Clive Swift was a British actor known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys.

Filmography

• Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family — Edward Whiteley
• SunTrap — Colin
• Cuckoo — Dr. Rafferty
• The Old Guys — Roy
• 2007Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned — Mr. Copper
• Hustle — Yusef
• 2003101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure — Additional Voices (voice)
• Born and Bred — Rev. Eustacius Brewer
• 2002Young Arthur — Illtud
• 1999Aristocrats — King George II
• Midsomer Murders — Felix Hope
• 1997The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket — Richard
• Peak Practice — Norman Shorthose
• Heartbeat — Victor Kellerman
• 1991The War That Never Ends — Athenagoras
• Keeping Up Appearances — Richard Bucket
• 1990Othello — Brabantio / Gratiano
• Gentlemen and Players — Sammy
• 1988Journey's End — Captain Hardy
• 1988Young Toscanini
• 1987Cause Célèbre — P.P. Croom Johnson
• Inspector Morse — Dr Bartlett
• 1987Pack of Lies — Ellis
• A Very Peculiar Practice — Professor Piers Platt
• 1986All Together Now — James
• First Among Equals — Alec Pimkin
• ScreenPlay — James
• Black Silk — Oliver Hollingsworth
• 1985Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks — Professor Jobel
• The Pickwick Papers — Mr. Tupman
• The Ray Bradbury Theater — St. John Court
• 1985What Mad Pursuit — Bonwit Steinhauser
• 1984A Passage to India — Major Callendar
• 1984Memed My Hawk — Magistrate
• 1984Pericles, Prince of Tyre — Lord Cerimon
• 1983Martin Luther, Heretic — Johann Tetzel
• Storyboard — Hewes
• 1982Praying Mantis — Dr. Faure
• The Barchester Chronicles — Dr Proudie
• 1981Excalibur — Ector
• 1981The Potsdam Quartet — Aaron Green
• Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
• 1980An Ordered Life — Director of Austrian State Radio
• Cribb — Dr Probert
• 1980Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Hastie Lanyon
• The Nesbitts Are Coming
• 1979Henry IV Part 1 — Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
• 1979Home-Movies — Alec Thorne
• Tales of the Unexpected — Latham
• Bless Me Father — Fred Dobie
• 1978Foreign Affairs — Adamson
• Send in the Girls — Mr Fenton
• 1978The Sailor's Return — Reverend Pottock
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Frank, Adamson
• 1977The Kitchen — Frank
• Beasts — 'Bunny' Nettleton
• 1976Beasts: The Dummy — 'Bunny' Nettleton
• 1976Beloved — William Hepworth-Dixon
• 1976Buffet — Air steward
• Clayhanger — Albert Benbow
• 1976Romeo and Juliet — Friar Lawrence
• Victorian Scandals — William Hepworth-Dixon
• 1975Goodbye — Savory
• Shadows — Devine
• 1975The Breakthrough — Robbie
• Playhouse — Robbie, Alec Thorne, Director of Austrian State Radio, Aaron Green
• 1974South Riding
• South Riding — Alfred E. Huggins
• 1973Man at the Top — Massey
• 1973The National Health — Ash
• 1972A Warning to the Curious — Dr. Black
• Dead of Night — Dan
• 1972Death Line — Inspector Richardson
• 1972Frenzy — Johnny Porter
• 1972The Exorcism — Dan
• The Frighteners — Machen
• Villains — Mr Clough
• A Ghost Story for Christmas — Dr. Black
• 1971The Stalls of Barchester — Dr. Black
• 1970Mad Jack
• Play for Today — Savory, Air Steward
• 1970Roll On Four O'Clock — Max Fielder
• The Misfit — Gerald
• Waugh on Crime
• 1969Birthday
• Dombey and Son — Major Bagstock
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Max Fielder
• 1968A Midsummer Night's Dream — Snug
• 1968All's Well That Ends Well — Parolles
• The Expert — Graham Richards
• 1965Catch Us If You Can — Duffie
• Knock on Any Door — Arkwright
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Inspector Waugh
• The Wednesday Play — Neil, Adjutant
• Theatre 625
• Dig This Rhubarb
• Doctor Who — Jobel
• Armchair Theatre
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Ellis

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2023Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Excalibur: Behind the Movie — Self
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self
• 2005The Funny Blokes of British Comedy — Self