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Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom 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
Birth Name
Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom
Born
Friday, 19 December 1924
Died
Thursday, 01 January 2009
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Knights of the Quest | Ugo di Clarendon | 2001 |
Titanic: The Legend Goes On... | Jeremy McFlannel | 2000 |
The Seventh Scroll | Pharaoh Mamose | 1999 |
Raggio di sole | Renzo Rossellini | 1997 |
Seven Signs of Christ's Return | Self - Host / Host | 1997 |
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Actor 'The Egyptian' | 1997 |
A Bear Named Arthur | Academy Awards Presenter | 1992 |
The Rift | CEO Steensland | 1990 |
Classe di ferro | Generale Jerome Thompson | 1989 |
Don Bosco | Urbano Rattazzi | 1988 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Knights of the Quest | Ugo di Clarendon | 2001 |
Titanic: The Legend Goes On... | Jeremy McFlannel | 2000 |
The Seventh Scroll | Pharaoh Mamose | 1999 |
Raggio di sole | Renzo Rossellini | 1997 |
Seven Signs of Christ's Return | Self - Host / Host | 1997 |
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Actor 'The Egyptian' | 1997 |
A Bear Named Arthur | Academy Awards Presenter | 1992 |
The Rift | CEO Steensland | 1990 |
Classe di ferro | Generale Jerome Thompson | 1989 |
Don Bosco | Urbano Rattazzi | 1988 |
Funny Boy | Samuel | 1987 |
Fracchia Vs. Dracula | Count Dracula / Conte Vlad | 1985 |
The Assisi Underground | Cardinal Della Costa | 1985 |
Killer vs Killers | His Excelency | 1985 |
Don't Open Till Christmas | Inspector Ian Harris / Inspector Harris | 1984 |
The Making of a Horror Film | Self - Director / Actor | 1984 |
Champagne in paradiso | Paola's Father | 1984 |
2019: After the Fall of New York | President of the Pan American Confederacy / Pan American Confederacy President | 1983 |
Amok | Jaarsveld | 1983 |
The Winds of War | Luigi Gianelli | 1983 |
The Scarlet and the Black | British Intelligence Officer / Epilogue Narrator | 1983 |
The Blade Master | Griba | 1982 |
Verdi | Verdi | 1982 |
Ator, the Fighting Eagle | Griba | 1982 |
Invaders of the Lost Gold | Rex Larson | 1982 |
Pieces | The Dean | 1982 |
Absurd | Father | 1981 |
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story | Vittorio de Sica | 1980 |
Pensieri morbosi | The Pianist | 1980 |
L'altra donna | Phillip | 1980 |
I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia | Secret Service Chief / Narcotics Division Chief | 1979 |
Concorde Affaire '79 | Danker | 1979 |
Mucevher Hirsizlari | Robert Sincap | 1979 |
Rulers of the City | Luigi Cherico | 1976 |
A Matter of Time | Nina's rich friend | 1976 |
Il colpaccio | Professor Vanderberg | 1976 |
Povero Cristo | Uomo in frac / Man in Tuxedo | 1976 |
Together Forever | Doctor | 1975 |
The Suspects | Le journaliste américain | 1974 |
Beyond the Door | Devil | 1974 |
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks | Prefect Ewing / Prefect | 1974 |
Dagli archivi della polizia criminale | Teddy Webbs | 1973 |
Fifteen Year Old Captain | Admiral Marlowe | 1973 |
The Big Family | Giovanni Lutture | 1973 |
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff | Inspector Crosby (as Edmond Purdom) / Inspector Crosby | 1973 |
The Devil's Lover | Gunther | 1972 |
The Fifth Cord | Edouard Vermont | 1971 |
Blackie the Pirate | Viceroy / The Viceroy | 1971 |
Thomas and the Bewitched | Marcus | 1970 |
Naked and Violent | Voice: narration: English version / Narrator (voice): English version | 1970 |
Wages of Sin | Narrator | 1969 |
Witchcraft '70 | Narrator (English language version) / Narrator (voice) (English version) | 1969 |
Naked England | Narrator | 1969 |
Scusi, lei conosce il sesso? | Narrator of English version | 1968 |
Sweden: Heaven and Hell | Narrator (English version) | 1968 |
Piluk, the Timid One | Piluk / Sheriff Roger Brown | 1968 |
It Takes a Thief | Ferdie | 1968 |
Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine | Padre | 1968 |
L'uomo che ride | Cesare Borgia | 1966 |
Shoot to Kill | Jim James / Tom Jameson | 1965 |
The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Fane | 1964 |
Assault on Fort Texan | Major 'Sugar' Patterson | 1964 |
The Comedy Man | Julian Baxter | 1964 |
Contest Girl | Rex Carrick | 1964 |
Theatre 625 | Weislingen | 1964 |
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz | Rex Kelly / Sheriff Kelly | 1964 |
Lafayette | Silas Deane | 1962 |
Suleiman the Conqueror | Ibrahim Pascià | 1961 |
White Slave Ship | Dr. Bradley | 1961 |
Queen of the Nile | Tumos, Scultore / Tumos | 1961 |
The Last of the Vikings | King Sveno | 1961 |
Das große Wunschkonzert | Harry Mell | 1960 |
Fury of the Barbarians | Toryok | 1960 |
The Night They Killed Rasputin | Rasputin | 1960 |
The Loves of Salammbo | Narr Havas | 1960 |
Malaga | Peter Carran | 1960 |
Tales of the Vikings | Egil / King Lawrence | 1959 |
The Diary of Anne Frank | British Radio Announcer | 1959 |
Herod the Great | Erode / Herodes | 1959 |
Sword of Freedom | Marco del Monte | 1958 |
Agguato a Tangeri | John Milwood | 1957 |
Strange Intruder | Paul Quentin | 1956 |
ITV Play of the Week | Mark Wheeler | 1955 |
ITV Television Playhouse | Jimmy Saunders | 1955 |
The King's Thief | Michael Dermott | 1955 |
The Prodigal | Micah | 1955 |
Athena | Adam Calhorn Shaw | 1954 |
The Egyptian | Sinuhe | 1954 |
The Student Prince | Prince Karl Franz | 1954 |
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse | Tom Rutherford | 1953 |
Julius Caesar | Strato | 1953 |
Titanic | Second Officer Lightoller | 1953 |
Chevron Theatre | Tom Rutherford | 1952 |
The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
Director Filmography
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