Stars

Stars

Clive Merrison's many theatre appearances have included The Madness of George the Third at the Royal National Theatre, The Front Page at the Old Vic and Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

His films include An Awfully Big Adventure, Heavenly Creatures, Photographing Fairies, The English Patient and The Sign of Four (as Bartholomew Sholto, with Ian Richardson as Holmes).

Among many other TV appearances, he has been seen in in Yes, Prime Minister, Miss Marple, Dr Who, The Borgias, The Labours of Erica, A Very British Coup, Pie in the Sky, Shine on Harvey Moon, Private Schultz and Bergerac. He starred opposite Michael Williams in the sitcom Double First.

Clive Merrison is a past winner of the Sony Radio Award for Actor of the Year.

Michael Williams' film appearances include Educating Rita, Henry V, Enigma, Eagle in a Cage and Alexander the Great.

His theatrical career includes a long series of plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company, among them The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It and King Lear.

On television he has appeared in many plays, series and serials, including Elizabeth R, Love in a Cold Climate, Shadow on the Sun, Quest of Eagles, Behaving Badly and My Son, My Son. He starred with Russ Abbot in the sitcom September Song and with his wife Dame Judi Dench in A Fine Romance. In 1997-8, together with the original director Patrick Garland, he revived the one-man play Brief Lives which toured the UK to great acclaim and also had a successful run in the West End.

After a lengthy struggle against lung cancer, Michael Williams died in January 2001.

A selection of guest stars...

Patrick Allen	played	Dr Leon Sterndale in The Devil's Foot
Sarah Badel	played	Irene Adler in A Scandal in Bohemia
Alexandra Bastedo	played	Elisabetta Ferguson in The Sussex Vampire
Ralph Bates	played	James Windibank in *A Case of Identity*
Ed Bishop	played	Enoch J Drebber in *A Study in Scarlet* and Von Bork's Agent in *His Last Bow*
Brian Blessed	played	Jonathan Small in *The Sign of the Four* and Henry Wood in *The Crooked Man*
George Cole	played	Josiah Amberley in *The Retired Colourman*
Nigel Davenport	played	The Duke of Holdernesse in *The Priory School*
Peter Davison	played	Inspector Forrester in *The Reigate Squires*
Judi Dench	played	Mrs Hudson in *The Hound of the Baskervilles*
Hannah Gordon	played	Mrs Jean Watson in *The Blanched Soldier*
Susannah Harker	played	Violet Smith in *The Solitary Cyclist*
David Kossoff	played	Count Orlovsky in *The Resident Patient*
Robert Lang	played	Alfred Blessington in *The Resident Patient*
Desmond Llewelyn	played	Palfreyman in *Shoscombe Old Place*
Michael Pennington	played	Professor James Moriarty in *The Final Problem* and *The Empty House*
Edward Petherbridge	played	Culverton Smith in *The Dying Detective*
Ronald Pickup	was	The Narrator in *The Valley of Fear*
Denis Quilley	played	Bob Carruthers in *The Solitary Cyclist*
Andrew Sachs	played	The King of Bohemia in *A Scandal in Bohemia*
Peter Sallis	played	Jonas Oldacre in *The Norwood Builder*
Joan Sims	played	Mrs Warren in *The Red Circle*
Donald Sinden	played	Sir Charles Baskerville in *The Hound of the Baskervilles*
Imogen Stubbs	played	Violet Hunter in *The Copper Beeches*
Stephen Tomkinson	played	Victor Hatherley in *The Engineer's Thumb*
Frederick Treves	played	Colonel Sebastian Moran in *The Final Problem* and *The Empty House*
Michael Troughton	played	Robert Ferguson in *The Sussex Vampire*
Peter Vaughan	played	Milverton in *Charles Augustus Milverton*
John Wells	played	Clarence Gable in *The Three Gables*
Sam West	played	James McCarthy in *The Boscombe Valley Mystery*
Kevin Whately	played	James Browner in *The Cardboard Box*
John Woodvine	played	John Turner in *The Boscombe Valley Mystery*


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