Acting
Geoffrey Beevers
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.
Filmography
The Sandman
Series · 2022
The Doctors: Heroes and Villains!
Film · 2020
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
Series · 2018
National Theatre Live: Amadeus
Film · 2017
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Film · 2013
Carry On: The Life of Caroline John
Film · 2013
Plebs
Series · 2013
Bad Education
Series · 2012
Foster
Film · 2011
Clash of the Titans
Film · 2010
The Kid
Film · 2010
On Expenses
Film · 2010
Adrift
Film · 2009
Reggie Perrin
Series · 2009
Cass
Film · 2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Film · 2008
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Film · 2008
Miss Potter
Film · 2006
Fragile
Film · 2005
My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117
Film · 2002
The Railway Children
Film · 2000
The Mystery of Men
Film · 1999
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Film · 1999
Boyz Unlimited
Series · 1999
The Vice
Series · 1999
Acts of Passion
Series · 1999
Goodnight, Mister Tom
Film · 1998
The Woodlanders
Film · 1998
Monk Dawson
Film · 1998
The Last Salute
Series · 1998
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Film · 1997
Midsomer Murders
Series · 1997
Jonathan Creek
Series · 1997
Bodyguards
Series · 1997
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Film · 1996
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Film · 1996
Silent Witness
Series · 1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Series · 1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
Series · 1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
Series · 1996
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Film · 1995
Downtime
Film · 1995
The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder
Film · 1995
The Queen's Nose
Series · 1995
The Ghostbusters of East Finchley
Series · 1995
Measure for Measure
Film · 1994
The Eligible Bachelor
Film · 1993
Peak Practice
Series · 1993
After the Dance
Film · 1992
A Time to Dance
Series · 1992
Prime Suspect
Series · 1991
Performance
Series · 1991
The Darling Buds of May
Series · 1991
Performance
Series · 1991
The Stranger
Series · 1991
In Suspicious Circumstances
Series · 1991
Stanley and the Women
Series · 1991
The Chief
Series · 1990
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Series · 1989
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Film · 1988
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Film · 1988
Red Dwarf
Series · 1988
A Very British Coup
Series · 1988
War and Remembrance
Series · 1988
Inspector Morse
Series · 1987
Bust
Series · 1987
Link
Film · 1986
The Marlowe Inquest
Film · 1986
Lovejoy
Series · 1986
Kit Curran
Series · 1986
Casualty
Series · 1986
A Very Peculiar Practice
Series · 1986
ScreenPlay
Series · 1986
Yes, Prime Minister
Series · 1986
The Bill
Series · 1984
Sherlock Holmes
Series · 1984
The Jewel in the Crown
Series · 1984
Curse of the Pink Panther
Film · 1983
Taggart
Series · 1983
Ivanhoe
Film · 1982
Victor/Victoria
Film · 1982
Stalky & Co
Series · 1982
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
Film · 1981
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Series · 1981
Bergerac
Series · 1981
Hamlet
Film · 1980
Growing Pains
Film · 1980
Magnum, P.I.
Series · 1980
Escape
Series · 1980
Hammer House of Horror
Series · 1980
Breakaway
Series · 1980
Tales of the Unexpected
Series · 1979
The Legend of King Arthur
Series · 1979
The Nativity
Film · 1978
Anna Karenina
Series · 1977
Churchill's People
Series · 1974
Churchill's People
Series · 1974
The Jensen Code
Series · 1973
Van der Valk
Series · 1972
Budgie
Series · 1971
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Film · 1970
Public Eye
Series · 1965
Doctor Who
Series · 1963
Doctor Who
Series · 1963