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. November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Dope Hiphop crew out of Sydney Australia. ... Northwood is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Hillingdon. ... Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest (after Rutland). ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see number 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. The exterior of the Old Vic. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... John Gielgud as photographed in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten Sir Arthur John Gielgud OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an English theatre and film actor, regarded by many as one of the greatest British actors in history. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ...

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. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Hammer horror refers to horror films produced in the late 1950s through the 1970s by the British film studio Hammer Films. ...

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. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) was the first of two Doctor Who films made in the 1960s, and was followed by Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD. The film features Peter Cushing as Dr. Who, Roberta Tovey, Jennie Linden and noted Carry On star Roy Castle. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Curse of Peladon is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 29 to February 19, 1972. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

He also had a role in Yes Minister and in the youth spy series Freewheelers in which he became famous in every household as the Nazi officer Von Gelb who tries and tries again to overtake power in England as a revenge for the German defeat. Yes, (prime) minister: Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Jim Hacker, Bernard Woolley Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms about the struggle between (Dr) James Jim Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the government minister of the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs (and later as Prime Minister) and... Freewheelers is a British television series made by Southern Television for ITV between 1968 and 1973. ...

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
• Sword of Honour (1938)...as Bill Brown
• Queer Cargo (1938)...as Lieutenant Stocken...aka Pirate of the Seven Seas
• Night Journey (1938)...as Johnny Carson
• North Sea Patrol (1939)...as Cmdr.Clive Stanton...aka Luck of the Navy (UK)
• Poison Pen (1940)...as David
• An Englishman's Home (1940)...as Peter Templeton...aka Mad Men of Europe (USA)