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Clive Mantle as the First Nuclear Man Clive Mantle
1957 -

Clive Mantle was the first Nuclear Man in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace but all the scenes featuring him were left on the cutting room floor and actor Mark Pillow was featured as the only Nuclear Man in the film.

Mantle was born June 3, 1957 in Barnet, Hertfordshire. He was a chorister in St. John's College Choir, Cambridge for four years, and a member of the National Youth Theatre for five years, appearing in a total of eleven productions. He trained at RADA and has worked steadily in films, plays and television, most notably in the cult 1980s fantasy series Robin of Sherwood, where, at 6'5 1/2", he was cast as Little John. Mantle is also known for his role as general surgeon Mr. Mike Barrett in the TV series Casualty and later Holby City. In 2006 he guest starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Settling by Big Finish Productions.

His mother Pat was a homemaker and his late father, Harry, was a railway clerk and also worked in a sub post office. He has two older brothers, Keith (who works in a furniture business) and Richard (an accountant). His cousin is also an actor, John Hallam, who he used to admire and watch, as he grew up.

While his brothers went to state schools, Clive went to boarding school, St Johns College, and Cambridge. Clive was a soprano choir boy, who toured the world and made nine albums with the choir. However after his voice broke - he wrecked his voice by not resting it.

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1986 (1985 season) for Most Promising Newcomer for his performance in Of Mice and Men.

Some of his deleted footage from Superman IV: The Quest For Peace was released on DVD in a Special Edition as part of The Ultimate Superman Collection in November 2006. The footage was included as "Additional Scenes" but was not reincorporated into the main feature.

Clive Mantle Today Television Credits

Minder; Robin of Sherwood; Wyatt's Watching; One Foot in the Grave; Dempsey and Makepeace; Scoop; Drop the Dead Donkey; Lenny Henry; Jasper Carrot; Smith and Jones, Club X; Flip; Boon; Jane; Hard Travelling; Wysiwig; Dogboy; Framed; Chelmsford 123; Hello Mum; Bottom; Fry and Laurie; Home Truths; Airbase; Shelley; Live and Kicking; Bloomin' Marvellous; Vicar of Dibley; Good Sex Guide; The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show; Shooting Stars; Summer Holiday; Good Morning Anne & Nick; Casualty; Holby City; This is Your Life (on himself); French and Saunders Live; The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything; Heartbeat; Fotysomething; Tonight With Trevor McDonald; Second Nature; The Afternoon Play - Viva Las Blackpool; Doctors; The Robinsons; The Poseidon Adventure

Film Credits

Mack the Knife; Secret Life of Ian Fleming; Without a Clue; Foreign Body; Orchard End Murder; Party Party; Alien 3; The Darkest Light; White Hunter, Black Heart

Theatre Credits

Of Mice and Men; Troilus and Cressida; Coming Clean; Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; Streetcar Named Desire; Robin Hood; Woyceck; Ideal Gnome Expedition; Pocket Dream; Educating Rita; Motive; The Play What I Wrote; Rattle of a Simple Man

Autograph Requests

Clive Mantle
c/o Evans & Reiss
100 Fawe Park Road
London, SW15 2EA.


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