
Clive Merrison (Clive Robert Merrison) – Welsh actor of film, television, stage and radio, born 15 September 1945 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Trained at Rose Bruford College and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is best known for voicing Sherlock Holmes in all 64 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 dramatizations (1989–1998) and the 16 episodes of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2002–2010), and for playing the Headmaster in The History Boys (2006) on stage and screen. His most notable film roles include Major Lanyev in Firefox (1982), the Forger in Escape to Victory (1981), Dr. Henry Hulme in Heavenly Creatures (1994), Fenelon-Barnes in The English Patient (1996), Desmond Fairchild in An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), and Mr. Gilbert in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018). On television he appeared in Doctor Who (1967), Yes, Prime Minister (1986), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), Stalin (1992), Peep Show (2010), and Midsomer Murders.

as Mr. Gilbert

as Clement Attlee

as Dan Corrigan

as Headmaster

as Prison Governor

as Anthony Trollope

as William Godwin

as Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)

as Theo Kern

as Dr Gillman

as Desmond Pickering

as Archibald Grey

as Quentin Rhodes

as Tobo

as Reader

as Gardner

as Jack Garnet

as Fenelon-Barnes

as Desmond Fairchild

as Dr. Henry Hulme

as Mr. Emburey

as Molotov

as Sir Henry

as Claude Delmas

as Leonard Draeger

as Deputy Chief Caretaker

as Moretti

as Shop Assistant

as Bartholomew Sholto

as "Junius"

as Paul

as Bikov

as Major Lanyev

as The Forger

as Rennie

as Commander Maybury

as Cooker(voice)

as Preobrazhenski

as Godolt

as Gregory

as Dent

as Bob Cratchit

as Chris

as John Bottle

as Weston

as Jim Callum