Geoffrey Lumsden

Who was Geoffrey Lumsden?

Geoffrey Lumsden was a British character actor who had a lengthy career on television.

By some way his best known role was Captain Square in Dad's Army, the pompous commander of the Eastgate platoon of the Home Guard who was a rival of Captain Mainwaring.

He appeared in a few episodes, some credited, some cameos, and mentioned in others -

Series 1 episode 3 "Command Decision" 1968,

Series 2 episode 11 "A Stripe for Frazer" 1969,

Series 2 episode 12 "Under Fire" 1969,

Series 4 episode 28 "Don’t Forget the Diver" 1970,

Series 4 episode 37 "A. Wilson" 1970,

First Xmas Special episode 39 "Fallen Idol" 1970,

Second Xmas special, episode 40 "Battle of the Giants" 1971,

Series 5 episode 50 "Brain Versus Brawn" 1972,

*Series 5 episode 51 "A Brush with the Law" 1972,

Series 5 episode 52 "Round and Round went the Great Big Wheel" 1972,

*Series 6 episode 55 "My British Buddy" 1973,

*Series 6 episode 56 "The Royal Train" 1973

*Series 7 episode 64 "The Godiva Affair" 1974,

Third Xmas special, episode 66 "Turkey Dinner" 1974,

Series 8 episode 68 "When You've Got to Go",

Series 8 episode 71 "High Finance" 1975,

Fifth Xmas special "The Love of Three Oranges",

Series 9 episode 75 "Wake Up Walmington" 1977 and

Series 9 episode 77 "Knights of Madness" 1977.