Personal Info
Birth date
1933-02-13 (92 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
Also known as
-Patrick Godfrey
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.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Minder
6.8
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.Foyle's War
7.879
Overview:
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.Heartbeat
7.125
Overview:
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.Doctor Who
7.874
Overview:
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.His Dark Materials
7.9
Overview:
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.Crown Court
5.4
Overview:
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.Casualty
6.1
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.The Count of Monte Cristo
7.673
Overview:
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.Inspector Morse
7.832
Overview:
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.Les Misérables
7.315
Overview:
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.The Bill
6.679
Overview:
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.EverAfter
7.433
Overview:
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.No Hiding Place
3.7
Overview:
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.Trial & Retribution
6.769
Overview:
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.Soldier Soldier
6.6
Overview:
The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.Oliver Twist
6.741
Overview:
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
6.5
Overview:
A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.Mr. Turner
6.536
Overview:
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.The Duchess
6.996
Overview:
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.Da Vinci's Demons
7.545
Overview:
The series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.Dr. Finlay's Casebook
6
Overview:
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.The New Statesman
7.5
Overview:
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.Kavanagh Q.C.
6.75
Overview:
James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.Miss Marple: Nemesis
7.4
Overview:
Mr. Jason Rafiel asks Miss Marple to solve a crime but, he does gives her any details. In fact, he can't be sure that a crime was committed at all.Doomwatch
6
Overview:
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.Breathe
7.446
Overview:
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.A Dance to the Music of Time
5.3
Overview:
A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.Acting
2025Doctor Who: The Savages as Tor (voice)
2024Rejoyce! as Jim (voice)
2019His Dark Materials (1 Episode) as Butler
2018Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle as Wolf Elder (voice)
2017Breathe as Mr. Tolland
2016National Theatre Live: As You Like It as Adam
2014Mr. Turner as Lord Egremont
2014The Borderlands as Father Calvino
2013Da Vinci's Demons (1 Episode) as Unknown
2012Les Misérables as Gillenormand
2011National Theatre Live: Collaborators as Vasily
2011Dimensions as The Professor
2010Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Sir Nathaniel
2009Shadows in the Sun as Unknown
2008Passage as Sir John Barrow
2008The Duchess as Dr. Neville
2007The Shell Seekers as Mr. Enderby
2007Fallen Angel (3 Episodes) as Hugh Treevor
2006The History Boys as Sleeping Clergyman
2005Oliver Twist as Bookseller
2005Shadow of the Sword as Bertram
2002Foyle's War (1 Episode) as Ernest Bannerman
2002The Importance of Being Earnest as Merriman
2002The Falklands Play as Rt Hon Michael Foot MP (Leader of the Opposition)
2002The Count of Monte Cristo as Morrell
2001My Brother Tom as Father Felix
2001Shades (1 Episode) as Ed
2000The Miracle Maker as Matthew / Annas (voice)
1998EverAfter as Leonardo da Vinci
1997The Gambler as Professor Olkhin
1997Trial & Retribution (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1997A Dance to the Music of Time (4 Episodes) as General Conyers
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Dudley Carew
1995Bramwell (2 Episodes) as Bishop of Stepney
1995Kavanagh Q.C. (1 Episode) as Ross Harkins
1994Dandelion Dead (4 Episodes) as Griffiths
1994Message for Posterity as 1st Conservative MP
1994Bermuda Grace as Unknown
1993Genghis Cohn as Deputy Mueller
1993The Remains of the Day as Spencer
1993The Trial as Court Usher
1992Bad Girl as High Court Judge
1992Heartbeat (1 Episode) as Fred Caldwell
1992The Count of Solar as Judge
1992Black and White as Unknown
1991Performance (1 Episode) as 1st Conservative MP
1991Paul Merton: The Series (1 Episode) as Unknown
1991Redemption as Fernald
1991Soldier Soldier (1 Episode) as General Fairhurst
1991Sleepers as Magistrate
1991Do Not Disturb as Geoffrey Alderney
1989Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Major Jones
1989Shadow of the Noose (1 Episode) as Lawson Walton, K.C.
1989Behaving Badly (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1988The Girl in a Swing as Coroner
1988On the Black Hill as The Auctioneer
1988Manifesto as Dr. Lombrosow
1987Pulaski (1 Episode) as The Director
1987The Interrogation of John as Supt. Sidebotham
1987Maurice as Simcox
1987The New Statesman (1 Episode) as Chief Whip
1987The Devil's Disciple as Lawyer Hawkins
1987Miss Marple: Nemesis (2 Episodes) as Mr. Schuster
1987Inspector Morse (1 Episode) as Dr. Greer
1986Foreign Body as Simons
1986Theban Plays: Antigone as Chorus
1986Casualty (1 Episode) as Derick Tome
1986A Room with a View as The Reverend Mr. Eager
1986Clockwise as Headmaster
1985Edge of Darkness (6 Episodes) as Oakley
1985Blott on the Landscape (6 Episodes) as Mr Bullett Finch
1984Pericles, Prince of Tyre as Helicanus
1984The Bill (1 Episode) as Unknown
1984Rainy Day Women as Commanding Officer
1984The Tragedy of Coriolanus as Cominius
1983Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1 Episode) as Geoffrey Oxlade
1983Heat and Dust as Dr Saunders
1982Shine on Harvey Moon (1 Episode) as Council Chairman
1981The Three Sisters as Kulighin
1979Minder (1 Episode) as Major Beatty
1978Ice Age as Professor Jenssen
1978Scorpion Tales (1 Episode) as Russell
1978Enemy at the Door (2 Episodes) as Dr. John Forbes
1977BBC2 Play of the Week (1 Episode) as Prof. Senssen
1974The Carnforth Practice (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972Crown Court (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972Miss Julie as House Servant
1971Justice (1 Episode) as Analyst
1971Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil as Major Cosworth
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970Doomwatch (1 Episode) as Grant
1970John Clare: "I Am" as WF Knight
1970Let There Be Light as Teacher
1970The Six Wives of Henry VIII (2 Episodes) as Sir Thomas Wriothesley
1969Paul Temple (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Doctor Who: The Savages as Tor
1964Story Parade (1, 1 Episode) as Customs Officer, Tom Moore
1963Doctor Who (2 Episodes) as Major Cosworth
1962Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959No Hiding Place (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Dixon of Dock Green (2, 1 Episode) as Dr. Hobbs, Dr. Walsh