Geoffrey Palmer
Actor
Born June 4, 1927 in Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK
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 Finchley, Middlesex. He was the son of Frederick Charles Palmer, who was a chartered surveyor, and Norah Gwendolen (née Robins). He attended Highgate School from September 1939 to December 1945. He served as a corporal instructor in small arms and field training in the Royal Marines during his national service from 1946 to 1948, following which he briefly worked as an unpaid trainee assistant stage manager.
Filmography
Best Of Enemies
To Olivia
Paddington
Head Geographer
Bert & Dickie
Charles Burnell
The Hollow Crown
Lord Chief Justice
Run For Your Wife
Man on Toilet
Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim
Narrator
Lost Christmas
Dr. Clarence
W.E.
Stanley Baldwin
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Self / Dr Price
The Pink Panther 2
Joubert
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Sir John Crowder
Ashes to Ashes
Lord Scarman
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
Captain Hardaker
James Bond's Greatest Hits
Narrator (voice)
The One Show
Self
Piccadilly Jim
Bayliss
He Knew He Was Right
Sir Marmaduke Rowley
The Young Visiters
Minnit
Peter Pan
Sir Edward Quiller Couch
Absolute Power
Grumpy Old Men
Narrator
Dickens
Thackeray
Stig of the Dump
Robert
The Savages
Donald
The 1940s House
Narrator (voice)
Rat
The Doctor
Anna and the King
Lord John Bradley
Alice Through the Looking Glass
White King
Mr. Men & Little Miss: The Christmas Letter
Narrator / Santa
Reckless: The Sequel
Robert Crane
Stiff Upper Lips
His Butler's Voice
Tomorrow Never Dies
Admiral Roebuck
Mrs Brown
Henry Ponsonby
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
Mr. Men and Little Miss
The Madness of King George
Warren
Stalag Luft
The Kommandant
As Time Goes By
Lionel Hardcastle
A Question of Attribution
Donleavy
Smack and Thistle
Sir Horace Wimbol
Screen One
Donleavy
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Vice Admiral Hamling
Hawks
SAAB Salesman
A Fish Called Wanda
Judge
Inspector Morse
Matthew Copley-Barnes
Season's Greetings
Bernard
Executive Stress
Clockwise
Headmaster
The Insurance Man
The Angry Doctor
Hot Metal
Harold Stringer
A Zed & Two Noughts
Fallast
Radio Pictures
Glyn Bryce
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
Narrator
Absurd Person Singular
Ronald Brewster-Wright
Oxbridge Blues
Fred
Natural World
Narrator
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Jimmy Anderson
The Honorary Consul
British Ambassador
Blackadder
Field Marshal Haig
Dalgliesh
Edwin Lorrimer
Death of an Expert Witness
Edwin Lorrimer
The Funny Side of Christmas
Jimmy Anderson, Ben Parkinson
Whoops Apocalypse
Foreign Secretary
The Kenny Everett Television Show
Various
Mr. Kershaw's Dream System
Psychiastrist
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Quince
The Last Song
Bergerac
Nigel Carter
Safe at Work?
Narrator
The Outsider
Col. Wyndham
Butterflies
Ben Parkinson
Scorpion Tales
Arnold Sparrow
An Audience with...
Self
The Professionals
Avery
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Jimmy Anderson
Bill Brand
Malcolm Frear
A Story to Frighten the Children
Det. Chief Insp. Harris
The Battle of Billy's Pond
First Policeman
Fawlty Towers
Dr. Price
Angels
Goodbye
Jack
The Sweeney
Commander Watson
Churchill's People
Samuel Partridge
Happy Ever After
Mr Critchley
O Lucky Man!
Examination Doctor/Basil Keyes
Only Make Believe
Richard Nicholls
Colditz
Doc
Crown Court
Kenneth Eden
Van der Valk
Head of Faculty
Doctor Who: The Mutants
Administrator
Six Days of Justice
Mr. Nicholas
Michael Regan
Chief Superintendent
The Uninvited
Jack Mervyn
The Goodies
School Headmaster
Play for Today
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Masters
Doomwatch
Major Sims
1+1=1.5
Gosford
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Mac
The Chequers Manoeuvre
Professor Wybrow
The Expert
Asst. Chief Constable Rogers
ITV Playhouse
Harper
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
Oliver Cromwell
Cathy Come Home
Property Agent
Mystery and Imagination
Turner
Softly, Softly
BBC Play of the Month
Monteith
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Professor Wybrow
No Place Like Earth
Chief Officer
Out of the Unknown
Jack Mervyn
The Troubleshooters
Jeremy Martin
The Man in Room 17
Ian McWatt
Londoners
Jack Poncey
Gideon's Way
Jeff Grant
The Wednesday Play
Property Agent
Detective
Chief Superintendent Smeed
Ring of Spies
Police Officer (uncredited)
Doctor Who
Administrator
Drama '63: A Well Dressed Man
Basil Mallard
The Human Jungle
Williams
Incident at Midnight
Dr. Tanfield
A Prize of Arms
Cpl. Myers
The Saint
Pete Ferguson
Suspense
Newspaper Reporter
The Avengers
Dr. Terence
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
Floor manager
The Odd Man
Const. Swift
No Hiding Place
Det. Sgt. Walsh
Armchair Theatre
Rankin