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