Eleanor Summerfield
Acting
Biography
Eleanor Summerfield (7 March 1921 – 13 July 2001) was an English actress. Summerfield was born in St Pancras, London in 1921. She received her acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art In 1937. Her first stage show was "Her Excellency", at the London Hippodrome in 1949.
Born: March 7, 1921
Place of Birth: St. Pancras, London, England, UK
Known For
On the Beat
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause
UFO
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
Take My Life
When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
Midsomer Murders
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Lovejoy
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Hammer House of Horror
Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
A Cry from the Streets
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann. Events start to escalate out of control when a child takes possession of a loaded gun.
London Belongs to Me
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Mandy
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
Filmography
as Elfrida Molfrey
as Joyce Pickering
as May Walker
as Lady Strudwick
as Mrs. Thayer
as Muriel Thompson
as Elizabeth Robson
as Mrs. Roberts
as Mrs. Roberts
as Mrs. Evans
as Hilda Tanner
as Sergeant Lucilla Wilkins
as Mrs. Bastian
as Chief Wren Mabel Rawlins
as Flora McNaughton
as Mother
as Mrs. Harkness
as Mrs. Willoughby
as Ethel
as Gloria May
as Marguerite
as Barmaid
as Celia Watford
as Sergeant Cook
as Jenny Drew
as Margaret 'Maggie' Doone
as Barbara Quigley
as Kate, Willie's wife
as Edna Hurran
as Cecilia
as Lily Tabor
as Vi
as Miss Flora
as Sheila Wilcott
as Vera Kurton
as Doris
as Beryl
as May Baker, Anchor Hotel
as Beryl Hopper
as The Blonde
as Clippie
as Miss Carteret