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).
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Anna and the King
As Lord John Bradley
A Fish Called Wanda
As Judge
Tomorrow Never Dies
As Admiral Roebuck
The Madness of King George
As Warren
Doctor Who and the Silurians
As Masters
A Zed & Two Noughts
As Fallast
To Olivia
The Pink Panther 2
As Joubert
Alice Through the Looking Glass
As White King
Walrus: Two Tonne Tusker
As Narrator
Mrs Brown
As Henry Ponsonby
Lost Christmas
As Dr. Clarence
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
As Narrator
W.E.
As Stanley Baldwin
The Young Visiters
As Minnit
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
As Sir John Crowder
Reckless: The Sequel
As Robert Crane
A Question of Attribution
As Donleavy
Bert & Dickie
As Charles Burnell
Doctor Who: The Mutants
As Administrator
Season's Greetings
As Bernard
Stalag Luft
As The Kommandant
Smack and Thistle
As Sir Horace Wimbol
Mr. Kershaw's Dream System
As Psychiastrist
The Honorary Consul
As British Ambassador
Run For Your Wife
As Man on Toilet
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
As Self / Dr Price
Safe at Work?
As Narrator
The Insurance Man
As The Angry Doctor
Rat
As The Doctor
A Prize of Arms
As Cpl. Myers
Paddington
As Head Geographer
Mr. Men: The Christmas Letter
As Santa
The High Game
As Man at the Clinic
The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
As Corbett's Ghost
Loyalties
As Graviter
The Houseboy
As Eric
Clockwise
As Headmaster
No Place Like Earth
As Chief Officer
Hawks
As SAAB Salesman
Cathy Come Home
As Property Agent
The Battle of Billy's Pond
As First Policeman
Pope John Paul II: 1920 - 2005
As Narrator
Stiff Upper Lips
As His Butler's Voice
Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim
As Narrator
Piccadilly Jim
As Bayliss
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
As Captain Hardaker
Peter Pan
As Sir Edward Quiller Couch
A Midsummer Night's Dream
As Quince
A Story to Frighten the Children
As Det. Chief Insp. Harris
Only Make Believe
As Richard Nicholls
Michael Regan
As Chief Superintendent
The Outsider
As Col. Wyndham
Ring of Spies
As Police Officer (uncredited)
O Lucky Man!
As Examination Doctor/Basil Keyes
Goodbye
As Jack
Absurd Person Singular
As Ronald Brewster-Wright
As Time Goes By
As Lionel Hardcastle
The Sweeney
As Commander Watson
Out of the Unknown
As Chief Officer
Colditz
As Doc
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
As Jimmy Anderson
Executive Stress
Ashes to Ashes
As Lord Scarman
The One Show
As Self
The Savages
As Donald
Absolute Power
Butterflies
As Ben Parkinson
Softly, Softly
Fawlty Towers
As Dr. Price
The Avengers
The Professionals
As Avery
Whoops Apocalypse
Inspector Morse
As Matthew Copley-Barnes
The Goodies
The Saint
As Pete Ferguson
The Army Game
Doomwatch
As Major Sims
He Knew He Was Right
As Sir Marmaduke Rowley
Van der Valk
As Head of Faculty
Mr. Men and Little Miss
Angels
No Hiding Place
Play for Today
The Expert
As Asst. Chief Constable Rogers
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
As Self
The Revenue Men
As Bill Mitchell
Mystery and Imagination
Hot Metal
Natural World
As Narrator
The Last Song
The Joe Baker Show
BBC Television Shakespeare
Best Of Enemies
The Kenny Everett Television Show
As Various
Bulldog Breed
Chateau Monty
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
Dalgliesh
As Edwin Lorrimer
Christabel
As Mr. Burton
Look at the State We're In!
As The Ruler
The Human Jungle
As Williams
Doctor Who
As Administrator
Oxbridge Blues
As Fred
Fairly Secret Army
As Major Harry Truscott
Edward the Seventh
As Sir Edward Clarke
Blackadder
As Field Marshal Haig
Bergerac
As Nigel Carter
Dickens
An Audience with...
As Self
Bill Brand
As Malcolm Frear
Gideon's Way
As Jeff Grant
The Troubleshooters
As Jeremy Martin
The Man In Room 17
As Ian McWatt
Grumpy Old Men
As Narrator
Stig of the Dump
As Robert
The Hollow Crown
As Lord Chief Justice
The Wednesday Play
As Property Agent
Doctor Who
As Captain Hardaker
Crown Court
As Kenneth Eden
The 1940's House
As Narrator (voice)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
As Vice Admiral Hamling