Geoffrey Toone

Geoffrey Toone
Toone in the TV series One Step Beyond, episode The Villa, 1961
Born(1910-11-15)15 November 1910
Dublin, Ireland
Died1 June 2005(2005-06-01) (aged 94)
Northwood, London, England
OccupationActor
Years active1933–2002

Geoffrey Toone (15 November 1910 – 1 June 2005) was an English actor and former matinee idol. He was born in Ireland to English parents. Most of his 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.

Early life

Born in Dublin, Ireland to English parents, he was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Artillery during World War II, but was invalided out in 1942.

Career

Toone's notable appearances include:

Personal life

For many years Toone shared a house with his close friend, the actor Frank Middlemass. "To their general amusement", they were often mistaken to be lovers, but in fact were not.

Death

Toone died from natural causes, aged 94, at Denville Hall in Northwood, London. 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. At the time, he was also the longest-lived actor to have appeared in Doctor Who.

Selected filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1954 Sunday Night Theatre Achilles Series 5, Episode 38: "Troilus and Cressida"
1955 Studio 57 Nils Larsen Season 2, Episode 7: "Win a Cigar"
1955 The United States Steel Hour Dr. Parker Season 3, Episode 12: “Edward My Son"
1956 The Loretta Young Show Cookie Season 3, Episode 26: "Gesundheit"
1956 Crusader Vendron/Munro Season 2, 2 Episodes
1956 Producers’ Showcase Clyde Lockert Season 2, Episode 10: "Dodsworth"
1956 Camera Three King Arthur Season 1, Episode 36: "The Deadly Riddle
1956 Playwrights '56 Robert Cartwright Episode 18: "Keyhole"
1956 The Alcoa Hour Treleaven/Leeds Season 1 & 2, 2 Episodes
1956 Conflict Captain Geoffrey Thorpe Season 1, Episode 2: "Condemned to Glory"
1956 On Trial Lenier Season 1, Episode 5: "The De Santre Story"
1956-1957 Matinee Theater Actor/Daniel/Dr. Howard Kemp Season 1 & 2, 6 Episodes
1957 Cheyenne Jim Harwick Series 2, Episode 14: "Big Ghost Basin"
1957 Kraft Television Theatre Actor Season 10, Episode 42: "The First and the Last"
1958 Armchair Theatre Benjamin Stratton Series 2, Episode 30: "Miss Olive"
1958 Ivanhoe Sir Maurice Episode 31: "Three Days to Worcester"
1960 Tales of the Vikings Krona/Jayson 2 Episodes
1960 Markham Arthur Simms Season 2, Episode 28: "The Snarled Web"
1960 On Trial Thomas Poplett Episode 9: "Governor Wall"
1960 Knight Errant Limited John Dover Series 3, Episode 2: "John Dover"
1960 The Westerner Denny Lipp Episode 1: "Jeff"
1960 The Odd Man Steve Gardiner Series 1, All 8 Episodes
1961 One Step Beyond Jim Low Season 3, Episode 32: "The Villa"
1961 Family Solicitor Robert Allen Episode 16: "In Custody"
1963 It Happened Like This Solforth Episode 4: "The Man with His Hand in His Pocket"
1963 Z-Cars My Lord Series 2, Episode 23: "The Main Chance”
1963 Zero One Lawyer Series 2, Episode 1: "The Golden Silence"
1963 Drama 61-67 Prosecuting Counsel Series 3, Episode 15: "Drama '3: A Well Dressed Man"
1963 Emergency Ward 10 Sir William Isaacs Series 1, Episode 624
1964 Play of the Week Captain George Montagu Series 9, Episode 20: "Acquit or Hang!"
1965 The Scales of Justice Sir Joseph Kenton Episode 7: "Personal and Confidential"
1965 Contract to Kill Jacques Charlustin Episodes 1-5
1965 199 Park Lane Sergeant Baines 15 Episodes
1965 The Third Man Paul Clarke Series 4, Episode 2: "Members Only: Part 1"
1966 Death is a Good Living Jim Prescott All 4 Episodes
1968-1969 Freewheelers Von Gelb Series 1-3, 36 Episodes
1970 Codename Karl Dickinson Episode 11: "Appointment in Prague"
1971 The Troubleshooters Sir Charles Bliss Series 7, 3 Episodes
1971 The Persuaders! The General Episode 6: "The Time and the Place"
1972 Doctor Who Hepesh Series 9, Episodes 5-8: "The Curse of Peladon"
1972 New Scotland Yard Sir Geoffrey Oxborough Series 2, Episode 3: "A Gathering of Dust"
1972 Colditz President of the Court Series 1, Episode 11: "Court Martial"
1973 ITV Sunday Night Theatre Von Ribbentrop Series 5, Episode 14: "The Death of Adolf Hitler"
1973 A Little Princess Mr Carmichael Episodes 3-6
1973 Crown Court Colonel G.H. Hore-Davis Series 2, Episode 44-45: "Beware of the Dog"
1974 Fall of Eagles Groener Episodes 12-13
1974 Sutherland’s Law Judge Series 2, Episode 8: "The Evidence"
1974 Warship General Tiering Series 2, Episodes 1-2
1974 Microbes and Men Von Gossler Episode 5: "The Turberculin Affair"
1975 Churchill’s People Lord Castlereagh Episode 26: "Death of Liberty"
1976 The New Avengers Minister Series 1, Episode 8: "The Tale of the Big Why
1977 When the Boat Comes In Chief Constable Series 2, Episode 12: "In the Front Line You Get Shot At
1977 Anna Karenina Prince Shcherbatsky 6 Episodes
1978 All Creatures Great and Small Major General Ransom Series 1, Episode 9: "The Last Furlong
1979 Thomas & Sarah General Episode 6: "Alma Mater"
1979 Citizen Smith Sir Geoffrey Haydon Series 3, Episode6: "The Party’s Over"
1981 Yes Minister R A Crichton Series 2, Episode 4: "The Greasy Pole"
1981 Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years Sir Louis Kershaw Episodes 2-4
1982 Only Fools and Horses Lord Ridgemere Series 2, Episode 7: "A Touch of Grass"
1983 Number 10 Baron Rothschild Episode 6: "Dizzy"
1983 The Consultant Sir Neville Johnson Episode 1: "Invitation to Tender"
1983 The Nation’s Health Randolph Spence Episodes 2-4
1988 War and Remembrance British Ambassador Part VII
1991 Parnell and the Englishwoman O’Gorman Mahon Episode 1: "The Meeting"
1991-1993 Jeeves and Wooster Lord Bittlesham Series 2, 3 & 4, 3 Episodes
1991 Casualty Mr Bridges Series 6, Episode 8: "Living in Hope"
1994-1995 The High Life Earl Islay 2 Episodes
1994 Middlemarch Sir Godwin Lydgate Episodes 3-4
1997 The Apocalypse Watch General Weigel TV Movie (Final Role)

References

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  5. ↑ Synopsis by Hal Erickson (15 March 1961). "The Terror of the Tongs (1961) - Anthony Bushell | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "The King and I (1956) - Walter Lang | Cast and Crew". AllMovie. 28 June 1956. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  8. ↑ "Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon, Episode 1 (1972) - Lennie Mayne | Cast and Crew". AllMovie. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "Freewheelers (1968) - | Cast and Crew". AllMovie. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
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  13. 1 2 Alan Stachan (3 June 2005). "Geoffrey Toone". The Independent. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  14. ↑ "Obituary: Frank Middlemass". the Guardian. 11 September 2006.
  15. ↑ "NPG x14523; John Gielgud as Romeo; Laurence Olivier as Mercutio; Geoffrey Toone as Tybalt in 'Romeo and Juliet' - Portrait - National Portrait Gallery". Npg.org.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
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  17. ↑ "C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers". BBC Genome Project. 25 January 1984. Retrieved 22 May 2026.
  18. ↑ "Contract to Kill – Nostalgia Central". nostalgiacentral.com. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
  19. ↑ "199 Park Lane – Nostalgia Central". nostalgiacentral.com. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
  20. ↑ "Freewheelers – Nostalgia Central". nostalgiacentral.com. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Harris, Mark (2019). Freewheelers - Calling White Knight. 42 Victoriana Way, Handsworth Wood: Kaleidoscope Publishing. pp. Page 123. ISBN 978-1-900203-81-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: location (link)