Godfrey Graham

{{short description|Irish cricketer (born 1936)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = Ireland | fullname = Godfrey Richard Graham | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|8|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = Dublin, Irish Free State | death_date = | death_place = | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Leg break googly | role = | club1 = Ireland | year1 = 1954 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 1 | bat avg1 = – | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 1* | deliveries1 = 138 | wickets1 = 2 | bowl avg1 = 50.00 | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 2/100 | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 1 January | year = 2022 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/24378.html Cricinfo }} '''Godfrey Richard Graham''' (born 23 August 1936 in Dublin, Irish Free State<ref name="CAP">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26759/26759.html Cricket Archive profile]</ref>) is an Irish former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler,<ref name="CAP" /> he played just once for the Ireland cricket team, a first-class match against Scotland in July 1954.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire107.htm |title=CricketEurope Stats Zone profile |access-date=14 April 2007 |archive-date=24 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524013411/http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire107.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Graham joined RTÉ Television shortly after it was launched as one of its first lighting cameramen. For the next 40 years, he worked on some of the station's most significant programmes, including ''Discovery'' and the visit to Ireland of US President John F. Kennedy.<ref>Graham, Godfrey, ''Forty Years Behind the Lens at RTÉ'', Ashfield Press, 2005, {{ISBN|1-901658-55-4}}</ref>

In 1981, Graham won a Jacob's Award for his role as lighting cameraman on the RTÉ television production of Eugene McCabe's play ''Winter Music''

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