[TV] Geoffrey Palmer RIP

[GT49er]

Geoffrey Palmer has died, aged 93 - a good innings Sir! Not perhaps the biggest star, but an important part of many good things we've enjoyed over the years. RIP.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54838209

 

[Is it PotG?]

Butterflies was fantastic.

Saw him in the Professionals the other day.

Flowery Twats, Blackadder Goes Forth.......

RIP

 

[GT49er]

Mods, please merge.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

He was excellent in Butterflies with Wendy Craig.

 

[zefarelly]

RIP, good actor

 

[hart's shirt]

The way that he nonchalantly swept the soldiers into the dustpan was truly tragi-comic.

 

[Weststander]

A brilliant actor. Here portraying the paranoid anti-Commie brother in law of Reggie Perrin.

RIP.



Loved him also in the bitter sweet comedy Butterflies.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

I'm a doctor and I want my sausages

 

[Marxo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UVjF4wmOHU

 

[maltaseagull]

Been a bit of a cock up on the catering front!


https://youtu.be/4UVjF4wmOHU

 

[Official Old Man]

One of those names you go 'oh dear', then have to look up who he was and then go 'oh yes, great actor'

 

[Grombleton]

Was a fan of Butterflies and As Time Goes By. Shame, he was a great actor.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Was a fan of Butterflies and As Time Goes By. Shame, he was a great actor.

How could I forget As Time Goes By with Dame Judi? Another excellent series and well cast.

 

[Pavilionaire]

One of the finest deadpan comic actors.

R.I.P. Geoffrey.

 

[Sussexscots]

Also appeared in one of British Drama's finest hours, the December 1972 episode of Colditz, Tweedledum where Wing Commander Marsh (Michael Bryant) attempts to escape by feigning insanity.

Geoffrey Palmer's doctor is one of the few who know the plan...

If you've never seen it, it's worth tracking down. A truly moving hour of television.

RiP Geoffrey.

 

[AmexRuislip]

RIP

At least he'll not have to worry about HS2 going through his back yard anymore in Bucks

 

[METALMICKY]

The master of TLD dead pan look. Will always be Uncle Jimmy for me from Reggie Perrin. " Bit of a cock up on the catering front "

Curious memory was a few years back on the Sky Sunday coverage of an Arsenal home game. In build up to kick off the camera was panning across fans going mental and there if was looking pretty up for it. The commentator remarked ' you might just have recognised someone there! '

 

[pasty]

I'm a doctor and I want my sausages

Must admit, that was one of the first scenes I thought of when I heard the news.

 

[portlock seagull]

A brilliant actor, loved his deadpan performances especially. British acting royalty really. Sad to hear he’s passed.

 

[osgood]

Also appeared in one of British Drama's finest hours, the December 1972 episode of Colditz, Tweedledum where Wing Commander Marsh (Michael Bryant) attempts to escape by feigning insanity.

Geoffrey Palmer's doctor is one of the few who know the plan...

If you've never seen it, it's worth tracking down. A truly moving hour of television.

RiP Geoffrey.

Used to watch Colditz with my mum every Tuesday ?
Commander Marsh went mad while pretending to be didnt he ?