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  • The information below was supplied by Mr. Francis.

    Clive began his career after leaving RADA as a Penguin Player in repertory in Worthing and Eastbourne...and took off from there!

    Credits are divided between London's West End theatres (in the gray box), and his credits in regional theater and on tour across the country.

    THE WEST END - London's Theatre Area

    There's A Girl in My Soup
    by Terence Frisby
    Directed by Robert Chetwin
    Globe Theatre

    Opened: May 1966
    Closed: 1976 (Francis leaves in 1967)

    Notes:

    Role: Jimmy

    Cast included Donald Sinden, Barbara Ferris and Jon Pertwee

    Clive only stayed for the first year, leaving in 1967.


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    The Servant of Two Masters
    by Goldoni
    Directed by Toby Robertson
    The Queens Theatre

    Opened: Dec 1968
    Closed: Feb 1969

    Notes:

    Role: Silvio

    Cast included Tommy Steele, Michele Dotrice, Julia Lockwood, Ronald Radd and Graham Crowden


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    Three
    (3 One-act plays)
    by Bernard Shaw
    Directed by Ray Cooney
    The Fortune Theatre

    Opened: Jan 1970
    Closed: March 1970

    Notes:

    Role: Various

    Cast included Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, June Barry and Robert Fleming


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    The Mating Game
    by Robin Hawdon
    Directed by Ray Cooney
    Apollo Theatre

    Opened: June 1972 Closed: June 1973

    Notes:

    Role: Draycott Harris

    Cast included Terry Scott, Aimi MacDonald and Julia Lockwood


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    Bloomsbury
    by Peter Luke
    Directed by Richard Cottrell
    Phoenix Theatre

    Opened July 1974
    Closed: Aug 1974

    Notes:

    Role: Ralph Partridge

    Cast included Daniel Massey, Penelope Wilton and Yvonne Mitchell


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    The Return of A. J. Raffles
    by Graham Greene
    Directed by David Jones
    Royal Shakespeare Company

    Opened: Dec 1975
    Closed: Feb 1976

    Notes:

    Role: Bunny

    Cast included Denholm Elliot, Peter Blythe, Paul Rogers and Michael Bryant


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    The Circle
    By Somerset Maugham
    Directed by Peter Dewes
    Theatre Royal Haymarket

    Opened: Oct 1976 Closed: April 1977

    Notes:

    Role: Edward Luton.

    Cast included Googie Withers, Susan Hampshire, John McCallum, Martin Jarvis and Bill Fraser


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    Look After Lulu
    by Noel Coward
    Adapted from Feydeau�s Occupe-toi d�Amelie�
    Directed by Patrick Garland.
    Theatre Royal Haymarket

    Opened: Oct 1978
    Closed: May 1979

    Notes:

    Role: Marcel

    Cast included Geraldine McEwan, Nigel Stock, Peter Bowles and Fenella Fielding


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    The Rear Column
    by Simon Gray
    Directed by Harold Pinter
    Globe Theatre

    Opened: February 1978
    Closed: April 1978

    Notes:

    Role: Troupe

    Cast included Jeremy Irons, Simon Ward, Donald Gee and Barry Foster

    Dangerous Corner
    by J.B.Priestly
    Directed by Robert Gillespie
    Ambassadors Theatre

    Opened: Dec 1980
    Closed: May 1981

    Notes:

    Role: Robert Caplan.

    Cast included Jennifer Daniel, Ann Lynn, Anthony Daniels and Stacy Dorning


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    The School For Scandal
    by Richard Sheridan
    Directed by John Barton
    Duke of York�s

    Opened: Dec 1983
    Closed: May 1984

    Notes:

    Role: Joseph Surface

    Cast included Donald Sinden, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray and Bill Fraser

    Benefactors
    By Michael Frayn
    Directed by Michael Blakemore
    Vaudeville Theatre

    opened: April 1985
    Closed: Oct 1985

    Notes:

    Role: Colin.

    Cast included Polly Adams, Jan Waters and Glyn Grain


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    The Importance of Being Ernest
    by Oscar Wilde
    Directed by Donald Sinden
    The Royalty Theatre

    Opened: Sep 1987
    Closed: ?

    Notes:

    Role: John Worthing

    Cast included Wendy Hiller, Natalie Ogle, Denis Lawson and Gabrielle Drake


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    Tis Pity She's A Whore
    by John Ford
    National Theatre

    March 1988

    Notes:

    Role: Vasques

    Cast included Rupert Graves, Michael Simkins, Polly Adams and Suzan Sylvester


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    A Small Family Business
    by Alan Ayckbourn
    Directed by Alan Ayckbourn
    National Theatre

    March 1988

    Notes:

    Role: Benedict Hough (for which he won the Clarence Derwent Award)

    Cast included Stephen Moore and Polly Adams


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    Hedda Gabler
    by Ibsen
    Directed by John Dove
    Hampstead Theatre

    November 1988

    Notes:

    Role: Judge Brack

    with Lindsay Duncan as Hedda

    Single Spies
    by Alan Bennett
    Queens Theatre

    Feb 1989

    Notes:

    First opened at the Royal National Theatre on 1 December 1988 with Simon Callow in the roles later taken over by Clve Francis.

    Two one act plays written by Alan Bennett. In An Englishman Abroad Francis stars as Guy Burgess with Prunella Scales as Corale Browne. In A Question of Attribution, Alan Bennett plays Anthony Blunt and Clive Francis plays Chubb.


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    What the Butler Saw
    by Joe Orton
    Directed by John Tillinger
    Wyndham�s Theatre

    Dec 1990

    Notes:

    Role: Dr Prentice

    Cast included Shelia Gish and Joseph Maher


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    A Christmas Carol
    Adapted from Dickens book by John Mortimer
    Directed by Ian Judge
    RSC Barbican Theatre

    1994 - 1995

    Notes:

    Role: Ebenezer Scrooge.

    Cast included Polly James, Philip Quast, Paul Greenwood and John Bennet


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    Absolute Turkey
    Adapted from Georges Feydeau�s Le Dindon By Nicki Frei and Peter Hall
    Directed by Peter Hall
    The Gielgud Theatre

    Opened: June 1995
    Closed: ?

    Notes:

    Role: Redillon

    Cast included Felicity Kendal, Peter Davison and Nicholas Le Prevost.


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    Gross Indecency
    Written and directed by Moises Kaufman.
    Based on the trials of Oscar Wilde
    Gielgud Theatre

    Opened: March 1999
    Closed: May 1999

    Notes:

    Role: Sir Edward Clarke

    Cast included Michael Pennington


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    Entertaining Mr Sloane
    by Joe Orton
    Directed by Terry Johnson
    Arts Theatre

    Opened: Jan 2001
    Closed: March 2001

    Notes:

    Role: Ed

    Cast included Alison Steadman, Neil Stuke and Bryan Pringle


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    FESTIVALS AND REGIONAL THEATRE

    Getting Married
    by Bernard Shaw
    Directed by Eric Jones
    Arts Theatre Cambridge and UK tour

    1965

    Notes:

    Role: Cecil Sykes

    Cast included Eleanor Bron, Gabrielle Drake, Sylvia Coleridge.

    The Silver Box
    By John Galsworthy
    Directed by Stuart Latham
    Leatherhead Theatre Club

    1967

    Notes:

    Role: Jack Barthwick

    Cast included Sonia Graham, Jessica Spenser and Daniel Thorndike


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    Loot
    by Joe Orton
    Directed by John Hales
    Phoenix Theatre, Leicester

    1968

    Notes:

    Role: Dennis

    Cast included Patricia Kneale, Stanley Lebor


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    Irma La Douce
    Music by Marguerite Monnot
    Lyrics David Heneker and Monty Norman
    Directed by Michael Ashton
    Phoenix Theatre, Leicester

    1968

    Notes:

    Role: Nestor

    Cast included Mia Nardi, William Russell


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    Lock Up Your Daughters
    Music by Laurie Johnson
    Lyrics Lionel Bart
    Directed by Peter Jackson
    Derby Playhouse

    1969

    Notes:

    Role: Role: Ramble

    Cast included Gillian Humphreys


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    Monsieur Perrichon's Travels
    by
    Directed by Patrick Garland
    Chichester Festival Theatre

    1976

    Notes:

    Role: ?

    Cast included Tony Robinson, Clive Francis and Rex Harrison


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    The Deep Blue Sea
    by Terence Rattigan
    Directed by Jonathan Lynn
    Arts Theatre, Cambridge then UK tour

    1977

    Notes:

    Role: Freddie Page

    Cast included Shelia Hancock, Lindsay Duncan and Edward Jewesbury

    Romeo and Juliet
    by Shakespeare
    Directed by Peter Coe
    Arts Council tour

    1977

    Notes:

    Role: Romeo

    Cast included Michele Dotrice, Doris Hare, Mark Wynter and Edgar Wreford


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    Look After Lulu
    by Noël Coward
    Directed by Patrick Garland
    Chichester Festival Theatre

    1978

    Notes:

    Role: Marcel

    Cast included Geraldine McEwan, Nigel Stock, Paul Hardwick and Fenella Fielding

    The School Mistress
    By Arthur Pinero
    Directed by James Maxwell
    Manchester Royal Exchange

    1978

    Notes:

    Role: Hon Vere Queckett

    Cast included Patricia Routledge, Michael Robbins, Felicity Dean and Sophie Thompson


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    The Norman Conquests
    by Alan Ayckbourn
    Directed by Philip Grout
    Churchill Theatre
    Bromley 1979
    Notes:

    Role: Norman

    Cast included Polly James, David Delve, and Elizabeth Power


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    Travesties
    by Tom Stoppard
    Directed by Patrick Lau
    Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

    1980

    Notes:

    Role: Henry Carr

    Cast included Jonathan Coy, Christopher Hancock


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    The Deep Blue Sea
    by Terence Rattigan
    Directed by Alan Strachan
    Greenwich Theatre

    1981

    Notes:

    Role: Freddie Page

    Cast included Dorothy Tutin, Peter Cellier


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    Quartermaine�s Terms
    by Simon Gray
    Directed by Kevin Billington
    UK tour

    1982

    Notes:

    Role: Derek Meadle

    Cast included Polly James, Michael Williams, Ronald Hines and Earnest Clarki


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    French Without Tears
    by Terence Rattigan
    Directed by Alan Strachan
    Greenwich Theatre

    1983

    Notes:

    Role: Commander Rogers

    Cast included Jeremy Sinden, Jane Booker and Peter Woodward

    The Fourposter
    by Jan de Hartog
    Directed by Philip Grout
    The Watermill Theatre, Newbury

    1983

    Notes:

    Role: Michael

    Cast included Jennie Linden

    The Common Pursuit
    by Simon Gray
    Directed by Harold Pinter
    Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith

    1984

    Notes:

    Role: Humphry

    Cast included Ian Ogilvy, Simon Williams, Nicholas le Prevost and Nina Thomas


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    Saint Joan
    by Bernard Shaw
    Directed by Clifford Williams
    UK tour

    1985

    Notes:

    Role: The Inquisitor

    Cast included Jane Lapotaire, Anthony Quayle, Tony Britton and Ralph Michael


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    The Tempest
    by William Shakespeare
    Directed by Anthony Quayle
    UK tour

    1985

    Notes:

    Role: Caliban

    Cast included Anthony Quayle, Tony Britten, John Sharp and Ralph Michael


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    An Ideal Husband
    by Oscar Wilde
    Directed by Tony Britten
    Chichester Festival Theatre

    1987

    Notes:

    Role: Lord Goring

    Cast included Joanna Lumley, David Gwillim, Lucy Fleming, William Fox and June Whitfield


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    Quartermain�s Terms
    by Simon Gray
    Directed by Kevin Billington
    UK tour

    1992

    Notes:

    Role: Derek Meadle

    Cast included Edward Fox, James Grout, Peter Barkworth and Sarah Badel.

    Three Hours After Marriage
    by
    Directed by

    Stratford upon Avon

    1996

    Notes:

    Role: ?

    Cast included ?

    Troilus and Cressida
    by William Shakespeare
    Directed by Ian Judge
    Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
    Stratford upon Avon

    1996

    Notes:

    Role: Pandarus

    Cast included Joseph Fiennes, Victoria Hamilton, Philip Voss, Richard McCabe and Philip Quast


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    The Shakespeare Revue
    Devised by Malcolm McKee and Chris Luscombe
    UK tour, Israel and the USA

    2000

    Notes:

    Cast included Gemma Craven, Jan Hartley, Martin Connor and Nicola Keen


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    The Lavender Hill Mob
    Adapted by Clive Francis, Paul Minett and Brian Leveson
    Directed by Clive Francis
    UK tour

    2002

    Notes:

    Role: Henry Holland

    Cast included Victor Spinetti, Jack Wild, Michael Melia and Claire Harding


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    Travels With My Aunt
    Adapted from Graham Greene�s book by Giles Havergal
    Directed by Richard Baron
    UK tour

    2002

    Notes:

    Role: Aunt Augusta

    Cast included Gary Wilmot, Jeffrey Holland


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    The Hollow Crown
    Devised by John Barton
    Directed by John Barton
    UK tour

    2003

    Notes:

    Role: Various

    Cast included Donald Sinden, Richard Johnson and Suzanna York

    Loot
    by Joe Orton
    Directed by David Farr
    The Bristol Old Vic

    2004

    Notes:

    Role: Inspector Truscot

    The Tempest
    by William Shakespeare
    Directed by Richard Baron
    Nottingham Playhouse

    2004

    Notes:

    Role: Prospero

    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens
    Adapted as a one man show by Clive Francis
    Seasonal UK tour

    2002 - 2005

    Notes:

    Role: Narrator, Scrooge

    Three Men in a Boat
    by Jerome K Jerome adapted for the stage by Clive Francis
    Directed by Paul Jepson
    UK tour

    2006

    Notes:

    Role: Jerome K Jerome

    Cast included Simon Ward and Neil Stacy


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