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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
- Geoffrey Orme
- 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
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’.
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.
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...
Summary. Six narrated TV soundtrack adventures starring William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton as the First and Second Doctors - plus bonus features. Absent from the TV archives, these stories survive in their entirety only as soundtrack recordings.
