Eleanor Summerfield

Eleanor Summerfield was an English actress who worked in plays, films and television for close to half a century. Born in St Pancras, London, she trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1937. Her screen debut came in the 1946 television drama A Phoenix Too Frequent, and she made her first stage appearance at the London Hippodrome in 1949 in Her Excellency. Her films included Laughter in Paradise (1951), The Running Man (1963), Final Appointment (1954) and Odongo (1956). On television she played Aunt Dahlia in The World of Wooster from 1965 to 1967, and she was a regular on the panel game Just a Minute and spent fifteen years with the team on Many a Slip, a panel program that ran from 1964 to 1979. She died in 2001.