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Geoffrey Palmer

Actor

Born - 4 June 1927, Finchley, London, England
Died - 5 November 2020

Lugubrious, brown-haired English actor with crumpled, bloodhound features, mostly in TV comedy, where he became extremely popular in his fifties and beyond in such series as Butterflies and As Time Goes By. After repertory experience, he entered TV in 1955, at first in minor roles. Films remained a distinct sideline, but included A Prize of Arms (1962), Incident at Midnight (1963), Shadow of Treason (1964), Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), O Lucky Man! (1973), The Battle of Billy's Pond (1976), The Outsider (1979), The Honorary Consul (1983), Clockwise (1986), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), The Madness of George III (1994), Mrs Brown (1997), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Stiff Upper Lips (1998), Anna and the King (1999), Rat (2000), Peter Pan (2003), Piccadilly Jim (2004), The Pink Panther 2 (2009), W.E. (2011), Lost Christmas (2011), Bert & Dickie (2012), Paddington (2014) and An Unquiet Life (2021), his last.