Actor

Godfrey Winn

October 15, 1906 · King's Norton, Worcestershire, England

Godfrey Herbert Winn (15 October 1906 – 19 June 1971) was an English journalist known as a columnist, and also a writer and actor.

Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, he attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. His career as a theatre actor began as a boy at the Haymarket Theatre and he appeared in many plays and films. He went on to write a number of novels and biographical works, and became a star columnist for the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Express newspapers, where he wrote "Dear Abby" articles for lovelorn women. Journalists nicknamed him 'Winifred God' because of his popularity with women readers. Winn was gay and never married.

Often works with

Eric Barker
2 titles together
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, The Bargee
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Frankie Howerd
2 titles together
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, Up the Chastity Belt

Full filmography · 5

Up the Chastity Belt
as The Archbishop Of All England
19724.1
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
as Truelove
19666.2
The Bargee
as Announcer (voice)
1964
Billy Liar
as Disc Jockey
19636.8
Blighty
as Robin Villiers
1927