Actor takes fruit around island at the end of summer (7)
I believe the answer is:
olivier
'actor' is the definition.
(Sir Laurence Olivier)
'fruit around island at the end of summer' is the wordplay.
'fruit' becomes 'olive' (I've seen this before).
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'island' becomes 'i' (geographical abbreviation).
'at the end of' indicates one should take the final letters.
The last letter of 'summer' is 'r'.
'olive' going around 'i' is 'olivie'.
'olivie'+'r'='OLIVIER'
'takes' is the link.
(Other definitions for olivier that I've seen before include "Laurence --, first actor to be made a life peer" , "Great player" , "Sir Laurence -, English actor (Hamlet, nineteen fourty eight)" , "Sir Laurence -, twentieth century English actor" , "O! Virile (anag) - English actor, d. 1989" .)