Geoffrey Dyson Palmer OBE (born June 4, 1927) is an English actor, noted mostly for his extensive career in situation comedies.

He starred opposite Judi Dench for over a decade in the situation comedy As Time Goes By; it has been rerun extensively in the US on PBS and BBC America and may thus be the role for which American audiences remember him the most.

In 1997 Palmer once again had the chance to star opposite his close friend and collegue Judi Dench in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies where he portrayed the British admiral, Admiral Roebuck and in the film Mrs Brown as Queen Victoria’s scheming Private Secretary Sir Henry Ponsonby.