Geoffrey Whitehead (born 1 October 1939 in Sheffield) is a highly regarded English actor. Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sheffield ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works He has appeared in a huge range of television, film and radio roles. In the theatre, he has played at the Shakespeare Globe, St. Martin's Theatre and Bristol Old Vic.
His television appearances include Z-Cars (1964–1965 and 1972–1975), Holmes in the 1980 television series Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Richard Smith in Second Thoughts (1991–1994), The House of Eliott (1991), Executive Stress and The Worst Week of My Life. Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars) was a British Television drama series centred on the work of beat police in the fictional Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 Second Thoughts was a British comedy television programme running from 1991 onward The House of Eliott is a British Television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 1991 and 1994 Executive Stress is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1986 to 1988 The Worst Week of My Life is a British Comedy Television series, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004 He is regularly seen on British television as well as filling many roles on radio, where he featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Old Harry's Game and as the prior in the 1980s BBC radio dramatisations of "Cadfael". Old Harry's Game is a UK Radio comedy written and directed by Andy Hamilton, who also plays the cynical world-weary (or rather underworld-weary Cadfael (ˈkædvaɪl approximately "CAD-vile" is the fictional detective in a series of murder mysteries by the late Edith Pargeter writing Geoffrey Whitehead is a very versatile actor, with a characteristic and flexible voice. He is at home with dramatic and comic roles; he also has a fine sense of comic timing and delivery. He has starred on BBC radio in many comic roles. At any given time, one or more of his roles can be heard on BBC Radio outlets, typically BBC Radio 4 or BBC 7. Since BBC 7 is dedicated to repeats of classic series, he is particularly well-represented there.
A partial list of his regular radio roles includes:
- Weak at the Top - Sir Marcus. Weak at the Top is a Situation comedy originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005 and 2006
- Rigor Mortis - Professor Donaldson
- Potting On - Gordon Grant, radio husband of comedienne & poetess Pam Ayres. Rigor Mortis is a BBC Radio 4 Black comedy set in the Pathology department at an NHS Hospital. Potting On is a radio Situation comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Pam Ayres MBE (born 14 March 1947) is an English Poet, Songwriter and Presenter of Radio and
- Bleak Expectations - the Hardthrasher Family
- Cadfael - The Prior