Edmund Purdom

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-12-20 (85 years old)

Deathday

2009-01-01

Place of Birth

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Edmund Purdom

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 director...

Acting

1964

1959

The Diary of Anne Frank

as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

1970

Naked and Violent

as Narrator (voice): English version

1953

Julius Caesar

as Strato

1985

1983

2019: After the Fall of New York

as President of the Pan American Confederacy

1954

The Egyptian

as Sinuhe

1975

1990

The Rift

as CEO Steensland

1971

The Fifth Cord

as Edouard Vermont

1976

Rulers of the City

as Luigi Cherico

1982

Pieces

as The Dean

1954

The Student Prince

as Prince Karl Franz

1971

Blackie the Pirate

as The Viceroy

1961

1982

1984

Don't Open Till Christmas

as Inspector Harris

1955

The King's Thief

as Michael Dermott

1953

Titanic

as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)

1954

Athena

as Adam Calhorn Shaw

1956

Strange Intruder

as Paul Quentin

1965

Assault on Fort Texan

as Major 'Sugar' Patterson

1968

1955

The Prodigal

as Micah

1968

Sweden: Heaven and Hell

as Narrator (English version)

1968

Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?

as Narrator of English version

1960

Moment of Danger

as Peter Carran

1966

The Man Who Laughs

as Cesare Borgia

1965

Texas Jim

as Tom Jameson / Jim James

1960

1983

Champagne in paradiso

as Paola's Father

1959

1988

Don Bosco

as Urbano Rattazzi

1964

The Beauty Jungle

as Rex Carrick

1961

Suleiman the Conqueror

as Ibrahim Pascià

1979

The New Godfathers

as Secret Service Chief

1973

The Big Family

as Giovanni Lutture

1985

The Assisi Underground

as Cardinal Della Costa

1961

White Slave Ship

as Dr. Bradley

1960

The Cossacks

as Shamil, the Sheik

1973

1969

Naked England

as Narrator (English version)

1957

Ambush in Tangier

as John Milwood

1969

Wages of Sin

as Narrator

1983

Amok

as Jaarsveld

1970

Witchcraft '70

as Narrator (voice) (English version)

1970

Thomas

as Marcus

1969

The Queer ... The Erotic

as Narrator (voice)

1960

1980

Deep Thoughts

as The Pianist

1980

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

as Vittorio de Sica

1979

2001

Knights of the Quest

as Ugo di Clarendon

1974

Fifteen Year Old Captain

as Admiral Marlowe

1976

Big Pot

as Professor Vanderberg

1962

Lafayette

as Silas Deane

1985

Killer vs Killers

as His Excelency

1976

Povero Cristo

as Man in Tuxedo / Satan

1980

L'altra donna

as Phillip

1964

The Comedy Man

as Julian Baxter

1960

1979

Lo scoiattolo

as Robert Sincap

1972

Karzan, Jungle Lord

as Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)

1972

1981

Absurd

as Father

1974

The Suspects

as American journalist

1954

Great Lady Has an Interview

as Reporter (uncredited)

Production

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