Eric Porter
Born in Shepard's Bush, London, UK — Apr 08 1928• Died May 15 1995
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Biography
A highly respected Shakespearean for five decades until his death of colon cancer in 1995, classical actor Eric Porter's claim to international fame would, ironically, be outside of that realm, with one superb portrayal in one superb miniseries, The Forsyte Saga(1967), in which he won the BAFTA award. The son of Richard John Porter and Phoebe Elizabeth Spall, Porter first attended Wimbledon Technical College before stepping onto the stage as a walk-on in a production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in February 1945 at the Arts Theatre in Cambrid…
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Eric Porter's Credits
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Play for Today
Stanley Wilkinson
BBC Play of the Month
Cyrano de Bergerac
Playhouse
Petersham
Theatre 625
'Newton'
Sherlock Holmes
Professor Moriarty
Performance
James Player
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
The Forsyte Saga
Soames Forsyte
The Jewel in the Crown
Dimitri Bronowsky
The Day of the Jackal
Colonel Rodin
Theatre Night
Vadim Romanoff
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Neville Chamberlain
Oliver Twist
Fagin
Anna Karenina
Karenin
Civilisation
Macbeth (voice)
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Julianus
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Mr. Havisham
The Heroes of Telemark
Terboven
Nicholas and Alexandra
Stolypin
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim
Hennessy
Tobin
The Thirty Nine Steps
Chief Superintendent Lomas
Hamlet
Polonius
Antony and Cleopatra
Enobarbus
Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials
Himself
Kaleidoscope
Harry Dominion
Hands of the Ripper
Dr. John Pritchard
Callan
Hunter
The Sin Bin
Stanley Wilkinson
Emma
The Lost Continent
Lansen
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Dr. Nicholson
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Macbeth
Macbeth
Churchill and the Generals
Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
The Last Invasion
Harold
The Wars of the Roses
Henry VII
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Self (archive footage)
Separate Tables
Major Pollock / John Malcolm
The Crucible
Deputy Governor Danforth
Message for Posterity
James Player
The Belstone Fox
Asher Smith
Oliver Twist
Fagin
The Winslow Boy
Arthur Winslow
The Statue and the Rose
Parnell
From War to Peace
Narrator
The Shetland Experience
Narrator (voice)
Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials
Warrior - World at War Special Presentation
Narrator
The Final Solution
Narrator
Hitler’s Germany - A World at War Special Presentation
Narrator
A Shilling Life
Petersham
The Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler
Narrator