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Clique (TV series)

Clique is a BBC Three psychological thriller (2017–2018, 12 episodes) created by Jess Brittain with Balloon Entertainment, set at Edinburgh University, starring Synnøve Karlsen, Aisling Franciosi, and Louise Brealey.

Clive Anderson

Clive Anderson (born 1952), English presenter, comedy writer and former barrister; host of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Clive Anderson Talks Back, Clive Anderson All Talk, Loose Ends and Unreliable Evidence.

Clive Clerk

Clive Clerk, later known as Clive Wilson, was a Trinidad-born actor, dancer, and painter best known as David Martin on Days of Our Lives and Larry in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line.

Clive Dunn

Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn (1920-2012), English actor, comedian and artist, best known as Lance Corporal Jones ('Don't panic!') in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, a former POW and 1970 chart-topper with 'Grandad'.

Clive Mantle

Clive Mantle (born 1957, Barnet) is a British actor known as Little John in Robin of Sherwood, surgeon Mike Barratt in Casualty and Holby City, Greatjon Umber in Game of Thrones, and author of the Freddie Malone books.

Clive Owen

Clive Owen (born 1964, Keresley, Coventry) is an English actor, RADA-trained, known for Croupier, Closer (Golden Globe, BAFTA, Oscar nomination), Children of Men, Inside Man, The Knick, and Monsieur Spade; distinct from the Yorkshire farmer Clive Owen and the accountancy firm Clive Owen LLP.

Clive Revill

Clive Revill (1930–2025), New Zealand-born character actor; two Tony nominations for Irma La Douce and Oliver!; RSC Barabas in The Jew of Malta; Billy Wilder's Avanti!; original voice of Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back.

Clive Russell

Clive Russell (born 1945) is a 6 ft 6 in Scottish actor raised in Fife, known as Brynden Blackfish Tully in Game of Thrones, Abberline in Ripper Street, and a 1996 Genie nominee for Margaret's Museum.

Clive Standen

Clive Standen (born 1981) is a British actor known as Rollo in Vikings and Bryan Mills in NBC's Taken, also voicing Titus in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and producing via Victorious Pictures.

Clive Swift

Clive Walter Swift (1936–2019) was an English actor and songwriter, best known as Richard Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances from 1990 to 1995.

Clizia

Clizia is a prose comedy in five acts by Niccolò Machiavelli, his second and last surviving original play, adapted from Plautus' Casina and first performed in Florence in 1525.

Cloak & Dagger (1984 film)

Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 American family spy adventure film directed by Richard Franklin, starring Henry Thomas as a boy guided by imaginary spy Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman).

Cloak & Dagger (TV series)

Cloak & Dagger (2018–2019) is a Freeform Marvel Television superhero teen drama starring Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph as Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, light- and darkness-powered teens in New Orleans; 20 episodes over two seasons before cancellation in 2019.

Cloak and Dagger (characters)

Cloak and Dagger are a Marvel Comics superhero partnership consisting of Tyrone Johnson, known as Cloak, and Tandy Bowen, known as Dagger. Their complementary powers center on darkness and light. Created by.

Clock King

Clock King is a DC Comics supervillain name: William Tockman, a clock-themed Green Arrow villain debuting in World's Finest Comics #111 (1960) by France Herron and Lee Elias, and Temple Fugate, the Batman: The Animated Series version created in 1992.

Clockers (film)

Clockers (1995) is a Spike Lee crime drama adapted from Richard Price's 1992 novel, starring Harvey Keitel, Mekhi Phifer, Delroy Lindo, and John Turturro; produced by Scorsese, Lee, and Jon Kilik for Universal.

Clockstoppers

Clockstoppers is a 2002 American science-fiction comedy directed by Jonathan Frakes, in which a teenager finds a wristwatch that accelerates his molecular speed so the world appears frozen in time.

Clockwise (film)

Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy directed by Christopher Morahan, written by Michael Frayn, starring John Cleese as punctual headmaster Brian Stimpson missing his train to the Norwich Headmasters' Conference; UK gross £3,075,796, US $1,476,356.

Clone High

Clone High (Clone High U.S.A.) is an American-Canadian adult animated comedy by Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Bill Lawrence about teen clones of historical figures; one MTV season in 2002-2003, canceled after Gandhi protests, revived on Max in 2023.

Clone trooper

Clone trooper (クローン・トルーパー), also called Republic clone soldier, is a Star Wars soldier grown on Kamino from Jango Fett's template; debuted at Geonosis, served 22–19 BBY, and executed Order 66 against the Jedi.

Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman (1926-2021), American actress and comedian, Oscar winner for The Last Picture Show and eight-time Primetime Emmy winner, known as Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein.

Close (2022 film)

Close (2022) is Lukas Dhont's drama about 13-year-old friends Léo and Rémi, whose bond breaks under peer suspicion. Cannes Grand Prix winner, Oscar-nominated Belgian film starring Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele, distinct from the 2019 Noomi Rapace thriller of the same name.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is Steven Spielberg's 1977 Columbia Pictures science fiction film starring Richard Dreyfuss and François Truffaut, titled from J. Allen Hynek's UFO encounter classification, with a 1980 Special Edition and 1998 director's cut.

Close Enough

Close Enough is an American adult animated surreal comedy created by J.G. Quintel (Regular Show), streaming on HBO Max 2020–2022. Josh, Emily, daughter Candice, and divorced roommates Alex and Bridgette share an LA house; three seasons, 24 episodes, then cancelled.

Close Personal Friends

Close Personal Friends is an upcoming Amazon MGM Studios comedy directed by Jason Orley, written by Isaac Aptaker, starring Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Jack Quaid, and Henry Golding as two couples who befriend each other in Santa Barbara; Meghan Markle cameos as herself.

Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind

Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind is Rick and Morty season 1 episode 10, aired April 7, 2014 on Adult Swim. Written by Ryan Ridley, it introduces the Citadel of Ricks, the Council of Ricks, the Central Finite Curve, and the villain Evil Morty.

Close to Me (film)

Close to Me (Muori di lei) is a 2025 Italian-Serbian erotic thriller by Stefano Sardo, starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Maria Chiara Giannetta, and Mariela Garriga, about a lockdown-era obsession with a neighbor; distinct from the 2021 miniseries and 2009 Taiwanese film of the same name.

Close to the Enemy

Close to the Enemy (also Close To The Enemy) is Stephen Poliakoff's seven-part 2016 BBC Two drama starring Jim Sturgess and August Diehl, set in a bomb-damaged 1946 London hotel, following an intelligence officer recruiting a captured German jet-engine scientist.

Close Your Eyes (2022 film)

Close Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos) is Víctor Erice's 2022-shot, 2023-premiered Spanish-Argentine drama about a director probing a lead actor's 1990 disappearance; his first feature in 31 years, starring Manolo Solo, José Coronado, and Ana Torrent.

Close-up

Close-up (CU): a camera shot tightly framing a subject, usually a face, to emphasize emotion or detail; subtypes include medium close-up, extreme close-up, insert, and choker; used since early silent film, notably The Great Train Robbery (1903) and Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).