Geoffrey Michael Chater Robinson was an English film, television and stage actor.
10 Facts About Geoffrey Chater
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Geoffrey Chater appeared in the crime drama series Callan, Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders.
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Geoffrey Michael Chater Robinson was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire on 23 March 1921 and lived in Iden, East Sussex and London.
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Geoffrey Chater's father, Lawrence Chater Robinson, was a composer of music for dance bands and his mother Peggy was an actress.
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Geoffrey Chater served as a captain in India and Burma, where he wrote and performed in revues for the troops during time off.
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Geoffrey Chater became an assistant stage manager at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, where in 1947, made his first professional appearance in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Geoffrey Chater had a minor role in the British TV serial Brideshead Revisited, in which he played the role of a British Consul.
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Geoffrey Chater made his film debut in 1958 with The Strange World of Planet X In Gandhi, he played the chairman of the inquiry into the Amritsar massacre.
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In 2017, Geoffrey Chater began giving poetry readings and he continued to read the lesson at his local church until lockdown was imposed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic on 23 March 2020, his 99th birthday.
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Geoffrey Chater turned 100 on 23 March 2021 and died on 16 October 2021 in Iden, East Sussex.