Edmund Purdom
Acting
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.
Born: December 20, 1924
Place of Birth: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Known For
Texas Jim
A band of fierce rustlers is ravaging the region of Las Cruces. Appears an outsider who saves the ranch owner "The Spur" of being kidnapped by members of the band. Thankfully, he was appointed foreman, and his daughter is in love with him. But things are not what they seem and there are murky intrigues in the background.
Thomas
A modest theatrical company, soon to debut, organizes a superstitious spiritual session. During the evening the spirit of little Thomas is evoked.
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
The Diary of Anne Frank
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Julius Caesar
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Assault on Fort Texan
During the War of Independence, a group of Southern soldiers form an alliance with the Apache Indians for the purpose of hunting down and killing the Northern soldiers stationed at Fort Worth.
Povero Cristo
A provincial young man with aspirations of becoming a private investigator is approached by a stranger that promises 100 million lire if he provides evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ.
The Scarlet and the Black
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
The Comedy Man
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
The New Godfathers
A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.
Filmography
as Ugo di Clarendon
as Pharaoh Mamose
as Host
as CEO Steensland
as Urbano Rattazzi
as Count Vlad
as Cardinal Della Costa
as His Excelency
as Inspector Harris
as Paola's Father
as President of the Pan American Confederacy
as Jaarsveld
as Griba
as Rex Larson
as The Dean
as Father
as Vittorio de Sica
as The Pianist
as Phillip
as Robert Sincap
as Secret Service Chief
as Danker
as Luigi Cherico
as Professor Vanderberg
as Man in Tuxedo / Satan
as Doctor
as American journalist
as Admiral Marlowe
as Prefect Ewing
as Teddy Webbs
as Giovanni Lutture
as Inspector Crosby
as Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)
as Gunther
as Edouard Vermont
as The Viceroy
as Marcus
as Narrator (voice): English version
as Narrator (voice) (English version)
as Narrator
as Narrator (English version)
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator of English version
as Narrator (English version)
as Piluk
as Cesare Borgia
as Tom Jameson / Jim James
as Major 'Sugar' Patterson
as Fane
as Julian Baxter
as Rex Carrick
as Weislingen
as Sheriff Kelly
as Silas Deane
as Ibrahim Pascià
as Dr. Bradley
as Tumos
as King Sveno
as Harry Mell
as Toryok
as Rasputin
as Narr Havas
as Shamil, the Sheik
as Peter Carran
as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
as Erode
as John Milwood
as Paul Quentin
as Michael Dermott
as Micah
as Adam Calhorn Shaw
as Sinuhe
as Prince Karl Franz
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Strato
as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)
as Self