Neil Summers

Actor

April 28, 1944 (81 years)

† September 4, 2025

London, England, UK

Biography

Neil Summers (28 April 1944 – 4 September 2025) was an English-American actor and stuntman. He was best known for playing the Rodent in the 1990 film Dick Tracy. He was also a collector of Western film memorabilia and wrote books about his experience in the film industry.

Filmography

8.7

The Shawshank Redemption

Pete

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

6.7

Gunsmoke

Townsman

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

7.4

RoboCop

Dougy

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

5.9

Lucky Luke

Deputy Virgil

Lucky Luke is the sheriff of a merry and unruly frontier settlement. Jolly Jumper is not only Lucky’s trusty horse, but also the brains of Daisy Town. The four Dalton Brothers are the sworn enemies of Lucky Luke, who is constantly trying to thwart their devilish plans and their spectacularly clumsy escapes from the Daisy Town Jail. This fractious band finds itself caught up in a series of misadventures, crossing paths with hordes of wacky friends and fiendish enemies.

6.2

Dick Tracy

The Rodent

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

7.3

My Name Is Nobody

Squirrel

Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.

5.4

Bad Girls

Ned, Jarrett Gang

Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.

6.4

Joe Kidd

Posse (uncredited)

A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.

7.1

Murder in the First

Alcatraz Guard Whitney

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

6.6

Appaloosa

Bragg's Fourth Man

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

5.4

Love Ranch

Drunken John

Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.

6.9

Ulzana's Raid

Trooper (uncredited)

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

5.5

Mr. Billion

Deputy Hank

An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president.

6.5

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Snake River Rufus Krile

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.

6.2

Troublemakers

Dodge

Two brothers who hate themselves are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together.

6.3

Duel at Diablo

Trooper (uncredited)

In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.

5.4

Lucky Luke

Deputy Virgil

Lucky Luke becomes the Sheriff of Daisy Town and runs out all the criminals. Then the Dalton brothers arrive and try to get the Indians to break the peace treaty and attack the town.

5.9

The Gambler

Polo

This Western adventure, inspired by Kenny Rogers' hit song, tells how fictional gambler Brady Hawkes, going in search of a young son he never knew he had, teams up with an impetuous young admirer and a shady lady on his journey, which also involves him with an arrogant railroad owner and a gang of villains.

6.2

Ride in the Whirlwind

Ward

Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.

3.9

The Animals

Charlie Boggs

A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice McAndrew is abducted by five outlaws headed by robber Pudge Elliott. The thugs rape Alice before leaving her for dead, but she is rescued by Chatto, an Apache chief. He restores her health and aids her in her bloodthirsty quest for revenge. With her sanity wavering, will Alice be able to find the men who tortured her?