Clive is currently rehearing the role of Cardinal Wolsey in Anne Boleyn: The Musical (Hever Castle). Recent theatre includes the Ship's Captain in the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes (Barbican) and Mr Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol for the RSC at Stratford. Recent television work includes: Maurice in This Time with Alan Partridge; BBC1’s sitcom King Gary; Roisin Conarty's Channel 4 series Game Face; and Outlander (Sony Pictures & Amazon Prime).  Clive has completed five seasons as a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company where roles include: Polonius in Elsinore; Sir Max Raine in The National; Alain in Sanctuary opposite Glenda Jackson; and George Carman QC opposite David Threlfall as Ken Dodd in Happiness! Clive is a frequent reader of audio books, and his recordings of Frankenstein and Dracula have both won AudioFile Earphones Awards. For Big Finish he has recorded many audio series of Doctor Who, Space: 1999 and The Avengers.    

Clive trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His West End credits include: Horace Hardwick in Top Hat (Aldwych); Bernard Woolley in Yes, Prime Minister (Trafalgar Studios); Cliff Turner in Ducktastic (Albery); Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park); Friar Francis opposite David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham's); and Killigrew in the Olivier Award-winning Nell Gwynn (Shakespeare's Globe).  For the National Theatre he played Aeschylus in Frogs, Haig in Oh What A Lovely War and Henry Tittler in Earthquakes in London directed by Rupert Goold. On tour Clive starred as ‘Eric’ in The Play What I Wrote and played opposite Rik Mayall in The New Statesman. At Manchester Royal Exchange he played Victor in Private Lives, Rageneau in Cyrano de Bergerac and Batman in Dr Heart. Television includes Dick Turpin in Historyonics, George VI in The Windsors, plus featured roles in East Enders, Silent Witness, Hollyoaks, Law and Order UK, Casualty, A Touch of Frost, Doctors and Prime Suspect opposite Helen Mirren. Clive has recorded more than a hundred plays and serials for BBC Radio Drama including leading roles in Time and the Conways, Barnaby Rudge, The Divine Comedy, Wuthering Heights, The Wild Duck, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Middlemarch, The Cazalets and The Shootist.