He was due to play Gilbrook in the Big Finish audio story Creatures of Beauty, but was forced to pull out due to a family illness. After the society booked the same venue as a Reclaim the Night Enclave, he and his friends left, but Caroline tracked him down to a bar and apologised. "I realised actors needed a meeting place when work dried up and which can often lead to drink and depression: Swift explained. The actor died on Friday morning after a short illness, a representative told The Independent. Birth date: Clive J Finch known as CJ in his youth was a human conspiracy theorist who collected information on the Doctor and ran a conspiracy website, Doctor Who?. At least they are frank and honest about their experiences with the show and both did return to Dr Who after appearing during its low period. You gave great copy.https://t.co/dngI2ldPHm #CliveSwift pic.twitter.com/srvVg0YoTU, Benjamin Cook (@benjamin_cook) February 1, 2019. Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift in Pebble Mill interview in 1993 Russell T Davies: "That Clive Swift interview worried me over the years. I tell them to fuck off., Clive passed away this morning (Friday), and his agent confirmed his passing in a brief statement that read: After a short illness, Clive died peacefully at home this morning surrounded by his family., Benjamin Cook, who wrote the article, posted the fond memory online and jested: RIP, Clive. 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When they make no attempt to sugar coat things. He was editor of the Rand Daily Mail and took a hard liberal stance with the paper, hiring black journalists during apartheid. The Monkees singer Peter Tork died on 21 February, aged 77. He played many other television and film roles. 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LOL, I feel like an idiot now (not for the first time)! Clive Swift, who has died aged 82, believed that unemployment was as natural, and possibly even as necessary, a part of an actor's life as employment, enabling him to experience, feel and think. What a silly question. He died, aged 49, on 4 March. Swift spent six years playing Richard to Patricia Routledge's Hyacinth, He went on to appear with Roger Lloyd Pack in The Old Guys. As a serious-minded thespian of the old school who learnt his trade alongside Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen and the like, and was handpicked by Sir Peter Hall as an original member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Swift's frustration was perhaps understandable. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Oliver Tuku Mtukudzis popularity stretched back to the 1970s and cut across political and generational divides, CIA disguise master whose Iran escape inspired Ben Afflecks Argo died on 19 January, aged 78. He was not enormously successful in the face of Hyacinth's relentless social climbing. Human error to blame for deadly train crash, says Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. He is survived by Drabble and their sons Adam, professor of political theory at University College London, and Joe, a garden designer, presenter of BBC TV's Gardener's World and Times columnist. Living with Hyacinth will do that to you. Remember, folks: However bad your Monday is, at least you're not interviewing Richard Bucket. Clive said: "There's no reason why I should talk to you at all, so you shouldn't push it. Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? According to Russell T Davies in The Writer's Tale, Mackenzie Crook was nearly cast to play Clive. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) 2022 . Forum Member 01/11/17 - 12:31 in Doctor Who #1. It kind of comes across in his 4th year, I think. The classically trained actor first appearance on the small screen came in the BBC adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles. "I could walk around unrecognised, but all that changed with Keeping Up Appearances," he complained. First one that springs to mind is Christopher H. Bidmead with DWM where he gives his frank and honest opinions of NuWho and they are not complimentary. After the journalist informed him that he is recording the interview, Clive retorted: "Don't you know shorthand? Her work chronicled the black British experience in the years after Windrush. Didn't he claim to know who the next Doctor was after Matt Smith left? 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Serious-minded Shakespearean actor who felt slightly cursed by the TV sitcom role with which he became most associated, Clive Swift, above, with Keeping Up Appearances co-star Patricia Routledge in 1991 and, below, on his wedding day in 1960. The 79-year-old, along with his brother Charles, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the political and lobbying system promoting a conservative agenda. Three decades later he played Hitchcock in a BBC radio play. Clive Swift, actor. All Rights Reserved. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. (PROSE: Rose), By 2005, Clive was maintaining a website, Doctor Who?, focused on the mysterious Doctor who kept appearing throughout recorded history. TV: RosePROSE: The Persistence of MemoryPROSE: GroundedPROSE: Rose The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. This page was last edited on 7 February 2020, at 00:11. According to the guy who did the interview on twitter, he had to have the interview signed off by Russell and Julie. (PROSE: Rose), Clive studied at Durham University where he was a part of a UFO society. Gary Jonathan Finch And he doesn't appear to have reacted well to new, young 'boss' Graham Williams after being well handled by Hinchcliffe. Born in 1942 in Washington DC, Tork became part of the band with Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Davy Jones in the mid-sixties, when they was formed as Americas Beatles counterpart. They expect me to be as nice and placid as Richard, and I'm really not like that.". (TV: Rose, PROSE: Rose), Some of Clive's possessions were taken by UNIT and later found in the Black Archive by Cleo Proctor and Shawna Thompson. wasn't he one of the stickers given away recently? He can't be that grumpy because he agreed to be interviewed for the Revelation of the Daleks DVD, despite considering it (quite understandably) "the most bizarre entertainment I have ever been part of". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Human RIP the wonderful Clive Swift. Swift's many roles included a part in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film Frenzy and as King Arthur's adopted father in 1981 film Excalibur. Maybe, but I actually prefer the journalists who don't give a shit. Clive Swift Why should I do this? He recovered his voice well enough to join the RSC the next year and became a fixture in Hall's newly formed company for almost a decade. Some of the hundreds of readers of his website who sent in their experiences about the Doctor addressed Clive directly; Josiah Rowe offered to find a scanner so he could send Clive a photograph and a letter from his grandfather from the First World War, A. Fergus asked if the Doctor was some sort of vigilante, and rewboss wrote that he wasn't sure if Clive was a conspiracy theorist while dismissing any notion of the Doctor being part of a conspiracy. The story of the daring and inventive escape he orchestrated within an enemy state ended up in an Oscar-winning film, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who cracked mainstream success died on 17 January, aged 83. Second, also with DWM, is with Clive Swift (Mr. Copper, Voyage of the Damned) who hated being interviewed solely for this one role and started asking about money for the interview, mid interview. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. And of course with his first 3 years being so successful, his ego had probably started to really take off. He showed Rose photographs and drawings of the incarnation she had met, taken at several different points in history. 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