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