Keith Clifford

Acting

Keith Clifford

Born 1938-06-20 · Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Keith Clifford is an actor famous for playing Billy Hardcastle in Last of the Summer Wine from 1999 to 2006 and for playing celebrated northern wartime comedian Frank Randle, for which he won the 1993 Sony Radio Award for the play Randle's Scandals.

Acting credits

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise poster
5.3

Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice stored in his glove compartment, listens to motivation tapes of his own voice shouting 'Sell, sell, fucking sell' and his punters are up to their eyes in debt. Even Tommy admits his 'soul's in holes'. He's sure the Golden Vac (the holy grail of vacuum salesmanship) can be his - if only he hadn't been saddled with Pete, a meek sales trainee trying to help his girlfriend quit stripping.

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

2001

Lost for Words poster
6.5

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?

Lost for Words

1999

Christmas Lights poster
5.6

Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed with each other. The festive season brings on new challenges and takes their rivalry to extremes resulting in the two friends forgetting what Christmas is really about. Can anything bring them to their senses?

Christmas Lights

2004

Florence Nightingale poster
6.0

Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

2008

Captain Jack poster
5.5

Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung hero, Captain Scoresby, who set sail from the town bound for the Arctic in the 18th Century. Assembling a crew of oddballs and misfits, the cantankerous captain weighs anchor and voyages into the unknown. His ship has been certified unseaworthy, and he's pursued by the Royal Navy, NATO and journalists, but nothing is going to stop Captain Jack fulfilling his wildest dream.

Captain Jack

1999