Patrick Godfrey
Birthday: 1933-02-13
Place of Birth: Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
Biography: Patrick Lindesay Archibald Godfrey (born 13 February 1933) is an English actor of film, television and stage. Godfrey was born in Finsbury, London to Rev. Frederick Godfrey and Lois Mary Gladys (née Turner). In 1956 Godfrey joined the Radio Drama Company by winning the Carleton Hobbs Bursary. He made his film debut in Miss Julie (1972), and appeared in several British films of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, including A Room with a View, The Remains of the Day, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Count of Monte Cristo, Dimensions and Les Misérables. He also played Leonardo da Vinci in the Cinderella adaptation Ever After alongside Drew Barrymore and Dougray Scott. He had many roles on television, appearing in Doctor Who, Inspector Morse, and other series.
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Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...
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Foreign Body
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from hi...
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A Room with a View
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...
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Shadow of the Sword
Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on ri...
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Maurice
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restric...
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John Clare: "I Am"
A film biography by David Jones with Freddie Jones as John Clare "I am - yet what I am, none cares ...
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Bad Girl
A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent....
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The Trial
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested....
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Les Misérables
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-centu...
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Dimensions
Stephen is a brilliant young boy who lives in England, in what appears to be the 1920s—but nothing i...
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My Brother Tom
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is ...
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The Girl in a Swing
A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danis...
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National Theatre Live: Collaborators
John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwrigh...
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The Borderlands
Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and t...
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The Gambler
Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece...
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The Count of Solar
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution....
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Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to ha...
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Black and White
Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an ...
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Rejoyce!
After the death of her husband, an elderly vicar's wife re-discovers a book of erotic fiction that s...
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EverAfter
Danielle, a vibrant young woman, was forced into servitude after the death of her father when she wa...
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The Remains of the Day
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
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The Interrogation of John
A suspect is brought to a London police station charged with gross indecency. Police at the station ...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...
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The Duchess
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...
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The Three Sisters
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their fath...
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Miss Julie
A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a ...
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Co...
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Sleepers
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under dee...
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Heat and Dust
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with...
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f...
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The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...
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The Miracle Maker
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carp...
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Mr. Turner
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes inv...
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Message for Posterity
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 19...
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Clockwise
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses hi...
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city....
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Manifesto
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It tu...
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Passage
With a unique blend of dramatic action and behind-the-scenes documentary footage, filmmaker John Wal...
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The History Boys
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...
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Do Not Disturb
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk vil...
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Genghis Cohn
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall c...
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National Theatre Live: As You Like It
With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in t...
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Rainy Day Women
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy ...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
When Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, discovers the dreaded answer to King Antiochus's riddle, he ...
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Breathe
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a drama...
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The Devil's Disciple
Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience...
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Doctor Who: The Savages
The TARDIS has arrived on a far-distant and seemingly idyllic world. Yet the Doctor, Steven and Dodo...
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Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. Bu...
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On the Black Hill
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, ...
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The Falklands Play
The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1...
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Theban Plays: Antigone
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an ord...
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Shadows in the Sun
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and d...
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Redemption
After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wan...
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Ice Age
' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at...
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Doctor Who: The Savages
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo land on an alien world in this animated reconstruction of a lost 1966 Do...
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