Geoffrey Toone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geoffrey Toone (15 November 1910–1 June 2005) was an Irish character actor. He was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1910 and died from natural causes in Northwood, Middlesex on 1 June 2005, 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.
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 was twice associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who — playing Temmosus in the film of Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Hepesh in the television story The Curse of Peladon in 1972.
He had a role in Yes Minister and in the youth spy series Freewheelers in which he appeared as the Nazi officer Von Gelb who tries and tries again to overtake power in England as a revenge for the German defeat.
Toone also played 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".
[edit] Selected filmography
- The Terror of the Tongs (1961)...as Captain Jackson Sale
- The Entertainer (1960)...as Harold Hubbard
- The King and I (1956)...as Sir Edward Ramsey
- Poison Pen (1940)...as David
- An Englishman's Home (1940)...as Peter Templeton
- North Sea Patrol (1939)...as Cmdr.Clive Stanton
- Queer Cargo (1938)...as Lieutenant Stocken
- Night Journey (1938)...as Johnny Carson
- Sword of Honour (1938)...as Bill Brown
