He has since made appearances in television dramas including Z-Cars, Nearly a Happy Ending, Return to Waterloo, South of the Border, Return to Treasure Island, Nice Work[1] , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, My Family and Other Animals, FairyTale: A True Story, The Bill, Murder in Mind, Waking the Dead and The Peter Principle (There's Something About Geoffrey).
His film career has included roles in Porridge (1979), Charlie Muffin (1979), Bullshot (1983), A Handful of Dust (1988), FairyTale: A True Story (1997), Jinnah (1998), Scoop (2006), A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013), The Crucible (2014), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Emma (2020), and The Dig (2021).
In January 2016, he played Lord Berners in Episode 3 of the BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama What England Owes.
Godwin played the role of Holofernes in Love's Labour's Lost in the 2007 season at Shakespeare's Globe.
He starred in The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre in London and toured with the Stephen Joseph Company in "Better off Dead" by Alan Ayckbourn (October/November 2018).