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A supporting actor at the RSC for ten years from 1971, Patrick Godfrey was a master of pointed characterisations. He was particularly evident in David Jones's productions of Gorky and Chekhov at the Aldwych, and in Trevor Nunn's 'The Romans', Three Sisters (the first small-scale tour, 1978) and Nicholas Nickleby. In 1989/90 he returned to the Company to play, with typical precision, Polonius in Hamlet, Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, and Pavlin in Gorky's Barbarians.
His RSC career began and ended with Gorky: First Worker in Gorky's Enemies (David Jones, Aldwych, 1971); Mr Smirk in The Man of Mode (Terry Hands, Aldwych, 1971); Servant in Miss Julie (Robin Phillips, The Place, 1971); Louis in Jean Genet's The Balcony (Hands, Aldwych, 1971); First Senator in Coriolanus (Trevor Nunn/Buzz Goodbody, RST, 1972, Aldwych, 1973); First Senator in Julius Caesar (Nunn/Goodbody, RST, 1972, Aldwych, 1973); Maecenas in Antony and Cleopatra (Nunn/Goodbody, RST, 1972, Aldwych, 1973); Sempronius in Titus Andronicus (Nunn/Goodbody, RST, 1972, Aldwych, 1973); Somerset Swayze in Section Nine (Charles Marowitz, The Place, 1973, Aldwych, 1974); Sir Edward Leighton in Sherlock Holmes (Frank Dunlop, Aldwych, 1974); Torres in Peter Barnes's The Bewitched (Hands, Aldwych, 1974); Kirill in Gorky's Summerfolk (Jones, Aldwych, 1974, US Tour, 1975); Gendarme/Erwin/Urff in Snoo Wilson's The Beast (Howard Davies, The Place, 1974); Boyet, succeeding Sebastian Shaw, in Love's Labour's Lost (Jones, US Tour and Aldwych, 1975); Mr Tetgeen in The Marrying of Ann Leete (Jones, Aldwych, 1975); The Doctor in Too True to be Good (Clifford Williams, Aldwych, 1975, Globe, 1975); Tarakanov in Gorky's The Zykovs (Jones, Aldwych, 1976); Hugo Kalmar in The Iceman Cometh (Davies, Aldwych, 1976); Major Swindon in The Devil's Disciple (Jack Gold, Aldwych, 1976); Kosych in Ivanov (Jones, Aldwych, 1976); Smooth in Wild Oats (Williams, Aldwych, 1976, RST, 1977, Piccadilly, 1977); Kulighin in Three Sisters (Nunn) and Antonio in Twelfth Night (John Amiel, Small-scale Tour, 1978); Shallow in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nunn/John Caird, RST, 1979, Aldwych, 1980); Belarius in Cymbeline (Jones, RST, 1979); Watzmann/Dr Piller/The Tramp in Brecht's Baal (Jones, TOP, 1979, Warehouse, 1980); Kulighin in Three Sisters (Nunn, TOP, 1979, Warehouse, 1980); Mr Kenwigs in Nicholas Nickleby (Nunn/Caird, Aldwych, 1980, 1981, New York, 1981); Polonius in the Mark Rylance Hamlet (Ron Daniels, UK Tour, 1988, RST, 1989, Barbican, 1989-90); Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet (Hands, Swan, 1989, Pit, 1989-90); and Pavlin in Gorky's Barbarians (Jones, Barbican, 1990).
In features, his ability to deliver a vivid cameo is best seen in four films by James Ivory—Heat and Dust (1983), A Room With a View (1986, as the Reverend Mr Eager), Maurice (1987), and The Remains of the Day (1993). Other notable screen work: The Six Wives of Henry VIII (BBC, 1971); Cominius in Coriolanus and Helicanus in Pericles for the BBC Shakespeare (1984); Blott on the Landscape (BBC, 1985); Clockwise (Christopher Morahan, 1986); Edge of Darkness (BBC, 1986); John le Carré's A Perfect Spy (BBC, 1987); Behaving Badly (Channel Four, 1988); Cruel Train (Malcolm McKay, 1995); A Dance to the Music of Time (1997); Leonardo da Vinci in Ever After (1998); The Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds, 2002); Michael Foot in The Falklands Play (BBC, 2002); and Merriman in The Importance of Being Earnest (Oliver Parker, 2002).
Education: Central School of Speech and Drama
RSC: Joined 1971
Seasons: 1971 (Lond.); 1972 (Strat.)-73 (Lond.); 1974 (Lond.); 1975 (US Tour/Lond.); 1976/77 (Lond.); 1978 (Small-scale Tour); 1979 (Strat.)-80/81 (Lond.); 1988 (UK Tour); 1989 (Strat.)-89/90 (Lond.)
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