Geoffrey Beevers

Geoffrey Beevers is a British actor born on 15 January 1941. The only son of D. Beevers, he attended Tonbridge School before going on to Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied History and earned a B.A. in 1962.

Beevers built a substantial stage career over several decades. At the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, he worked both as a performer and as an adaptor and director. His acting credits there include the title role in Jules Romain's Doctor Knock in 1994. He adapted George Eliot's novel Adam Bede for the stage in February 1990, a production he also directed, earning him a Time Out Award. He returned to the Orange Tree in February 1994 to adapt and direct Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot. In 2012, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Fray Antonio in Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love. The following year, in March 2013, he appeared opposite Helen Mirren at the Gielgud Theatre in Peter Morgan's The Audience, playing a role he reprised in February 2015 when the production transferred to the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York City, marking his Broadway debut. From October 2016 through March 2017, he portrayed Baron Gottfried Van Swieten in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus at the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Stage.

Beevers has accumulated an extensive television record across British film and broadcast productions. He appeared in the 1978 television film The Nativity and played Major Hetman Jack Parham in a 1986 BBC adaptation of Parham's 1936 book Flying For Fun. In 1988 he took a role in The Great Escape II: The Untold Story and played Wainwright, a Member of Parliament, in Channel 4's A Very British Coup. In 1993 he portrayed Inspector Montgomery in the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes episode The Eligible Bachelor. He appeared in multiple episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot and played a noble of Basilica in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans. In February 2010 he portrayed Douglas Hogg in the television film On Expenses. He also played the vicar in the film Goodnight Mister Tom.

Within the Doctor Who universe, Beevers is particularly recognized for playing the Master in the serial The Keeper of Traken, a role he has since reprised across numerous Big Finish Productions audio dramas, among them Dust Breeding, Master, Trail of the White Worm, The Oseidon Adventure, Mastermind, And You Will Obey Me, The Two Masters, The Light at the End, The Evil One, Requiem for the Rocket Men, Death Match, and Masterful. In June 2013 he narrated the unabridged audio edition of Doctor Who: Harvest of Time by Alastair Reynolds. He also recorded audiobook readings of several Doctor Who novelizations, including Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons, Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon, Doctor Who and the Sea Devils, Doctor Who and the Space War, Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin, Doctor Who and the State of Decay, and The Ambassadors of Death.

In his personal life, Beevers was married to actress Caroline John, known for her role as Liz Shaw in Doctor Who, from June 1970 until her death on 5 June 2012. They had three children together: a daughter, Daisy, and two sons, Ben and Tom.