Geoffrey McGivern

Geoffrey McGivern ( b. England 1952) is an English actor in film, radio, stage and television. He was born in Balham, South London and grew up in York. There he attended Archbishop Holgate's School, where he was made Head Boy. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was involved in the renowned Footlights society and the Marlowe Society.

He is well remembered for playing Ford Prefect in the radio series (1978–80) and subsequent LP releases of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, whose role he reprised for the three new series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2004 and 2005. A more recent radio appearance was in The Ape That Got Lucky.

He has also appeared in TV shows such as Press Gang, Chef!, Big Train, Blackadder the Third, Jonathan Creek, 15 storeys high and series three of Peep Show. He can currently be seen playing the Supreme Ruler in BBC2's new Sci-Fi comedy Hyperdrive (2006-).