The Clive Francis Files

A tribute to Clive Francis

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Clive Francis starred in five TV series, and guest-starred on many others. He also appeared in many TV movies.

The list below is presented in chronological order. Whether it was a TV series, guest apperance, or TV movie is indicated in the text.

Entries in GREY BOXES are TV series in which Clive starred, as opposed to TV series in which he made a guest appearance.

Romeo and Juliet
By Shakespeare
Directed by Paul Lee
1965

Notes:

Role: Romeo

  • Produced by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Regent Polytechnic Institute

  • Cast included Richard Wilson and Angela Scoular.


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  • David Copperfield
    By Charles Dickens
    Directed by Joan Craft
    1966

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: Tommy Traddles.

  • Dramatized in 13 episodes.
  • Cast included George Benson, Flora Robson, Hannah Gordon, Barry Justice and Ian McKellen.
  • This is Clive's first television appearance.


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  • To See How Far It Is
    By Alan Plater
    Directed by Gilchrist Calder
    1968

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: David Donkin

  • Cast included Nigel Davenport and Norman Rodway.

  • Progressive Hues
    By Don Shaw
    Directed by Anne Head
    1968

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: Dave

  • Cast included Frances Cuka and Joe Melia.

  • Strange Report
    Written by Don Brinkley and Edward DeBlasio
    Clive's episode directed by Peter Duffel
    1968

    ATV

    Notes:

    Television series

    Role: Brandt

  • Cast included Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas and Guy Doleman.
  • Quayle and Garas play scientists who invesitgate the paranormal.

  • Journey to the Unknown
    By
    Directed by Don Chaffey
    1968

    Hammer Films
    TV Series

    Notes:

    Role: Chrichton

  • Cast included Robert Lansing, John Fraser and Gabriella Drake.

  • Entertaining Mr. Sloane
    By Joe Orton
    Directed by Peter Moffatt
    1969

    Rediffusion

    Notes:

    Role: Sloane

  • This was the first and so far only televised production of this play.
  • It was completed just a few days after Joe Orton's death.
  • Cast included Sheila Hancock and Arthur Lovegrove, with Edward Woodward as Ed.


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  • Middlemarch
    By George Eliot
    Directed by Joan Craft
    1969

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: Fred Vincy

  • One of the first BBC dramas to be broadcast in colour.
  • Dramatised in 7 episodes
  • Cast included Michael Pennington, Michele Dotrice, Hannah Gordon and Fabia Drake


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  • Sovereign's Company
    By Don Shaw
    Directed by Alan Clarke
    1970

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: Dexter

  • Cast included Roland Culver, Gareth Forwood, James Hazeldine, James Cosmo and Oliver Cotton.

  • Sense and Sensibility
    by Jane Austin
    Adapted by Denis Constanduros
    Directed by David Giles
    1971

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: John Willoughby

  • Dramatized in four episodes
  • Cast included Ciaran Madden, Robin Ellis, Joanna David, Isobel Dean and Patricia Routledge


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  • Decision to Burn
    by Kevin Laffan
    Directed by Marc Miller
    1971

    Yorkshire Television

    Notes:

    Role: Benny

  • Cast inlcuded Anthony Hopkins, Helen Cherry and John Welsh


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  • Fly On the Wall
    by Kevin Laffan
    Directed by Marc Miller
    1971

    Yorkshire Television

    Notes:

    Role: Colin Imlay

  • Cast included Julia Foster, Roger Livesey, Christopher Timothy and Rachel Kempson.


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  • Ben Spray
    by Peter Nichols
    Directed by Tony Wharmby
    1972

    Yorkshire Television

    Notes:

    Role: David Riley

  • Cast included John Alderton, Meg Wynn and Gwen Cherrell

  • The Liver Birds
    by Carla Lane
    Directed by Sydney Lotterby
    1972

    ATV

    Notes:

    Role: Aubrey

  • Cast included Polly Janes and Nerys Hughes.

  • Crime of Passion
    by Roy Russell
    Directed by Peter Moffatt
    1972

    ATV

    Notes:

    Role: Modeste

  • Cast included John Phillips, Anthony Newlands, Rosemary Leach and Colin Cant.

  • New Scotland Yard
    Directed by Paul Paul Annett, Bill Bain and many others
    1972-1974

    London Weekend Television

    Notes:

    TV SERIES

    Role: Detective Sargeant Dexter

  • Co-starred in the final season (1974)

  • Cast included Michael Turner and a host of guest-stars


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  • The Gathering Storm
    Directed by Herbert Wise

    1974

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: Randolph Churchill

  • Cast included Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Patrick Stewart, Robert Hardy, Ian Bannen, Leslie Dunlop and Anghard Rees
  • also called Churchill, the Gathering Storm or Walk with Destiny.
  • This was Burton's first television appearance which was pretty apparent. He feigned sickness most of the time and only attended three rehearsals!


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  • Churchill's People
    by Beverly Cross
    Directed by Peter Hammond
    1975

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: John Loxley

    Cast included Ian Hendry, Annette Crosbie and Bernard Hepton


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    Mr. Oddy
    by Hugh Walpole
    Directed by Peter Moffatt
    1975

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: Tommy Brown

    Cast included Roland Culver


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    Poldark
    Adapted from books by Winston Graham
    1975

    BBC

    Notes:

    TV SERIES

    Role: Francis Poldark in the first season, drowning in episode 13 of the 16 episode series. Clive still gets fan mail 30 years later!

    See the episode guide with brief plot synopses at this external site: Poldark UK.


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    Caesar and Cleopatra
    By Bernard Shaw
    Directed by James Cellan Jones
    1976

    Southern Television

    Notes:

    Role: Apollodorus

  • Cast included Alec Guinness, Genevieve Bujold and Michael Bryant
  • Saturday Sunday Monday
    Play by Eduardo De Filippo
    Directed by Alan Bridges
    1978 Notes:

    Role: Roberto

  • Also known as BBC Laurence Olivier Presents Saturday Sunday Monday
  • Cast included Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Frank Finlay and Edward Woodward


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  • As You Like It
    by William Shakespeare
    Directed by Basil Coleman
    1978 Notes:

    Role: Oliver

  • Cast included Helen Mirren, Angharad Ross, Richard Pasco, and James Bolam


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  • The Rear Column
    by Simon Gray
    Directed by Harold Pinter
    1980

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: Troup

  • Cast included Simon Ward, Donald Gee and John Horton


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  • Airey Neave
    Dramatised Documentary
    Directed by Ben Rea
    1980

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: Airey Neave

  • Ludovic Kennedy presented the program


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  • Masada
    Directed by Boris Sagal
    1981 Notes:

  • Role: Attius, Head Tribune and Vespasian's spy

  • Cast included Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss and Anthony Quayle


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  • Amy
    by Roger Milner
    Directed by Nat Crosby
    (1984)

    BBC

    Notes:

    TV Movie

    Role: Jim Mollinson


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    Oedipus at Colonus
    by Sophocles
    Directed by Don Taylor
    (1984)

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: Theseus

  • Cast included Anthony Quayle, Juliet Stevenson, Kenneth Haigh, John Shrapnel, Bryan Pringle


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  • The Far Pavilions
    Adapted from M. M. Kaye's novel
    Directed by Peter Duffell
    1984 Notes:

    Role: Kelly

  • Cast included Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Omar Sharif, Rossano Brazzi, John Gielgug and Rupert Evert

  • Also called "Blade of Steel"

  • Clive played the surgeon to John Gielgud "who had to die in my arms. Every time I closed John's eyes and began to weep he would start to giggle and say I was tickling him!"

  • Bulman 1985 Notes:

    Role: "Dylan Chadwick" in episode: "Pandora's Many Boxes"

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes
    by Arthur Conan Doyle
    Directed by Patrick Lau
    1986

    Granada Television

    Notes:

    Role: "Neville St. Clair " in episode: "The Man With the Twisted Lip"

  • Regular cast included Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke.


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  • Yes, Prime Minister
    by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
    Directed by Sydney Lotterby
    1986

    BBC

    Notes:

    Role: "Luke" in episode: "A Victory for Democracy" (episode # 1.6) 2/13/1986

  • Cast included Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, David De Keyster, Ronald Hines and Donald Pickering
  • Quartermaine's Terms
    by Simon Gray
    Directed by Bill Hays
    1987 Notes:

    TV Movie

    Role: Mark Sackling

  • Edward Fox, Paul Jesson, Peter Jeffrey, Eleanor Bron, John Gielgud, and Tessa Peake-Jones

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  • Lord Peter Wimsey
    by Dorothy Sayers
    1987 Notes:

  • TV Miniseries

  • Role: Norman Urquhart

  • Cast included Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter
  • The Bretts
    Written by Harry Duffin
    Directed by Baz Taylor
    1987 Notes:

    TV Miniseries

    Role: ?

    Old Flames
    Written by Simon Gray
    Directed by Christopher Morahan
    1989 Notes:

    TV Movie

  • Role: Jackaboy

  • Also starred Stephen Fry, Simon Callow and Miriam Margolies
  • May to December
    By Paul Mendelson
    Directed by Sydney Lotterby
    1989

    BBC

    Notes:

    TV Series

    Role: Miles Henty for the first season and the first episode of the second season

  • Cast included Anton Rodgers and Eva Matheson
  • The Piglet Files

    1990-1993 Notes:

    TV SERIES

    Role: Maurice Drummond.

    See the episode guide, with brief plot synopses, here. Complete synopsis and critiques of each episode will follow shortly.


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    The 10 Percenters
    by Doug Naylor
    Directed by Marcus Mortimer
    1992 - 1993
    3 series
    Notes:

    TV SERIES

    Role: Dominic Eden

  • Cast included Elizabeth Bennet, Colin Stinton and Benedict Taylor


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  • Lipstick on Your Collar
    by Dennis Potter
    Directed by Renne Rye
    1993

    Channel 4

    Notes:

    TV Miniseries

    Role: Major Hedges

  • Cast included Nicholas Jones, Nicholas Farrell, Peter Jeffrey, Douglas Henshall, Giles Thomas and Ewen McGregor


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  • Wild Justice
    Directed by Tony Wharmby
    1993 Notes:

    Role: Sir Steven Cast

  • Cast included Roy Scheider and Sam Wanamaker
  • A TV Miniseries, never shown in the UK.
  • Anna Lee 1993 Role: "Martin Fletcher" in episode: "Cook's Tale, The" (episode # 1.5) 3/20/1994
    The Plant 1994 Role:
    Sharpe's Company
    by Charles Wood
    Directed by Ted Childs
    1994 Notes:

  • Miniseries (one of several Sharpe miniseries)

  • Role: Windham

  • Cast included Sean Bean, Michael Byrne and Pete Postlethwaite


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  • Giving Tongue
    by Emma Fortune
    Directed b Stefan Schwartz
    1996

    BBC

    Notes:

    TV Miniseries

    Role: Ian Llewellyn Groves

  • Cast included Warren Clarke, John Bird, John Fortune, Claire Holman and Charlotte Coleman
  • Longitude
    Written and directed by Charles Sturridge

    2000 Notes:

    TV Miniseries
    Role: Captain Digges

  • Cast included Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons and Ian Hart


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  • Rosemary and Thyme

    UK viewers only
    2005 TV Series
    Role: Angus Fairly, food critic, in "A Cup of Silence"


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