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Geoffrey Palmer is a Actor British born on 4 june 1927 at London (United-kingdom)
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer, OBE (born 4 June 1927) is an English actor known for his roles in British television sitcoms playing Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Ben Parkinson in Butterflies and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By.
Palmer lives between Great Missenden and Wendover, at Lee Common in Buckinghamshire, England. From 2011 onwards he publicly opposed proposals for the High Speed 2 rail network which would run within 300 yards (274 m) of his home.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 4 june 1927 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 5 november 2020 (at 93 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Birth 4 june 1927 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 5 november 2020 (at 93 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Biography
Palmer was born in London, the son of Norah Gwendolen (née Robins) and Frederick Charles Palmer, who was a chartered surveyor. He attended Highgate School, London. In 1963 he married Sally Green in Wilmslow. The couple have a daughter Harriet and a son, Charles, who is married to actress Claire Skinner.Palmer lives between Great Missenden and Wendover, at Lee Common in Buckinghamshire, England. From 2011 onwards he publicly opposed proposals for the High Speed 2 rail network which would run within 300 yards (274 m) of his home.
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Paddington (2014)
, 1h35Directed by Paul King
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un ours, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Colin Firth, Ben Whishaw, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Bonneville, Michael Gambon, Sally Hawkins
Roles Head Geographer
Rating72%
In the deep jungles of darkest Peru, a British geographer named Montgomery Clyde happens upon a previously unknown species of bear. He is about to shoot it to take back a specimen to England when another bear playfully takes his gun away. He learns that this family of bears is intelligent and can learn English, and that they have a deep appetite for marmalade. He names them Lucy and Pastuzo. As he departs, he throws his hat to Pastuzo and tells the bears that they are always welcome should they wish to go to London.
Directed by Richard Eyre
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Historical
Themes Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Jeremy Irons, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Hiddleston, Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong, Joe Armstrong
Roles Lord Chief Justice (Part 2)
W.E. (2011)
, 1h55Directed by Madonna
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac, Richard Coyle, David Harbour
Roles Stanley Baldwin
Rating62%
Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is a lonely housewife, living in 1998 in New York City. She is neglected by her doctor husband, William Winthrop (Richard Coyle) and finds solace in the love story of King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy) and his lover, Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough). Wally travels to the Sotheby's auction of the Windsor Estate, showcasing items used by Wallis and Edward in their lifetime, and reminisces about their relationship.
The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
, 1h32Directed by Harald Zwart
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina, Emily Mortimer, Aishwarya Rai, Andy García
Roles Joubert
Rating56%
When the master thief the Tornado steals expensive artifacts from around the world, France assembles a Dream Team of Amateur Detectives to solve the case. Inspector Clouseau is reassigned from his task as a parking officer by Chief Inspector Dreyfus to join the Dream Team in Japan, site of the Tornado's recent heist. At the airport, as soon as he steps over the border and leaves France, news breaks that the Pink Panther Diamond has been stolen, prompting Clouseau, who had up to that point been wary of leaving, to say, "I told you". Clouseau travels back to the scene of the crime and joins the other members of the Dream Team: Inspector Pepperidge, from Great Britain; Vincenzo, from Italy; Kenji, an electronics specialist from Japan; and Sonia, a researcher and criminology expert from India. They go to Rome to investigate a black market fence, Alonso Avellaneda, who deals with The Tornado. Assuming he is The Tornado, the Dream Team question him while Clouseau snoops around. Avellaneda vindicates himself by demonstrating that he lacks a bullet-wound to the right shoulder that the Tornado suffered over a decade ago. After they leave, he meets with the real Tornado.
Peter Pan (2003)
, 1h53Directed by Paul John Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Mermaids in film, Les fées, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Jeremy Sumpter, Ludivine Sagnier, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Jason Isaacs, Olivia Williams, Lynn Redgrave
Roles Sir Edward Quiller Couch
Rating68%
In Edwardian-era London, in the nursery of the Darling home, Wendy Darling (Wood) tells her younger brothers, John (Harry Newell) and Michael (Freddie Popplewell), stories that enthrall Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter) and his fairy friend Tinker Bell (Ludivine Sagnier). Life is disrupted when their Aunt Millicent visits the family. Judging Wendy to be an "almost" full-grown woman, Aunt Millicent advises Mr. and Mrs. Darling to think of Wendy's future, saying that Wendy should spend less time with her brothers and more time with her as she learns how to be a proper young lady. The very idea terrifies the children.
Rat (2001)
, 1h28Directed by Steve Barron
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Imelda Staunton, Pete Postlethwaite, Frank Kelly, Ed Byrne, Geoffrey Palmer, Kerry Condon
Roles The Doctor
Rating59%
After his usual night of drinking at the local pub, Hubert Flynn (Pete Postlethwaite) returns home and transforms into a rat. Hubert's family each have different views on him now that he became a rodent. His wife Conchita (Imelda Staunton) thinks that this change is supposed to be a lesson to Hubert and that the reason he transformed is his own fault. Their son Pius (Andrew Lovern), destined for a religious life, feels that because his father is now an animal, his family should kill him. Their daughter Marietta (Kerry Condon) feels that the rat is still her father and that they should treat him with love and respect.
Anna and the King (1999)
, 2h28Directed by Andy Tennant
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Children's films, Films about language and translation, Films about royalty
Actors Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Randall Duk Kim, Geoffrey Palmer
Roles Lord John Bradley
Rating67%
Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster) is a British widow who has come to Siam with her son Louis (Tom Felton) to teach English to the dozens of children of King Mongkut (Chow Yun-fat). She is a strong-willed, intelligent woman, and this pleases the King, who wants to modernize his country to keep it safe from the threat of colonialism, while protecting many of the ancient traditions that give Siam its unique identity. The King and Anna discuss the differences between Eastern and Western love, and the King dismisses the notion that a man can be happy with only one wife. In order to win the favors of Britain, the King orders a sumptuous reception and delegates Anna to organize it. During the reception, the King verbally spars graciously and wittily with Sir Mycroft Kincaid (Bill Stewart), of the East India Company, who accuses Siam of being a superstitious nation. At the end of the reception, the King dances with Anna.
Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
Directed by Gary Sinyor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Sean Pertwee, Georgina Cates, Prunella Scales, Peter Ustinov, Samuel West, John Boswall
Roles His Butler's Voice
Rating60%
England, 1908: Emily Ivory (Cates) is a wealthy young woman who lives with her Aunt Agnes (Scales) at Ivory's End, a large country house. At 22, as her aunt constantly reminds her, she is verging on spinsterhood. She meets her brother's best friend, Cedric Trilling (Portal), when the two come home from university. Aunt Agnes wants the two to fall in love: Cedric, however, is a pompous bore who is overly fond of quoting Homer on all sorts of not-quite-appropriate occasions; also, he's a repressed homosexual. When Emily's aunt sees the sparks failing to fly, she whisks everyone off to Italy, then India, hoping the romantic locations will bring on love.
, 1h23Directed by John Henderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Films based on Alice in Wonderland, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Kate Beckinsale, Geoffrey Palmer, Ian Holm, Steve Coogan, Penelope Wilton, Siân Phillips
Roles White King
Rating53%
Au moment de faire la lecture à sa petite fille sur le point de s'endormir, Alice, désormais jeune maman, traverse le miroir de la chambre. De retour au pays des merveilles, dans ses habits d'enfant, elle rencontre tour à tour la Reine Rouge, d'insolentes fleurs qui parlent, des pièces d'échec aussi humaines qu'elle, une Reine Blanche qui se souvient des événements avant qu'ils n'aient lieu, un gros oeuf perché au sommet d'une tour… Alors que, dans les bois, rôde le Jabberwocky, un terrible dragon, Alice joue à un étrange et gigantesque jeu dont elle sort victorieuse. Désormais reine, elle participe à un banquet riche en surprises…
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
, 1h59Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about writers, Films about children, Spy films, Films about journalists, Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Motocyclette, Robot films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn
Roles Admiral Roebuck
Rating64%
MI6 sends James Bond, agent 007, into the field to spy on a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border. Via television, MI6 and the Royal Navy identify several wanted men, including the American "techno-terrorist" Henry Gupta, who is buying a GPS encoder made by the US military. Despite M's insistence to let 007 finish his reconnaissance, British Admiral Roebuck launches a missile attack on the arms bazaar. Bond then discovers two Soviet nuclear torpedoes mounted on an L-39 Albatros, and as the missile is too far along to be aborted, 007 hijacks the L-39 and flies away seconds before the bazaar is struck. Amidst the confusion, Gupta escapes with the encoder.
Mrs Brown (1997)
, 1h43Directed by John Madden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Billy Connolly, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler, David Westhead
Roles Henry Ponsonby
Rating71%
Several screens of text giving some background are shown before a bust is shown flying over a palace wall and shattering into countless pieces. The film shows the story of a bereaved Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and her relationship with a Scottish servant, John Brown (Billy Connolly), and the subsequent uproar it provoked. Brown had been a trusted servant of Victoria's then deceased and beloved Prince Consort, Prince Albert; Victoria's chief servants thought Brown might help to ease an inconsolable Queen since the Prince Consort's death in 1861. In 1863, hoping to subtly coax the Queen toward resuming public life after years of seclusion, Mr Brown is summoned to court.
The Madness of King George (1994)
, 1h47Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Amanda Donohoe, Rupert Graves, Anthony Calf
Roles Warren
Rating71%
The film depicts the relatively primitive medical practices of the time and the suppositions that physicians made in their efforts to understand the human body. After King George III begins to go mad, his doctors attempt cures such as blistering and purges, led on particularly by the Prince of Wales' personal physician, Dr. Warren. Meanwhile, another of the King's physicians, Dr. Pepys, analyses the King's stool and urine believing that body wastes may contain some clue to the Royal malady; of course, none of these attempts to cure the King actually works. Finally, Lady Pembroke, attendant to the Queen, recommends Dr. Willis, an ex-minister who attempts to cure the insane through behaviour modification, and who begins his restoration of the King's mental state by enforcing a strict regime of strapping the King into a waistcoat and restraining him whenever he misbehaves.
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
, 1h48Directed by John Cleese, Charles Crichton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken, Tom Georgeson
Roles Judge
Rating74%
London-based gangster George Thomason and his right-hand man, Ken Pile, an animal lover with a bad stutter, plan a jewel heist. They bring in two Americans to help: con artist Wanda Gershwitz and "weapons man" Otto West, a loud-mouthed Anglophobe who fancies himself an intellectual and hates being (correctly) called stupid. Wanda and Otto are lovers, but they hide this from George and Ken, pretending to be brother and sister, so Wanda can work her charms on them. The robbery goes well, and the thieves get away with a large sum in diamonds. However, they are briefly spotted during their getaway by Mrs. Coady, an elderly lady walking her three dogs. The group then hide the loot in a safe in an old workshop. Soon after, Wanda and Otto betray George to the police and he is arrested. They return to collect the loot, with Wanda planning to double-cross Otto as well, only to find that George has moved it. Wanda decides to seduce George's barrister, Archie Leach, so that he can persuade George to plead guilty and give up the location of the diamonds. Unhappily married, Leach is brow-beaten by his vindictive wife, Wendy, and spoiled daughter, Portia, and he quickly comes under the spell of Wanda's charms.
Hawks (1988)
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Timothy Dalton, Anthony Edwards, Camille Coduri, Robert Lang, Jill Bennett, Geoffrey Palmer
Roles SAAB Salesman
Rating66%
Clockwise (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Christopher Morahan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Stephen Moore, Patrick Godfrey, Joan Hickson
Roles Headmaster
Rating65%
Brian Stimpson (Cleese), headmaster of Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School, has been elected to chair the annual Headmasters' Conference. Habitually disorganised as a young man, Stimpson is now fastidiously organized and punctual, and his school runs "like clockwork". He is the first headmaster of a comprehensive school to chair a Headmaster's Conference, that honour usually being reserved for heads of the more prestigious private schools.