Eric Portman
Acting
Biography
Eric Portman (13 July 1901, Akroydon, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire - 7 December 1969, St Veep, Cornwall) was a distinguished English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in several films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Portman , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: July 13, 1901
Place of Birth: Halifax, Yorkshire
Known For
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The Prisoner
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Great Day
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
The Bedford Incident
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to breaking point.
Moonlight Sonata
In this romantic tale Paderewski, the famed pianist, and two other plane crash survivors are guests of a Swedish baroness. Interwoven throughout this gentle and charming story are exquisite piano solos performed superbly by the elderly pianist, Paderewski.
49th Parallel
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
West 11
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer.
A Canterbury Tale
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
The Prince and the Pauper
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
The Spider and the Fly
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
as Moreau
as Notary
as Number Two
as Archie Ross
as British Ambassador
as Commodore Wolfgang Schrepke, Deutsche Marine
as Inspector Hofmeister
as Richard Dyce
as Dr. Theodore Meynert
as Jeremy Clay
as Jayson Condon
as Dr. Manette
as Jess Oakroyd
as Henry Acheson
as Miller
as Richard Musgrave
as Colonel Richmond
as Doctor Burnet
as George Harrison
as Arthur Collings
as Col. Youssef Bey
as Fernand Maubert
as Sir John Dearing KC
as Eddie Tribe
as Paul Mangin
as Lee Warren
as Richard Howard
as District Commissioner Randall
as Victor James Colebrooke
as Himself - Commentator
as Capt. John Ellis
as Thomas Colpeper, JP
as Arthur Lawrence
as Charlie Forbes
as L/S Hobson
as Erich Kohler
as Andre Delage
as Tom Earnshaw, Copilot in B for Bertie
as Lieutenant Hirth
as First Lord
as Mario de la Costa
as Matthew Trimble
as Giuliano de Medici
as Carlos, the gypsy
as Conspirastor
as Edward Chester