Geoffrey Palmer

Geoffrey Dyson Palmer OBE (born 4th June, 1927) is one of Britain's most recognisable actors of film and television, whose best known role is arguably that of the dour Lionel Hardcastle in the BBC sitcom As Time Goes By. His sole appearance on Coronation Street was in May 1968 where he played a registrar, and since then he has went on to make many appearances on the big and small screens, in such television series' as Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers, Butterflies and Blackadder Goes Forth, and films such as A Fish Called Wanda in 1988, The Madness of King George (1994) and 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies''.