# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/clive-merrison
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:52:42.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/clive-merrison"
name: "Clive Merrison"
slug: "clive-merrison"
description: "Clive Merrison is an actor from Wales of film, television, stage and radio. He is best known for his long running BBC Radio portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, having played the part in all 64 episodes of the 1989–1998 series of Sherlock Holmes dramatisations, and all 16 episodes of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2002–2010). He also appeared in the original West End and Broadway productions of Alan Bennett's The History Boys, as well as the 2006 film."
tagline: "Welsh actor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1945-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.84
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.544041333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581378/"
    handle:    "nm0581378"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2447099"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كلايف ميرراسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كلايف ميرراسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Merrison"
    title: "Clive Merrison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Merrison"
    title: "Clive Merrison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Merrison"
    title: "Clive Merrison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "קלייב מריסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "クライヴ・メリソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Merrison"
    title: "Clive Merrison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1f9efb7f-1738-4b86-954a-33a008f6b00f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1247700"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump