---
name: "Geoffrey Botterill"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geoffrey-botterill"
fi1m_id: "geoffrey-botterill"
imdb_id: "nm0098655"
tmdb_id: 1402391
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "26 November 1924"
died: "31 October 2011"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T15:39:40.879015+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Geoffrey Botterill

## Identity

Geoffrey Botterill

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geoffrey-botterill
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geoffrey-botterill
- **IMDb ID:** nm0098655
- **TMDB ID:** 1402391
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098655/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1402391

Editor. Born 26 November 1924 in London, England, UK. Died 31 October 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 26 November 1924, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 31 October 2011
- **Active:** 1962–1974
- **Also known as:** Geoff Botterill
- **Frequently works with:** [Bob Rymer](https://film.one/person/bob-rymer.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 82 (2), 1970s 89 (1)
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Action & Adventure 1, Drama 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098655/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1402391

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Geoffrey Botterill was a British television editor. He worked on numerous BBC productions from the 1950s to the 1990s, often credited as Geoff Botterill in earlier credits.

His credits include episodes of *Porridge* (1974), *Doctor Who* (1963), *Grange Hill* (1978–1979), *Clochemerle* (1972) and *The Likely Lads* (1966). He is also noted for work on *The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling* (1963–1964) and *Golden Girl* (1960).

Botterill was born on 26 November 1924 in London and died on 31 October 2011 in Bournemouth, Dorset.

*Sources: imdb.com, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Porridge* (1974), Fi1m 89, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/porridge.md)
- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)
- *Steptoe and Son* (1962), Fi1m 83, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/steptoe-and-son.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *B.Traven: A Mystery Solved* (1978), Editor
- *Porridge* (1974), series, Editor — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/tv/porridge.md)
- *Secrets* (1973), Editor
- *Clochemerle* (1972), series, Editor
- *Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons* (1971), Editor
- *The Devil a Monk Would Be* (1967), Editor
- *A Tap on the Shoulder* (1965), Editor
- *Doctor Who* (1963), series, Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)
- *Steptoe and Son* (1962), series, Editor — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/steptoe-and-son.md)
- *Dear Murderer* (1947), Assistant Editor

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