Writing

Geoffrey Orme

Born — Died

1904-06-10 — 1978-01-01

Place of birth

Ilford, Essex, England, UK

Known for

Writing

Credits

23 titles

Geoffrey Orme was a British writer.

Known for

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace poster
5.0

The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and taken into the depths of the Earth, where they find a hidden civilisation — the lost city of Atlantis.

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

1967

No artwork available
9.0

In this children's movie a young inventor dreams of becoming an engineer. He has even created a new gadget, but before he can finish it, he needs more money so he and his pal begin washing windows. The inventor's pal wants to use the money to go home to Ireland so he can see his dying grandpa. His good-hearted partner gladly gives up his share. Later, he is praised for his genius.

Fortune Lane

1947

No artwork available
8.0

'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)

Sunshine Ahead

1936

The Common Touch poster
6.8

On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.

The Common Touch

1941

The Last Load poster
10.0

David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and sabotage is suspected. The children are determined to find the culprits.

The Last Load

1948

No artwork available
4.3

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

Old Mother Riley's Circus

1941

Behind the camera

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace poster
5.0

The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and taken into the depths of the Earth, where they find a hidden civilisation — the lost city of Atlantis.

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

1967

No artwork available
9.0

In this children's movie a young inventor dreams of becoming an engineer. He has even created a new gadget, but before he can finish it, he needs more money so he and his pal begin washing windows. The inventor's pal wants to use the money to go home to Ireland so he can see his dying grandpa. His good-hearted partner gladly gives up his share. Later, he is praised for his genius.

Fortune Lane

1947

No artwork available
8.0

'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)

Sunshine Ahead

1936

The Common Touch poster
6.8

On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.

The Common Touch

1941

The Last Load poster
10.0

David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and sabotage is suspected. The children are determined to find the culprits.

The Last Load

1948

No artwork available
4.3

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

Old Mother Riley's Circus

1941

The Love Match poster
7.7

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love Match.

The Love Match

1955

The Boy and the Bridge poster
6.0

A little boy named Tommy watches as his father is arrested after a brawl. Tommy believes his father must have killed someone and rather than return home, he heads to Tower Bridge to set up home there.

The Boy and the Bridge

1959

The End of the Road poster
6.5

Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.

The End of the Road

1954

Theatre Royal poster
4.7

The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.

Theatre Royal

1943

When You Come Home poster
5.9

When You Come Home was Randle’s seventh feature film, and sees him recount his life as a music hall odd job man to his grandaughter.

When You Come Home

1948

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace poster
3.8

The Doctor and his friends find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis, where the crazed Professor Zaroff has convinced the people of Atlantis that he can raise their sunken city from beneath the sea. However, the Doctor discovers a terrible secret behind Zaroff's plan — a secret that could destroy all life on Earth.

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

2023

Let the People Sing poster
6.8

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

Let the People Sing

1942

Old Mother Riley in Business poster
8.0

Old Mother Riley starts a new business.

Old Mother Riley in Business

1941

No artwork available
9.0

A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.

Men of Yesterday

1936

Old Mother Riley Detective poster
7.0

A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market. As the office charwoman, Old Mother Riley's fingerprints are all over the safe, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. To prove her innocence, Mother Riley turns detective, adopting various methods and disguises to track down the villains.

Old Mother Riley Detective

1943

No artwork available
7.0

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

Old Mother Riley's Ghosts

1941

Orders Are Orders poster
6.6

An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.

Orders Are Orders

1954

No artwork available
6.0

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

Devil on Horseback

1954

The Heart Within poster
8.0

A teenager is determines to clear the name of a black friend who is accused of murder.

The Heart Within

1957

Delayed Action poster
5.8

Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.

Delayed Action

1954

Nothing Venture poster
7.0

A trio of young boys become involved in a criminal plot.

Nothing Venture

1948

Judgment Deferred poster
8.0

A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.

Judgment Deferred

1952