Actor
Geoffrey McGivern
January 1, 1952 · Battersea, London, England, UK
Geoffrey M. McGivern is a British actor in film, television, radio and stage, as well as a comedian. He is best known for originating the role of Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
He played Ford Prefect in the radio series (1978–80) and subsequent LP releases of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams whom he knew from Cambridge University, and reprised the role for the four new series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2004 and 2018. A more recent radio broadcast was in The Ape That Got Lucky and he has appeared in TV shows such as Noel's House Party, Press Gang, Chef!, Big Train, Blackadder the Third ("Dish and Dishonesty") as Ivor Biggun, Chelmsford 123, Jonathan Creek, 15 Storeys High, Armstrong and Miller, Toast of London and series three of Peep Show.
Notable work
Often works with
Celia Imrie
3 titles together
Absolutely Fabulous, Vicious, Thunderpants
Stephen Fry
2 titles together
Blackadder, Thunderpants
David Mitchell
2 titles together
Peep Show, Magicians
Robert Webb
2 titles together
Peep Show, Magicians
Jim Howick
2 titles together
Peep Show, Ghosts
Mathew Baynton
2 titles together
Peep Show, Ghosts
Full filmography · 68
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
as Lord Rookwood
20246.5
Sister Boniface Mysteries
as Malise Bonham Crane
20226.5
The Larkins
as Station Master Fox
2021
Semi-Detached
as Barry
2020
Quiz
as Lieutenant Colonel Village
20206.9
Ghosts
as Barclay and as Barclay Beg-Chetwynde
20197.9
Back
as Uncle Geoff
20177.2
Quacks
as The Pub Landlord
20177.5
Decline and Fall
as Mr Wilson
2017
Upstart Crow
as Sir Thomas
20167.3
Together
as Douglas the Neighbour
2015
Grantchester
as Archdeacon
20147.2