Geoffrey Palmer

Actor Jun 4 (died age 93) Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK 1956–2021 (65 year career)

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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). Geoffrey Dyson Palmer was born on 4 June 1927 in North Fi…

Known For

Film

Paddington

Head Geographer

Film

Peter Pan

Sir Edward Quiller Couch

Film

A Fish Called Wanda

Judge

Film

Tomorrow Never Dies

Admiral Roebuck

Film

Anna and the King

Lord John Bradley

Film

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

Captain Hardaker

Film

The Pink Panther 2

Joubert

Film

The Madness of King George

Warren

Filmography

Acting (142)

Movies (67)

To Olivia

Paddington

as Head Geographer

Walrus: Two Tonne Tusker

2013

as Narrator

Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim

as Narrator

Bert & Dickie

as Charles Burnell

Run For Your Wife

as Man on Toilet

W.E.

as Stanley Baldwin

Lost Christmas

as Dr. Clarence

The Clocks

as Vice Admiral Harnling

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

as Self / Dr Price

The Pink Panther 2

as Joubert

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

2008

as Sir John Crowder

6.7

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

2007

as Captain Hardaker

7.6

James Bond's Greatest Hits

2006

as Narrator (voice)

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

2005

as Self

6.0

The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag

2005

as Corbett's Ghost

8.0

Pope John Paul II: 1920 - 2005

as Narrator

Piccadilly Jim

as Bayliss

Peter Pan

as Sir Edward Quiller Couch

The Young Visiters

as Minnit

Rat

as The Doctor

Anna and the King

as Lord John Bradley

Mr. Men & Little Miss: The Christmas Letter

1998

as Narrator / Santa

Reckless: The Sequel

1998

as Robert Crane

Alice Through the Looking Glass

1998

as White King

5.1

Stiff Upper Lips

1998

as His Butler's Voice

Tomorrow Never Dies

as Admiral Roebuck

Mrs Brown

as Henry Ponsonby

The Madness of King George

as Warren

Stalag Luft

as The Kommandant

A Question of Attribution

1991

as Donleavy

6.6

Smack and Thistle

1991

as Sir Horace Wimbol

A Fish Called Wanda

as Judge

Hawks

as SAAB Salesman

Season's Greetings

as Bernard

The Insurance Man

as The Angry Doctor

Clockwise

as Headmaster

Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire

as Narrator

A Zed & Two Noughts

as Fallast

Absurd Person Singular

1985

as Ronald Brewster-Wright

8.0

Radio Pictures

1985

as Glyn Bryce

The Honorary Consul

1983

as British Ambassador

5.8

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

1983

as Jimmy Anderson

Mr. Kershaw's Dream System

1982

as Psychiastrist

The Funny Side of Christmas

1982

as Jimmy Anderson, Ben Parkinson

The Houseboy

1982

as Eric

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1981

as Quince

5.0

Safe at Work?

1980

as Narrator

The Outsider

1979

as Col. Wyndham

5.2

Loyalties

1976

as Graviter

The Battle of Billy's Pond

1976

as First Policeman

6.7

A Story to Frighten the Children

1976

as Det. Chief Insp. Harris

Goodbye

1975

as Jack

10.0

O Lucky Man!

1973

as Examination Doctor/Basil Keyes

6.9

Only Make Believe

1973

as Richard Nicholls

Doctor Who: The Mutants

1972

as Administrator

7.5

Michael Regan

1971

as Chief Superintendent

The Uninvited

1971

as Jack Mervyn

The High Game

1970

as Man at the Clinic

Doctor Who and the Silurians

1970

as Masters

7.3

The Chequers Manoeuvre

1968

as Professor Wybrow

Cathy Come Home

1966

as Property Agent

7.0

No Place Like Earth

1965

as Chief Officer

Ring of Spies

1964

as Police Officer (uncredited)

6.9

Incident at Midnight

1963

as Dr. Tanfield

7.0

Drama '63: A Well Dressed Man

1963

as Basil Mallard

A Prize of Arms

1962

as Cpl. Myers

6.5

Television (75)

The Hollow Crown

2012

as Lord Chief Justice

Ashes to Ashes

as Lord Scarman

Chateau Monty

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

as Self

The One Show

as Self

Doctor Who

as Captain Hardaker

He Knew He Was Right

as Sir Marmaduke Rowley

Absolute Power

Grumpy Old Men

as Narrator

Dickens

as Thackeray

Stig of the Dump

as Robert

The 1940s House

as Narrator (voice)

The Savages

as Donald

The Legacy of Reginald Perrin

1996

7.3

Look at the State We're In!

1995

as The Ruler

Mr. Men and Little Miss

1995

As Time Goes By

1992

as Lionel Hardcastle

7.5

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Vice Admiral Hamling

Christabel

as Mr. Burton

Christabel

as Mr Burton

Inspector Morse

as Matthew Copley-Barnes

Executive Stress

Hot Metal

Oxbridge Blues

as Fred

Fairly Secret Army

as Major Harry Truscott

5.0

Blackadder

1983

as Field Marshal Haig

Natural World

as Narrator

Dalgliesh

as Edwin Lorrimer

The Kenny Everett Television Show

as Self

Whoops Apocalypse

as Foreign Secretary

Bergerac

as Nigel Carter

The Last Song

An Audience with...

as Self

Scorpion Tales

as Arnold Sparrow

Butterflies

as Ben Parkinson

The Professionals

as Simon Sinclair

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

as Jimmy Anderson

Bill Brand

as Malcolm Frear

The Sweeney

as Commander Watson

Angels

Fawlty Towers

as Dr. Price

Churchill's People

as Samuel Partridge

Crown Court

as Kenneth Eden

Van der Valk

as Head of Faculty

Colditz

as Doc

Play for Today

The Goodies

as School Headmaster

Doomwatch

as Major Sims

Ben Travers Farces

as Hugh Stafford

The Expert

1968

as Asst. Chief Constable Rogers

10.0

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers

as Oliver Cromwell

ITV Playhouse

as Harper

The Revenue Men

as Bill Mitchell

Softly, Softly

Mystery and Imagination

1966

as Turner

5.5

BBC Play of the Month

as Monteith

The Troubleshooters

as Jeremy Martin

Gideon's Way

as Jeff Grant

Out of the Unknown

as Jack Mervyn

The Man in Room 17

as Ian McWatt

Londoners

as Jack Poncey

The Joe Baker Show

The Wednesday Play

as Property Agent

Detective

as Chief Superintendent Smeed

Doctor Who

as Masters

The Human Jungle

as Williams

The Saint

as Pete Ferguson

Suspense

as Newspaper Reporter

Bulldog Breed

The Avengers

as Paul Manning

Drama 61-67

as Basil Mallard

The Odd Man

1960

as Const. Swift

No Hiding Place

as Det. Sgt. Walsh

Armchair Theatre

as Rankin

Best Of Enemies