Name
Edmund Purdom
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1924-12-20
Deathday
2009-01-01 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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.
Known For
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The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Bru...
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The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, i...
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In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with...
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One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who ...
- 1974 Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks as Prefect Ewing
- 1964 The Last Ride to Santa Cruz as Sheriff Kelly
- 1959 The Diary of Anne Frank as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- 1970 Naked and Violent as Narrator (voice): English version
- 1953 Julius Caesar as Strato
- 1985 Who's Afraid of Dracula? as Count Vlad
- 1983 2019: After the Fall of New York as President of the Pan American Confederacy
- 1954 The Egyptian as Sinuhe
- 1975 The Night Child as Doctor
- 1982 Ator, the Fighting Eagle as Griba
- 1990 The Rift as CEO Steensland
- 1971 The Fifth Cord as Edouard Vermont
- 1976 Rulers of the City as Luigi Cherico
- 1982 Pieces as The Dean
- 1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce as Fane
- 1954 The Student Prince as Prince Karl Franz
- 1971 Blackie the Pirate as The Viceroy
- 1961 The Last of the Vikings as King Sveno
- 1982 Invaders of the Lost Gold as Rex Larson
- 1984 Don't Open Till Christmas as Inspector Harris
- 1961 Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile as Tumos
- 1955 The King's Thief as Michael Dermott
- 1953 Titanic as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)
- 1954 Athena as Adam Calhorn Shaw
- 1956 Strange Intruder as Paul Quentin
- 1965 Assault on Fort Texan as Major 'Sugar' Patterson
- 1968 Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine as Padre
- 1968 Gun Shy Piluk as Piluk
- 1955 The Prodigal as Micah
- 1968 Sweden: Heaven and Hell as Narrator (English version)
- 1968 Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex? as Narrator of English version
- 1960 Moment of Danger as Peter Carran
- 1966 The Man Who Laughs as Cesare Borgia
- 1965 Texas Jim as Tom Jameson / Jim James
- 1960 Fury of the Pagans as Toryok
- 1983 Champagne in paradiso as Paola's Father
- 1959 Herod the Great as Erode
- 1988 Don Bosco as Urbano Rattazzi
- 1964 The Beauty Jungle as Rex Carrick
- 1961 Suleiman the Conqueror as Ibrahim Pascià
- 1979 The New Godfathers as Secret Service Chief
- 1973 The Big Family as Giovanni Lutture
- 1985 The Assisi Underground as Cardinal Della Costa
- 1961 White Slave Ship as Dr. Bradley
- 1960 The Cossacks as Shamil, the Sheik
- 1984 The Making of a Horror Film as Self
- 1973 The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff as Inspector Crosby
- 1969 Naked England as Narrator (English version)
- 1957 Ambush in Tangier as John Milwood
- 1969 Wages of Sin as Narrator
- 1983 Amok as Jaarsveld
- 1960 The Night They Killed Rasputin as Rasputin
- 1992 A Bear Called Arthur
- 1970 Thomas as Marcus
- 1969 Witchcraft '70 as Narrator (voice) (English version)
- 1969 The Queer ... The Erotic as Narrator (voice)
- 1960 Das große Wunschkonzert as Harry Mell
- 1980 Deep Thoughts as The Pianist
- 1980 Sophia Loren: Her Own Story as Vittorio de Sica
- 1979 Concorde Affair as Danker
- 2001 Knights Of The Quest as Ugo di Clarendon
- 1974 Fifteen Year Old Captain as Admiral Marlowe
- 1976 The Jackpot as Professor Vanderberg
- 1973 From the Archives of the Criminal Police as Teddy Webbs
- 1962 Lafayette as Silas Deane
- 1985 Killer vs Killers as His Excelency
- 1976 Povero Cristo as Man in Tuxedo / Satan
- 1980 L'altra donna as Phillip
- 1997 7 Signs of Christ's Return as Host
- 1964 The Comedy Man as Julian Baxter
- 1960 The Loves of Salammbo as Narr Havas
- 1979 The Squirrel as Robert Sincap
- 1972 Karzan, Jungle Lord as Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)
- 1972 The Devil's Lover as Gunther
- 1981 Absurd as Father
- 1983 The Scarlet and the Black
- 1974 The Suspects as American journalist
- 1954 Great Lady Has an Interview as Reporter (uncredited)
- 1976 Malù
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 The Seventh Scroll ( 2 episodes ) as Pharaoh Mamose
- 1989 Appointment in Trieste ( 3 episodes ) as Groves
- 1964 Theatre 625 ( 1 episode ) as Weislingen
- 1953 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Tom Rutherford
- 1983 The Winds of War ( 2 episodes ) as Luigi Gianelli
- 1964 Thursday Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Merton Denver
