Geoffrey Chater

AKA:
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1921-03-23

Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {95}

Cyril Freebody

1989-11-03 7

Norbert Smith: A Life

A mockumentary charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith. ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Dr. Archibald

1993-09-17 5.3

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, History, War

Michael Hatherley

1985-03-10 0

In the Secret State

A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Toby Pears

1969-01-03 5.5

Male of the Species

Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womanizer; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cor ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Falck

1971-01-22 0

One of Those Things

A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of a man. The girl mentally blackmails our executive throu ...
Genre :Drama

Control

1980-07-12 0

The Specialist

A small boy runs away from home for no apparent reason. The police find his body in London having died of exposure. Why did he leave home? ...
Genre :

Reggie Hall

1967-12-04 0

The Confession

What is the mystery behind the murder of an apparently innocent man? Who was so afraid of the secrets he knew that they would kill him? ...
Genre :

Buldoon

1961-03-03 0

The Big Deal

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less ...
Genre :

Harold Webb

1986-03-02 4

Hotel du Lac

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Wren

1989-01-01 0

The Dog It Was That Died

Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once h ...
Genre :

Wainwright

1967-12-15 0

Son of the City

Welfare worker Carol is attacked in a swimming pool by the attendant George Lease. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Nestor

1981-11-07 8

Troilus & Cressida

The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Government Advocate

1982-12-01 7.557

Gandhi

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the ...
Genre :Drama, History

Sir Lawrence Bragg

1987-09-14 6.2

Life Story

Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Faulkner

1983-12-13 7

The Aerodrome

In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie

Gerard Wilson

1958-03-04 4.2

The Strange World of Planet X

Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connect ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Miles Attingham

1974-12-12 7

Haunted: The Ferryman

A horror novelist and his wife go to a house in the country for a short vacation. However, they soon find that one of his novels is coming true when they are haunted by the ghost of a drowned ferryman ...
Genre :Horror, TV Movie

Christmas Humphreys

1971-02-10 7.3

10 Rillington Place

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Mr Allen

1987-02-15 5.6

Northanger Abbey

A young girl, whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions, goes to stay with the wealthy Tilney family. Through her adventures, Catherine Morland comes to learn that marriage in the societ ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Pat Holroyd (uncredited)

1961-11-01 6.824

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultan ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama

Guy Liddell

1987-01-11 4.8

Blunt

Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous Briti ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Dr. Broughton

1975-12-18 8.002

Barry Lyndon

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War, History

Finley

1988-10-24 2

Indiscreet

A British movie star falls for an American diplomat. Unfortunately, he is still married...or so she believes. It turns out that his claims of marriage are just a way of ensuring his bachelorhood. ...
Genre :Comedy

Chaplain

1968-12-19 7.1

if....

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Calder

1981-03-03 0

Sorry

Play by Carol Bunyan. Two very different ladies share an office, a common enemy and a sense of humour. Sorry follows them through a day and their very different, and in one case, traumatic, lunch hour ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Miles

1971-09-29 8

Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?

They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like? ...
Genre :

Brabantio

1981-10-04 6.2

Othello

Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Rev. Thorn

1973-02-01 6.2

The Best Pair of Legs in the Business

Capitalising on his remarkable success in On the Buses, Reg Varney took on the contrasting role of a third-rate holiday camp entertainer dreaming of stardom in this mid-seventies comedy feature. Also ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Coroner

1972-10-05 6.1

Endless Night

Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a se ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Drama

Bishop/Vicar

1973-03-25 6.877

O Lucky Man!

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Fantasy, Drama

Philip Hartley

1979-12-20 10

The Network

What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley? ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Magistrate

1985-02-24 0

The Burston Rebellion

Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon, who were both socialists. ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Graham

1973-05-12 0

The Colour of Blood

A young girl on a train finds out that her companion is a serial killer. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Horror, Thriller

Sir Peter Hastings

1975-05-17 8.5

The Next Voice You See

An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party where he believes he hears the voice of the gunman who ...
Genre :TV Movie, Horror, Thriller

Superintendent

1980-11-03 0

Braces High

A parcel left on a bus causes concern when the bomb squad are called. Instead it contains a pair of trousers with braces and £370 in one pound notes. Scotland Yard decide to bring Inspector Hammond ou ...
Genre :

Reverend Croker

1990-12-27 0

Who's Listening

The Meldrews become acquainted with a reverend who thinks he has lost his faith, and Victor learns more about a video shop clerk with whom he had a conflict. ...
Genre :Comedy

1978-09-30 0

Hess

Dramatic account of the deputy fuhrer's infamous flight to Scotland during World War II. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Garvey

1964-03-08 0

Drama '64/Studio '64: A Wicked World

Roland Green who thinks the world is all safe soon realises that the world he lives in can be a bit wicked sometimes. ...
Genre :Drama

Graham

1973-04-14 6.6

Thriller

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, e ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Brother Robert

1997-03-23 7.5

Midsomer Murders

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 ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Peck

1969-09-09 4.9

Department S

Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jaso ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1962-01-02 7

Z-Cars

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in J ...
Genre :Drama

The Magistrate

1979-03-24 6.7

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plet ...
Genre :Drama

Jarvis

1961-01-07 7.7

The Avengers

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assista ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Colonel Hal Clifford

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

1971-09-15 7.3

Jason King

Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

Mr. Soames

1962-01-11 6.7

The Scales of Justice

Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introdu ...
Genre :Crime

1975-12-17 7.2

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Professor Phillips

2002-10-27 7.9

Foyle's War

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 ser ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, War & Politics, Crime

Carl Howard

1962-10-04 7.3

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery

1967-07-08 7

Callan

Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

1973-02-15 7.6

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic, well-meaning... and disaster-prone. ...
Genre :Comedy

Consul

1981-10-12 7.9

Brideshead Revisited

Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars. ...
Genre :Drama

Forster

1968-09-25 6.1

The Champions

The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC E ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure

Master David of Lincoln

1955-09-26 6.1

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were origin ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Family

1959-09-16 3.7

No Hiding Place

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 ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Perigenes

1983-01-19 3

The Cleopatras

Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC. ...
Genre :Drama

Caldicott

1968-07-05 10

The Expert

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially ...
Genre :Drama

Tom Caldicott

1968-07-05 10

The Expert

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially ...
Genre :Drama

1974-01-04 5.3

Within These Walls

Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. U ...
Genre :Drama

1985-04-14 6

Mapp & Lucia

Comedy, set during the 1930s, of social rivalry between two women in a small English town. New arrival Lucia (Geraldine McEwan, as Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas) creates challenges to the established local s ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Lord Rush

1971-10-08 6

Justice

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barr ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Peter Hastings

1973-04-14 6.6

Thriller

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, e ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Toby Pears

1969-02-01 1

Male of the Species

Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womaniser; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cor ...
Genre :Drama

Peter Redman

1969-06-18 7.7

The Main Chance

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocate ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Clements Markham

1983-04-13 6

Shackleton

A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Sutton Frobisher

1993-01-27 6.7

The Detectives

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs. ...
Genre :Comedy

Magistrate

1982-11-01 0

The New Adventures of Lucky Jim

Fresh off the Harwich Ferry from the continent, unemployed medieval historian Jim Dixon goes to Swinging London in search of a life and a job. ...
Genre :

Dr. Lonsdale

1994-03-13 8.3

Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Col. George Frost

1982-10-25 6.5

Harry's Game

A British Cabinet Minister is gunned down outside his home in London by a member of the Provisional IRA. Security protocols are activated, but the assassin evades them and successfully escapes to Belf ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Sir Matthew Osterson

1981-10-18 6.7

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes cau ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Clark

1964-11-13 0

Victoria Regina

Patricia Routledge gives a career-best performance as Queen Victoria in this 1964 series of plays based on the celebrated collection of dramas by playwright Laurence Housman. Self-willed, obstinate, ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Henry Bing

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

Frank Musgrave

1988-10-14 5.4

A Taste for Death

Sir Paul Berowne - a prominent Government Minister - turns to his old friend Adam Dalgleish following a series of threatening letters delivered to his London home. The minister's wife is in an adulter ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Miles

1956-07-08 5.8

Armchair Theatre

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 produced by Associated British Corporation, and later b ...
Genre :

Mr Wilkinson

1991-08-31 6.4

The House of Eliott

Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s. ...
Genre :Drama

Philip Hartley

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

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 tel ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Calder

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

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 tel ...
Genre :Drama

Richard Browning

1964-09-30 4.5

The Wednesday Play

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. ...
Genre :Drama

Seaton

1961-01-07 7.7

The Avengers

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assista ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

James Hamilton

1979-03-24 6.7

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plet ...
Genre :Drama

Lord Farset

1959-10-02 7.1

The Third Man

Genre :Drama

Lord Hailsham

1981-09-06 5

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and ...
Genre :Documentary

Genuine Carol Singer

1995-11-13 7.184

The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson set in a police station that ran for two series on the BBC from 1995 to 1996. It was written by Ben Elton. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Leonard Smythe

1974-09-26 6.6

Father Brown

Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Mr. Allen

1985-01-06 6.8

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas. ...
Genre :Drama

Capt. Mercombe, RN

1956-07-08 5.8

Armchair Theatre

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 produced by Associated British Corporation, and later b ...
Genre :

Mullery

1970-02-09 6

Doomwatch

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 gover ...
Genre :Drama

Headmaster

1994-11-04 7.1

Harry Enfield and Chums

Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Paul Whitehouse and others take on an array of oddball characters and old-time favorites in this sketch comedy show. ...
Genre :Comedy

Tony Garnish

1964-03-30 0

Detective

A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its epi ...
Genre :Crime

Kindred

1963-10-09 8

Festival

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. ...
Genre :Drama

Prosecutor

1964-04-24 8

Story Parade

Story Parade specialized in adaptations of modern novels. It was broadcast on June 5, 1964 and repeated on August 28, 1964. The teleplay was by Terry Nation (who invented "Blake's 7" and the Daleks i ...
Genre :

Minister

1985-02-06 7.5

Blott on the Landscape

A thwarted Lady Maud runs off to her solicitor to start divorce proceedings and that gives Sir Giles his bright idea-why not run the proposed bypass for the area through their very own Cleene Gorge, t ...
Genre :Comedy

Bishop

1967-07-08 7

Callan

Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Arthur Stilton

1965-12-13 0

The Power Game

The Power Game is an ITV drama spin-off from The Plane Makers (1963–65), created by Wilfred Greatorex. Broadcast for three 13-episode series, Patrick Wymark reprised his role as Sir John Wilder, who h ...
Genre :Drama