Background
He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied law. He then embarked on a career as a businessman with his father-in-law, Justice of the Peace Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks & Spencer.
Career
Swift made his television debut in 1961. In 1979 he appeared as Dingley alongside Richard Beckinsale in the British Broadcasting Corporation situation comedy Bloomers and also appeared in several episodes of Going Straight. He has also made occasional appearances as God in the Radio 4 comedy Old Harry"s Game, also written by Hamilton.