Geoffrey Beevers


Geoffrey Beevers is a British actor who has appeared in many stage and screen roles.

Early life and education

Only son of D. Beevers, Geoffrey Beevers was educated at Tonbridge School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read History and took a B.A. in 1962.

Career

Theatre

Beevers has worked extensively at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, both as an actor ; and as an adaptor/director of George Eliot's novel Adam Bede, for which he won a Time Out Award, and Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot.
In 2012, Beevers appeared as Fray Antonio in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love. In March 2013 he played opposite Helen Mirren in Peter Morgan's play The Audience at the Gielgud Theatre, and reprised the role in February 2015 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York City.
From October 2016 to March 2017, he played Baron Gottfried Van Swieten in a production of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer at the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Stage.

Television

Beevers played the vicar in the film Goodnight Mister Tom, and appeared in the 1978 television film The Nativity. In 1986 he played Major Hetman Jack Parham in a BBC TV adaptation of Parham's 1936 book, "Flying For Fun". In 1988 he appeared in the TV movie sequel The Great Escape II: The Untold Story, and played Wainwright in A Very British Coup for Channel 4 Television. In 1993, Beevers appeared as Inspector Montgomery in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes feature length episode The Eligible Bachelor. He played several roles in the TV drama Agatha Christie's Poirot, and a small role in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans as a noble of Basilica. In February 2010 Beevers played Douglas Hogg in the television film On Expenses.

''Doctor Who''

Beevers has made two appearances in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, including playing Master (Doctor Who)|the Master] in the serial The Keeper of Traken, a role he has since reprised in some of Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio dramas. Beevers narrated the unabridged audio edition of Doctor Who: Harvest of Time, by Alastair Reynolds, released in June 2013. He also read the AudioGO audiobooks of Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons, Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon, Doctor Who and the Sea Devils, Doctor Who and the Space War, Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin, Doctor Who and the State of Decay, and The Ambassadors of Death.

Personal life

Beevers was married to actress Caroline John, who appeared in Doctor Who as Liz Shaw, from June 1970 until her death on 5 June 2012. They had three children: daughter Daisy and sons Ben and Tom.

Selected credits

Doctor Who related

Doctor Who - Melkur/The Master/Private Johnson Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures - The Master/Seta Doctor Who: Target Novelisation Audiobooks - Narrator Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures - The Master Doctor Who: Classic Doctor Novel Readings - Narrator Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Master Doctor Who: The Light at the End - The Master Jago & Litefoot - The Master Doctor Who: Audio Annuals - Narrator Doctor Who: Short Trips - The Master The Diary of a River Song - The Master Doctor Who: Ravenous - The Master Masterful - The Master Doctor Who Unbound - The Master/Xaonon 3 Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor Adventures - The Master

Miscellaneous

Thirteen Against Fate - 2nd man The Jensen Code - Doctor Verney Coronation Street - Mr. Liston It Ain't Half Hot Mum - BBC technician The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Number Three Play of the Month - Telephonist/Servant A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery - Ryland Vaughan The Bill - Bernard/Brian Mumford/Labour Councillor Whickham