Clive Francis
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Born | Eastbourne, Sussex, England | 26 June 1946
Clive Francis (born 26 June 1946) is a British stage, television and film actor.
Early life
Francis was born in Eastbourne, Sussex. He is the son of actors Raymond Francis and his second wife Margaret Towner.[1]
His father played Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart in the 1960s series
Career
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.
He is also a
Films
Francis appeared as Joe the Lodger in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). His other films include Inspector Clouseau (1968), The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970), Girl Stroke Boy (1971), Villain (1971), Pierrepoint (2005), Mr. Turner, (2014), The Lost City of Z, (2015), The Crown (2016),The Little Stranger (2018), Official Secrets (2019), Cursed (2019), and Dolittle (2020).
Television
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His first television role was playing Tommy Traddles opposite Ian McKellen in the 1966 production of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.
Francis considers his part as Mr. Sloane in the
Francis played the character of Willoughby in the BBC's 1971 production of
In 1981, Francis played the Roman officer and imperial spy Attius in the ABC miniseries Masada opposite Peter O'Toole. In 1986, Francis guest starred in episode five, "The Man with the Twisted Lip," of the series Sherlock Holmes, as Neville St Clair. Francis starred in the series The 10%ers; The Piglet Files (which as noted above used his caricatures in the credits), as Colonel Windham in Sharpe's Company and May to December.
Francis has guest-starred in dozens of other television programmes, including
His television work also includes: The Rear Column, The Critic, Pierrepoint, New Tricks and Lipstick on Your Collar. In 2016, he played the part of Lord Salisbury in the Netflix series The Crown.
Theatre
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His first
He also appeared at the National Theatre in A Small Family Business, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Never so Good and Les Blancs. For the RSC, Francis appeared in Three Hours after Marriage, Troilus and Cressida and A Christmas Carol.
He regularly tours his one-man version of
Adaptations
Apart from adapting A Christmas Carol as his one-man show, Clive Francis has also 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. Together with composer Charles Miller, he adapted the book and wrote the lyrics to the Alice in Wonderland adaptation, Alice the Musical!.[4]
In February 2015, he played the part of Frank Doel in the Salisbury Playhouse's production of 84, Charing Cross Road.[5] This was a production he repeated at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge in 2016.[citation needed]
Selected filmography
- Inspector Clouseau (1968) as Clyde Hargreaves
- The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970) as Barry Black
- Villain (1971) as Vivian
- A Clockwork Orange (1971) as Joe the Lodger
- Girl Stroke Boy (1973) as Laurie
- Masada (1981, TV series) as Attius, Head Tribune
- Amy (1984, TV film) as Jim Mollison
- Pierrepoint (2005) as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
- Mr. Turner (2014) as Sir Martin Archer Shee
- The Crown (2016–2017, TV series) as Lord Salisbury
- The Lost City of Z (2017) as Sir John Scott Keltie
- Official Secrets (2019) as Admiral Nick Wilkinson
- Cursed (2020, TV series) as Pope Abel
References
- ^ a b "Margaret Towner, veteran actress who appeared in Star Wars franchise – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 4 May 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 December 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
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- ^ Alice the Musical, accessed 28 June 2017
- ^ 84 Charing Cross Road Programme. The Salisbury Playhouse. 2015.