13 Facts About Clive Swift

Clive Walter Swift was an English actor and songwriter.

Clive Swift was educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge reading English literature.

Clive Swift was previously a teacher at LAMDA and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Clive Swift appeared as Snug in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1968 film production of A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of a cast that included Diana Rigg, Helen Mirren and Ian Richardson.

Clive Swift is best known for his role on Keeping Up Appearances as Richard Bucket, the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth.

Clive Swift made two appearances in Doctor Who, in the 1985 story Revelation of the Daleks and the 2007 Christmas special.

Clive Swift played Sir Ector, the adoptive father of King Arthur in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur.

Many of his songs were included in his shows Richard Bucket Overflows: An Audience with Clive Swift, which toured the UK in 2007, and Clive Swift Entertains, in which he performed his own music and lyrics, which toured the UK in 2009.

Clive Swift played the part of the Reverend Eustacius Brewer in Born and Bred, which aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005.

Clive Swift was married to novelist Margaret Drabble from 1960 until their divorce in 1975.

Clive Swift was the father of one daughter, Rebecca, known for running The Literary Consultancy in London, and two sons, Adam Swift, an academic, and Joe Swift, a garden designer, journalist and television presenter.

Clive Swift died at home on 1 February 2019, aged 82, following a short illness.

Clive Swift's Keeping Up Appearances co-star Patricia Routledge said: "Clive was a skillful and inventive actor with wide experience, as his successful career proved," and that she was very sad to hear of her former co-star's death.