Geoffrey Sumner

Geoffrey Sumner (20 November 1908, Ilfracombe, Devon – 29 September 1989, Alderney, Channel Islands) was a British actor.^[1] As well as appearing in a number of films, he was also a commentator for British Movietone News.,^[2] Parents:- Edmund and Kathleen Marion (Brook), married Gwen Williams Roberts and had three daughters.

A sample of "Train Sequence" ("This is a journey into sound") from the LP A Journey Into Stereo Sound (1958) was used by different artists like Coldcut in their remix of Eric B. & Rakim (Paid in Full), Bomb the Bass (Beat Dis), Public Enemy (Welcome to the Terrordome) and Anthrax (Potter's Field).^[3] In July 1969 he played Sir Lancelot Spratt in the 1969 BBC radio show version of Doctor in the House, alongside Richard Briers.

Selected filmography

• Too Many Husbands (1938)
• Lucky to Me (1939)
• Law and Disorder (1940)
• General Election (1945) - narrator
• Helter Skelter (1949)
• The Happy Family (1952)
• Those People Next Door (1953)
• Always a Bride (1953)
• I Only Arsked! (1958)
• Cul-de-sac (1966)
• That's Your Funeral (1972)
• Side by Side (1975)
• There Goes the Bride (1980)

References

1. "Sumner, Geoffrey", BFI Film & TV Database
2. "Sumner, Geoffrey", British Universities Film & Video Council
3. Geoffrey Sumner, whosampled.com

External links

• Geoffrey Sumner at the Internet Movie Database