Francis L. Sullivan
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Francis Loftus Sullivan (6 January 1903, Wandsworth, London - 19 November 1956, New York City) was an English film and stage actor. He attended Stonyhurst, the Jesuit public school in Lancashire, England whose alumni include Charles Laughton and Arthur Conan Doyle. A heavily built man with a striking double-chin and a deep voice, Sullivan made his acting debut at the Old Vic aged 18 in Shakespeare's Richard III and appeared in his first film in 1932. Some of his notable film roles include Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist (1948) and Phil Nosseross in the film noir Night and the City (1950). Sullivan also played the part of Jaggers in two versions of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - in 1934 and 1946. He appeared in a fourth Dickens film, the 1935 Universal Pictures version of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in which he played Crisparkle. In 1938, he was featured in The Citadel, starring Robert Donat, and a decade later, he played the role of Pierre Cauchon in the technicolor version of Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman. Also in 1938 he starred in a revival of the Stokes' brothers play Oscar Wilde at London's Arts Theatre. Sullivan also acted in light comedies, notably My Favorite Spy (1951), starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr, in which he played an enemy agent, and the comedy Fiddlers Three (1944), portraying Nero. He also played the role of Pothinus in the 1945 film version of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The film was directed by Gabriel Pascal, and was the last film personally supervised by Shaw himself. Sullivan later reprised the role in a stage revival of the play. Sullivan, who eventually became a naturalized US citizen, won a Tony Award in 1955 for the Agatha Christie play Witness for the Prosecution. Earlier, he had played Hercule Poirot at the Embassy Theatre (London) in the Christie play, Black Coffee (1930). He died of a heart attack, aged 53 (some sources claim he died from an unspecified "lung ailment"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis L. Sullivan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Oliver Twist (1948)
as Mr. Bumble
Great Expectations (1946)
as Mr. Jaggers
Night and the City (1950)
as Philip Nosseross
Joan of Arc (1948)
as Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
as Pothinus
21 Days (1940)
as Mander
The Citadel (1938)
as Ben Chenkin
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
as General von Graum
The Prodigal (1955)
as Bosra
The Drum (1938)
as Governor
My Favorite Spy (1951)
as Karl Brubaker
The Winslow Boy (1948)
as Attorney General
The Red Danube (1949)
as Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
as Rev. Mr. Crisparkle
Cheating Cheaters (1934)
as Dr. George Brockton
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
as Thomas Berrien
Ingrid Bergman Remembered (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Christopher Columbus (1949)
as Francisco de Bobadilla
Hell's Island (1955)
as Barzland
Great Expectations (1934)
as Jaggers
The Four Just Men (1939)
as Leon Poiccard
Broken Journey (1948)
as Anton Perami
Caribbean (1952)
as Andrew McAllister
The Man Within (1947)
as Mr. Braddock
Spy of Napoleon (1936)
as Chief of Police
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
as Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
Behave Yourself! (1951)
as Fat Freddy
Take My Life (1947)
as Prosecuting Counsel
Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
as Brogard
Strange Wives (1934)
as Bellamy
Red Wagon (1933)
as Cranley
Her Last Affaire (1935)
as Sir Julian Weyre
The Wandering Jew (1933)
as Juan de Texada (Phase IV)
The Fire Raisers (1934)
as Stedding
The Foreman Went to France (1942)
as French Skipper
Sangaree (1953)
as Dr. Bristol
Non-Stop New York (1937)
as Hugo Brant
Chu Chin Chow (1934)
as The Caliph
Pontius Pilate (1952)
as Herod Antipas
Climbing High (1938)
as Madman
Kate Plus Ten (1938)
as Lord Flamborough
Action for Slander (1937)
as Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan)
Young Man's Fancy (1939)
as Blackbeard, Vincent St George
What Happened Then? (1934)
as Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel
The Missing Rembrandt (1932)
as Baron von Guntermann
The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934)
as Carl Peterson
The Ware Case (1938)
as Attorney General
The Laughing Lady (1946)
as Sir Williams Tremayne
The Butler's Dilemma (1943)
as Leo Carrington
A Woman Alone (1936)
as Prosecutor
Drums of Tahiti (1954)
as Commissioner Pierre Duvois
The Lady from Lisbon (1942)
as Minghetti
The Chinese Puzzle (1932)
as Herman Strumm
Fiddlers Three (1944)
as Nero
Called Back (1933)
as Kaledin
When London Sleeps (1932)
as Rodney Haines
F.P.1 (1933)
as A Sailor
Fine Feathers (1937)
as Hugo Steinway
The Warren Case (1934)
as Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)
The Right to Live (1933)
as Roger Stoneham