1 February 2019(2019-02-01) (aged 82) Paddington, London, England
Medium
Television, film
Years active
1965–2017
Spouse
Margaret Drabble
(m. 1960; div. 1975)
Children
Adam
Rebecca
Joe
Relative(s)
David Swift (brother)
Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. A classically trained actor, his stage work included performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, but he was best known to television viewers for his role as Richard Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.[1] He played many other television and film roles.
^"Clive Swift, classically trained actor with the RSC who was best known on television as the henpecked husband in 'Keeping Up Appearances' - obituary". Telegraph. 1 February 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. A classically trained actor, his stage work included performances...
Margaret Swift was born in Highbury, north London, the daughter of CliveSwift and Margaret Drabble. Her brothers are Adam Swift and Joe Swift. As a student...
Allotment, published in April 2009. Swift's father was the actor CliveSwift, and he was the nephew of David Swift. His mother is novelist Margaret Drabble...
usually make frantic attempts to excuse themselves. Her husband Richard (CliveSwift) bears the brunt of the suffering. He initially worked for the council...
contemporary political philosophy. Swift's father was the actor CliveSwift and he was the nephew of David Swift. His mother is novelist Margaret Drabble...
two ageing housemates: Tom Finnan (Roger Lloyd-Pack) and Roy Bowden (CliveSwift). The pair live across the street from Sally (Jane Asher), whom they...
interest in an episode of The Old Guys opposite Roger Lloyd-Pack and CliveSwift. In 2013, she joined the cast of EastEnders, playing Betty Spragg. She...
Tyzack, Roy Dotrice, Roland Gift, Ralf Little, Dickie Bird, Daniel Craig, CliveSwift, Jean Alexander, Geoffrey Bayldon, Tim Brooke-Taylor (as Peggy Armstrong's...
Mills) Samuel J. Hudson as Eddie Mills Donald Gee as Horace Boynton CliveSwift as the Reverend Eustacius Brewer Shirley White and Joan Worswick as the...
yet fiery vicar's wife alongside Patricia Routledge, Josephine Tewson, CliveSwift and Judy Cornwell in the BBC's hit sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (also...
Michael J. Pollard, Pat Harrington, Jr., Carol Kane, Gordon Pinsent, CliveSwift, Len Cariou, Gregory Sierra, Nick Mancuso, Ben Cross, Janice Rule, Robert...
classes, and strives for social perfection. The series also features CliveSwift as Richard Bucket, Hyacinth's long-suffering husband, Josephine Tewson...
television sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, starring Patricia Routledge and CliveSwift. He is also well known for having directed and produced Ever Decreasing...
minutes in duration, and features well-known British actors such as CliveSwift, Robert Hardy, Peter Vaughan, Edward Petherbridge and Denholm Elliott...
Fleming as the Earl of Kent, Brian Murray as Edgar, James Booth as Edmund, CliveSwift as Oswald, and Alec McCowen as the Fool. (1962) Measure for Measure directed...
actor CliveSwift between 1960 and 1975. They had three children, the gardener and TV personality Joe Swift; the academic Adam Swift; and Rebecca Swift (d...
by Arnold Bennett with support from Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews and CliveSwift. He played Mr Sloane in Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970). As an actor for...
the play, and Richard Griffiths in a 2001 National Theatre revival. CliveSwift in the 1983 film Martin Luther, Heretic. Alfred Molina in the 2003 film...
Ringham as Finney Barbara Flynn as Mary Bold Janet Maw as Eleanor Harding CliveSwift as Bishop Proudie Geraldine McEwan as Mrs Proudie Alan Rickman as Obadiah...
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