Clive Merrison

Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor who appeared in the Doctor Who serials The Tomb of the Cybermen and Paradise Towers as Jim Callum and the Deputy Chief Caretaker respectively.

Merrison has had several recurring roles on television, e.g. (as Boris the Russian), Kit Curran (as Damien Appleby) and  (as Ascanio Forza). One-off appearances include the likes of, , and.

Merrison's theatre appearances include at the,  at  and  for the.

On radio he has played Sherlock Holmes, a role played in other media by Peter Cushing, Tom Baker, Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas Briggs. (He is said to be the the only actor to have portrayed the character in the entire Conan Doyle canon of "Sherlock Holmes" stories.)

He also played the character "Tanaka" in a radio adaptation of the James Bond novel, which starred Michael Jayston as Bond.