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Clive Bell

Played by Sam Hoare (1900s-1920s) and Andrew Havill (1930s-1940s).

Clive is one of the worldliest of the Bloomsbury Group, a bon viveur whose lifestyle is supported by the wealth of his respectable fox-hunting family. He is sexually incontinent, a lover of luxury, and slightly embittered by Bloomsbury’s fairly overt assessment of him as being ‘second-rate’.

Andrew Havill as Clive Bell

About Sam Hoare

Sam’s promising career began on the stage including productions at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe and The Theatre Royal Haymarket, where he appeared in Sean Mathias’ Breakfast At Tiffany’s. More recently, Sam appeared in Sir Trevor Nunn’s Relative Values at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Sam’s previous TV roles include Bert and Dickie, opposite Matt Smith, the Doctor Who biopic An Adventure In Space and Time, Stephen Poliakoff’s 麻豆官网首页入口 Two drama Dancing On The Edge and comedy series Blandings. Future productions include Dickensian and Beowulf.

In cinemas, Sam has appeared in Keeping Rosy, and will soon return to the silver screen in Stephen Fears’ The Program and the Kray Twins biopic Legend, which also stars Tom Hardy.

Active off-screen as well as on it, Sam wrote and directed the film Having You, starring Anna Friel, Romola Garai and Andrew Buchan.

About Andrew Havill

Andrew Havill has recently completed filming on The Danish Girl, directed by Tom Hooper and he’ll soon be seen in the cinematic adaptation of Dad’s Army. Previous film roles include The Imitation Game, Cloud Atlas, Hyde Park on Hudson, The Iron Lady, The Awakening, The King’s Speech, The Heart of Me, Sylvia, and Nicholas Nickelby.

On television, Andrew has made appearances in The Frankenstein Chronicles, Partners in Crime, Spotless, Father Brown, Lightfields, Sherlock, Daphne, Spooks, Poirot, The Impressionists, Doctor Who, Elizabeth David, Waking the Dead, Casanova, Island At War, Aristocrats, and A Dance to the Music of Time.

Andrew’s recent theatre performances include Wonderland, Drawing the Line, This House, Farewell to the Theatre, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.