Geoffrey Sumner
Geoffrey Sumner was a British actor. As well as appearing in a number of films, he was also a commentator for British Movietone News.,
His parents were Edmund and Kathleen Marion. He married Gwen Williams Roberts, and they had three daughters.
In 1957 he played Major Upshot-Bagley in the first series of The Army Game, broadcast by ITV Granada. He reprised the role in the 1958 film I Only Arsked!, based on the TV series.
A sample of "Train Sequence" from the 1958 LP A Journey Into Stereo Sound was used by different artists like Eric B. & Rakim in their track "Paid in Full", Bomb the Bass, Public Enemy, Anthrax, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Luke Vibert, Gotye and Jauz x Marshmello.
In September 1968 Sumner played Sir Lancelot Spratt in the BBC radio series of Doctor in the House, alongside Richard Briers.Partial filmography
- Hold My Hand - Solicitor's Clerk
- Too Many Husbands - Captain Corrie
- Premiere - Captain Curry
- The Gang's All Here - Flats' Superintendant
- Lucky to Me - Fanshaw
- Yes, Madam? - Scoffin
- She Couldn't Say No - Announcer
- Law and Disorder
- Old Mother Riley in Society - George
- - narrator
- While the Sun Shines - A Peer
- Mine Own Executioner - Parkinson
- Easy Money - Nightclub Patron
- The Perfect Woman - Well Dressed Man On Underground
- Helter Skelter - Humphrey Beagle
- Dark Secret - Jack Farrell
- Traveller's Joy - Lord Tilbrook
- The Dark Man - Major
- A Tale of Five Cities - Wingco
- Appointment with Venus - Major - Vet. Corps
- The Happy Family - Sir Charles Spanniell
- Top Secret - Pike
- Those People Next Door - F / Lt. Claude Kimberley
- Always a Bride - Teddy
- The Dog and the Diamonds - Mr. Gayford
- Don't Blame the Stork - BBC Reporter at Baby Show
- Doctor in the House - Forensic Lecturer
- Five Days - Chapter
- The Flying Eye - Colonel Audacious
- The Silken Affair - Minor Role
- I Only Arsked! - Major Upshott-Bagley
- Band of Thieves - The Governor
- Cul-de-sac - Christopher's Father
- That's Your Funeral - Lord Lieutenant
- Side by Side - Magistrate
- There Goes the Bride'' - Gerald Drimond