4 - 3.0 stars
Born And Bred - Series 3 - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Keeping Up Appearances - Series 5 - 4.0 stars
Doctor Who - Voyage Of The Damned - 4.0 stars
Born And Bred - Series 3 - 3.5 stars
A Passage To India - 3.5 stars
Aristocrats - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Shadows - Series 3 - Complete - 2.0 stars
Clayhanger - The Complete Series - 3.5 stars
Cause Celebre - 4.5 stars
The Old Guys - Season 1 - 3.0 stars
Born And Bred - Series 4 - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Patricia Routledge - 11 times - show films
Judy Cornwell - 11 times - show films
Geoffrey Hughes - 11 times - show films
Josephine Tewson - 11 times - show films
David Griffin - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Harold Snoad - 11 times - show films
Rob Evans - 10 times - show films
Ian Knox - 10 times - show films
David Innes Edwards - 10 times - show films
David Caffrey - 3 times - show films