John Clive


John Clive was an English actor and author, known internationally for his world-wide best selling historical and social fiction, such as KG200 and Barossa.
So too, Clive was also an established and popular face of seminal British television and film. Beginning his career at the age of fourteen touring in rep, he went on to star on the West End stage, in plays such as Absurd Person Singular, The Wizard of Oz, Under Milk Wood, The Bandwagon at the Mermaid Theatre, The Winslow Boy, Young Woodley and Life With Father.
Clive's character acting led him to appear in comic and serious roles in films, such as The Italian Job, Yellow Submarine, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, A Clockwork Orange and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He was also a member of the Carry On Team appearing in two of the Carry on series of comedy films; Carry On Abroad, and Carry On Dick Clive was initiated into the Grand Order of Water Rats in 1988.

Career

Acting

Other notable film appearances include the Ealing Studios comedy The Magnet, credited as Clive Kendall. In the Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine, he featured as the voice of John Lennon. His television appearances also included Robert's Robots, Rising Damp, The Dick Emery Show, The Perils of Pendragon, The Sweeney, Great Expectations and The History of Mr Polly. He appeared in the first Wednesday Play, Wear a Very Big Hat, broadcast by BBC 1 in 1964. Clive also featured in Lady Windermere's Fan, One Way Out and The Ten Percenters.
He featured in a 1970s advert for Jacob's, Coconut Cream, Biscuits.

Author

In 1977, he co-wrote, with J.D. Gilman, the historical novel KG 200, a story about a secret Luftwaffe unit during the Second World War. KG 200 was an international best-seller. The Last Liberator, his next book followed in 1980, and was well received by literary critics. Barossa also achieved critical acclaim. Broken Wings was published in 1983 and matched the international success of KG 200. Other fictional titles written by Clive include, Ark another book well received by critics and co-written with Nicholas Head. The Lions' Cage was published in 1988.

Death

John Clive died after a short illness on 14 October 2012 in England, just under a quarter of the year short of his 80th birthday.

Filmography

Feature films

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;Documentaries
;Appearances in deleted scenes