The long suffering Geoffrey, guardian of the Rainbow house and upholder of the peace was played by Geoffrey Hayes.

Prior to Rainbow, Geoffrey played the regular featured character, DC Scatliff in the BBC television series Z Cars.

He began his career in the theatre spending some ten years touring and in Repertory Companies, including Manchester , Theatre 69, Nottingham, Liverpool, Dundee. Some of the parts played include: Sandy Tyrel in Hayfever, Lucky in Waiting For Godot, Nipple in Little Malcolm, Bob Acres in The Rivals, Mick in The Caretaker, Yank in Hasty Heart and Banquo in Macbeth. He also appeared in She Stoops To Conquer at the Garrick, the musical, Erb at The Strand and the RSC Production of London Assurance at the Albery. Geoffrey was the special guest star on the 1987 touring production of The Basil Brush Show.

As well as hosting Rainbow, Geoffrey toured for three consecutive years in the stage production of the show. Other television credits include: Dixon Of Dock Green, Softly Softly, Give Us A Clue, The Sooty Show, Names & Games, The Jim Davidson Show, co-presenter of Telethon '85. In 1982 he went to New Zealand to present Playschool for TVNZ. His most recent TV series was his appearance in Mole In The Hole for GMTV with Roy Skelton and Malcolm Lord.

Geoffrey was thrust back into the spotlight when he featured in a TV advertisment for virginmoney.com

These began screening on UK terrestrial and satellite channels on November 4th 2000. Virginmoney.com's Communications Manager, Camilla Beeson told us that as well as Geoffrey, ' we also use two other characters from the 80's; Buster Bloodvessle, front man of Bad Manners and David Van Day of pop group Dollar.' The early 1980's was chosen as the theme to appeal to virginmoney.com's target audience of thirty-somethings (that'll be us then...), ' the sort of people who'll recall Geoffrey singing children's songs, Buster Bloodvessle singing Lip Up Fatty. All three have one thing in common,' explained Camilla, ' they were giants of their era, earning lots of money at the height of their career, who've subsequently fallen from fame and had to re-adjust their lifestyles. All three regret they didn't manage their money better at the time. This also tied in very nicely with the 80's being an incredibly popular era again with stars, music and fashion all making a come back.' The ad featuring Geoffrey, which is shown in two parts, includes numerous clips from Rainbow and then shows a Y2K scenario where our Mr. Hayes has become a cab driver.

Geoffrey continues to appear in pantomime as well as Rainbow related appearances.

Updated March 19th, 2002.