Geoffrey Sumner
Acting
Biography
Speaker of "This is a journey into sound" as used in multiple songs.
Born: November 20, 1908
Place of Birth: Ilfracombe, Devon, England, UK
Known For
The Avengers
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
The Happy Family
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
Band of Thieves
A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released to tour the country. However, the trumpets and clarinets are just a cover for a series of robberies. Musical comedy, starring British jazz star Acker Bilk as himself, alongside Jimmy Thompson and Jennifer Jayne.
Mine Own Executioner
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Cul-de-sac
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Side by Side
Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs
Doctor in the House
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
ITV Playhouse
ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
I Only Arsked
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.
Helter Skelter
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Filmography
as Gerald Drimond
as Magistrate
as Lord Lieutenant
as Pedestrian
as Pedestrian
as Christopher's Father
as Charles
as Charles
as The Auctioneer
as The Governor
as General Wilmot
as Major Upshott-Bagley
as Major Upshot-Bagley
as Chapter
as Forensic Lecturer (uncredited)
as Mr. Gayford
as Teddy
as F / Lt Claude Kimberley
as Pike
as Sir Charles Spanniell
as Major - Vet. Corps
as Wingco
as Lord Tilbrook
as Jack Farrell
as Humphrey Beagle
as (voice)
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
as Voice
as Parkinson
as A Peer
as Narrator
as Detective Delacroix
as Flats' Superintendent