Geoffrey Sumner

Geoffrey Sumner

出生 : 1908-11-20, Ilfracombe, Devon, England, UK

死亡 : 1989-09-29

略歴

Speaker of "This is a journey into sound" as used in multiple songs.

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Geoffrey Sumner

参加作品

There Goes The Bride
Gerald Drimond
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.
Side by Side
Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs
That's Your Funeral
Lord Lieutenant
Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.
袋小路
Christopher's Father
外界から遮断された古城で悠々自適な生活を送るジョージとその若い妻テレサ。しかしテレサはすっかりジョージに愛想を尽かしており、隣の島に暮らす青年と浮気をしている。ある日、二人の住む古城に何やらワケありの二人組の男たちがやってくる。この男たちの来訪が次第に平穏な生活を崩壊させていく・・・。
All in Good Time
The Auctioneer
A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.
Band of Thieves
The Governor
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.
Hazard
Co-Director
A BAFTA award nominated dramatised documentary telling the story of two steelworkers who attempt to climb a rock in the Dolomites.
I Only Arsked
Major Upshott-Bagley
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.
Earth is a Battlefield
Producer
A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the life and work of the blacksmith since mediaeval times.
Farnborough Fly Past
Narrator
A brief review of the 1955 Farnborough Air Show.
The Flying Eye
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.
Five Days
Chapter
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.
The Dog and the Diamonds
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.
Always a Bride
Teddy
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]
Those People Next Door
F / Lt Claude Kimberley
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?
Top Secret
Pike
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...
The Happy Family
Sir Charles Spanniell
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.
Appointment with Venus
Major - Vet. Corps
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.
A Tale of Five Cities
Wingco
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
Traveller's Joy
Lord Tilbrook
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.
Dark Secret
Jack Farrell
A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
Helter Skelter
Humphrey Beagle
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Seven More Stations
Himself - Commentator
A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.
Easy Money
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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
Charley's March of Time
Voice
Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens.
Mine Own Executioner
Parkinson
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
While the Sun Shines
A Peer
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.
General Election
Self - Narrator (voice)
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.
Lucky to Me
Fanshaw
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.
Premiere
Captain Curry
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.