Geoffrey Toone

Geoffrey Toone

Infobox actor
name = Geoffrey Toone


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birthdate = Birth date|1910|11|15|df=y
birthplace = Dublin, Ireland
deathdate = Death date and age|2005|06|01|1910|11|15|df=y
deathplace = Northwood, England
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occupation = Actor
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Geoffrey Toone (15 November 1910, Dublin, Ireland – 1 June 2005, Northwood, England, UK) was an Irish character actor.

Most of Toone's film roles after the 1930s were in supporting parts, usually as authority figures, though he did play the lead character in the Hammer Films production, "The Terror of the Tongs" in 1961.

Toone appeared in these films:
* The BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who":
** As Temmosus in the film of "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965)
** As Hepesh in the television story "The Curse of Peladon" in 1972.
* On "Yes Minister".
* On "Freewheelers" as the Nazi officer Von Gelb who continually tries to avenge Germany's WWII defeat.
* As Lord Ridgemere, owner of the stately home where Delboy and Rodney notoriously dropped a chandelier in the vintage "Only Fools and Horses" episode, "A Touch of Glass".

He died from natural causes, aged 94. At the time of his death, Toone was one of the last survivors of the Old Vic theatre company of the 1930s, having appeared alongside the likes of John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier in productions of Shakespeare. He was also the longest-lived actor to have appeared in "Doctor Who".

elected filmography

* "Sword of Honour" (1938) ... as Bill Brown
* "Queer Cargo" (1938) ... as Lieutenant Stocken
* "Night Journey" (1938) ... as Johnny Carson
* "North Sea Patrol" (1939) ... as Cmdr.Clive Stanton
* "Poison Pen" (1940) ... as David
* "An Englishman's Home" (1940) ... as Peter Templeton
* "The King and I" (1956) ... as Sir Edward Ramsey
* "The Entertainer" (1960) ... as Harold Hubbard
* "The Terror of the Tongs" (1961) ... as Captain Jackson Sale
* "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1982) ... as the Marquis de St. Cyr

Links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0867555 IMDb]
* [http://einsiders.com/features/columns/june05obituaries.php Einsiders obituary]


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