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