Geoffrey Perkins

Quick Facts

Full Name	Geoffrey Perkins
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1953(1953-02-22)
Age	71
Date Of Death	2008-08-29
Birthplace	Bushey
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aquarius

Geoffrey Perkins Biography

Geoffrey Perkins is one of the most popular and richest Film Producer who was born on February 22, 1953 in Bushey, England, United Kingdom. Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 29 August 2008) was a British comedy writer, producer and actor. Most famously, he was head of comedy at the BBC chief of Comedy (1995-2001) He also produced the first two episodes on radio of The Hitchhiker’s Handbook to the Galaxy. He is one of the creators for inventing the unique panel game Mornington Crescent for I’m Sorry I’m Sorry I’m Not an Clue. In December 2008, he was got a posthumous Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award.

In the year 1980, Perkins co-wrote and featured in the radio sketch show Radio Active, revised and modified from the earlier Oxford Revue shows, and originally based on the comedy the group The Hee Bee Gee Bees comprised of Philip Pope, Angus Deayton and Michael Fenton Stevens. Before its transition from the revue to radio, the show was went on tour and appeared during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, after which it was picked from BBC Radio 4 for a pilot that was dubbed The Oxford Revue Presents Radio Active. Radio Active, “which poked fun at the amateurishness of some local radio broadcasting,” was subsequently aired for seven seasons, and also won the Sony Award. Perkins was an actor named Mike Flex, a young disc jockey who was cocky.

Perkins, with Radio Active colleague and co-writer Deayton, later produced The Uncyclopaedia of Rock for Capital Radio, winning the Monaco Radio Award for the show, and penning a 1987 tie-in book with Deayton and Jeremy Pascall.

Perkins left the BBC in 1988, to become a director of Hat Trick Productions, an independent television and radio production company. Hat Trick’s produced comedy programmes for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The first main production of Perkins was Spitting Image where he met Ben Elton, and Harry Enfield whom he got to develop the character of Douglas Hurd by suggesting he adapt it along the lines of Frank Oz’s character Fozzie Bear. As a result, Perkins developed shows for both performers, in the form of Elton’s hosted Saturday Live and sketch show The Man from Auntie; and Enfield’s Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. Perkins also developed Have I Got News For You, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Drop The Dead Donkey and Father Ted for Hat Trick, many of which won awards including Baftas.

Perkins created the first season of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in 1977 for BBC Radio 4, taking the role of pilot producer Simon Brett. Perkins helped the writer who was notoriously slow in finalizing the scripts before John Lloyd was drafted in to write the bulk of the subsequent episodes. Perkins also utilized the expertise that were available to him from the Radiophonic Workshop to help create the groundbreaking audio effects used in the show.

Geoffrey Perkins Net Worth

Geoffrey Perkins is one of the richest Film Producer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Geoffrey Perkins 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Perkins was a student at his time at the Harrow County Grammar School, along with Nigel Sheinwald, Michael Portillo and Clive Anderson, with whom he ran the debating group. In his early days, he was interested in drama, in the year 1970, Perkins teamed up alongside Clive Anderson to write a charitable revue called Happy Poison.

Perkins was a student of English during his time at Lincoln College, Oxford and at the time, wrote and directed The Oxford Revues of 1974 and 1975. Following his period in Oxford, Perkins joined the Ocean Transport and Trading Company which was where he was placed to work studying waste wood in Liverpool. Perkins didn’t last long in the world that dealt with commercial ships. In 1977, drawing inspiration from his experience with The Oxford Revue, Perkins joined “BBC Radio’s light entertainment department, along with Cambridge graduates like John Lloyd and Griff Rhys Jones.

In 1986, Perkins married Lisa Braun, who was BBC studio manager on Hitchhiker’s Guide.

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In 2005 he cameoed in the fourth radio series of Hitchhiker’s (The Quandary Phase), as the producer of the radio show Arthur Dent worked on. Essentially playing a fictional version of himself from the first series with a fictional version of writer Douglas Adams.

Facts & Trivia

Geoffrey Ranked on the list of most popular Film Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Geoffrey Perkins celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.

He was posthumously awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy award at the British Comedy Awards on 6 December 2008.