Patrick Godfrey

Actor Feb 13 (age 93) Finsbury Park, London, England, UK 1955–2025 (70 year career)

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Biography

Patrick Lindesay Archibald Godfrey (born 13 February 1933) is an English actor of film, television and stage. Godfrey was born in Finsbury, London to Rev. Frederick Godfrey and Lois Mary Gladys (née Turner). In 1956 Godfrey joined the Radio Drama Company by winning the Carleton Hobbs Bursary. He made his film debut in Miss Julie (1972), and appeared in several British films of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, including A Room with a View, The Remains of the Day, The Importance of Being Earnest, The …

Known For

Film

Les Misérables

Gillenormand

Film

The Count of Monte Cristo

Morrell

Film

EverAfter

Leonardo da Vinci

Film

The Remains of the Day

Spencer

Film

The Duchess

Dr. Neville

Film

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Wolf Elder (voice)

Film

Breathe

Mr. Tolland

Film

Maurice

Simcox

Filmography

Acting (107)

Movies (58)

Doctor Who: The Savages

2025

as Tor (voice)

Rejoyce!

2024

as Jim (voice)

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

2018

as Wolf Elder (voice)

6.5

Breathe

2017

as Mr. Tolland

7.4

National Theatre Live: As You Like It

as Adam

The Borderlands

as Father Calvino

Mr. Turner

as Lord Egremont

Les Misérables

as Gillenormand

National Theatre Live: Collaborators

2011

as Vasily

Dimensions

2011

as The Professor

4.6

Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2010

as Sir Nathaniel

Shadows in the Sun

The Duchess

as Dr. Neville

Passage

as Sir John Barrow

The Shell Seekers

2007

as Mr. Enderby

6.9

The History Boys

2006

as Sleeping Clergyman

Oliver Twist

as Bookseller

Shadow of the Sword

as Bertram

The Count of Monte Cristo

2002

as Morrell

7.7

The Importance of Being Earnest

2002

as Merriman

6.8

The Falklands Play

2002

as Rt Hon Michael Foot MP (Leader of the Opposition)

My Brother Tom

as Father Felix

The Miracle Maker

as Matthew / Annas (voice)

EverAfter

as Leonardo da Vinci

The Gambler

as Professor Olkhin

Message for Posterity

1994

as 1st Conservative MP

Bermuda Grace

1994

The Remains of the Day

as Spencer

The Trial

as Court Usher

Genghis Cohn

as Deputy Mueller

Bad Girl

as High Court Judge

The Count of Solar

as Judge

Black and White

1992

Redemption

1991

as Fernald

Sleepers

1991

as Magistrate

Do Not Disturb

1991

as Geoffrey Alderney

2.0

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

as Major Jones

On the Black Hill

as The Auctioneer

Manifesto

as Dr. Lombrosow

The Girl in a Swing

as Coroner

Maurice

as Simcox

The Devil's Disciple

as Lawyer Hawkins

The Interrogation of John

1987

as Supt. Sidebotham

A Room with a View

1986

as The Reverend Mr. Eager

Foreign Body

as Simons

Clockwise

as Headmaster

Theban Plays: Antigone

1986

as Chorus

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

1984

as Helicanus

7.0

Rainy Day Women

1984

as Commanding Officer

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

as Cominius

Heat and Dust

as Dr Saunders

The Three Sisters

as Kulighin

Ice Age

1978

as Professor Jenssen

Miss Julie

1972

as House Servant

7.0

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

1971

as Major Cosworth

7.5

John Clare: "I Am"

1970

as WF Knight

Let There Be Light

1970

as Teacher

Doctor Who: The Savages

1966

as Tor

7.2

Television (49)

His Dark Materials

as Butler

Da Vinci's Demons

Fallen Angel

as Hugh Treevor

Foyle's War

as Ernest Bannerman

Shades

as Ed

Midsomer Murders

as Dudley Carew

Trial & Retribution

A Dance to the Music of Time

as General Conyers

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Ross Harkins

Bramwell

as Bishop of Stepney

Dandelion Dead

as Griffiths

Heartbeat

as Fred Caldwell

Soldier Soldier

as General Fairhurst

Performance

as 1st Conservative MP

6.0

Sleepers

1991

as Magistrate

7.3

Paul Merton: The Series

1991

4.0

Shadow of the Noose

1989

as Lawson Walton, K.C.

Behaving Badly

Inspector Morse

as Dr. Greer

Miss Marple: Nemesis

as Mr. Schuster

The New Statesman

as Chief Whip

Pulaski

as The Director

Casualty

as Derick Tome

Screen Two

as Court Usher

Theatre Night

as Lawyer Hawkins

Blott on the Landscape

as Mr Bullett Finch

The Bill

Travelling Man

as Father

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

as Geoffrey Oxlade

Shine on Harvey Moon

as Council Chairman

Minder

as Major Beatty

Enemy at the Door

as Dr. John Forbes

Scorpion Tales

as Russell

The Sandbaggers

as Walter Wheatley

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Prof. Senssen

7.0

The Carnforth Practice

1974

as Nicholas Ashby

Crown Court

Justice

as Analyst

Play for Today

Doomwatch

as Grant

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

1970

as Sir Thomas Wriothesley

8.1

Paul Temple

1969

7.0

Thirty-Minute Theatre

as RAMC Orderly

Theatre 625

as Simpson

Story Parade

as Customs Officer

Doctor Who

as Major Cosworth

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

No Hiding Place

Dixon of Dock Green

as Dr. Hobbs