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Geoffrey Whitehead
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Geoffrey Whitehead (born 1 October 1939 in Sheffield) is a highly regarded English actor. He has appeared in a huge range of television, film and radio roles. In the theatre, he has played at the Shakespeare Globe, St. Martin's Theatre and Bristol Old Vic.
His television appearances include Z-Cars (1964–1965 and 1972–1975), Holmes in the 1980 television series Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Richard Smith in Second Thoughts (1991–1994), The House of Eliott (1991), Executive Stress and The Worst Week of My Life. He is regularly seen on British television as well as filling many roles on radio, where he featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Old Harry's Game and as the prior in the 1980s BBC radio dramatisations of "Cadfael". Geoffrey Whitehead is a very versatile actor, with a very characteristic and flexible voice, and he is evidently at home with dramatic and comic roles; he also has a fine sense of comic timing and delivery. He has starred on BBC radio in many comic roles, for example, as the radio husband of comedienne Pam Ayres.
