Clive Swift, who played the exasperated husband of Hyacinth Bucket in the 1990s TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died at the age of 82. Swift, who spent ten years at the Royal Shakespeare Company before breaking into television, died at home after a short illness. He played Richard Bucket opposite Dame Patricia Routledge in the sitcom, rolling his eyes as his on-screen wife tried to improve her social standing. Swift, who was born in Liverpool in 1936, had been an actor for decades before achieving fame. “I could walk the street unrecognised, but all that changed with Keeping Up...