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Christopher Godwin

Acting 83 August 5, 1943

Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, UK

Christopher Godwin (born 5 August 1943) is a British actor who has been active since the late 1960s. He made his TV debut at the age of 25, when he took on the role of PC Grange…

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Christopher Godwin (born 5 August 1943) is a British actor who has been active since the late 1960s. He made his TV debut at the age of 25, when he took on the role of PC Grange in an episode of Softly, Softly. He has since made appearances in television dramas including Z-Cars, Nearly a Happy Ending, Return to Waterloo, South of the Border, Return to Treasure Island, Nice Work, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, My Family and Other Animals, FairyTale: A True Story, The Bill, Murder in Mind, Waking the Dead and The Peter Principle (There's Something About Geoffrey). His film career has included roles in Porridge (1979), Charlie Muffin (1979), Bullshot (1983), A Handful of Dust (1988), FairyTale: A True Story (1997), Jinnah (1998), Scoop (2006), A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013), The Crucible (2014), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Emma (2020), and The Dig (2021). In 2012, he guest starred in Season 1, Episode 4 of A Young Doctor's Notebook as Leopold Leopoldovitch. He also voiced Darth Vowrawn in the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, Chancellor Roderick in the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition, and he played the voice of 3 people in the video game Subnautica (Paul Torgal, Lifepod 7 Crew, and Captain Hollister). In January 2016, he played Lord Berners in Episode 3 of the BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama What England Owes. He is also the voice of King Carnelian in Dragon Quest XI.

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2025
Return to Narnia
Movie Self
2024
National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
Movie Grampa Joad / Contractor
2023
Bodies
TV show Reverend Kneale
2022
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Movie Narrator
2022
Anatomy of a Scandal
TV show Dr. Howard Blackburn
2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Movie Headmaster (1997)
2021
The Dig
Movie Dr Parry
2020
Emma.
Movie Mr. Perrie
2018
Mary Poppins Returns
Movie Information Desk Clerk
2017
The Miniaturist
TV show Pastor Pellicorne
2017
The Miniaturist
Movie Pastor Pellicorne
2014
The Crucible
Movie Judge Hathorne
2013
A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day
Movie Athelstan
2013
National Theatre Live: This House
Movie Woolwich West / Batley & Morley / Western Isles
2013
Endeavour
TV show Theo Conklin
2012
A Young Doctor's Notebook
TV show Judge / Leopold Leopoldovich