Christopher Godwin
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(26 total)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
as Headmaster (1997)
Mary Poppins Returns
as Information Desk Clerk
Emma.
as Mr. Perrie
Scoop
as Desk Clerk
The Dig
as Dr Parry
The Avengers
as World Council of Ministers
Blackball
as Bowls Official
A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day
as Athelstan
The Miniaturist
as Pastor Pellicorne
A Handful of Dust
as Dr. Messinger
Porridge
as Mr. Beal
Return to Waterloo
as Businessman
Every Home Should Have One
as Magistrate's Clerk
The Crucible
as Judge Hathorne
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
as Narrator
Cold Enough for Snow
as Golfing Lecturer
Charlie Muffin
as Snare
Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Northumberland/Silence
National Theatre Live: This House
as Woolwich West / Batley & Morley / Western Isles
TV Shows
(20 total)
Bodies
as Reverend Kneale
Endeavour
as Theo Conklin
Anatomy of a Scandal
as Dr. Howard Blackburn
The Miniaturist
as Pastor Pellicorne
A Young Doctor's Notebook
as Judge / Leopold Leopoldovich
A Young Doctor's Notebook
as Leopold Leopoldovich
The Hollow Crown
as Shepherd II
Lovejoy
as Konrad Dekker
Waking the Dead
as Lord Cole
Land Girls
as Kirkham
The Chronicles of Narnia
as Lord Rhoop
After You've Gone
as Reuben Allardyce
Murder in Mind
as Mr. Lewis
C.A.T.S. Eyes
as Sir Thomas Notley
Astronauts
as Cmdr Malcolm Mattocks
Nice Work
as Prof. Philip Swallow
Taking the Floor
as Mr. Tranter