Edmund Purdom
Born: 1924-12-20 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Died: 2009-01-01
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2001
- Knights of the Quest as Ugo di Clarendon
1999
- The Seventh Scroll as Pharaoh Mamose
1997
- 7 Signs of Christ's Return as Host
1992
1990
- The Rift as CEO Steensland
1989
- Appointment in Trieste as Groves
1988
- Don Bosco as Urbano Rattazzi
1985
- Who's Afraid of Dracula? as Count Vlad
- The Assisi Underground as Cardinal Della Costa
- Killer vs Killers as His Excelency
1984
- Don't Open Till Christmas as Inspector Harris
- The Making of a Horror Film as Self
1983
- The Winds of War as Luigi Gianelli
- The Scarlet and the Black
- 2019: After the Fall of New York as President of the Pan American Confederacy
- Champagne in paradiso as Paola's Father
- Amok as Jaarsveld
1982
- Pieces as The Dean
- Ator, the Fighting Eagle as Griba
- Invaders of the Lost Gold as Rex Larson
1981
- Absurd as Father
1980
- Deep Thoughts as The Pianist
- Sophia Loren: Her Own Story as Vittorio de Sica
- L'altra donna as Phillip
1979
- The New Godfathers as Secret Service Chief
- Concorde Affair as Danker
- The Squirrel as Robert Sincap
1976
- Rulers of the City as Luigi Cherico
- The Jackpot as Professor Vanderberg
- Malù
- Povero Cristo as Man in Tuxedo / Satan
1975
- The Night Child as Doctor
1974
- Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks as Prefect Ewing
- The Suspects as American journalist
1973
- Fifteen Year Old Captain as Admiral Marlowe
- The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff as Inspector Crosby
- The Big Family as Giovanni Lutture
- From the Archives of the Criminal Police as Teddy Webbs
1972
- The Devil's Lover as Gunther
- Karzan, Jungle Lord as Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)
1971
- The Fifth Cord as Edouard Vermont
- Blackie the Pirate as The Viceroy
1970
- Naked and Violent as Narrator (voice): English version
- Thomas as Marcus
1969
- Witchcraft '70 as Narrator (voice) (English version)
- Wages of Sin as Narrator
- The Queer ... The Erotic as Narrator (voice)
- Naked England as Narrator (English version)
1968
- Sweden: Heaven and Hell as Narrator (English version)
- Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine as Padre
- Gun Shy Piluk as Piluk
- Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex? as Narrator of English version
1966
- The Man Who Laughs as Cesare Borgia
1965
- Assault on Fort Texan as Major 'Sugar' Patterson
- Texas Jim as Tom Jameson / Jim James
1964
- Theatre 625 as Weislingen
- Thursday Theatre as Merton Denver
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce as Fane
- The Last Ride to Santa Cruz as Sheriff Kelly
- The Comedy Man as Julian Baxter
- The Beauty Jungle as Rex Carrick
1962
- Lafayette as Silas Deane
1961
- Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile as Tumos
- The Last of the Vikings as King Sveno
- Suleiman the Conqueror as Ibrahim Pascià
- White Slave Ship as Dr. Bradley
1960
- The Loves of Salammbo as Narr Havas
- Fury of the Pagans as Toryok
- Moment of Danger as Peter Carran
- The Cossacks as Shamil, the Sheik
- Das große Wunschkonzert as Harry Mell
- The Night They Killed Rasputin as Rasputin
1959
- The Diary of Anne Frank as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- Herod the Great as Erode
1957
- Ambush in Tangier as John Milwood
1956
- Strange Intruder as Paul Quentin
1955
- The King's Thief as Michael Dermott
- The Prodigal as Micah
1954
- The Egyptian as Sinuhe
- Athena as Adam Calhorn Shaw
- Great Lady Has an Interview as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Student Prince as Prince Karl Franz
1953
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Tom Rutherford
- Julius Caesar as Strato
- Titanic as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self