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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: April 18, 1930 in Wellington, New Zealand Biography:Born in New Zealand, comic actor "Clive Revill" attended that country's Rongotai College, then made his first stage appearance in Auckland at age 20. After appearing on Broadway in the 1952 musical Mr. Pickwick, Revill spent three years with Britain's Ipswich Repertory. He was nominated for Tony Awards for his performances in Broadway's Irma La Douce and Oliver!; his later New York appearances included the starring roles of Sheridan Whiteside in Sherry, the 1972 musicalization of The Man Who Came to Dinner, and playwright/critic Max Beerbohm in The Incomparable Max. In films, Revill essayed "campy" characterizations in such 1960s projects as "Modesty Blaise" (1966), "Fathom" (1967) and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1969); on television, he was brilliantly cast as "Charlie Chaplin" in the 1980 TV movie "The Scarlet O'Hara Wars", and portrayed "black arts" purveyor Vector in the 1983 series... Full Biography
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