[1] In 1937, he was on stage in Jeffrey Dell's play Night Alone at the Embassy Theatre with Alexander Archdale.
[2] In 1944, he appeared as the White Rabbit in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland.
Outside his developing screen career as a supporting actor, Somers continued to be heard in BBC radio productions and to appear in West End theatre plays and reviews.
[4] In 1952 he appeared in the West End in Raymond Massey's Hanging Judge.
[5] In the summer of 1950, he married Betty Margaret Newcombe at Finsbury.