Clive Francis was born on 26 June 1946 and is a British actor and illustrator, known for his extensive work in television, film, and theatre.
18 Facts About Clive Francis
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Clive Francis has appeared in a wide range of British television dramas and comedies, including Poldark, Yes, Prime Minister, and The Crown.
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Clive Francis is an illustrator, having produced artwork for books and theatre productions.
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Clive Francis is the son of actors Raymond Francis and his second wife Margaret Towner.
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Clive Francis's father played Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart in the 1960s series No Hiding Place.
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Clive Francis began his acting career at the age of 16 in weekly repertory as a Penguin Player at Bexhill-on-Sea and has acted on stage, radio, television and films.
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Clive Francis is a caricaturist and has had several exhibitions at the National Theatre.
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Clive Francis's caricatures have appeared on the covers of several books including Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness and a biography of John Gielgud.
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Clive Francis appeared as Joe the Lodger in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
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Clive Francis considers his part as Mr Sloane in the ITV Playhouse production of Entertaining Mr Sloane in 1968 as his first look important television role, appearing alongside the likes of Sheila Hancock and Edward Woodward.
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Clive Francis played the character of Willoughby in the BBC's 1971 production of Sense and Sensibility.
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Clive Francis appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, a play which was part of the Laurence Olivier Presents series for Granada Television.
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Clive Francis appeared as Standartenfuhrer Grunwald in Enemy at the Door.
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In 1981, Clive Francis played the Roman officer and imperial spy Attius in the ABC miniseries Masada opposite Peter O'Toole.
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In 1986, Clive Francis guest starred in episode five, "The Man with the Twisted Lip," of the series Sherlock Holmes, as Neville St Clair.
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Clive Francis has guest-starred in dozens of other television programmes, including Yes, Prime Minister, in which he played Luke, a private secretary for foreign affairs, who, the Prime Minister is told, is in fact a spy for the Foreign Office, a department whose policy is often in conflict with the PM's.
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Apart from adapting A Christmas Carol as his one-man show, Clive Francis has brought from the page to the stage The Hound of the Baskervilles, Three Men in a Boat, Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana, and Susan Hill's The Small Hand.
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Clive Francis has been married to actress Natalie Ogle since 1989.