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).
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Geoffrey Palmer Biography / Wiki
Name | Geoffrey Palmer |
Also Know | Geoffrey Dyson Palmer |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
Date of Birth | 1927-06-04 |
Age(as in 2022) | 93 |
Deathday | 2020-11-05 |
Geoffrey Palmer Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire | Narrator | 1985-01-01 | Greenaway’s short documentary shows 26 bathrooms, each representing a letter of the alphabet…. |
Pope John Paul II: 1920 – 2005 | Narrator | 2005-04-19 | This is a BBC commemoration of the life and times of one of the most beloved pontiffs in history. Narrated by Geoffrey Palmer, it is a fitting tribut… |
Queen Victoria’s Last Love: Abdul Karim | Narrator | 2012-04-25 | In 1897 Queen Victoria antagonized family and court with her relationship with Indian servant Abdul Karim. Originally a waiter the devious and arrogan… |
Walrus: Two Tonne Tusker | Narrator | 2013-10-01 | Sivuqaq is an 18-year-old, larger than life captive pacific walrus. By now he should be a dad but things have not worked out. This is where reproducti… |
Alice Through the Looking Glass | White King | 1998-12-26 | A modern adaptation of the classic children’s story ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’, which continued on from the popular ‘Alice in Wonderland’ story… |
A Story to Frighten the Children | Det. Chief Insp. Harris | 1976-02-03 | The story of a brutal crime in a high-rise estate; a girl walking home at night is raped and murdered, and the attitude of some is not always sympathe… |
Mrs Brown | Henry Ponsonby | 1997-07-18 | When Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal … |
A Question of Attribution | Donleavy | 1991-10-20 | Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Cou… |
Bert & Dickie | Charles Burnell | 2012-07-25 | Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell (Doctor Who’s Matt Smith) and Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare) d… |
Stalag Luft | The Kommandant | 1993-10-27 | Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James Forrester. Though Officer Forrester has twenty-three esc… |
A Zed & Two Noughts | Fallast | 1985-10-04 | Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals…. |
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley | Sir John Crowder | 2008-01-01 | A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing… |
Season’s Greetings | Bernard | 1986-12-24 | Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes various awkward turns and ends with one of the guests… |
The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag | Corbett’s Ghost | 2005-12-02 | Set in Colonial India in 1925, the hunt for the most notorious man-eating leopard of all time…. |
The Battle of Billy’s Pond | 1976-01-01 | A huge chemical company pays illegal dumpers for disposal of chemical waste dangerous to the environment…. | |
The Young Visiters | Minnit | 2003-12-26 | The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadverte… |
Clockwise | Headmaster | 1986-03-01 | An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another…. |
Only Make Believe | Richard Nicholls | 1973-02-12 | Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but … |
Michael Regan | Chief Superintendent | 1971-11-18 | Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child…. |
Absurd Person Singular | Ronald Brewster-Wright | 1985-10-23 | A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated t… |
The Madness of King George | Warren | 1994-12-28 | Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confu… |
Lost Christmas | Dr. Clarence | 2011-12-11 | Urban fairytale set in Manchester. A series of tragic events that blight a young boy’s life are reversed one Christmas Eve, giving him and those aroun… |
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned | Captain Hardaker | 2007-12-25 | When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new fri… |
Peter Pan | Sir Edward Quiller Couch | 2003-12-18 | In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captai… |
Cathy Come Home | Property Agent | 1966-11-16 | A British woman faces a downward social climb thanks to her country’s rigid and problem-ridden welfare system…. |
Goodbye | Jack | 1975-03-06 | “All I said was the gramophone’s too loud.” Tony and Zoe Lyle ‘s silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She’s wa… |
To Olivia | 2022-05-19 | In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relati… | |
A Fish Called Wanda | Judge | 1988-07-15 | A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds… |
Rat | The Doctor | 2001-04-01 | After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin’s life is turned upside-down when he wa… |
Piccadilly Jim | Bayliss | 2004-11-01 | Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his d… |
W.E. | Stanley Baldwin | 2011-09-01 | In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning…. |
The Insurance Man | The Angry Doctor | 1986-02-22 | Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with… |
Hawks | 1988-08-05 | Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an… | |
The Honorary Consul | British Ambassador | 1983-09-30 | Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to… |
The Pink Panther 2 | Joubert | 2009-02-06 | When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to assign I… |
Stiff Upper Lips | His Butler’s Voice | 1998-06-12 | Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the ‘eighties and early ‘nineties. Alt… |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Quince | 1981-12-13 | A TV adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, made for the BBC Television Shakespeare series…. |
Tomorrow Never Dies | Admiral Roebuck | 1997-12-11 | A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world’s superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mas… |
Anna and the King | Lord John Bradley | 1999-12-16 | The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches … |
Ring of Spies | Police Officer | 1964-03-23 | The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establi… |
The Outsider | Col. Wyndham | 1980-06-02 | Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterli… |
O Lucky Man! | Examination Doctor/Basil Keyes | 1973-03-25 | This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in mod… |
A Prize of Arms | Cpl. Myers | 1962-12-11 | A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll…. |
Paddington | Head Geographer | 2014-11-24 | A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown famil… |
Parade’s End | 2012-08-24 | In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second s… | |
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