Actor
Geoffrey Palmer
Biography

Geoffrey Dyson Palmer, OBE (4 June 1927 - 5 November 2020) was an English actor known for his roles in British television sitcoms playing Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in Butterflies (1978–1983) and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By (1992–2005). His film appearances include A Fish Called Wanda (1988), The Madness of King George (1994), Mrs. Brown (1997), and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Description above from the Wikipedia article Geoffrey Pal ...

Known For
Acting
2021 -- To Olivia |
2014 -- Paddington | Head Geographer
2013 -- Walrus: Two Tonne Tusker | Narrator
2012 -- Bert & Dickie | Charles Burnell
2012 -- Run For Your Wife | Man on Toilet
2012 -- Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim | Narrator
2011 -- Lost Christmas | Dr. Clarence
2011 -- W.E. | Stanley Baldwin
2009 -- Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened | Self / Dr Price
2009 -- The Pink Panther 2 | Joubert
2008 -- Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley | Sir John Crowder
2007 -- Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned | Captain Hardaker
2005 -- The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag | Corbett's Ghost
2005 -- Pope John Paul II: 1920 - 2005 | Narrator
2004 -- Piccadilly Jim | Bayliss
2003 -- The Young Visiters | Minnit
2003 -- Peter Pan | Sir Edward Quiller Couch
2001 -- Rat | The Doctor
1999 -- Anna and the King | Lord John Bradley
1998 -- Alice Through the Looking Glass | White King
1998 -- Mr. Men: The Christmas Letter | Santa
1998 -- Reckless: The Sequel | Robert Crane
1998 -- Stiff Upper Lips | His Butler's Voice
1997 -- Tomorrow Never Dies | Admiral Roebuck
1997 -- Mrs Brown | Henry Ponsonby
1994 -- The Madness of King George | Warren
1993 -- Stalag Luft | The Kommandant
1991 -- A Question of Attribution | Donleavy
1991 -- Smack and Thistle | Sir Horace Wimbol
1988 -- Hawks | SAAB Salesman
1988 -- A Fish Called Wanda | Judge
1986 -- Season's Greetings | Bernard
1986 -- Clockwise | Headmaster
1986 -- The Insurance Man | The Angry Doctor
1985 -- A Zed & Two Noughts | Fallast
1985 -- Absurd Person Singular | Ronald Brewster-Wright
1985 -- Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire | Narrator
1983 -- The Honorary Consul | British Ambassador
1982 -- The Houseboy | Eric
1982 -- Mr. Kershaw's Dream System | Psychiastrist
1981 -- A Midsummer Night's Dream | Quince
1980 -- The Outsider | Col. Wyndham
1980 -- Safe at Work? | Narrator
1976 -- Loyalties | Graviter
1976 -- A Story to Frighten the Children | Det. Chief Insp. Harris
1976 -- The Battle of Billy's Pond | First Policeman
1975 -- Goodbye | Jack
1973 -- O Lucky Man! | Examination Doctor/Basil Keyes
1973 -- Only Make Believe | Richard Nicholls
1972 -- Doctor Who: The Mutants | Administrator
1971 -- Michael Regan | Chief Superintendent
1970 -- The High Game | Man at the Clinic
1970 -- Doctor Who and the Silurians | Masters
1966 -- Cathy Come Home | Property Agent
1965 -- No Place Like Earth | Chief Officer
1964 -- Ring of Spies | Police Officer (uncredited)
1962 -- A Prize of Arms | Cpl. Myers
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