Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/4/1927
Place of Birth
Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK
Also Known As
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer
Geoffrey Palmer
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 Finchley, Middlesex. He was the son of Frederick Charles Palmer, who was a chartered surveyor, and Nor...
Known For
Paddington
as Head Geographer
Peter Pan
as Sir Edward Quiller Couch
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Admiral Roebuck
Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim
as Narrator
A Fish Called Wanda
as Judge
Lost Christmas
as Dr. Clarence
Mrs Brown
as Henry Ponsonby
Clockwise
as Headmaster
A Question of Attribution
as Donleavy
Stalag Luft
as The Kommandant
Rat
as The Doctor
Bert & Dickie
as Charles Burnell
Hawks
as SAAB Salesman
W.E.
as Stanley Baldwin
Piccadilly Jim
as Bayliss
The Outsider
as Col. Wyndham
To Olivia
Unknown Role
The Pink Panther 2
as Joubert
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
as Sir John Crowder
Anna and the King
as Lord John Bradley