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Derek Godfrey
Born: 3rd Jun 1924 London, England, UK - Died 18th Jun 1983
Dept: Acting
Derek Godfrey (3 June 1924 – 18 June 1983) was an English actor, associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1960, who also appeared in several films and BBC television dramatisations during the 1960s and 1970s.
Born in London, he performed with the Old Vic from 1956 where he played the roles of Iachimo and Enobarbus. With the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1960, he performed as Orsino, Hector, Petruchio and Malvolio. According to The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Godfrey "[w]ith his fine voice and often sardonic appearance...was a loyal company actor who revealed an intuitive grasp of the dark characters in Jacobean plays".
He created the role of Jack Gurney in Peter Barnes's play The Ruling Class. He also appeared in a number of films such as Hands of the Ripper and The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and the BBC television dramas The Pallisers (as Robert Kennedy), Warship (as Captain Edward Holt) and Nicholas Nickleby (1977, as Ralph Nickleby).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 38
Film: 18 (47%)
Television: 20 (53%)
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Filmography
1980
Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Ra ... view
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Antonio
1979
Historical comedy, showing what happened to Helen of Troy after the Trojan War. ... view
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Sep 1978 (first aired)
The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original b ... view
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Robert Banks (1 ep.)
Dec 1977 (first aired)
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley.
The mandate of CI5 was to ... view
Character:
Stefan Batak I (1 ep.)
Mar 1977 (first aired)
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly ... view
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Ralph Nickleby (6 ep.)
Mar 1977 (first aired)
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels. ... view
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Elihu (4 ep.)
Dec 1974 (first aired)
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britai ... view
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King Henry III (1 ep.)
1974
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge. ... view
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Tutor to Orestes
Jan 1974 (first aired)
This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based o ... view
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Robert Kennedy (8 ep.)
Jun 1973 (first aired)
Written and filmed to reflect the reality of life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the 1970s, most stories focus on the Captain and his fell ... view
Character:
Capt. Edward Holt (13 ep.)
1972
Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its aud ... view
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Mr. Praed
Sep 1972 (first aired)
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as o ... view
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David Barsella (1 ep.)
1971
A series of murders occur that mirror those committed by the Whitechapel Ripper. Through his experiments with psychoanalysis Dr Pritchard discovers a ... view
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Dysart
1971
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies. ... view
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Crow
Mar 1971 (first aired)
An anthology series wherein the ten commandments are interpreted in contemporary scenarios by different writers. It was transmissioned from 30 March t ... view
Character:
Roger (1 ep.)
1971
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern tod ... view
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Gregers Werle
Feb 1970 (first aired)
A medieval wizard (though not a very good one) Catweazle is transported to the modern age...
A British television series, created and written by Rich ... view
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Dr. Wenik (1 ep.)
1968
A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie atte ... view
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Parker
1968
A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie atte ... view
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Mr Parker
1968
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Com ... view
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Theseus
1968
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice. ... view
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1968
Beautiful young European girl, Carol, is possessed by the spirit of Ayesha – “She Who Must be Obeyed” – and led to the lost city of Kuma, wher ... view
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Men-Hari
May 1967 (first aired)
18 short plays written especially for TV, an opportunity for up-and-coming directors such as floor manager Alan Clarke, who ended up doing 10 of the e ... view
Character:
Jimmy Hepton (1 ep.)
1967
An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one ra ... view
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Law
1966
The perfect middle-class couple are holding a dinner party when Nicholas gets a telephone call from Sheila, the mother of his teenage daughter Joan, s ... view
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Nic-Nic
1966
An adaptation Turgenev's play of the same name. ... view
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Oct 1965 (first aired)
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a ... view
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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1 ep.)
Sir Isaac Newton (1 ep.)
Gregers Werle (1 ep.)
Lord Darlington (1 ep.)
Orestes' Tutor (1 ep.)
Jan 1965 (first aired)
A glimpse into the offices of (fictitious) daily newspaper – The Globe – on Fleet Street, which at that time was the centre of the British newspap ... view
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Denny Tarrant (26 ep.)
May 1964 (first aired)
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first reg ... view
Character:
Edmund (1 ep.)
Rakitin (1 ep.)
Sir Owen Tudor (1 ep.)
Law (1 ep.)
Stefano Balli (1 ep.)
1964
Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school. ... view
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Boatwright
Mar 1963 (first aired)
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmis ... view
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Dr. Tate (1 ep.)
1962
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife t ... view
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Hernandez
1962
In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the pri ... view
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Guard
Jan 1961 (first aired)
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, ... view
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Tobias (1 ep.)
Sep 1960 (first aired)
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGo ... view
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Casino Manager (1 ep.)
Sep 1958 (first aired)
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainme ... view
Character:
Wolfgang (1 ep.)
Burgomaster (1 ep.)
Jul 1956 (first aired)
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produ ... view
Character:
Banbury (1 ep.)