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Geoffrey Percival Orme (10 June 1904 – 21 January 1978) was a British screenwriter for television and film. Orme's prolific film work extended from the 1930s to the 1960s and included a number of the popular Old Mother Riley films starring Arthur Lucan.
ProductionNotesBroadcasterFeature film (1936)N/AFeature film (co-written with Herbert ...N/AFeature film (1937)N/A"The Witness" (1958) "Lyman the Pieman" ...Geoffrey Orme was born on 10 June 1904 in Ilford, Essex, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Avengers (1961), Doctor Who (1963) and Sunshine Ahead (1936). He was married to Evelyn Deans . He died on 21 January 1978 in East Sussex, England, UK.
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- June 10, 1904
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- January 21, 1978
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Geoffrey Orme (10 June 1904-21 January 1978) wrote the Doctor Who television story The Underwater Menace.
Orme had previously submitted a storyline entitled The Evil Eye, but it was rejected.
His writing career dates back to 1936, and Doctor Who was one of his last writing jobs for TV.
Born in 1904, Orme was the oldest writer to ever work on Doctor Who.
•Geoffrey Orme at the Internet Movie Database
Geoffrey Orme was born in Ilford, Essex. He started writing for the theatre, often in musical comedy, and moved into film in the mid-Thirties. Amongst many other titles, Orme contributed to several installments in the Old Mother Riley series of comedies.
Introduction. The Underwater Menace, originally called Under the Sea, was Geoffrey Orme's second Doctor Who script submission - his first, The Evil Eye, having been rejected. Orme was a...
Oct 3, 2020 · Geoffrey Orme is an interesting writer, he starts out writing comedy films in the 30’s and 40’s – for he likes of Old Mother Riley, Arthur Askey and Flannagan and Allen. Variety pieces really. Later in the early 60’s, he wrote for some adventure TV series, episodes of ‘Ivanhoe’ and an early episode of ‘The Avengers’.
The Underwater Menace: Episode 1: Directed by Julia Smith. With Patrick Troughton, Michael Craze, Frazer Hines, Anneke Wills. The TARDIS materialises on a deserted beach where the Doctor and his friends are captured by primitive warriors and taken to the fabled city of Atlantis.
