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Geoffrey Palmer

1927-06-04 Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK

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Biografia

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. Palmer's early television appearances included multiple roles in episodes of The Army Game (Granada Television), two episodes of The Baron and as a property agent in Cathy Come Home (1966). After a major break in John Osborne's West of Suez at the Royal Court with Ralph Richardson, he acted in major productions at the Royal Court and for the National Theatre Company and was directed by Laurence Olivier in J. B. Priestley's Eden End. Palmer found the play so dull, however, that he was deterred from a stage career. Two BBC sitcom roles brought him attention in the 1970s: the hapless brother-in-law of Reggie Perrin in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79), and the phlegmatic dentist Ben Parkinson in Butterflies (1978–1983). In 1978, Palmer appeared as organized crimelord Simon Sinclair in London Weekend Television's hard-hitting police drama The Professionals, the episode entitled "Where the Jungle Ends". Palmer played Doctor Price in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Kipper and the Corpse" (1979), determined to have breakfast amidst the confusion caused by the death of a guest and Fawlty's inept way of handling the emergency. In 1986, Palmer appeared as Donald Fairchild in the first series of an ITV sitcom, Executive Stress, alongside Penelope Keith. He later left, and was replaced by Peter Bowles. Palmer later starred opposite Judi Dench for over a decade in another BBC sitcom, As Time Goes By (1992–2005). In 1997, he also appeared with Dench in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, in which he portrayed Admiral Roebuck to Dench's M, and Mrs Brown, playing Sir Henry Ponsonby to Dench's Queen Victoria. Palmer married Sally Green in 1963. They had a daughter, Harriet, and a son, Charles, a television director. Palmer was a longtime resident of Lee Common in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, and enjoyed fly fishing in his spare time. At the time of his death, he resided in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Palmer died peacefully at his home on 5 November 2020, aged 93.

Películas

To Olivia 2021-02-19
Paddington Head Geographer 2014-11-24
Walrus: Two Tonne Tusker Narrator 2013-10-01
Run For Your Wife Man on Toilet 2012-05-16
Bert & Dickie Charles Burnell 2012-07-25
Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim Narrator 2012-04-25
Lost Christmas Dr. Clarence 2011-12-11
W.E. Stanley Baldwin 2011-09-01
The Pink Panther 2 Joubert 2009-02-06
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened Self / Dr Price 2009-05-10
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley Sir John Crowder 2008-06-12
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned Captain Hardaker 2007-12-25
Pope John Paul II: 1920 - 2005 Narrator 2005-04-19
The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag Corbett's Ghost 2005-12-02
Piccadilly Jim Bayliss 2004-11-01
Peter Pan Sir Edward Quiller Couch 2003-12-18
The Young Visiters Minnit 2003-12-26
Rat The Doctor 2000-10-06
Anna and the King Lord John Bradley 1999-12-16
Stiff Upper Lips His Butler's Voice 1998-06-12
Mr. Men & Little Miss: The Christmas Letter Narrator / Santa 1998-12-07
Alice Through the Looking Glass White King 1998-12-26
Reckless: The Sequel Robert Crane 1998-10-11
Tomorrow Never Dies Admiral Roebuck 1997-12-11
Mrs Brown Henry Ponsonby 1997-07-18
The Madness of King George Warren 1994-12-28
Stalag Luft The Kommandant 1993-10-27
A Question of Attribution Donleavy 1991-10-20
Smack and Thistle Sir Horace Wimbol 1991-04-20
A Fish Called Wanda Judge 1988-07-15
Hawks SAAB Salesman 1988-08-05
Clockwise Headmaster 1986-03-01
The Insurance Man The Angry Doctor 1986-02-22
Season's Greetings Bernard 1986-12-24
Absurd Person Singular Ronald Brewster-Wright 1985-01-01
A Zed & Two Noughts Fallast 1985-10-04
Radio Pictures Glyn Bryce 1985-07-16
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire Narrator 1985-01-01
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Jimmy Anderson 1983-10-03
The Honorary Consul British Ambassador 1983-09-30
Mr. Kershaw's Dream System Psychiastrist 1982-01-01
The Funny Side of Christmas Jimmy Anderson, Ben Parkinson 1982-12-27
The Houseboy Eric 1982-07-03
A Midsummer Night's Dream Quince 1981-12-13
Safe at Work? Narrator 1980-01-01
The Outsider Col. Wyndham 1979-11-26
A Story to Frighten the Children Det. Chief Insp. Harris 1976-02-03
The Battle of Billy's Pond First Policeman 1976-01-01
Loyalties Graviter 1976-02-29
Goodbye Jack 1975-03-06
Only Make Believe Richard Nicholls 1973-02-12
O Lucky Man! Examination Doctor/Basil Keyes 1973-03-25
Doctor Who: The Mutants Administrator 1972-05-13
Michael Regan Chief Superintendent 1971-11-18
Doctor Who and the Silurians Masters 1970-03-14
The High Game Man at the Clinic 1970-08-03
The Chequers Manoeuvre Professor Wybrow 1968-09-30
Cathy Come Home Property Agent 1966-11-16
No Place Like Earth Chief Officer 1965-10-04
Ring of Spies Police Officer (uncredited) 1964-03-23
Drama '63: A Well Dressed Man Basil Mallard 1963-07-28
Incident at Midnight Dr. Tanfield 1963-01-01
A Prize of Arms Cpl. Myers 1962-12-11