Personal Info
Birth date
1954-05-08 (71 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Also known as
Clive Woods
Clive Wood
Biography
Clive Wood (born 1954) is an English actor. 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 masquereading 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). 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". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Doctor Who
7.6
Overview:
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.Casualty
6.1
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.Father Brown
7.6
Overview:
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.Endeavour
8.1
Overview:
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.Waking the Dead
7.19
Overview:
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.A Touch of Frost
7.5
Overview:
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.Soldier Soldier
6.6
Overview:
The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.Sense8
7.741
Overview:
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."Wallander
7.3
Overview:
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.Utopia
8
Overview:
The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.Fuel to Fire
NYR
Overview:
To end a bitter blood feud and bind two warring families, a mother must accept her son's murderer into her home.The Pillars of the Earth
7.679
Overview:
A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.Enemy at the Door
7.8
Overview:
Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey. The series also marked the TV debut of Anthony Head as a member of the island resistance. The theme music was by Wilfred Josephs.Press Gang
7.5
Overview:
The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils.Red Mercury
4
Overview:
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.The Lion in Winter
6.2
Overview:
King Henry II keeps his wife Eleanor locked away in the towers because of her frequent attempts to overthrow him. With Eleanor out of the way he can have his dalliances with his young mistress. Needless to say the queen is not pleased, although she still has affection for the king. Working through her sons, she plots the king's demise and the rise of her second and preferred son, Richard, to the throne. The youngest, John, is an overweight buffoon and the only one holding his father's affection is the king's choice after the death of his first son, young Henry. But John is also overly eager for power and is willing to plot his father's demise with middle brother Geoffrey and the young king of France, Phillip. Geoffrey sees his younger brother's weakness and sees that route as his path to power. Political and court intrigue ensues.King Lear
NYR
Overview:
Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.Buster
5.6
Overview:
Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.London's Burning: Play It For Real
NYR
Overview:
A documentary where London's Burning actors Richard Walsh, Clive Wood and Zoe Heyes spend a night on duty with real life London firefighters.Treasure Island
6.567
Overview:
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.In the Dark
6.422
Overview:
DI Helen Weeks grapples with pregnancy as she undertakes a very personal abduction case.All the Money in the World
6.481
Overview:
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.The Knowledge
6.4
Overview:
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
5
Overview:
Mr. Palfrey is a mild-mannered, but highly skilled counter-espionage agent employed by a small, unnamed department within British intelligence. He and his team tackle complex cases, often involving government cover-ups and internal affairs.The Crucifer of Blood
6.5
Overview:
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.The Innocent
5.5
Overview:
A young Yorkshire boy struggles to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a mother who refuses to accept that he is different in any way – and that is only the half of it. The boy, Tim, also acts as a go-between for his friend Carns, who is having an affair with a married woman. Eventually, things start to sort themselves out, and Tim sees life getting more interesting when he and his friend Win slowly get a relationship going.Witchcraft
1
Overview:
The director of a a film about witchcraft gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast.Acting
2024The Edenbound as The Admiral
2017All the Money in the World as Bullimore
2017In the Dark (4 Episodes) as Robert Weeks
2015Fuel to Fire as Gerard Quinn
2015Sense8 (1 Episode) as Croome
2014Antony and Cleopatra - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Marc Antony
2013Endeavour (1 Episode) as Vic Kasper
2013Utopia (1 Episode) as Dr. Isherwood
2013Father Brown (1 Episode) as Inspector George Ironside
2012King Lear as Earl of Gloucester
2010The Pillars of the Earth (8 Episodes) as King Henry I
2008Wallander (1 Episode) as Gustav Ericsson
2005Red Mercury as John
2005Doctor Who (1 Episode) as Commander
2003The Lion in Winter as William Marshall
2003Death in Holy Orders (2 Episodes) as Archdeacon Matthew Crampton
2001Waking the Dead (2, 2 Episode) as Neil Clayton, Carney
1997London's Burning: Play It For Real as Unknown
1997Midsomer Murders (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Johnny Linklater, Dr. Clive Warnford, Geoffrey Larkin
1993Dead Romantic as Bernard
1992Witchcraft (2 Episodes) as Rick Mason
1992A Touch of Frost (1 Episode) as Stephen Richford
1991The Crucifer of Blood as Jonathan Small
1991Soldier Soldier (1 Episode) as Keith Hart
1990Treasure Island as Captain Smollet
1989Press Gang (43 Episodes) as Matt Kerr
1988Buster as Sergeant Chalmers
1987Dog Tags as Cecil
1987Love After Lunch as Richard Partridge
1986Casualty (2 Episodes) as Tweedie
1985The Innocent as Turner
1984Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (10 Episodes) as Blair
1982A Kind of Loving (10 Episodes) as Vic Brown
1979The Knowledge as Ginger
1978Enemy at the Door (1 Episode) as Orderly
Production
1989Chuck Mangione - Jazz Legends Live ... Producer