Francis L. Sullivan

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-01-06 (53 years old)

Deathday

1956-11-19

Place of Birth

Wandsworth, London, England, UK

Francis L. Sullivan

Biography

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 o...

Acting

1933

The Wandering Jew

as Juan de Texada (Phase IV)

1948

Oliver Twist

as Mr. Bumble

1945

1949

The Red Danube

as Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron

1946

Great Expectations

as Mr. Jaggers

1948

Joan of Arc

as Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais

1941

'Pimpernel' Smith

as General von Graum

1940

1955

Hell's Island

as Barzland

1950

Night and the City

as Philip Nosseross

1938

The Citadel

as Ben Chenkin

1935

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

as Rev. Mr. Septimus Crisparkle

1953

Plunder of the Sun

as Thomas Berrien

1948

The Winslow Boy

as Attorney General

1951

My Favorite Spy

as Karl Brubaker

1934

1947

Take My Life

as Prosecuting Counsel

1954

Drums of Tahiti

as Commissioner Pierre Duvois

1933

Called Back

as Kaledin

1949

Christopher Columbus

as Francisco de Bobadilla

1944

1953

Sangaree

as Dr. Bristol

1942

1939

The Four Just Men

as Leon Poiccard

1948

Broken Journey

as Anton Perami

1937

Non-Stop New York

as Hugo Brant

1938

The Drum

as Governor

1933

Red Wagon

as Cranley

1952

Caribbean

as Andrew McAllister

1936

Spy of Napoleon

as Chief of Police

1938

The Ware Case

as Attorney General

1933

F.P.1

as A Sailor

1934

Strange Wives

as Bellamy

1938

Kate Plus Ten

as Lord Flamborough

1937

Action for Slander

as Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan)

1932

When London Sleeps

as Rodney Haines

1996

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

1934

Chu Chin Chow

as The Caliph

1934

The Fire Raisers

as Stedding

1938

Climbing High

as Madman

1943

The Butler's Dilemma

as Leo Carrington

1942

The Day Will Dawn

as Kommandant Ulrich Wettau

1934

The Warren Case

as Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)

1934

What Happened Then?

as Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel

1934

Cheating Cheaters

as Dr. George Brockton

1932

The Chinese Puzzle

as Herman Strumm

1932

The Missing Rembrandt

as Baron von Guntermann

1933

The Right to Live

as Roger Stoneham

1935

Her Last Affaire

as Sir Julian Weyre

1955

The Prodigal

as Bosra

1952

Pontius Pilate

as Herod Antipas

1934

1942

1951

Behave Yourself!

as Fat Freddy

1937

1947

The Man Within

as Mr. Braddock

1939

Young Man's Fancy

as Blackbeard, Vincent St George

1937

Fine Feathers

as Hugo Steinway

1946

The Laughing Lady

as Sir Williams Tremayne

1936

A Woman Alone

as Prosecutor

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