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.
Goodnight, Mister Tom
(Vicar)
The Railway Children
(District Superintendent)
The Nativity
(Eleazar)
The Woodlanders
(Agent)
Hamlet
(Third Player / Lucianus)
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
(Jim Kitteridge)
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
(Brian Rutherford / Wittaker)
Link
(Mr. Miller)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
(Judge)
National Theatre Live: The Audience
(Equerry)
After the Dance
(Arthur Power)
Monk Dawson
(Paterson)
Measure for Measure
(Friar Thomas)
The Marlowe Inquest
(Ingram Frizer)
The Eligible Bachelor
(Insp. Montgomery)
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
(Private Johnson)
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
(Right Hon. Brian Rutherford)
Downtime
('Harrods' Haroldson)
Miss Potter
(Mr. Copperthwaite)
National Theatre Live: Amadeus
(Baron Gottfried Van Swieten)
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
(Melkur (voice) / The Master)
The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder
(Hunter)
Cass
(Vicar)
My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117
(Cleric)
The Mystery of Men
(Dr Littleton)
Carry On: The Life of Caroline John
Growing Pains
(Gravedigger)
Clash of the Titans
(Noble (Basilica))
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
(Building Society Manager)
Foster
(Man in Suit)
The Kid
(Headmaster)
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
(Oliver Hatton)
Fragile
(Father Tom)
On Expenses
(Douglas Hogg MP)
The Doctors: Heroes and Villains!
Ivanhoe
(Beaslin)
The Ties That Bind Us
(The Master (archive footage))
Curse of the Pink Panther
(Concierge)
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
(Head Panelist)
Adrift
(Bill)
Victor/Victoria
(Police Inspector)
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
(Father Gorman)
Doctor Who
(Melkur (voice))
Magnum, P.I.
(Mortuary Attendant)
Midsomer Murders
(Newscaster)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(Number Three)
The Bill
Jonathan Creek
(Neville Spivey)
Tales of the Unexpected
(The Health Inspector)
Taggart
Silent Witness
Prime Suspect
(Coroner)
Inspector Morse
(Peter Foster)
Sherlock Holmes
(Inspector Montgomery)
Lovejoy
(Alfred Mason)
Red Dwarf
(Doctor)
Van der Valk
(Kroll)
Public Eye
(Ralston)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
(Seddon)
Anna Karenina
Escape
Kit Curran
Hammer House of Horror
(Gravedigger)
Performance
(Arthur Power)
Doctor Who
(Private Johnson)
Peak Practice
(Stuart Johnson)
Bodyguards
(DAC James Henty)
Casualty
(Francis Twine)
Bergerac
(Bishop)
A Very British Coup
(Wainwright)
A Time to Dance
(Christopher Pearson)
Bust
(Ron Pemberton)
The Darling Buds of May
(Mr. Gibbins)
Budgie
(Phillips)
The Queen's Nose
(Registrar)
Bad Education
(Vicar)
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
(Self)
Performance
(Friar Thomas)
The Chief
(Prof. Hawthorne)
Breakaway
(Osgood)
The Sandman
(Alex Burgess (Elder))
Boyz Unlimited
(Mr Hornchurch)
The Jewel in the Crown
(Kevin Coley)
A Very Peculiar Practice
(Sodd)
Churchill's People
(Philip)
Churchill's People
((voice))
The Stranger
(Hunter)
Plebs
(Phoenix)
Stalky & Co
(Mr Hartopp)
The Last Salute
(Minister of Transport)
The Legend of King Arthur
(Graminore)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
(Judge)
In Suspicious Circumstances
(Maj Burnand)
Reggie Perrin
(Vicar)
War and Remembrance
(Denton Shairpe)
Stanley and the Women
(Television Guest)
The Vice
(Fielding)
ScreenPlay
(Ingram Frizer)
The Ghostbusters of East Finchley
(Mr Wheatley Jnr)
The Jensen Code
(Dr Verney)
Acts of Passion
(Dr Roberts)
Dalziel and Pascoe
(Vicar)
Dalziel and Pascoe
(Catholic Priest)
Yes, Prime Minister
(Arts Minister)
A Sense of Guilt
(Dr Walcot)