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| name              = Geoffrey Palmer
| image            = Geoffrey Palmer.jpg
| image            = Geoffrey Palmer.jpg
| aka              =
| birth date        = [[4 June (people)|4 June]] [[1927 (people)|1927]]
| birth date        = [[4 June (people)|4 June]] [[1927 (people)|1927]]
| death date        =  
| death date        = [[5 November (people)|5 November]] [[2020 (people)|2020]]
| role              = [[Edward Masters]]
| role              = [[Edward Masters]]
| job title        = [[Actor]]
| time              =1970, 1972, 2007  
| story            = [[#Credits|see credits section]]
| non dwu          =  
| time              = 1970, 1972, 2007
| non dwu          = ''The Army Game'', ''Bootsie and Snudge'', ''The Avengers'', ''The Further Adventures of the Musketeers'', ''Softly Softly: Task Force'', ''[[Doomwatch]]'', ''Colditz'', ''Angles'', ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'', ''Butterflies'', ''Fawlty Towers'', ''The Goodies'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''Whoops Apocalypse'', ''Fairly Secret Army'', ''A Fish Called Wanda'', ''Blackadder Goes Forth'', ''As Time Goes By'', ''The Madness of King George'', ''Mrs Brown'', ''Tomorrow Never Dies'', ''Alice Through the Looking Glass'', ''Stig of the Dump'', ''Dickens'', ''Absolute Power'', ''Peter Pan'', ''Ashes to Ashes'', ''Rev.'', ''The Hollow Crown'', ''Bert & Dickie'', ''Parade's End'', ''Paddington''
| imdb              = 0658244
| imdb              = 0658244
|job title = Actor
|story = ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'' & ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]''
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'''Geoffrey Palmer''', OBE (born [[4 June (people)|4 June]] [[1927 (people)|1927]]<ref>[http://www.fandango.com/people/geoffrey-palmer-508152/biography Fandango]</ref>) appeared in three ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television stories: as [[Edward Masters]] in ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', the [[Administrator of Solos|Administrator]] in ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'' and [[Hardaker (Voyage of the Damned)|Hardaker]] in ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]''. He is one of a handful of actors to appear both in the classic and the revived series. He is known especially for his comic roles on British television in his over fifty-year career. He is the father of [[director]] [[Charles Palmer]] and the father-in-law of [[Claire Skinner]].
'''Geoffrey Palmer''', {{w|Order of the British Empire|OBE}} ([[4 June (people)|4 June]] [[1927 (people)|1927]]-[[5 November (people)|5 November]] [[2020 (people)|2020]]<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/nov/06/geoffrey-palmer-obituary The Guardian]</ref>) appeared in three ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television stories: as [[Edward Masters]] in ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', the [[Administrator of Solos|Administrator]] in ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'' and Captain [[Hardaker (Voyage of the Damned)|Hardaker]] in ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]''.
 
He was one of a handful of actors to appear both in the classic and the revived series.
 
== Career ==
Palmer was known especially for his comic roles on British television in his over fifty-year career, which include (to name but a few): Jimmy Anderson in ''{{w|The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin}}'' (1976-79); Ben Parkinson in ''{{w|Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies}}'' (1978-1983); and Lionel Hardcastle in ''{{w|As Time Goes By (TV series)|As Time Goes By}}'' (1992-2002, 2005).
 
One of his best remembered guest roles was in the sitcom ''{{w|Fawlty Towers}}'' (1975, 1979), where he played hotel guest Dr. Price in "The Kipper and the Corpse" — in which he had the classic line, spoken to [[Andrew Sachs]] as the inept Spanish waiter Manuel, "Look, I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor and I want my sausages!"
 
== Personal life ==
He was the father of [[Director (crew)|director]] [[Charles Palmer]] and the father-in-law of ''[[The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)|The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]''<nowiki/>'s [[Claire Skinner]].


== External links ==
== External links ==
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== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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Geoffrey Palmer, OBE (4 June 1927-5 November 2020[1]) appeared in three Doctor Who television stories: as Edward Masters in Doctor Who and the Silurians, the Administrator in The Mutants and Captain Hardaker in Voyage of the Damned.

He was one of a handful of actors to appear both in the classic and the revived series.

Career[[edit] | [edit source]]

Palmer was known especially for his comic roles on British television in his over fifty-year career, which include (to name but a few): Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976-79); Ben Parkinson in Butterflies (1978-1983); and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By (1992-2002, 2005).

One of his best remembered guest roles was in the sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975, 1979), where he played hotel guest Dr. Price in "The Kipper and the Corpse" — in which he had the classic line, spoken to Andrew Sachs as the inept Spanish waiter Manuel, "Look, I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor and I want my sausages!"

Personal life[[edit] | [edit source]]

He was the father of director Charles Palmer and the father-in-law of The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe's Claire Skinner.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]