Geoffrey Beevers
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 15, 1941 (age 85)
- Birthplace
- Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK
Biography
Geoffrey Beevers (born 15 January 1941, in Chichester, Sussex, England) is a British actor, writer, and director with a career spanning over five decades across stage, television, and film. The only son of D. Beevers, he was educated at Tonbridge School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read History and took a B.A. in 1962, before training at LAMDA. He made his London stage debut in 1964 with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Peter Brook's production of The Screens, and went on to perform at the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, and the West End. He is best known to Doctor Who fans as the third actor to play the Master in the 1981 serial The Keeper of Traken (credited on-screen only as "Melkur" to keep the reveal a surprise), a role he has since reprised in numerous Big Finish Productions audio dramas. He was married to actress Caroline John, who played Liz Shaw in Doctor Who, from 1970 until her death in 2012; they had three children. His film credits include Victor/Victoria (1982), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Goodnight Mister Tom (1998, as the vicar), Clash of the Titans (2010), Miss Potter (2006), The Edge of Love (2008), Legend (2015), and The Sandman (2022). On television, he has appeared in over two hundred productions including The Jewel in the Crown (1984), A Very British Coup (1988), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), Yes, Prime Minister (1986), Red Dwarf (1988), Jonathan Creek (1997), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989), The Railway Children (2000), The Tudors (2007), Plebs (2013), and Slow Horses. In theatre, Beevers has worked extensively at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, both as an actor (including the title role in Jules Romain's Doctor Knock, 1994) and as an adaptor/director of George Eliot's Adam Bede (1990, for which he won a Time Out Award), Silas Marner (1998), and Balzac's Père Goriot (1994). He has also done extensive radio work for the BBC, and published his autobiography, One Man In His Time — The Life of a Working Actor, in 2025.
Known For
Filmography
The Sandman
TV · as Alex Burgess (Elder) · 1 ep
The Doctors: Heroes and Villains!
Movie
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
TV · as Self · 4 eps
National Theatre Live: Amadeus
Movie · as Baron Gottfried Van Swieten
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Movie · as Equerry
Carry On: The Life of Caroline John
Movie
Plebs
TV · as Phoenix · 1 ep
Bad Education
TV · as Vicar · 1 ep
Foster
Movie · as Man in Suit
Clash of the Titans
Movie · as Noble (Basilica)
The Kid
Movie · as Headmaster
On Expenses
Movie · as Douglas Hogg MP
Adrift
Movie · as Bill
Reggie Perrin
TV · as Vicar · 1 ep
Cass
Movie · as Vicar
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie · as The Master (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Movie · as Head Panelist
Miss Potter
Movie · as Mr. Copperthwaite
Fragile
Movie · as Father Tom
My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117
Movie · as Cleric
The Railway Children
Movie · as District Superintendent
The Mystery of Men
Movie · as Dr Littleton
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Movie · as Building Society Manager
Boyz Unlimited
TV · as Mr Hornchurch · 3 eps
The Vice
TV · as Fielding · 1 ep
Acts of Passion
TV · as Dr Roberts · 1 ep
Goodnight, Mister Tom
Movie · as Vicar
The Woodlanders
Movie · as Agent
Monk Dawson
Movie · as Paterson
The Last Salute
TV · as Minister of Transport · 1 ep
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Movie · as Father Gorman
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Newscaster · 1 ep
Jonathan Creek
TV · as Neville Spivey · 1 ep
Bodyguards
TV · as DAC James Henty · 7 eps
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Movie · as Judge
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Movie · as Right Hon. Brian Rutherford
Silent Witness
TV · 2 eps
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
TV · as Judge · 1 ep
Dalziel and Pascoe
TV · as Vicar, Catholic Priest · 1 ep
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Movie · as Brian Rutherford / Wittaker
Downtime
Movie · as 'Harrods' Haroldson
The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder
Movie · as Hunter
The Queen's Nose
TV · as Registrar · 1 ep
The Ghostbusters of East Finchley
TV · as Mr Wheatley Jnr · 1 ep
Measure for Measure
Movie · as Friar Thomas
The Eligible Bachelor
Movie · as Insp. Montgomery
Peak Practice
TV · as Stuart Johnson · 1 ep
After the Dance
Movie · as Arthur Power
A Time to Dance
TV · as Christopher Pearson · 3 eps
Prime Suspect
TV · as Coroner
Performance
TV · as Arthur Power, Friar Thomas · 1 ep
The Darling Buds of May
TV · as Mr. Gibbins · 1 ep
The Stranger
TV · as Hunter · 1 ep
In Suspicious Circumstances
TV · as Maj Burnand · 1 ep
Stanley and the Women
TV · as Television Guest · 1 ep
The Chief
TV · as Prof. Hawthorne · 1 ep
A Sense of Guilt
TV · as Dr Walcot · 1 ep
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Seddon · 1 ep
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Movie · as Jim Kitteridge
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Movie · as Oliver Hatton
Red Dwarf
TV · as Doctor · 1 ep
A Very British Coup
TV · as Wainwright · 3 eps
War and Remembrance
TV · as Denton Shairpe · 1 ep
Inspector Morse
TV · as Peter Foster · 1 ep
Bust
TV · as Ron Pemberton · 1 ep
Link
Movie · as Mr. Miller
The Marlowe Inquest
Movie · as Ingram Frizer
Lovejoy
TV · as Alfred Mason · 1 ep
Kit Curran
TV · 1 ep
Casualty
TV · as Francis Twine · 1 ep
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV · as Sodd · 1 ep
ScreenPlay
TV · as Ingram Frizer · 1 ep
Yes, Prime Minister
TV · as Arts Minister · 1 ep
The Bill
TV · 2 eps
Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Inspector Montgomery · 1 ep
The Jewel in the Crown
TV · as Kevin Coley · 7 eps
Curse of the Pink Panther
Movie · as Concierge
Taggart
TV · 1 ep
Ivanhoe
Movie · as Beaslin
Victor/Victoria
Movie · as Police Inspector
Stalky & Co
TV · as Mr Hartopp · 3 eps
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
Movie · as Melkur (voice) / The Master
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
TV · as Number Three · 1 ep
Bergerac
TV · as Bishop · 1 ep
Hamlet
Movie · as Third Player / Lucianus
Growing Pains
Movie · as Gravedigger
Magnum, P.I.
TV · as Mortuary Attendant · 2 eps
Escape
TV · 1 ep
Hammer House of Horror
TV · as Gravedigger · 1 ep
Breakaway
TV · as Osgood · 1 ep
Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as The Health Inspector · 1 ep
The Legend of King Arthur
TV · as Graminore · 1 ep
The Nativity
Movie · as Eleazar
Anna Karenina
TV · 1 ep
Churchill's People
TV · as Philip, (voice) · 1 ep
The Jensen Code
TV · as Dr Verney · 2 eps
Van der Valk
TV · as Kroll · 1 ep
Budgie
TV · as Phillips · 1 ep
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Movie · as Private Johnson
Public Eye
TV · as Ralston · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Melkur (voice), Private Johnson · 4 eps