Geoffrey Sumner

Geoffrey Sumner

Born: November 20, 1908
Died: September 29, 1989
in Ilfracombe, Devon, England, UK
Speaker of "This is a journey into sound" as used in multiple songs.

Movies for Geoffrey Sumner...

There Goes The Bride
Title: There Goes The Bride
Character: Gerald Drimond
Released: July 7, 1980
Type: Movie
A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't catch.
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Side by Side
Title: Side by Side
Released: April 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs
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That's Your Funeral
Title: That's Your Funeral
Character: Lord Lieutenant
Released: December 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.
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The Bone Grinder
Title: The Bone Grinder
Character: Pedestrian
Released: May 13, 1968
Type: Movie
George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a rough-necked American seaman, invades their dull suburban routine. The play examines the clash of cultures between a fading British Empire and the dominance of American materialistic values.
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Cul-de-sac
Title: Cul-de-sac
Character: Christopher's Father
Released: June 17, 1966
Type: Movie
A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and bizarre fashion.
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All in Good Time
Title: All in Good Time
Character: The Auctioneer
Released: January 2, 1964
Type: Movie
A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.
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Band of Thieves
Title: Band of Thieves
Character: The Governor
Released: August 30, 1962
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: General Wilmot
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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I Only Arsked
Title: I Only Arsked
Character: Major Upshott-Bagley
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
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.
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Farnborough Fly Past
Title: Farnborough Fly Past
Character: Narrator
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A brief review of the 1955 Farnborough Air Show.
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The Flying Eye
Title: The Flying Eye
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A boy detective, with Colonel Audacious and his wonderful invention, in a model aeroplane, the 'flying-eye', foil the efforts of international thieves to steal a secret formula.
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Five Days
Title: Five Days
Character: Chapter
Released: June 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.
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The Dog and the Diamonds
Title: The Dog and the Diamonds
Character: Mr. Gayford
Released: November 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks.
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Always a Bride
Title: Always a Bride
Character: Teddy
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
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Those People Next Door
Title: Those People Next Door
Character: F / Lt Claude Kimberley
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the Blitz whilst taking everything in good humour. Their neighbours Joe (Charles Victor) and Emma (Gladys Henson) are constantly in the Twiggs house, borrowing a cup of sugar or using their Anderson shelter and between them the two working class families put the world to rights. But when their daughter falls for an upper class RAF pilot the Twiggs are asked by his mother, Lady Diana Stephens to tell their daughter to call the romance off, as the social gap between the families is too large. Incensed by Lady Diana s offer of money, Sam Twigg throws her out of the house. But events take a sudden turn as the war enters the Twiggs own living room. Will the two families manage to overcome their disdain for each other and let true love find its way?
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Top Secret
Title: Top Secret
Character: Pike
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
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The Happy Family
Title: The Happy Family
Character: Sir Charles Spanniell
Released: March 30, 1952
Type: Movie
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.
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Appointment with Venus
Title: Appointment with Venus
Character: Major - Vet. Corps
Released: October 8, 1951
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
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A Tale of Five Cities
Title: A Tale of Five Cities
Character: Wingco
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
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Traveller's Joy
Title: Traveller's Joy
Character: Lord Tilbrook
Released: December 25, 1950
Type: Movie
A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.
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Dark Secret
Title: Dark Secret
Character: Jack Farrell
Released: October 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
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Helter Skelter
Title: Helter Skelter
Character: Humphrey Beagle
Released: January 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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Seven More Stations
Title: Seven More Stations
Character: Himself - Commentator
Released: December 8, 1948
Type: Movie
A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.
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Robinson Charley
Title: Robinson Charley
Character: (voice)
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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Charley's March of Time
Title: Charley's March of Time
Character: Voice
Released: January 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens.
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Men of Merit (a Lantern Lecture)
Title: Men of Merit (a Lantern Lecture)
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
“Vibrant, progressive animation contrasts with some outdated attitudes in this Electricity Council cartoon on energy usage” - BFI.
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Mine Own Executioner
Title: Mine Own Executioner
Character: Parkinson
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
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While the Sun Shines
Title: While the Sun Shines
Character: A Peer
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
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General Election
Title: General Election
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
In the run up to the 1945 general election, the film focuses on the electoral race of one of the 640 local constituencies in Britain, that of Kettering in Northamptonshire.
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Lucky to Me
Title: Lucky to Me
Character: Fanshaw
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Lucky to Me is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks and Barbara Blair. It was based on Lupino's own 1928 stage show So This is Love which he had co-written with Arthur Rigby. The film was made by ABPC at its Elstree Studios. It was the last film of Lupino who had made a string of successful musical comedies during the Thirties.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Flats' Superintendent
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
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Premiere
Title: Premiere
Character: Captain Curry
Released: January 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience takes over the investigation. The film was shot at Elstree Studios. It was a close remake of the 1937 Austrian film Premiere and re-used a number of musical scenes from the original which were dubbed into English.