Clive Revill
Biography
A grand, well-respected actor of stage, film and TV, most people think New Zealander Clive Revill is British. Although most people think of the curly, red-haired gent as a comic eccentric best known for his sterling work on the musical stage, he has been highly regarded for his formidable dramatic work in Shakespearean roles. A man of many skills, Clive Selsby Revill was born on April 18, 1930, in Wellington, New Zealand, and educated at Rongotai College and Victoria University (Wellington). Once trained for a career as an accountant, he abruptly switched gears and made his stage debut in Auckland, New Zealand playing Sebastian in "Twelfth Night" in 1950. He then moved to England to study with the Old Vic School in London. While there he appeared at Stratford-on-Avon in mid-1950s presentations of "Hamlet," "Love's Labour's Lost," "The Merchant of Venice," "Julius Caesar" and "The Tempest," among others. Having made his Broadway debut back in 1952 with "Mr. Pickwick," he took a juicy chunk out of the Big Apple upon returning to New York in the 1960s with his critically lauded, Tony Award-nominated work in "Irma La Douce" and as Fagin in "Oliver!" He has delighted audiences for years with his larger-than-life musical roles, particularly in the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas "The Mikado" and "The Pirates of Penzance." Other have included "Sherry," "Lolita" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" -- replacing the late George Rose in the last mentioned after the actor's untimely death in 1988. Most adept at ethnic roles (he has played everything from Chinese to Russian), he has become legendary for his acute sense of comic timing and uncanny use of body language. Revill has reveled over the years playing delightfully pompous, hissable gents to the hilt. Making an inauspicious debut in an unbilled role in 1956, his more pronounced movie work includes Kaleidoscope (1966), The Assassination Bureau (1969), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Avanti! (1972), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, The Legend of Hell House (1973), Mack the Knife (1989) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). Twice divorced, Revill has one daughter, Kate Selsby Revill, by his second marriage to Suzi Schor-Revill, and makes his home in Los Angeles.
The Legend of Hell House
Dr. Barrett
Avanti!
Carlo Carlucci
The Little Prince
The Business Man
Rumpelstiltskin
King Mezzer
The Emperor's New Clothes
Prime Minister
Rum Runners
Lord Hammond
The Double Man
Frank Wheatly
Italian Secret Service
Charles Harrison
Pinocchio
Coachman
Matilda
Billy Baker
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Self
La Reina de España
John Scott
Room 237
Dr. Barrett (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gentlemen Broncos
Cletus
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Season 1, Vol. 1)
Harpooner / ... (2 episodes, 1996)
Polar Opposites
Leo
Tom & Jerry Collectors Edition Vols 3&4
King Richard / Referee - voice
Original Animated Series: Godzilla, Vol. 2
Eustace McPhail (1 episode, 1999)
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
Narrator (voice)
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
(voice)
Schuld & Sühne - Du sollst nicht töten
Captain Zamyotov
Return to Never Land
Elderly Officer / Narrator (voice)
Deep Water
Rupert Masters
Possums
London
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Sykes
Delta of Venus
Radio Announcer (voice)
The Thief and the Cobbler
King Nod (re-edited versions) (voice)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Fire Marshall
The Sea Wolf
Thomas C. 'Cookie' Mugridge
Let Him Have It
Peirrepoint
Jake Spanner, Private Eye
Herbert Soames
Dr. Seuss' The Butter Battle Book
Van Itch (voice)
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
Dr. Kellaway
The Emperor's New Clothes
Prime Minister
The Frog Prince
The King
Rumpelstiltskin
King Mezzer
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Snark / The Goat (voice)
Transformers: The Movie
Kickback (voice)
A Masterpiece of Murder
Vincent Faunce
Prime Minister
Samson and Delilah
Raul
Zorro, the Gay Blade
Garcia
The Monkey Mission
Teabag
Death Ray 2000
Erik Clawson
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
Dr. Dussel
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Emperor (voice)
A Deadly Game
Berenkov
Victor De Salle
Matilda
Billy Baker
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
Rumplestiltskin (segment "The King with Eight Daughters")
Pinocchio
Coachman
One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Quon
Galileo
Ballad Singer
The Little Prince
The Business Man
The Black Windmill
Alf Chestermann
The Legend of Hell House
Dr. Barrett
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Bay of Algiers
Avanti!
Carlo Carlucci
Rum Runners
Lord Hammond
A Severed Head
Alexander Lynch-Gibbon
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Rogozhin
The Buttercup Chain
George
The Assassination Bureau
Cesare Spado
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Tovarich Vucovich
Nobody Runs Forever
Joseph
Italian Secret Service
Charles Harrison
Fathom
Sergi Serapkin
The Double Man
Frank Wheatly
A Fine Madness
Dr. Menken
Modesty Blaise
McWhirter / Sheik Abu Tahir
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Andrews
The Headless Ghost
The Ghost of the Fourth Earl of Ambrose
The Horse's Mouth
Art Student (uncredited)
Reach for the Sky
RAF Batman Helping Bader with His New Legs (uncredited)
