Clive Wood

Clive Wood (born 8 May 1954) is a British actor, known for his television roles in Press Gang (1989–93), The Bill (1990), London's Burning (1996–99), and as King Henry I in The Pillars of the Earth (2010). His stage roles include playing Stephano in The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe (2011) and Antony in Antony and Cleopatra at the Haymarket (2014). His film appearances include The Innocent (1985), Buster (1988) and Suffragette (2015).

Career

Games

Clive Wood voices "The Pirate Lord" from the popular video game "Sea of Thieves" from Rare.

Film and television

Born in Croydon, Surrey, Wood's first starring TV role was as Vic Brown, opposite Joanne Whalley and Susan Penhaligon, in the 1982 ITV drama series based on the novel A Kind of Loving. He has played Matt Kerr in Press Gang, DCI Gordon Wray in The Bill and Jack Morgan in London's Burning. He also played Captain Smollett in the 1990 TV film, Treasure Island (having previously played Dick in the 1977 BBC version). He has also appeared in a cameo as an Auton masquerading as a Roman commander in the Doctor Who episode The Pandorica Opens.

Wood played the role of Blair in Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (1984–85), and Stephen Richford in an episode of the television series A Touch of Frost entitled "Dancing in the Dark" (2004). In 2011 he played Jack Gillespie in Series 2 of Land Girls. He was also in the television series Midsomer Murders, playing the role of Geoffrey Larkin in the episode "Secrets and Spies" (2009), and again in 2014, playing Johnny Linklater in the episode "Wild Harvest".

Theatre

In 2006 Wood reprised his roles from the 2001 RSC productions of Henry VI Parts I, II and III, which included that of the Duke of York whose death led to the Wars of the Roses. The ensemble went on to perform Shakespeare's two histories cycles, culminating in early 2008 with The Glorious Moment — a chance to see all eight plays in succession.

He played Squadron Leader Swanson in the 2011 revival of Terence Rattigan's Second World War drama Flare Path at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket directed by Trevor Nunn. He next joined the cast of Nunn's production of The Tempest as Stephano, playing at the Haymarket from August to October 2011.

In 2014 Clive played Antony in Antony and Cleopatra at Shakespeare's Globe. The play, directed by Jonathan Munby, with Eve Best as Cleopatra, Jolyon Coy as Octavius Caesar and Phil Daniels as Enobarbus was running from 17 May until 24 August 2014.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
Film
1985	The Innocent	Turner
1987	Pretorius	Inspector Andries Pretorius
1987	Dog Tags	Cecil
1988	Buster	Sergeant Chalmers
1992	The Hummingbird Tree	Tom Ross
2005	Red Mercury	John
2011	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen	Tom Price-Williams
2015	Suffragette	Supt. James Burrill
2016	Theó Complete Walk: Antony and Cleopatra	Antony	Short film
2017	All the Money in the World	Bullimore
Television
1976	Gangsters		Episode "Incident Four"
1977	Treasure Island	Dirk	2 episodes
1979	The Knowledge	Ginger	TV film
1982	A Kind of Loving	Vic Brown	10 episodes
1984–85	Mr. Palfrey of Westminster	Blair	10 episodes
1985	Honeymoon	Tim	TV film
1987	Love After Lunch	Rod	TV film
1988	A Very Peculiar Practice	Freddy Frith	1 episode
1988	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Tony Jasper	Episode "No Crying He Makes"
1989–93	Press Gang	Matt Kerr	14 episodes
1989	Capstick's Law	Roger Maitland	1 episode
1989	Storyboard	Blair	Episode "A Question of Commitment"
1990	Treasure Island	Captain Smollett	TV film
1990	The Bill	D.C.I. Wray	28 episodes
1990	Stay Lucky	Simon Thorn	1 episode
1991	Soldier Soldier	Keith Hart	1 episode
1991	The Crucifer of Blood	Jonathan Small	TV film
1993	Screen Two	Bernard	Episode "Dead Romantic"
1993	The Good Guys	Robert Goddard	1 episode
1993	Glóbusz	Ron Anderson	5 episodes
1996–99	London's Burning	Jack Morgan	49 episodes
2000	Midsomer Murders	Dr. Clive Warnford	Blue Herrings
2000/2013	Holby City	Niall Duggan/DCI Malcolm Green	1 episode (2000) 3 episodes (2013)
2001–02	At Home with the Braithwaites	Tony	2 episodes
2003	Death in Holy Orders	Archdeacon Matthew Crampton	2 episodes
2003	The Lion in Winter	William Marshall	TV film
2004	Dunkirk	Lt Gen Henry Pownall	Docudrama
2004	A Touch of Frost	Stephen Richford	Episode "Dancing in the Dark"
2004/2011	Waking the Dead	Neil Clayton/Carney	2 episodes “In the Sight of the Lord” (2004) 2 episodes (2011)
2009	Minder	Felix Cornell
2009	Midsomer Murders	Geoffrey Larkin	1 episode Secrets and Spies
2009/2016/2018	Casualty	Tweedie/Tom Cheney/Bill Crothers	2 episodes (2009) 1 episode (2016) 5 episodes (2018)
2010	Doctor Who	Roman Commander	Episode "The Pandorica Opens"
2010	The Pillars of the Earth	King Henry I	8 episodes
2011	Land Girls	Jack Gillespie	5 episodes
2011	Without You	David Shaw	2 episodes
2013	The Bible	Nathan	Episode "Kingdom"
2013	Endeavour	Vic Kasper	1 episode
2014	Utopia	Dr. Isherwood
2014	Midsomer Murders	Johnny Linklater	1 episode Wild Harvest
2015	New Tricks	Kevin Dodds	1 episode
2017	In the Dark	Robert Weeks	3 episodes
2018	Father Brown	Inspector George Ironside	Episode "The Devil You Know"
2020	Silent Witness	Paul Simmons	1 episode - 2 parts

External links

• Clive Wood at IMDb