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