Highest rated movie: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Lowest rated movie: The Vengeance of She (1968)
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Looking for reviews of Derek Godfrey movies? Cinafilm has a total of 319 reviews across 5 movies.
Movies starring Derek Godfrey have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes - released in 1971 - is Derek Godfrey's highest rated movie, with a score of 71% based on 278 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Derek Godfrey is The Vengeance of She - released in 1968 - with a score of 36% based on 6 reviews.
Derek Godfrey (3 June 1924 – 18 June 1983) was an English actor, associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1960, who also appeared in several films and BBC television dramatisations during the 1960s and 1970s.
Born in London, he performed with the Old Vic from 1956 where he played the roles of Iachimo and Enobarbus. With the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1960, he performed as Orsino, Hector, Petruchio and Malvolio. According to The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Godfrey "[w]ith his fine voice and often sardonic appearance...was a loyal company actor who revealed an intuitive grasp of the dark characters in Jacobean plays".
He created the role of Jack Gurney in Peter Barnes's play The Ruling Class. He also appeared in a number of films such as Hands of the Ripper and The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and the BBC television dramas The Pallisers (as Robert Kennedy), Warship (as Captain Edward Holt) and Nicholas Nickleby (1977, as Ralph Nickleby).
Derek Godfrey has acted in films with James Grout, Caroline Munro, Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten.
Derek Godfrey has worked with these film directors: John Gorrie, Herbert Wise, Cliff Owen and Peter Sasdy.
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