Geoffrey Beevers
Acting
Born: January 15, 1941 (age 85) · Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK
Highest Rated
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.
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Movies (42)
Clash of the Titans
Noble (Basilica)
Miss Potter
Mr. Copperthwaite
Victor/Victoria
Police Inspector
Curse of the Pink Panther
Concierge
Link
Mr. Miller
Foster
Man in Suit
Fragile
Father Tom
Cass
Vicar
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Father Gorman
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Equerry
Ivanhoe
Beaslin
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Building Society Manager
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Jim Kitteridge
Goodnight, Mister Tom
Vicar
The Railway Children
District Superintendent
The Eligible Bachelor
Insp. Montgomery
Hamlet
Third Player / Lucianus
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Judge
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
Melkur (voice) / The Master
The Nativity
Eleazar
National Theatre Live: Amadeus
Baron Gottfried Van Swieten
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Private Johnson
Adrift
Bill
The Kid
Headmaster
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Oliver Hatton
Growing Pains
Gravedigger
The Ties That Bind Us
The Master (archive footage)
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Brian Rutherford / Wittaker
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Head Panelist
The Woodlanders
Agent
On Expenses
Douglas Hogg MP
The Mystery of Men
Dr Littleton
My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117
Cleric
The Doctors: Heroes and Villains!
2020
After the Dance
Arthur Power
Carry On: The Life of Caroline John
2013
The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder
Hunter
Downtime
'Harrods' Haroldson
Measure for Measure
Friar Thomas
Monk Dawson
Paterson
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Right Hon. Brian Rutherford
The Marlowe Inquest
Ingram Frizer
TV Shows (55)
Midsomer Murders
Newscaster · 1 eps
Doctor Who
Melkur (voice) · 4 eps
Doctor Who
Private Johnson · 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Seddon · 1 eps
Casualty
Francis Twine · 1 eps
Magnum, P.I.
Mortuary Attendant · 2 eps
Silent Witness
2 eps
Peak Practice
Stuart Johnson · 1 eps
The Bill
2 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
The Health Inspector · 1 eps
The Sandman
Alex Burgess (Elder) · 1 eps
Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Montgomery · 1 eps
Red Dwarf
Doctor · 1 eps
Bergerac
Bishop · 1 eps
Inspector Morse
Peter Foster · 1 eps
Dalziel and Pascoe
Vicar · 1 eps
Dalziel and Pascoe
Catholic Priest · 1 eps
Performance
Arthur Power · 1 eps
Performance
Friar Thomas · 1 eps
Taggart
1 eps
Jonathan Creek
Neville Spivey · 1 eps
Public Eye
Ralston · 1 eps
Lovejoy
Alfred Mason · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Ingram Frizer · 1 eps
Prime Suspect
Coroner
The Chief
Prof. Hawthorne · 1 eps
Van der Valk
Kroll · 1 eps
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Number Three · 1 eps
The Vice
Fielding · 1 eps
Bad Education
Vicar · 1 eps
Plebs
Phoenix · 1 eps
The Darling Buds of May
Mr. Gibbins · 1 eps
Hammer House of Horror
Gravedigger · 1 eps
War and Remembrance
Denton Shairpe · 1 eps
Budgie
Phillips · 1 eps
Churchill's People
Philip · 1 eps
Churchill's People
(voice) · 1 eps
In Suspicious Circumstances
Maj Burnand · 1 eps
Yes, Prime Minister
Arts Minister · 1 eps
The Queen's Nose
Registrar · 1 eps
A Very Peculiar Practice
Sodd · 1 eps
The Jewel in the Crown
Kevin Coley · 7 eps
The Legend of King Arthur
Graminore · 1 eps
Anna Karenina
1 eps
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Judge · 1 eps
A Very British Coup
Wainwright · 3 eps
Reggie Perrin
Vicar · 1 eps
Boyz Unlimited
Mr Hornchurch · 3 eps
The Stranger
Hunter · 1 eps
The Jensen Code
Dr Verney · 2 eps
Bust
Ron Pemberton · 1 eps
Stanley and the Women
Television Guest · 1 eps
A Sense of Guilt
Dr Walcot · 1 eps
A Time to Dance
Christopher Pearson · 3 eps
Bodyguards
DAC James Henty · 7 eps
