# Godfrey Graham

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{{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](/source/Dublin), [Irish Free State](/source/Irish_Free_State)
|          death_date =
|         death_place = 
|            nickname = 
|              family = 
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling = [Leg break](/source/Leg_break) [googly](/source/googly)
|                role = 
|               club1 = [Ireland](/source/Ireland_cricket_team)
|               year1 = 1954
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
|            matches1 = 1
|               runs1 = 1
|            bat avg1 = –
|           100s/50s1 = –/–
|          top score1 = 1[*](/source/not_out)
|         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](/source/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 [cricket](/source/cricket)er. A right-handed [batsman](/source/batsman) and right-arm [fast-medium](/source/Fast_bowling) [bowler](/source/Bowler_(cricket)),<ref name="CAP" /> he played just once for the [Ireland cricket team](/source/Ireland_cricket_team), a [first-class](/source/first-class_cricket) match against [Scotland](/source/Scotland_national_cricket_team) 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](/source/RT%C3%89_One) 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](/source/Discovery_(Irish_TV_series))'' and the visit to [Ireland](/source/Ireland) of US President [John F. Kennedy](/source/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](/source/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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Category:1936 births
Category:Cricketers from Dublin (city)
Category:Jacob's Award winners
Category:Living people
Category:Irish cricketers
Category:20th-century Irish sportsmen

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