The Bucket man has passed on, he brought us many smiles.

Clive Swift obituary

Actor best known as the downtrodden husband of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances

Dennis Barker

Sat 2 Feb 2019 02.36 AEDTLast modified on Sat 2 Feb 2019 04.00 AEDT

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 Clive Swift and Patricia Routledge at a photocall for Keeping Up Appearances, 1991. Photograph: Peter Brooker / Rex Features

Clive Swift, who has died aged 82, believed that unemployment was as natural, and possibly even as necessary, a part of an actor’s life as employment, enabling him to experience, feel and think afresh.