Edmund Purdom
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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
Credits
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Lafayette (1962)
as Silas Deane
Pieces (1982)
as The Dean
Titanic (1953)
as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)
The Egyptian (1954)
as Sinuhe
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Actor
Rulers of the City (1976)
as Luigi Cherico
Julius Caesar (1953)
as Strato
The New Godfathers (1979)
as Secret Service Chief
Wages of Sin (1969)
as Narrator
Athena (1954)
as Adam Calhorn Shaw
Blackie the Pirate (1971)
as The Viceroy
The Queer ... The Erotic (1969)
as Narrator (voice)
The Jackpot (1976)
as Professor Vanderberg
The Loves of Salammbo (1960)
as Narr Havas
Ator, the Fighting Eagle (1982)
as Griba
2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)
as President of the Pan American Confederacy
The King's Thief (1955)
as Michael Dermott
The Rift (1990)
as CEO Steensland
Deep Thoughts (1980)
as The Pianist
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
as Fane
Witchcraft '70 (1969)
as Narrator (voice) (English version)
Malù (1976)
Actor
The Last of the Vikings (1961)
as King Sveno
Invaders of the Lost Gold (1982)
as Rex Larson
Ambush in Tangier (1957)
as John Milwood
The Fifth Cord (1971)
as Edouard Vermont
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile (1961)
as Tumos
Knights of the Quest (2001)
as Ugo di Clarendon
Concorde Affair (1979)
as Danker
L'altra donna (1980)
as Phillip
Absurd (1981)
as Father
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974)
as Prefect Ewing
The Man Who Laughs (1966)
as Cesare Borgia
Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
as Inspector Harris
Moment of Danger (1960)
as Peter Carran
The Night Child (1975)
as Doctor
Gun Shy Piluk (1968)
as Piluk
Assault on Fort Texan (1965)
as Major 'Sugar' Patterson
Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine (1968)
as Padre
Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968)
as Narrator (English version)
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff (1973)
as Inspector Crosby
The Suspects (1974)
as American journalist
Who's Afraid of Dracula? (1985)
as Count Vlad
The Prodigal (1955)
as Micah
The Devil's Lover (1972)
as Gunther
Fury of the Pagans (1960)
as Toryok
Karzan, Jungle Lord (1972)
as Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
as Vittorio de Sica
The Student Prince (1954)
as Prince Karl Franz
The Cossacks (1960)
as Shamil, the Sheik
Don Bosco (1988)
as Urbano Rattazzi
Fifteen Year Old Captain (1973)
as Admiral Marlowe
White Slave Ship (1961)
as Dr. Bradley
From the Archives of the Criminal Police (1973)
as Teddy Webbs
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz (1964)
as Sheriff Kelly
Herod the Great (1959)
as Erode
The Assisi Underground (1985)
as Cardinal Della Costa
Suleiman the Conqueror (1961)
as Ibrahim Pascià
Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex? (1968)
as Narrator of English version
A Bear Called Arthur (1992)
Actor
Great Lady Has an Interview (1954)
as Reporter (uncredited)
The Squirrel (1979)
as Robert Sincap
Texas Jim (1965)
as Tom Jameson / Jim James
The Big Family (1973)
as Giovanni Lutture
Naked and Violent (1970)
as Narrator (voice): English version
Strange Intruder (1956)
as Paul Quentin
Amok (1983)
as Jaarsveld
Thomas (1970)
as Marcus
Killer vs Killers (1985)
as His Excelency
The Making of a Horror Film (1984)
as Self
The Comedy Man (1964)
as Julian Baxter
The Night They Killed Rasputin (1960)
as Rasputin
The Beauty Jungle (1964)
as Rex Carrick
Das große Wunschkonzert (1960)
as Harry Mell
7 Signs of Christ's Return (1997)
as Host
Povero Cristo (1976)
as Man in Tuxedo / Satan
Naked England (1969)
as Narrator (English version)
Champagne in paradiso (1983)
as Paola's Father