Geoffrey Palmer

Born: 1927-06-04

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 Palmer , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    


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Peter Pan

as Sir Edward Quiller Couch
Released: 2003-12-18

In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime...

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as Admiral Roebuck
Released: 1997-12-11

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against...

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as Head Geographer
Released: 2014-11-24

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone...

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as Judge
Released: 1988-07-15

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he...

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The Pink Panther 2

as Joubert
Released: 2009-02-06

When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther...

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The Madness of King George

as Warren
Released: 1994-12-28

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in...

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Anna and the King

as Lord John Bradley
Released: 1999-12-16

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school...

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W.E.

as Stanley Baldwin
Released: 2011-09-01

In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement....

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Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

as Captain Hardaker
Released: 2007-12-25

When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling...

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Clockwise

as Headmaster
Released: 1986-03-01

An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after...

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Mrs Brown

as Henry Ponsonby
Released: 1997-07-18

When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr....

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

as White King
Released: 1998-12-26

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which...

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The Honorary Consul

as British Ambassador
Released: 1983-09-30

Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English...

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A Zed & Two Noughts

as Fallast
Released: 1985-10-04

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

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O Lucky Man!

as Examination Doctor/Basil Keyes
Released: 1973-03-25

This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it...

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Lost Christmas

as Dr. Clarence
Released: 2011-12-11

An Urban Fairy Tale set in Manchester. A story of how a series of tragic events, that blight a...

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Piccadilly Jim

as Bayliss
Released: 2004-11-01

Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do...

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Stiff Upper Lips

as His Butler's Voice
Released: 1998-06-12

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory...

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To Olivia

as uncredited
Released: 2021-02-19

In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young...

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Rat

as The Doctor
Released: 2001-04-01

After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family...

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A Prize of Arms

as Cpl. Myers
Released: 1962-12-11

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

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The Outsider

as Col. Wyndham
Released: 1980-06-02

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to...

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Cathy Come Home

as Property Agent
Released: 1966-11-16

A British woman faces a downward social climb thanks to her country's rigid and problem-ridden...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Quince
Released: 1981-12-13

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in...

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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

as Sir John Crowder
Released: 2008-06-12

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in...

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Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

as Self / Dr Price
Released: 2009-05-10

30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making...

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Bert & Dickie

as Charles Burnell
Released: 2012-07-25

Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell...

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Hawks

as SAAB Salesman
Released: 1988-08-05

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little...

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Smack and Thistle

as Sir Horace Wimbol
Released: 1991-04-20

With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go...

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A Question of Attribution

as Donleavy
Released: 1991-10-20

Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no...

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Ring of Spies

as Police Officer
Released: 1964-03-23

The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled...

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Run For Your Wife

as Man on Toilet
Released: 2012-05-16

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with...

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Michael Regan

as Chief Superintendent
Released: 1971-11-18

Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his...

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Goodbye

as Jack
Released: 1975-03-06

"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any...

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Season's Greetings

as Bernard
Released: 1986-12-24

Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes...

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Absurd Person Singular

as Ronald Brewster-Wright
Released: 1985-10-23

A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas...

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Stalag Luft

as The Kommandant
Released: 1993-10-27

Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James...

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Only Make Believe

as Richard Nicholls
Released: 1973-02-12

Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs...

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The Young Visiters

as Minnit
Released: 2003-12-26

The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal...

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Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire

as Narrator
Released: 1985-01-01

Greenaway's short documentary shows 26 bathrooms, each representing a letter of the alphabet.

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Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim

as Narrator
Released: 2012-04-25

In 1897 Queen Victoria antagonized family and court with her relationship with Indian servant...

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A Story to Frighten the Children

as Det. Chief Insp. Harris
Released: 1976-02-03

The story of a brutal crime in a high-rise estate; a girl walking home at night is raped and...

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The Insurance Man

as The Angry Doctor
Released: 1986-02-22

Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like...

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Doctor Who: The Mutants

as Administrator
Released: 1972-05-13

The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown...

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The Battle of Billy's Pond

as First Policeman
Released: 1976-01-01

A huge chemical company pays illegal dumpers for disposal of chemical waste dangerous to the...

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Doctor Who and the Silurians

as Masters
Released: 1970-03-14

Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The...

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Mr. Men: The Christmas Letter

as Santa
Released: 1998-12-07

Jack can't sent out his letter to Father Christmas...will the Mr. Happy help him ??

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Safe at Work

as Narrator
Released: 1980-01-01

Made for senior and middle British Rail management and supervisory staff, to stimulate...

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Doctor Who

as Masters
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Doctor Who

as Administrator
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Doctor Who

as Captain Hardaker
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Vice Admiral Hamling
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Bergerac

as Nigel Carter
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Natural World

as Narrator
First aired: 1983-10-30

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and...

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The One Show

as Self
First aired: 2006-08-14

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD....

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The Saint

as Pete Ferguson
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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Crown Court

as Kenneth Eden
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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The Sweeney

as Commander Watson
First aired: 1975-01-02

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue...

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The Avengers

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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The Avengers

as Paul Manning
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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The Professionals

as Simon Sinclair
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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The Professionals

as Avery
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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Inspector Morse

as Matthew Copley-Barnes
First aired: 1987-01-06

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...

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Blackadder

as Field Marshal Haig
First aired: 1983-06-15

Cunning plans and cutting comedy as the Blackadder dynasty plot their way through British history.

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Dalgliesh

as Edwin Lorrimer
First aired: 1983-04-08

Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his...

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BBC Television Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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Play for Today

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Detetective Chief Inspector Harris
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Doomwatch

as Major Sims
First aired: 1970-02-09

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on...

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No Hiding Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-16

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...

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Fawlty Towers

as Dr. Price
First aired: 1975-09-19

Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to...

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Mr. Men and Little Miss

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-09-05

Mr Men and Little Miss aired in both the United Kingdom and the United States. In the United...

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Van der Valk

as Head of Faculty
First aired: 1972-09-13

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV...

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Gideon's Way

as Jeff Grant
First aired: 1965-03-18

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on...

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An Audience with...

as Self
First aired: 1978-01-08

An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend...

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Colditz

as Doc
First aired: 1972-10-19

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened...

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The Hollow Crown

as Lord Chief Justice
First aired: 2012-06-30

A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.

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The Army Game

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-06-19

The Army Game is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1957 to 1961. Made in black-and-white,...

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Angels

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-01

Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print...

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Softly, Softly

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-01-05

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1...

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As Time Goes By

as Lionel Hardcastle
First aired: 1992-01-12

Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.

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The Expert

as Asst. Chief Constable Rogers
First aired: 1968-07-05

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series...

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Ashes to Ashes

as Lord Scarman
First aired: 2008-02-07

Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex...

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The Human Jungle

as Williams
First aired: 1963-03-30

The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...

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The Kenny Everett Television Show

as Various
First aired: 1982-02-25

Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.

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The Kenny Everett Television Show

as Self
First aired: 1982-02-25

Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.

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The Goodies

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-11-08

A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and...

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The Goodies

as School Headmaster
First aired: 1970-11-08

A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and...

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Out of the Unknown

as Chief Officer
First aired: 1965-10-04

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by...

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The Man In Room 17

as Ian McWatt
First aired: 1965-06-11

The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s,...

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Bill Brand

as Malcolm Frear
First aired: 1976-06-07

Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as...

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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-09-08

Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis...

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He Knew He Was Right

as Sir Marmaduke Rowley
First aired: 2004-04-18

He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was...

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Mystery and Imagination

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-01-29

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...

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Grumpy Old Men

as Narrator
First aired: 2003-10-10

Series giving a voice to 35- to 54-year-old men, very probably the grumpiest sector of our society.

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The Last Song

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-11-03

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Absolute Power

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-11-10

Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe as they bring...

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Edward the Seventh

as Sir Edward Clarke
First aired: 1975-04-01

Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes. Based on the...

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Whoops Apocalypse

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-03-14

Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made...

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Oxbridge Blues

as Fred
First aired: 1984-11-14

An anthology series of seven linked plays about the lives of people connected with the...

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The 1940s House

as Narrator (voice)
First aired: 2001-01-02

The 1940s House is a British historical reality television programme made by Wall to...

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Stig of the Dump

as Robert
First aired: 2002-01-01

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Dickens

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-05-11

Dickens was a 2002 BBC docudrama on the life of the author Charles Dickens. It was presented by...

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Butterflies

as Ben Parkinson
First aired: 1978-11-10

Ria Parkinson is a bored housewife and mother. She spends her time daydreaming, and meets...

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Executive Stress

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-10-20

Executive Stress is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1986 to 1988. Produced by Thames...

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The Legacy of Reginald Perrin

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-09-22

Reginald Perrin has passed on, bequeathing a fortune to his family and friends. There is one...

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Hot Metal

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-02-16

Hot metal is a London Weekend Television sitcom about the British Newspaper industry broadcast...

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