Yellow Submarine actor and bestselling author John Clive dies British actor John Clive, whose film credits include Yellow Submarine and The Italian Job, has died after a short illness at the age of 79, his family have said. Clive provided the voice for the animated version of John Lennon in the 1968 Beatles fantasy film Yellow Submarine. He also starred alongside Michael Caine in the 1969 crime caper The Italian Job, and had parts in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) and two Pink Panther films. As his acting career drew to a close in the late-Seventies, Clive began writing historical and social fiction, and became a bestselling novelist. His books include KG 200 (1977), a historical novel about a secret German Luftwaffe unit during the Second World War written alongside J.D. Gilman, and Broken Wings (1983), about a neutral internment camp in Ireland in the early Forties. Clive is survived by two children from his first marriage - Alex and Hannah - a stepson Deane, and his second wife Bryony, who he met in a play.