Derek Godfrey
Actor
Biography
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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Filmography
Hands of the Ripper
as Dysart 1971
The Prince and the Pauper
as Guard 1962
The Vengeance of She
as Men-Hari 1968
Guns of Darkness
as Hernandez 1962
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Theseus 1968
Shaggy Dog
as Mr Parker 1968
Shaggy Dog
as Parker 1968
The Tempest
as Antonio 1980
Of Mycenae and Men
1979
A Month in the Country
1966
Electra
as Tutor to Orestes 1974
The Wild Duck
as Gregers Werle 1971
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
1968
Sharp at Four
as Boatwright 1964
The Basement
as Law 1967
Mrs. Warren's Profession
as Mr. Praed 1972