Geoffrey Palmer

Geoffrey Palmer

1927-06-04 Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK 59 Credits

Biography

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 Fi...

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To Olivia

To Olivia

2021

6.9
Acting

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...

Paddington

Paddington

2014

as Head Geographer

7.1
Acting

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, w...

Walrus: Two Tonne Tusker

2013

as Narrator

Acting

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...

Bert & Dickie

Bert & Dickie

2012

as Charles Burnell

6.2
Acting

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...

Run For Your Wife

Run For Your Wife

2012

as Man on Toilet

4.4
Acting

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately...

Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim

Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim

2012

as Narrator

10.0
Acting

In 1897 Queen Victoria antagonized family and court with her relationship with Indian servant Abdul Karim. Originally a waiter the devious and arrogan...

Lost Christmas

Lost Christmas

2011

as Dr. Clarence

6.8
Acting

An Urban Fairy Tale set in Manchester. A story of how a series of tragic events, that blight a young boy's life on Christmas Eve, take him on a journe...

W.E.

W.E.

2011

as Stanley Baldwin

6.3
Acting

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....

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

2009

as Self / Dr Price

8.0
Acting

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

The Pink Panther 2

The Pink Panther 2

2009

as Joubert

5.7
Acting

When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to assign I...

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

2008

as Sir John Crowder

6.8
Acting

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...

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

2007

as Captain Hardaker

7.6
Acting

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...

The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag

2005

as Corbett's Ghost

8.0
Acting

Set in Colonial India in 1925, the hunt for the most notorious man-eating leopard of all time.

Pope John Paul II: 1920 - 2005

2005

as Narrator

7.0
Acting

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...

Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim

2004

as Bayliss

6.5
Acting

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...

The Young Visiters

The Young Visiters

2003

as Minnit

5.4
Acting

The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadverten...

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

2003

as Sir Edward Quiller Couch

7.2
Acting

In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captai...

Rat

Rat

2000

as The Doctor

6.1
Acting

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...

Anna and the King

Anna and the King

1999

as Lord John Bradley

6.8
Acting

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 ...

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass

1998

as White King

5.1
Acting

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story...

Mr. Men & Little Miss: The Christmas Letter

Mr. Men & Little Miss: The Christmas Letter

1998

as Narrator / Santa

Acting

Jack can't sent out his letter to Father Christmas...will the Mr. Men and Little Miss help him?

Reckless: The Sequel

1998

as Robert Crane

Acting

One year on in their lives, Owen and Anna plan to marry. But Anna's ex-husband may have an other idea. He schemes to rip the couple apart. Can Anna an...

Stiff Upper Lips

Stiff Upper Lips

1998

as His Butler's Voice

5.6
Acting

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Alt...

Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies

1997

as Admiral Roebuck

6.4
Acting

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...

Mrs Brown

Mrs Brown

1997

as Henry Ponsonby

6.8
Acting

When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal ...

The Madness of King George

The Madness of King George

1994

as Warren

6.8
Acting

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...

Stalag Luft

Stalag Luft

1993

as The Kommandant

6.8
Acting

Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James Forrester. Though Officer Forrester has twenty-three esc...

A Question of Attribution

A Question of Attribution

1991

as Donleavy

6.6
Acting

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...

Smack and Thistle

Smack and Thistle

1991

as Sir Horace Wimbol

Acting

With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one ...

Hawks

Hawks

1988

as SAAB Salesman

5.8
Acting

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...

A Fish Called Wanda

A Fish Called Wanda

1988

as Judge

7.2
Acting

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

Season's Greetings

Season's Greetings

1986

as Bernard

Acting

Adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's black comedy about eight adults trying to have a happy family Christmas and failing dismally.

Clockwise

Clockwise

1986

as Headmaster

6.2
Acting

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for ...

The Insurance Man

The Insurance Man

1986

as The Angry Doctor

6.2
Acting

Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a rash-like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointm...

A Zed & Two Noughts

A Zed & Two Noughts

1985

as Fallast

7.1
Acting

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

Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire

Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire

1985

as Narrator

6.1
Acting

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

Absurd Person Singular

Absurd Person Singular

1985

as Ronald Brewster-Wright

8.0
Acting

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 Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

1983

as Jimmy Anderson

Acting

46-year-old Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is suffering a midlife crisis and tries to escape his dreary life.

The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul

1983

as British Ambassador

5.7
Acting

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 Houseboy

1982

as Eric

Acting

Both George and Eric, lovers for a number of years, seek to recapture their lost youth with the new hotel houseboy, at the expense of each other.

Mr. Kershaw's Dream System

Mr. Kershaw's Dream System

1982

as Psychiastrist

Acting

A man grows insane when he hears the beeping of a Monarch telephone, and he seeks help of a psychiatrist.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1981

as Quince

5.0
Acting

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the fore...

Safe at Work?

Safe at Work?

1980

as Narrator

Acting

Made for senior and middle British Rail management and supervisory staff, to stimulate discussion and provoke action, by alerting them to their respon...

The Outsider

The Outsider

1979

as Col. Wyndham

5.6
Acting

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterli...

Loyalties

1976

as Graviter

Acting

During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.

A Story to Frighten the Children

A Story to Frighten the Children

1976

as Det. Chief Insp. Harris

Acting

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...

The Battle of Billy's Pond

The Battle of Billy's Pond

1976

as First Policeman

6.7
Acting

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

Goodbye

Goodbye

1975

as Jack

10.0
Acting

"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...

O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man!

1973

as Examination Doctor/Basil Keyes

6.9
Acting

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

Only Make Believe

Only Make Believe

1973

as Richard Nicholls

Acting

Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but ...

Doctor Who: The Mutants

Doctor Who: The Mutants

1972

as Administrator

7.5
Acting

The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party aboard a Skybase orbiting the planet Solos in t...

Michael Regan

Michael Regan

1971

as Chief Superintendent

Acting

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.

The High Game

1970

as Man at the Clinic

Acting

The owner of a drinking club in London's Shepherd Market becomes invovled in a game of intrigue, blackmail and murder.

Doctor Who and the Silurians

Doctor Who and the Silurians

1970

as Masters

7.3
Acting

Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians - prehistoric, intel...

Cathy Come Home

Cathy Come Home

1966

as Property Agent

7.0
Acting

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

No Place Like Earth

1965

as Chief Officer

Acting

Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a hom...

Ring of Spies

Ring of Spies

1964

as Police Officer (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

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...

Incident at Midnight

Incident at Midnight

1963

as Dr. Tanfield

7.0
Acting

In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader.

A Prize of Arms

A Prize of Arms

1962

as Cpl. Myers

6.5
Acting

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