Clive Russell

Actor Dec 7 (age 80) Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK 1982–2025 (43 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Biography

Clive Russell was raised in Fife, Scotland, from 3 months old. He originally trained as a teacher, but when his drama lecturer resigned and took over a theatre in the provincial town of Bolton, Lancaster, Russell joined him. Russell has been working solely in film and television since 1991.

Known For

Film

Sherlock Holmes

Captain Tanner

Film

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Captain Tanner

Film

Thor: The Dark World

Tyr

Film

The Last Duel

King's Uncle

Film

The 13th Warrior

Helfdane (Fat)

Film

Outlaw King

Lord Mackinnon of Skye

Film

King Arthur

Lancelot's Father

Film

Made of Honor

Cousin Finlay

Filmography

Acting (151)

Movies (70)

The House Was Not Hungry Then

as Estate Agent

Dick Dynamite: 1944

as The Abbot

Tales of Babylon

as Silver Dragon

Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery

as Duncan

The Last Duel

as King's Uncle

How We Forgot to Save the Planet

2021

Petrichor

2020

as Vic

Supervized

2019

as Jerry

5.2

Outlaw King

2018

as Lord Mackinnon of Skye

The Etruscan Smile

as Campbell

Ladder to You

as Eric

1066: A Year to Conquer England

2017

as Harold Hardrada

7.5

The Hatton Garden Job

2017

as Kenny Collins

5.5

Their Finest

2017

as Mr. Starling (uncredited)

6.6

1745

2017

as Master David Andrews

The Limehouse Golem

2016

as Prison Warden

6.2

Still Game: The Story So Far

as Self - Big Innes

Thor: The Dark World

as Tyr

The List

as Peter

Mary, Queen of Scots

as Douglas

The Fighter's Ballad

as Father John

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

2011

as Captain Tanner

7.1

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

2011

as Lachlan Macquarie

The Wicker Tree

as Beame

The Wolfman

as MacQueen

Cup Cake

as Mute McGill

Sherlock Holmes

as Captain Tanner

Beyond the Pole

as Steve

Book of Blood

as Wyburd

Dead Man Running

as McClintoch

Made of Honor

as Cousin Finlay

Lecture 21

as Hoffmeister

The Yellow House

as Monsieur Roulin

Joe's Palace

as Dave

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

as MacPherson

Festival

as Brother Mike

Heartless

as Ricy

Faith

as Gordon

Mist: The Story of a Sheepdog Puppy

2005

as MacPhereson(voice)

The Rocket Post

as Angus Mackay

King Arthur

as Lancelot's Father

Ladies in Lavender

as Adam Penruddocke

Tumshie McFadgen's Bid for Ultimate Bliss

2004

as Moon River Thompson

Silent Cry

Mad Dogs

as The Thin Man

Bodywork

as Billy Hunch

The Emperor's New Clothes

2001

as Sergeant Justin Bommel

Mr In-Between

as Mr. Michaelmas

The Railway Children

as Station Master

For My Baby

as Miklos Rumbold

The 13th Warrior

as Helfdane (Fat)

Great Expectations

as Joe Gargery

Oscar and Lucinda

as Theophilus

Flowers of the Forest

1996

as Gordon Weir

Crossing the Floor

1996

as Mick Boyd

6.7

Lord of Misrule

1996

as Arthur

Margaret's Museum

1995

as Neil Currie

6.3

Ruffian Hearts

1995

as Grazetti

Fatherland

1994

as Krebs

6.2

The Hawk

1993

as Chief Inspector Daybury

5.8

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

as Clegg

The Power of One

as Sgt. Bormann

The Grass Arena

as Mac

Hancock

as Alan Simpson

Do Not Disturb

1991

as Chris Anderson

2.0

The Gift

1989

as Mowat

Tumbledown

1988

as Terry Knapp

5.6

The Accidental Death of an Anarchist

1983

as Superintendent

8.0

Scenes From A Broken Past

as Norman

Bilby

as Bilby / Bill

Television (81)

Dept. Q

as Jamie Lingard

The Guest

as Derek Abbott

Mr. Bigstuff

as Uncle Ron

ONE PIECE

as Crocus

Mrs Sidhu Investigates

as Eddie Melville

The Sandman

as Odin

The Peripheral

as Frank Derosa

Murder, They Hope

as Duncan

Dracula

as Valentin

Semi-Detached

as Willie

The Witcher

as Stribog

The Feed

as Graham

Catherine the Great

as The Fool

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

as Greg Alban

1983

as William Keating

The Good Karma Hospital

2017

as Desmond

7.6

1066: A Year to Conquer England

2017

as Harold Hardrada

Rellik

as Henry

Digby Dragon

as Albert (voice)

Mountain Goats

as Malton Jennings

Outlander

as Lord Lovat

Shetland

as Adam Markham

Ripper Street

as Frederick Abberline

Ripper Street

as Fred Abberline

Stella

Game of Thrones

as Brynden 'The Blackfish' Tully

Vera

as Allen Barnes

The Borgias

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

Identity

The Old Guys

as Mark

Garrow's Law

as Alexander Creighton

Merlin

as Bayard

The Devil's Whore

as Presbyterian Preacher

No Heroics

Honest

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

as Gary

Jam and Jerusalem

as Jock

Hotel Babylon

According to Bex

Shameless

as Billy Wilson

The Mayor of Casterbridge

as Newson

Still Game

Being April

as Callum

Rockface

Waking the Dead

as Perry Coleman

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

The Mists of Avalon

as Gorlois

Happiness

as Angus O'Connor

My Family

Lock, Stock...

as Special Brew

Hearts and Bones

as Mark Dolby

Black Cab

as Raymond

Spaced

as Damien Knox

Oliver Twist

as Scottish Lawyer

Hope and Glory

as Phil Jakes

Great Expectations

as Joe Gargery

Heartburn Hotel

Midsomer Murders

as Seth Comfort

The Peter Principle

as Kevin Mott

Sunnyside Farm

Silent Witness

Neverwhere

as Mr. Vandemar

Testament: The Bible in Animation

as Boaz (voice)

Middlemarch

as Caleb Garth

Roughnecks

as Archie

Finney

as Tucker

The Tales of Para Handy

as McVicar

Cracker

as Danny

Frank Stubbs Promotes

as Baxter

Heartbeat

as Big Eddy

Murder Most Horrid

as DCS Barratt

Spender

as Albie Sloeman

For the Greater Good

as Terry Lynch MP

Drop the Dead Donkey

Casualty

as Dave McCray

Lovejoy

as Mark Tabor

The Bill

Scully

as Lorry Driver

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

as Gary Turnbull

Boys from the Blackstuff

1982

as Policeman

7.7