Derek Godfrey
Known for ActingBorn 1924-06-03 — died 1983-06-18London, England, UK
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".
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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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Known for
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
1971 · as Crow
The Vengeance of She
1968 · as Men-Hari
The Wild Duck
1971 · as Gregers Werle
The Prince and the Pauper
1962 · as Guard
The Tempest
1980 · as Antonio
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968 · as Theseus
The Basement
1967 · as Law
Shaggy Dog
1968 · as Mr Parker
Thank You, Comrades
1978 · as Trotsky
Guns of Darkness
1962 · as Hernandez
Of Mycenae and Men
1979
A Catching Complaint
1966 · as Nic-Nic
Mrs. Warren's Profession
1972 · as Mr. Praed
Hands of the Ripper
1971 · as Dysart
Sharp at Four
1964 · as Boatwright
A Month in the Country
1966
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
1968
Electra
1974 · as Tutor to Orestes