Cast & creator
Eleanor Summerfield
Best known for Midsomer Murders, Thirty-Minute Theatre, ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Eleanor Summerfield (7 March 1921 – 13 July 2001) was an English actress. Summerfield was born in St Pancras, London in 1921. She received her acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art In 1937. Her first stage show was "Her Excellency", at the London Hippodrome in 1949.
40
film credits
18
television credits
58
1947–1997 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (58)
Showing 58 of 58 credits
Midsomer Murders
Elfrida Molfrey
1997
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Aunt Enid
1965
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Mrs. Elsie Todd
1969
Sunday Night Theatre
Miss Jenkins
1950
Lovejoy
May Walker
1986
UFO
Muriel Thompson
1970
The Upper Hand
Joyce Pickering
1990
Department S
Mrs. Evans
1969
Hammer House of Horror
Lady Strudwick
1980The Dickie Henderson Show
Maggie
1960
Ooh La La!
1968The World of Wooster
Aunt Dahlia
1965
Armchair Theatre
Heather
1956The Root of All Evil?
Mrs. Mortimore
1968
Scrooge
Miss Flora
1951David Copperfield
Emma Micawber
1966
The Watcher in the Woods
Mrs. Thayer
1980Who-Dun-It
Sylvie La-Coste
1969
London Belongs to Me
The Blonde
1948
The Running Man
Hilda Tanner
1963Murder at the Wedding
Gwen Russell
1979
The Millionairess
Mrs. Willoughby
1960
On the Fiddle
Flora McNaughton
1961
Final Appointment
Jenny Drew
1954
Don't Bother to Knock
Mother
1961The Invasion
Heather
1963
Man on the Run
May Baker, Anchor Hotel
1949
Isn't Life Wonderful!
Kate, Willie's wife
1953
On the Beat
Sergeant Lucilla Wilkins
1962
The Island of Adventure
Aunt Polly
1981
Laughter in Paradise
Sheila Wilcott
1951
All Over the Town
Beryl Hopper
1949
It's Great to be Young!
Barmaid
1956
Mandy
Lily Tabor
1952
Top Secret
Cecilia
1952
The Weaker Sex
Clippie
1948
Dentist in the Chair
Ethel
1960
A Cry from the Streets
Gloria May
1958
Blackout
Margaret 'Maggie' Doone
1954
Some Will, Some Won't
Elizabeth Robson
1970
Lost
Sergeant Cook
1956
Petticoat Pirates
Chief Wren Mabel Rawlins
1961
The Story of Shirley Yorke
Doris
1949
Guns of Darkness
Mrs. Bastian
1962Night Train to Surbiton
Hester Pilbeam
1965
Foreign Exchange
Mrs. Roberts
1970
Spare the Rod
Mrs. Harkness
1961
The Spy Killer
Mrs. Roberts
1969
Take My Life
Miss Carteret
1947
The Last Page
Vi
1952
Face the Music
Barbara Quigley
1954
Street Corner
Edna Hurran
1953
No Way Back
Beryl
1949
Odongo
Celia Watford
1956
No Road Back
Marguerite
1957The Yellow Hat
Lady Xenia
1966
The Third Visitor
Vera Kurton
1951Thark
Cherry Buck
1948