Edmund Purdom
Biography
Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1924 – 1 January 2009) was an English actor, voice artist, and director. He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then later in America on Broadway, until making his way to Hollywood, and eventually spent the remainder of his life appearing in Italian cinema. He is perhaps best known for his starring role in 1954's historical epic The Egyptian. By taking over important roles exited by Mario Lanza and Marlon Brando, Purdom was known by the mid-1950s as "The Replacement Star". Between the 1970s and 90s, he was a regular in European genre cinema, working with directors like Juan Piquer Simón, Joe D'Amato, Sergio Martino, Ruggero Deodato.
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Full filmography
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- Theatre 625 (1964) as Weislingen
- The Winds of War (1983) as Luigi Gianelli
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953) as Tom Rutherford
- Thursday Theatre (1964) as Merton Denver
- Titanic (1953) as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- Julius Caesar (1953) as Strato
- The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
- The Egyptian (1954) as Sinuhe
- The Seventh Scroll (1999) as Pharaoh Mamose
- Pieces (1982) as The Dean
- The Prodigal (1955) as Micah
- The Suspects (1974) as American journalist
- Lafayette (1962) as Silas Deane
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) as Fane
- Who's Afraid of Dracula? (1985) as Count Vlad
- Absurd (1981) as Father
- Athena (1954) as Adam Calhorn Shaw
- The King's Thief (1955) as Michael Dermott
- Don Bosco (1988) as Urbano Rattazzi
- The Rift (1990) as CEO Steensland
- Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968) as Narrator (English version)
- Deep Thoughts (1980) as The Pianist