Geoffrey Orme

Geoffrey Orme
Born
Geoffrey Percival Orme

(1904-06-10)10 June 1904
Died(1978-01-21)21 January 1978 (aged 73)
Occupationscreenwriter

Geoffrey Percival Orme (10 June 1904 – 21 January 1978) was a British screenwriter for television and film.

Orme's prolific film work extended from the 1930s to the 1960s and included a number of the popular Old Mother Riley films starring Arthur Lucan.

His script for the BBC television series Doctor Who, The Underwater Menace, was commissioned by producer Innes Lloyd and recorded with Patrick Troughton in 1967. It featured the notion of Atlantis being buried under the sea and controlled by the insane Professor Zaroff.[1][2]

  1. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who - Classic Series - Photonovels - the Underwater Menace".
  2. ^ Mount, Paul (October 2015). "DOCTOR WHO – THE UNDERWATER MENACE". Starburst. Starburst Magazine Limited. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2017.