Geoffrey Sumner

Geoffrey Sumner (20 November 1908, Ilfracombe, Devon – 29 September 1989, Alderney, Channel Islands) was a British actor.[1][2] As well as appearing in a number of films, he was also a commentator for British Movietone News.,[3]

This article is about the actor. For the banker, see Geoffrey Sumner (banker).
Geoffrey Sumner

His parents were Edmund and Kathleen Marion (Brook). 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.[4] He reprised the role in the 1958 film I Only Arsked!, based on the TV series.[5]

A sample of "Train Sequence" ("This is a journey into sound") 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 ("Beat Dis"), Public Enemy ("Welcome to the Terrordome"), Anthrax ("Potters Field"), Handsome Boy Modeling School ("Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)"), Luke Vibert ("Ambalek"), Gotye ("A Distinctive Sound") and Jauz x Marshmello ("Magic").[6]

In September 1968 Sumner played Sir Lancelot Spratt in the BBC radio series of Doctor in the House, alongside Richard Briers.[7]

Partial filmography
gollark: Single board computer.
gollark: Also, the odroid-N2 is a better SBC than the pi 4 in most ways.
gollark: Actually, ARM is not RISC.
gollark: Do something mildly accursed like subtract the smallest value from each of the values each "tick".
gollark: You could also *emulate* the whole timery thing by... I think just subtracting a lot?

References
  1. "Sumner, Geoffrey", BFI Film & TV Database
  2. "Geoffrey Sumner | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. "Sumner, Geoffrey", British Universities Film & Video Council
  4. "The Army Game". Phill.co.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  5. "I only Arsked! (1959)". British Film Institute.
  6. Geoffrey Sumner, whosampled.com
  7. "Doctor in the House". September 17, 1968. p. 29 – via BBC Genome.


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