Patrick Godfrey, an English actor who performed Leonardo da Vinci within the 1998 fantasy movie “Ever After: A Cinderella Story,” died on Thursday. He was 93.
Godfrey’s demise was introduced on June 5 through a press release from his expertise company, Markham Froggatt & Irwin. The statement read, “It is with great sadness that we can confirm Patrick Godfrey passed away last night. He died peacefully at home surrounded by his family. Paddy was an exceptionally talented actor and a remarkable individual, and we will miss him greatly.”
Godfrey starred because the Italian polymath in “Ever After” alongside Drew Barrymore, who performed Cinderella stand-in Danielle. Different solid members embody Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey, Timothy West and Judy Parfitt.
A few of Godfrey’s different notable movie credit embody “A Room with a View,” “Clockwise,” “Maurice,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “Oliver Twist,” “Les Misérables” and “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.” On the TV facet, Godfrey appeared in “Compact,” “Dixon of Dock Green,” “Doctor Who,” “Z Cars,” “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,” “Blott on the Landscape,” “Screenplay,” “Dandelion Dead” and dozens extra.
Godfrey was born in February 1933 in Finsbury Park, England. In 1956, he broke into leisure by becoming a member of the BBC’s Radio Drama Firm. Then, in 1972, he made his movie debut as a home servant in a televised manufacturing of John Glenister and Robin Phillips’ “Miss Julie” by the Royal Shakespeare Firm. His subsequent movie function got here in 1981, when he performed Kulighin in Trevor Nunn’s “The Three Sisters.”
