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Geoffrey McGivern
Homepage
https://anthearepresents.com/artist/geoff-mcgivern
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1952-01-01,Battersea, London, England, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
Geoffrey M. McGivern is a British actor in film, television, radio and stage, as well as a comedian. He is best known for originating the role of Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He played Ford Prefect in the radio series (1978–80) and subsequent LP releases of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams whom he knew from Cambridge University, and reprised the role for the four new series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2004 and 2018. A more recent radio broadcast was in The Ape That Got Lucky and he has appeared in TV shows such as Noel's House Party, Press Gang, Chef!, Big Train, Blackadder the Third ("Dish and Dishonesty") as Ivor Biggun, Chelmsford 123, Jonathan Creek, 15 Storeys High, Armstrong and Miller, Toast of London and series three of Peep Show. McGivern appeared in the first series of the comedy show Big Train in 1998, and later that year for the 1998 radio SciFi drama Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (Colin Swash, BBC) McGivern teamed up with old Hitchhiker's colleague Stephen Moore and Lorelei King (member of cast in the 2005 Hitchhiker's radio show sequel). He later played the Supreme Ruler in BBC2's sci-fi comedy Hyperdrive (2006–2007). In 2007, he appeared in the BBC Radio 4 comedy Peacefully in their Sleeps and in 2008 he appeared as Professor John Mycroft in the BBC2 science sitcom Lab Rats and in the 2008 BBC series Little Dorrit where he played Mr Rugg. He also appeared in episode 5 of series 3 of the TV series A Bit of Fry and Laurie. In 2015, he guest-starred in EastEnders as Dickie Ticker, the crude comic brought in by Mick Carter for Kush Kazemi's stag night. In 2016, he appeared in four episodes of the Disney Channel musical drama The Lodge, as Patrick. McGivern played the narrator Charlie Swinburne in the BBC Radio's 2013 six part dramatisation of G. K. Chesterton's The Club of Queer Trades. In 2017, he appeared in the Channel 4 sitcom Back, written by Simon Blackwell, alongside David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Later that year, he began portraying the recurring role of Frank in the Netflix series Free Rein. Since 2019, he has appeared as recurring character Barclay Beg-Chetwynde in the BBC comedy Ghosts. In 2022, he appeared as the main character Russ, in Radio 4 comedy No-Platformed. The show's episode guide contains a humorous note about McGivern's extensive credit list, by starting a list of his credits and then adding "oh, hundreds of things". In 2024, he appeared as recurring character Lord Rookwood in the Apple TV+ series The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.

Filmography

6

Magicians
2007-05-18

0

Tower-D
2018-11-29

0

Gobble
1997-02-15

0

Mr. Pye
1986-03-02

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

6.7

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
2015-01-02

4.9

Hancock & Joan
2008-03-26

7

In Dreams
1992-12-23

6

The Ghoul
2017-08-04

6.125

Wilt
1989-05-12

3

Here Boy
2016-04-24

The Young Americans

5.8

The Young Americans
1993-10-08

5.2

Blackball
2003-05-18

6.136

Onegin
1999-12-22

Holy Flying Circus

6.3

Holy Flying Circus
2011-10-19

Cambridge University 1974 Footlights Revue

0

Cambridge University 1974 Footlights Revue
1974-08-26

Half Broken Things

6.8

Half Broken Things
2007-10-28

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

6.8

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008-06-12

3.8

Stardust
2020-11-25

7.8

Chef
1993-01-28

6.6

Semi-Detached
2020-08-06

This Time with Alan Partridge

7.8

This Time with Alan Partridge
2019-02-25

6

Stressed Eric
1998-04-20

6.5

This Is Jinsy
2010-03-01

Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie

0

Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie
1990-02-15

A Touch of Cloth

7.3

A Touch of Cloth
2012-08-26

7.1

Big Train
1998-11-09

Sister Boniface Mysteries

6.422

Sister Boniface Mysteries
2022-03-11

5.333

Together
2015-10-06

7.5

Jonathan Creek
1997-05-09

0

Lab Rats
2008-07-10

Murder Most Horrid

6.8

Murder Most Horrid
1991-11-14

8.187

Outlander
2014-08-09

7.3

Plebs
2013-03-25

6.5

Hyperdrive
2006-01-11

7.4

Quacks
2017-08-15

7.981

Blackadder
1983-06-15

7.3

Back
2017-09-06

0

Rita Rudner
1990-09-18

6.4

The Larkins
2021-10-10

Decline and Fall

5.6

Decline and Fall
2017-03-31

Eye of the Storm

8

Eye of the Storm
1993-01-08

7.1

Heartbeat
1992-04-10

7.241

Episodes
2011-01-09

7.1

Heartbeat
1992-04-10

7.899

Ghosts
2019-04-15

7.1

Blandings
2013-01-13

7.1

Upstart Crow
2016-05-09

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

6.5

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024-03-01

8.051

Peep Show
2003-09-19

7.6

Benidorm
2007-02-01

Noel's Christmas Presents

0

Noel's Christmas Presents
1986-12-25

6.8

Quiz
2020-04-13

A Young Doctor's Notebook

7.136

A Young Doctor's Notebook
2012-12-06

7.899

Ghosts
2019-04-15

Birds of a Feather

6.1

Birds of a Feather
1989-10-16

15 Storeys High

8.1

15 Storeys High
2002-11-07

15 Storeys High

8.1

15 Storeys High
2002-11-07

Drop the Dead Donkey

7

Drop the Dead Donkey
1990-08-09

Drop the Dead Donkey

7

Drop the Dead Donkey
1990-08-09

Drop the Dead Donkey

7

Drop the Dead Donkey
1990-08-09

Drop the Dead Donkey

7

Drop the Dead Donkey
1990-08-09

0

Annie's Bar
1996-02-01

7.3

Grantchester
2014-10-06

7

Chelmsford 123
1988-03-09

7

Chelmsford 123
1988-03-09

Look Around You

8.1

Look Around You
2002-10-10

7.8

Little Dorrit
2008-10-26

Doctors and Nurses

4

Doctors and Nurses
2004-01-13