Patrick Godfrey
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.563 |
| Birthday | 1933-02-13 |
| Place of Birth | Finsbury Park, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
2005
Oliver Twist
6.746/1179
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who a...
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Oliver Twist
1986
Foreign Body
4.9/4
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain a...
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Foreign Body
1986
A Room with a View
6.956/764
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st...
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A Room with a View
2005
Shadow of the Sword
5.885/26
Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them str...
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Shadow of the Sword
1970
John Clare: "I Am"
0/0
A film biography by David Jones with Freddie Jones as John Clare "I am - yet what I am, none cares or knows" (John Clare) John Clare (1792-1864), fa...
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John Clare: "I Am"
1987
Maurice
7.6/545
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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Maurice
1992
Bad Girl
10/1
A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
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Bad Girl
1993
The Trial
5.8/27
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and d...
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The Trial
2012
Les Misérables
7.3/5298
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 stea...
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Les Misérables
2011
Dimensions
4.8/19
Stephen is a brilliant young boy who lives in England, in what appears to be the 1920s—but nothing in Stephen’s life is quite as it seems. His world i...
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Dimensions
2001
My Brother Tom
6.1/24
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and scho...
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My Brother Tom
1988
The Girl in a Swing
3.9/10
A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love wi...
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The Girl in a Swing
1994
Bermuda Grace
0/0
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Bermuda Grace
2011
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
0/0
John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
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National Theatre Live: Collaborators
2014
The Borderlands
5.483/239
Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they...
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The Borderlands
1997
The Gambler
4.8/6
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The Gambler
1992
The Count of Solar
0/0
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
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The Count of Solar
2010
Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
0/0
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Black and White
0/0
Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New Yo...
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Black and White
2024
Rejoyce!
0/0
After the death of her husband, an elderly vicar's wife re-discovers a book of erotic fiction that she wrote in her youth.
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Rejoyce!
1998
EverAfter
7.426/1464
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...
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EverAfter
1993
The Remains of the Day
7.368/1326
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with...
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The Remains of the Day
1987
The Interrogation of John
0/0
A suspect is brought to a London police station charged with gross indecency. Police at the station believe he is connected with a murder in the area...
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The Interrogation of John
2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
7.67/1819
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
2008
The Duchess
6.991/1688
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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The Duchess
1981
The Three Sisters
0/0
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga att...
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The Three Sisters
1972
Miss Julie
0/0
A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth century aristocrat's daughter, is attra...
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Miss Julie
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
6.6/5
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation...
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1991
Sleepers
0/0
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and...
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Sleepers
1983
Heat and Dust
6.1/35
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her g...
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Heat and Dust
2018
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
6.479/2488
A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2002
The Importance of Being Earnest
6.852/479
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
2007
The Shell Seekers
7.167/6
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives...
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The Shell Seekers
2000
The Miracle Maker
6.023/44
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr...
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The Miracle Maker
2014
Mr. Turner
6.542/520
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...
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Mr. Turner
1994
Message for Posterity
0/0
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.
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Message for Posterity
1986
Clockwise
6.28/189
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for...
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Clockwise
1984
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
8/2
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
1988
Manifesto
4/8
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small...
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Manifesto
2008
Passage
0/0
With a unique blend of dramatic action and behind-the-scenes documentary footage, filmmaker John Walker shares the multi-layered story of British expl...
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Passage
2006
The History Boys
6.6/202
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambrid...
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The History Boys
1991
Do Not Disturb
0/0
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writ...
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Do Not Disturb
1993
Genghis Cohn
4.5/3
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Genghis Cohn
2016
National Theatre Live: As You Like It
9/1
With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest o...
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National Theatre Live: As You Like It
1984
Rainy Day Women
0/0
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of wa...
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Rainy Day Women
1984
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
7/1
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shi...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
2017
Breathe
7.441/750
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
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Breathe
1987
The Devil's Disciple
6/1
Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 177...
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The Devil's Disciple
1990
Come Home Charlie and Face Them
0/0
Adapting R.F. Delderfield's classic story of love, lust, crime and betrayal, this three-part mini-series centres around a young bank clerk whose yearn...
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Come Home Charlie and Face Them
1966
Doctor Who: The Savages
7.3/3
The TARDIS has arrived on a far-distant and seemingly idyllic world. Yet the Doctor, Steven and Dodo learn it hides a terrible secret: the apparently...
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Doctor Who: The Savages
1971
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
7/7
Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. But when the Doctor and Jo arrive at Stangmoor Priso...
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Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1988
On the Black Hill
6.3/7
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land dis...
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On the Black Hill
2002
The Falklands Play
7.4/5
The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Cur...
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The Falklands Play
1986
Theban Plays: Antigone
0/0
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of d...
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Theban Plays: Antigone
2009
Shadows in the Sun
4.6/9
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.
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Shadows in the Sun
1970
Let There Be Light
0/0
What was it like to go to school 100 years ago?
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Let There Be Light
1991
Redemption
0/0
After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
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Redemption
1978
Ice Age
0/0
' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous wr...
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Ice Age
2025
Doctor Who: The Savages
0/0
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo land on an alien world in this animated reconstruction of a lost 1966 Doctor Who adventure. There, they meet two peoples;...
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