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 With his drooping jowls and heavy eyes, a liverish glow suffusing his cheeks, Geoffrey Palmer was the archetypal long-suffering husband. The actor, who has died peacefully at home aged 93, was famous for his unsmiling face, like a bloodhound with the colic. Opposite Wendy Craig in the late Seventies sitcom Butterflies, and Judi Dench in … Read more