Geoffrey Beevers

Geoffrey Beevers is a British actor who read history at Wadham College, Oxford, and graduated in 1962. Much of his stage career has been with the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, where he acted and adapted and directed George Eliot's Adam Bede, winning a Time Out Award, and Balzac's Père Goriot. He played Baron Gottfried Van Swieten in Amadeus at the National Theatre from 2016 to 2017, and appeared opposite Helen Mirren in The Audience in 2013, reprising the part in New York in 2015. His television work includes the vicar in Goodnight Mister Tom (1998), Inspector Montgomery in The Eligible Bachelor (1993), and a role in The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988). He played the Master in Doctor Who's The Keeper of Traken and has since voiced the character in Big Finish audio dramas, and he narrated several Doctor Who audiobooks.