Geoffrey Palmer.......

[gordon s]

Sad to read that Geoffrey Palmer had died....

 

https://news.sky.com/story/veteran-british-actor-geoffrey-palmer-dies-aged-93-12125465

 

A great TV actor who always made me smile.

 

 

[Pete the Elaner]

I always felt he played his roles well.

Particularly good as Dr Price from The Kipper and the Corpse.

[simontaylor484]

He always did come across as a good misery guts in a lot of roles 

Another great loss

[Phil Bullock]

Whilst he played other higher profile roles for which he will be better remembered by others, his Uncle Jimmy in The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin is etched in my memory. Cock up on the catering front.....

 

[scottystitch]

Slam in the lamb...

 

 

[Steamport Southport]

As well as the obvious roles I liked him in Fairly Secret Army which was an unofficial spin off from the Reggie Perrin character Jimmy. The BBC wouldn't give them the rights so they tweaked the character and he was a lot more outspoken.

 

One of the few roles that he had a bit more freedom as he was the main man. I don't know how well they would stand up now as it was probably "of its time". I think it's on YouTube.

[cary hill]

"I'm a doctor and I want my sausages!"

 

 

[4630]

4 minutes ago, cary hill said:

"I'm a doctor and I want my sausages!"

 

 

Oh yes, another classic line from his appearance in Fawlty Towers. 

[gordon s]

He just added so much to every role. Butterflies, Fawlty Towers and even his later appearances in As Time goes By with Judi Dench.

 

Lovely gentle man........

 

 

[Rugd1022]

Always loved him in 'As Time Goes By', where he played another in a long line of slightly grumpy but warm and charming characters to a tee. He often popped up as besuited Whitehall types in films and TV series, he even appeared in 'The Professionals' as a villain.

 

RIP.

 

 

[James Makin]

He had a brilliant cameo in a classic old show Absolute Power, with John Bird & Stephen Fry
 

“I’ve got aids in both ears...”

[Pete the Elaner]

I remember a series in to 80s where he played Penelope Keith's husband. My parents kept remarking that Peter Bowles would have been good in that role because he had worked well with Keith in another series.

After the first series, they got their wish & the role was re-cast to Bowles. It soon became apparent how good Palmer was.

[Colin_McLeod]

RIP Geoffery.

[sandwich station]

34 minutes ago, Pete the Elaner said:

I remember a series in to 80s where he played Penelope Keith's husband. My parents kept remarking that Peter Bowles would have been good in that role because he had worked well with Keith in another series.

After the first series, they got their wish & the role was re-cast to Bowles. It soon became apparent how good Palmer was.

 

It was called Executive Stress.

RIP Geoffrey.

[Metr0Land]

I always loved him in Butterflies.  The joke about the wife's cooking was so simple yet through good writing, acting and production it was kept going through several series and he always to me seemed to be the lynchpin.

[gordon s]

Saddened to read that Andrew Hall who played the elder son in Butterflies with Geoffrey Palmer also died in May 2019.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/24/andrew-hall-obituary

Edited November 9, 2020 by gordon s

[luckymucklebackit]

On 06/11/2020 at 17:46, Phil Bullock said:

Whilst he played other higher profile roles for which he will be better remembered by others, his Uncle Jimmy in The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin is etched in my memory. Cock up on the catering front.....

 

 

Bet he wished the scripts were more like the books, what his character got up to with Linda (the buxom Sally-Jane Spencer who I had a serious crush on) wasn't for the TV screens!!!