Clive Russell

Clive Russell
Russell (left) and Actor Lee Ousby on the right, July 2010 - Touching the Blue. AKA The Deaf Prompt
Born	(1945-12-07) 7 December 1945 Reeth, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1960–present

Clive Russell (born 7 December 1945) is a British actor.

Life and career

Russell was born in Reeth, England, and brought up in Fife, Scotland.^[1]

Russell first performed before an audience in 1960 on the Shari Lewis Show. But it was not until 1980 that he got his first real acting job — performing on the London stage as the superintendent in Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo’s satire The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, about police corruption in Italy. The reviews were good, and he reprised that role for television in 1983. After further honing his skills in various British TV productions and a handful of films — including Jute City, The Power of One, The Hawk, and Seconds Out — Russell received exposure before international audiences as Caleb Garth in the celebrated BBC miniseries Middlemarch, based on the George Eliot novel of the same name. A year later, he fell in love on the movie screen with Helena Bonham Carter in Margaret’s Museum, for which he earned a Canadian Academy Award nomination for best actor. After more TV roles and another film, Russell played Ralph Fiennes’ father in another critically acclaimed film, Oscar and Lucinda . Growing recognition of his acting skills then brought him plum roles in four major TV miniseries: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, The Railway Children, and The Mists of Avalon.

Television

Russell is a familiar and unforgettable face on British television and has appeared in numerous television series including Boys from the Blackstuff,^[2]Hope and Glory, Neverwhere,Great Expectations,^[3]The Mists of Avalon,^[4]Heartburn Hotel,^[5] Roughnecks, Monarch of the Glen,Waking the Dead,^[6] Silent Witness, Rockface, and Spaced. Russell has also made appearances in Still Game, Happiness, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and Cracker. From 2005 to 2006 Russell played Phil Nail in ITV's Coronation Street. Russell made an appearance in Waterloo Road as Lisa and Lenny Brown's granddad for one episode.

Recently he has been seen playing Jock in the third series of the BBC's Jam and Jerusalem, in Merlin as "Bayard, King of Mercia" and in Hotel Babylon as an artist forced to fake his own death when he is in debt. In 2012, he was cast as Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully in the HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones^[7]

Movies

In Margaret's Museum, a highly acclaimed motion picture, he starred opposite Helena Bonham Carter as the Gaelic-speaking Neil Currie. Russell's other film credits include Festival, Ladies in Lavender, King Arthur, Made of Honor, Lecture 21, The 13th Warrior and The Wolfman.

He made an appearance in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes as Captain Tanner, and reprised the role in the film's 2011 sequel. He also appeared in the 2010 film The Wolfman as MacQueen.

He played Inspector Frederick Abberline in BBC One's Ripper Street (2012). He played Tyr in the live-action film Thor: The Dark World (2013).

Edinburgh Fringe 2010

In 2010, Russell made his debut one man show Touching the Blue.^[8]

Filmography

Under construction

References

External links

• Clive Russell at the Internet Movie Database