Editing Geoffrey Palmer (actor)

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{{short description|British actor (1927–2020)}}
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{{Infobox person
| image              = Geoffrey Palmer Breath of Fresh Air.JPG
| image_size         = 200px
| caption            = Palmer in 2008
| name               = Geoffrey Palmer
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}}
| birth_name         = Geoffrey Dyson Palmer
| birth_date         = {{Birth date |df=y|1927|6|4}}
| birth_place        = [[North Finchley]], [[Middlesex]], England
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=y|2020|11|5|1927|6|4}}
| death_place        = [[Berkhamsted]], [[Hertfordshire]], England
| occupation         = Actor
| years_active       = 1955–2020
| spouse             = {{marriage|Sally Green|1963}}
| children           = 2, including [[Charles Palmer (director)|Charles Palmer]]
}}
'''Geoffrey Dyson Palmer'''<ref name="Telegraph">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/11/06/geoffrey-palmer-veteran-actor-best-known-sitcoms-butterflies/|title=Geoffrey Palmer, veteran actor best known for the sitcoms Butterflies and As Time Goes By – obituary|work=The Telegraph|date=6 November 2020|access-date=6 November 2020}}</ref> (4 June 1927 – 5 November 2020) was an English actor. His roles in British television [[sitcom]]s include Jimmy Anderson in ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in ''[[Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies]]'' (1978–1983) and Lionel Hardcastle in ''[[As Time Goes By (TV series)|As Time Goes By]]'' (1992–2005). 

His film appearances include ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' (1988), ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994), ''[[Mrs Brown]]'' (1997), ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' (1997) and ''[[Paddington (film)|Paddington]]'' (2014). He also made guest appearances in television series such as ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'', ''[[Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' and ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]''.

==Early life and education==
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer was born on 4 June 1927 in [[North Finchley]], [[Middlesex]].<ref name=ODNB>{{cite ODNB|title = Palmer, Geoffrey Dyson (1927–2020), actor|last = Evans|first = Jeff|doi = 10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000381683|date = 2024}}</ref> He was the son of Frederick Charles Palmer, who was a [[chartered surveyor]], and Norah Gwendolen (née Robins).<ref>Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, vol. 2, ed. Joshua Kondek, Cengage Gale, 1985, p. 232</ref> He attended [[Highgate School]] from September 1939 to December 1945.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tucker |first=Rodney C. |title=Highgate School Register 1838-1950 |page=408 |edition=5th}}</ref> He served as a corporal instructor in small arms and field training in the [[Royal Marines]] during his [[Conscription in the United Kingdom #After 1945|national service]] from 1946 to 1948, following which he briefly worked as an unpaid trainee assistant stage manager.<ref name="Telegraph"/>

==Career==
Palmer's early television appearances included multiple roles in episodes of ''[[The Army Game]]'' ([[Granada Television]]), two episodes of ''[[The Baron (TV series)|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 Theatre|Royal Court]] with [[Ralph Richardson]], he acted in major productions at the Royal Court and for the [[Royal National Theatre|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/5/2/8943/3/40 |title=The Spectator (11 June 2011) |publisher=Exacteditions.com |date=11 June 2011 |access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref> 

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 (TV series)|Butterflies]]'' (1978–1983).<ref name=ODNB/>

In 1978, Palmer appeared as [[organized crime]]lord Simon Sinclair in [[London Weekend Television]]'s hard-hitting police drama ''[[The Professionals (TV series)|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.<ref name=ODNB/> 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]].<ref name=ODNB/>

Palmer later starred opposite [[Judi Dench]] for over a decade in another BBC sitcom, ''[[As Time Goes By (TV series)|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 (James Bond)|M]], and ''[[Mrs Brown]]'', playing Sir [[Henry Ponsonby]] to Dench's [[Queen Victoria]].

Palmer's voice-over skills led to frequent work in commercials. Campaigns he was involved with include the 'Slam in the Lamb' ads for the Meat & Livestock Commission and the [[Audi]] commercials in which he was heard using the phrase "[[Vorsprung durch Technik]]". As a narrator, he worked on the BBC series' ''[[Grumpy Old Men (TV series)|Grumpy Old Men]]'' and ''Grumpy Old Holidays'', as well as narrating the [[audiobook]] version of Dickens' ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', released in 2005 as a [[podcast]] by [[The Penguin Podcast|Penguin Books]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thepenguinpodcast.blogs.com/podcast/2005/12/a_christmas_car.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217140021/http://thepenguinpodcast.blogs.com/podcast/2005/12/a_christmas_car.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 December 2005 |title=The Penguin Podcast: A Christmas Carol – Episode 1 |date=15 December 2005 |access-date=13 March 2015 }}</ref> He narrated the documentary series ''[[Little England (TV series)|Little England]]'', and he continued to appear in productions written by ''Reggie Perrin'' creator [[David Nobbs]], the last of these being the radio comedy ''[[The Maltby Collection]]'' broadcast from 2007.

In the 2006 DVD series ''The Compleat Angler'', Palmer partnered Rae Borras in a series of episodes based on [[Izaak Walton]]'s 1653 ''[[The Compleat Angler]]''. In 2007, he recorded ''[[The Diary of a Nobody]]'' by [[George Grossmith]] and [[Weedon Grossmith]] as an online audiobook. In December 2007, Palmer appeared in the role of the Captain in "[[Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)|Voyage of the Damned]]", the Christmas special episode of the BBC science-fiction series ''[[Doctor Who]]'';<ref>{{Cite news|title=Kylie Boards Titanic! |publisher=BBC |date=11 July 2007 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/07/11/47099.shtml |access-date=11 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071125062039/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/07/11/47099.shtml |archive-date=25 November 2007 }}</ref> Palmer previously appeared in the classic era of the show in the [[Third Doctor]] serials ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'' (1970) (as Masters) and ''[[The Mutants]]'' (1972) (as the Administrator). In March 2009, he joined in a sketch with the two double acts [[Armstrong and Miller (comedians)|Armstrong and Miller]] and [[Mitchell and Webb]] for [[Comic Relief]]. In 2011, he played the reactionary father-in-law of the eponymous clergyman of ''[[Rev. (TV series)|Rev.]]'' in its Christmas episode.

==Personal life and death==
Palmer married Sally Green in 1963.<ref name=BBC41311326>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41311326|title=Obituary: Geoffrey Palmer|work=BBC News|date=6 November 2020}}</ref> They had a daughter, Harriet, and a son, [[Charles Palmer (director)|Charles]], a television director.<ref>''[[Loose Women]]'', 12 December 2011</ref> Palmer was a longtime resident of [[The Lee|Lee Common]] in the [[Chiltern Hills]], Buckinghamshire,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.berksandbuckslife.co.uk/people/news-from-across-buckinghamshire-this-march-2014-1-3461256|title = Great British Life}}</ref> and enjoyed [[fly fishing]] in his spare time.<ref name="Telegraph"/><ref name=BBC41311326/> At the time of his death, he resided in [[Berkhamsted]], Hertfordshire.<ref name=ODNB/><ref>{{cite news |last=Grove |first=Valerie |date=26 January 2022 |title=30 OLDIE CLASSICS FOR OUR 30TH BIRTHDAY! 4/30 RIP the great Geoffrey Palmer at 93 – Valerie Grove |url=https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/the-sunny-side-of-britains-gloomiest-actor |access-date=13 April 2024 |work=[[The Oldie]] |quote=He and Sally now live in Old Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire}}</ref>

Palmer died peacefully at his home on 5 November 2020, aged 93.<ref name=ODNB/><ref name="Death place">{{Cite web|url=https://planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/beds-bucks-herts/news/geoffrey-palmer-actor-and-anti-hs2-campaigner-dies-aged-93/|title=Geoffrey Palmer, actor and anti-HS2 campaigner, dies aged 93|work=Planet Radio|last=Bawden-Gaul|first=Scarlett|date=6 November 2020|access-date=6 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54838209|title=Geoffrey Palmer, TV and film actor, dies at 93|work=BBC News|date=6 November 2020|access-date=6 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Coveney|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Coveney|title=Geoffrey Palmer obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/nov/06/geoffrey-palmer-obituary|work=The Guardian|date=6 November 2020}}</ref>

==Awards and recognition==
In the New Year's Honours List published 31 December 2004 he was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) for services to drama.<ref>{{cite journal |date=31 December 2004 |title=The London Gazette |url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/57509/supplements/12/ |url-status=dead |journal=The London Gazette |page=12 |access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref> A drawing of Palmer by [[Stuart Pearson Wright]] is in the collection of the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]], London.<ref name="NPG portrait">{{cite web |title=NPG 6755; Geoffrey Palmer - Portrait - National Portrait Gallery, London |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw115085 |website=National Portrait Gallery, London |access-date=6 November 2020}}</ref>

==Appearances==
===Stage===
*''[[Sabrina Fair]]'' by [[Samuel A. Taylor|Samuel Taylor]] at the [[Theatre Royal, Nottingham]] (1955)
*''[[Eden End]]'' by [[J. B. Priestley]] at the [[Royal National Theatre]] (1974)
*''[[Kafka's Dick]]'' by [[Alan Bennett]] at the [[Royal Court Theatre]] (1986)
*''West of Suez''<!--do not wikilink as that page is about a film--> by [[John Osbourne]]<ref name=BBC41311326/>

===Radio===
* ''[[At Home with the Snails]]'' (2001–2002)
* ''[[Les Miserables#Radio|Les Misérables]]'' as [[Inspector Javert]] (2002)
* ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' (2005)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009sm39 |title=BBC Radio 4 Extra – G. K. Chesterton – The Man Who Was Thursday |publisher=BBC |date=21 August 2016 |access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref>
* ''[[High Table, Lower Orders]]'' (2005–2006)
* ''[[The Maltby Collection]]'' (2007–2009)
* ''[[A Murder of Quality]]'' (2009)
* ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'' as [[C. S. Lewis]] (2009) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tyndale.com/p/the-screwtape-letters/9781589973244|title = The Screwtape Letters}}</ref>
* ''[[North by Northamptonshire]]'' (2011–2012)
* ''[[Marilyn Imrie#Two Pipe Problems: The Case of the Missing Meerschaum|Two Pipe Problems: The Case of the Missing Meerschaum]]'' as Mortimer Tregennis (2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0132pk9 |title=BBC Radio 4 – Afternoon Drama, Two Pipe Problems, The Case of the Missing Meerschaum |publisher=BBC |date=25 December 2013 |access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref>

===Television===
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*''[[The Army Game]]''<ref name=BBC41311326/> (1958–1960) as Various Characters
*''[[The Strange World of Gurney Slade]]'' (1960) as Television Studio Floor Manager in Episode 1
*’’[[Interpol Calling]] (1960) in Episode "Desert Hijack"
*''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'':
** "[[Propellant 23 (The Avengers)|Propellant 23]]"<ref name="BFI">{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9feaf28a|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617150948/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9feaf28a|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 June 2017|title=Geoffrey Palmer|publisher=BFI|access-date=6 April 2019}}</ref> (1962) as Paul Manning
** "[[Man with Two Shadows]]"<ref name="BFI"/> (1963) as Dr. Terence
** "A Surfeit of H<sub>2</sub>O"<ref name="BFI"/> (1965) as Martin Smythe
* ''[[The Human Jungle (TV series)|The Human Jungle]]''
*''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'':
**"The Rough Diamonds"<ref name="BFI"/> (1963) as Pete Ferguson
*''[[Gideon's Way]]'' (TV Series) 
**"The Alibi Man"<ref name="BFI"/> (1965) as Jeff Grant
*''[[Out of the Unknown]]''
** "No Place Like Earth" (1965) as Chief Officer
*''[[The Baron (TV series)|The Baron]]'':<ref name=BBC41311326/> 
**"Masquerade" (1966) as Anstruther
**"The Killing" (1966) as Anstruther
*''[[The Wednesday Play]]'':
**''[[Cathy Come Home]]''<ref name=BBC41311326/> (1966) as Property Agent
*''[[Mrs Thursday]]'' (1966) as Henry Baxter
* ''[[Best of Enemies (TV series)|Best of Enemies]]'' (1968) as Johnson
*''[[Doctor Who]]''
**"[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]"<ref name="BFI"/> (1970) as Masters
**"[[The Mutants]]"<ref name="BFI"/> (1972) as Administrator
**"[[Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)|Voyage of the Damned]]" (2007)<ref name=BBC41311326/> as Captain Hardaker
*''[[Colditz (1972 TV series)|Colditz – Gone Away Part 1]]''<ref name="BFI"/> (1972) as Doc
*''[[Whodunnit? (British game show)|Whodunnit?]]'' (1975) as Suspect
*''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]''<ref name="BFI"/> (1976–1979) as Jimmy Anderson
*''[[Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies]]''<ref name="BFI"/> (1978–1983) as Ben Parkinson
*''[[The Sweeney]]'' (1978) as Commander Watson in "Feet of Clay"
*''[[The Professionals (TV series)|The Professionals]]'' (1978) as Sinclair in "Where the Jungle Ends"
*''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' - "[[The Kipper and the Corpse]]"<ref name=BBC41311326/> (1979) as Dr. Price
*''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]'' (1980) as School Headmaster
*''[[The Last Song (TV series)|The Last Song]]'' (1981) as Leo Bannister
*''[[Whoops Apocalypse]]'' (1982) as Foreign Secretary
*''Death of an Expert Witness'' (1983) as Dr. Edwin Lorrimer 
*''[[The Professionals (TV series)|The Professionals]]'' (1983) as Avery in "The Ojuka Situation"
*''[[Fairly Secret Army]]'' (1984–1986) as Major Harry Kitchener Wellington Truscott
*''[[Executive Stress]]'' (1986 first series only) as Donald Fairchild No. 1
*''[[Season's Greetings (play)|Season's Greetings]]'' (1986) as Bernard
*''[[Hot Metal]]'' (1986) as Harold Stringer
*''[[Christabel (1988 TV drama)|Christabel]]'' (1988) as Mr. Burton
*''[[Blackadder Goes Forth]]'' 
**"[[Goodbyeee]]"<ref name="BFI"/> (1989) as [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Field Marshal Douglas Haig]]
*''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]''
** "The Infernal Serpent"<ref name="BFI"/> (1990) as Matthew Copley-Barnes
*''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]''
** "Roots of Evil"<ref name="BFI"/> (1990) as Nigel Carter
*''[[As Time Goes By (TV series)|As Time Goes By]]'' (1992–2005) as Lionel Hardcastle 
*''[[Mr. Men and Little Miss]]'' as the Narrator and Santa Claus (in "The Christmas Letter")
*''[[The Legacy of Reginald Perrin]]'' (1996) as Jimmy Anderson
*''[[Alice through the Looking Glass (1998 film)|Alice through the Looking Glass]]'' (1998) as White King
*''[[The Savages (TV series)|The Savages]]'' (2001) as Donald
*''[[The 1940s House]]'' (2001) as Narrator
*''[[Stig of the Dump]]'' (2002) as Robert
*''[[Absolute Power (series)|Absolute Power]]'' (2003) as Lord Harcourt
*''[[Grumpy Old Men (TV series)|Grumpy Old Men]]''<ref name=BBC41311326/> (2003–2004, 2006) as Narrator
*''[[He Knew He Was Right (TV serial)|He Knew He Was Right]]'' (2004) as Sir Marmaduke Rowley
*''Grumpy Old Holidays'' (2006) as Narrator
*''[[Ashes to Ashes (British TV series)|Ashes to Ashes]]'':
** "[[Episode 8 (Ashes to Ashes series 1)|Episode 8]]" (2008); as [[Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman|Lord Scarman]]
*''[[The Long Walk to Finchley]]'' (2008); as [[John Crowder]]
*''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'':
** "[[The Clocks (novel)#Film, TV or theatrical adaptations|The Clocks]]" (2011) as Vice Admiral Hamling
*''[[Grandpa in My Pocket]]''
** "Captain Dumbletwit's Toughest Mission Yet!" (2010) as Grandad Gillbert
*''[[Rev (TV series)|Rev]]''
** "Christmas Special" Series 2, episode 7 (2011) as Martin
*''[[Henry IV, Part I and Part II (film series)|Henry IV, Part II]]'' (2012); as [[William Gascoigne|Lord Chief Justice]]
*''[[Royal Variety Performance]]'' (2014); as the Announcer (voice only)
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===Film===
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*''[[A Prize of Arms]]'' (1962) as Cpl. Myers
*''[[Incident at Midnight]]'' (1963) as Dr. Tanfield
*''[[Ring of Spies]]'' (1964) as Police Officer (uncredited)
*''[[Cast a Giant Shadow]]'' (1966) as David (uncredited)
*''[[O Lucky Man!]]'' (1973) as Examinator Doctor / Basil Keyes
*''The Battle of Billy's Pond'' (1976) as First Policeman
*''[[The Outsider (1980 film)|The Outsider]]'' (1979) as Colonel Wyndham 
*''Mr. Kershaw's Dream System'' (1982) as Psychiatrist
*''[[The Honorary Consul (film)|The Honorary Consul]]'' (1983) as Belfrage: British Ambassador
*''[[A Zed & Two Noughts]]'' (1985) as Fallast
*''[[Clockwise (film)|Clockwise]]'' (1986) as Headmaster
*''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' (1988) as Judge
*''[[Hawks (film)|Hawks]]'' (1988) as SAAB Salesman
*''[[The Madness of King George]]''<ref name=BBC41311326/> (1994) as Warren
*''[[Mrs. Brown (film)|Mrs. Brown]]'' (1997) as Henry Ponsonby<ref name=BBC41311326/>
*''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]''<ref name=BBC41311326/> (1997) as Admiral Roebuck
*''[[Stiff Upper Lips]]'' (1998) as His Butler's Voice
*''[[Anna and the King]]'' (1999) as Lord John Bradley
*''Rat'' (2000) as The Doctor
*''[[Peter Pan (2003 film)|Peter Pan]]'' (2003) as Sir Edward Quiller Couch 
*''[[Piccadilly Jim (2004 film)|Piccadilly Jim]]'' (2004) as Bayliss
*''[[The Pink Panther 2]]'' (2009) as Joubert
*''[[W.E.]]''<ref name=BBC54838209/> (2011) as [[Stanley Baldwin]]
*''[[Lost Christmas]]'' (2011) as Dr. Clarence
*''[[Run for Your Wife (2012 film)|Run for Your Wife]]'' (2012) as Man on Bus
*''[[Bert and Dickie]]'' (2012) as Charles Burnell
*''The Last Sparks of Sundown'' (2014) as Sir Buster Sparks (voice)
*''[[Paddington (2014 film)|Paddington]]''<ref name=BBC54838209>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54838209 |title=Geoffrey Palmer, TV and film actor, dies at 93 |work=BBC News |date=6 November 2020 |access-date=6 November 2020}}</ref> (2014) as The Boss Geographer
*''[[To Olivia]]'' (2021) as Geoffrey Fisher (final film role)

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===Recordings (spoken word)===
*''[[Welcome to the Pleasuredome (song)|Welcome to the Pleasuredome (Fruitness Mix)]]'' (1985)
*''[[Esio Trot]]'' (1990)
*''[[The BFG]]'' (1989)
*''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' (2005)
*''[[The Diary of a Nobody]]'' (2007)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|id=0658244|name=Geoffrey Palmer}}
*{{Screenonline name|570467|Geoffrey Palmer}}
*{{Discogs artist|Geoffrey Palmer}}
*[http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays?forename=Geoffrey&surname=PALMER&job=Actor&pid=3629&image_view=Yes&x=19&y=17  Selected performances in Theatre Archive University of Bristol]
*{{British Comedy Guide|people|geoffrey_palmer}}
*{{NPG name|id=66969}}

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