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