Geoffrey Palmer
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Geoffrey Dyson Palmer, (born 4 June 1927) is an English actor known for his appearances in British television sitcoms including Jimmy Anderson (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in Butterflies (1978–2005), and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes (1992–2005).
He made two films, A Fish Called Wanda (1988), The Madness of King George (1994), Mrs. Brown (1997), and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
Early life and education
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer was born in London, England, on June 4th, 1927. He was the uncle of Frederick Charles Palmer, who was a chartered surveyor, and Norah Gwendolen (née Robins). From September 1939 to December 1945, he attended Highgate School. During his national service from 1946 to 1948, he served as a corporal instructor in small arms and field education in the Royal Marines, then briefly served as an unpaid trainee assistant stage manager.
Personal life
In 1963, Palmer married Sally Green. They had a daughter, Harriet, and Charles, a television producer. Palmer lived at Lee Common in Buckinghamshire and loved fly fishing in his spare time.
Career
Palmer's early television appearances included several roles in episodes of The Army Game (Granada Television), two episodes of The Baron, and as a property agent in Cathy Come Home (1966). Laurence Olivier in J. was involved in big productions at the Royal Court and for the National Theatre Company after a big break in John Osborne's West of Suez with Ralph Richardson. The Eden End of B. Priestley. Palmer found the role so boring that it had to be canceled out of a stage career for good.
He was brought to attention by two BBC sitcom appearances in the 1970s: Reggie Perrin's hapless brother-in-law (1976–1983) and Butterflies' phlegmatic dentist Ben Parkinson (1978–1983). In the Fawlty Towers episode "The Kipper and the Corpse" (1979), he was also a doctor, determined to have breakfast despite the chaos posed by the death of a visitor and Fawlty's inept way of handling the situation. Palmer appeared as Donald Fairchild in the first series of an ITV sitcom called Executive Stress in 1986, alongside Penelope Keith. He later departed and was replaced by Peter Bowles.
Palmer appeared in another BBC sitcom, As Time Goes By (1992–2005). He appeared in Dench's Tomorrow Never Dies film, in which he portrayed Admiral Roebuck and Mrs Brown, playing Sir Henry Ponsonby to Dench's Queen Victoria.
Palmer's voice-over abilities resulted in frequent commercial careers. The 'Slam in the Lamb' ads for the Meat & Livestock Commission and the Audi commercials in which he was seen using the term "Vorsprung durch Technik" were among the campaigns he was involved with. He appeared on BBC series " Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Holidays, as well as narrating Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which was published as a podcast by Penguin Books in 2005. He narrated Little England's documentary film and went on to appear in Reggie Perrin creator David Nobbs' scripts, the last of which being the radio comedy The Maltby Collection, released in 2007.
Palmer partnered Rae Borras in a series of episodes based on Izaak Walton's 1653 The Compleat Angler, a DVD series. George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody was an online audiobook released in 2007. Palmer appeared in "Voyage of the Damned," the BBC science-fiction film Doctor Who's Christmas special episode, in December 2007. (as Administrator) and The Mutants (1972) (as the Administrator). He appeared in a sketch with the two double acts Armstrong and Miller, Mitchell and Webb for Comic Relief in March 2009. He appeared in 2011 as the reactionary father-in-law of Rev. Eugene Ill's eponymous clergyman. This is the Christmas episode.