Eleanor Summerfield

Eleanor Summerfield (7 March 1921 – 13 July 2001) was an English actress.

Summerfield was born in London in 1921. She received her acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In the mid-1960s, she played P.G. Wodehouse's character Aunt Dahlia in BBC One's black-and-white TV series World of Wooster (1965–1967). She was also a regular on radio panel games, including BBC Radio's Just a Minute, and was a team member for the entire 15-year run of BBC Radio 4's game show Many a Slip (1964–1979). Her quick mind and infectious laugh endeared her to listeners.^{[citation needed]}

She was the wife of actor Leonard Sachs, the mother of actor Robin Sachs and Toby Sachs.

Eleanor Summerfield died in London on 13 July 2001, aged 80.

Filmography

• Take My Life (1947)
• London Belongs to Me (1948)
• The Weaker Sex (1948)
• All Over the Town (1949)
• No Way Back (1949)
• Man on the Run (1949)
• Laughter in Paradise (1951)
• The Last Page (1952)
• Mandy (1952)
• Top Secret (1952)
• Street Corner (1953)
• Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953)
• Face the Music (1954)
• Murder by Proxy (1954)
• Final Appointment (1954)
• Lost (1956)
• It's Great to Be Young (1956)
• No Road Back (1957)
• A Cry from the Streets (1958)
• Dentist in the Chair (1960)
• Spare the Rod (1961)
• Don't Bother to Knock (1961)
• On the Fiddle (1961)
• Petticoat Pirates (1961)
• Guns of Darkness (1962)
• On the Beat (1962)
• The Running Man (1963)
• Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
• Foreign Exchange (1970, TV film)
• The Watcher in the Woods (1981)

External links

• Eleanor Summerfield at the Internet Movie Database