Edmund Purdom
Acting • Born 1924-12-20 – Died 2009-01-01
Biography
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.
Filmography
83 credits
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Movie • 1974
Prefect Ewing
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
Movie • 1964
Sheriff Kelly
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie • 1959
British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Naked and Violent
Movie • 1970
Narrator (voice): English version
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1953
Strato
Who's Afraid of Dracula?
Movie • 1985
Count Vlad
2019: After the Fall of New York
Movie • 1983
President of the Pan American Confederacy
The Egyptian
Movie • 1954
Sinuhe
The Night Child
Movie • 1975
Doctor
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
Movie • 1982
Griba
The Rift
Movie • 1990
CEO Steensland
The Fifth Cord
Movie • 1971
Edouard Vermont
Rulers of the City
Movie • 1976
Luigi Cherico
Pieces
Movie • 1982
The Dean
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Movie • 1964
Fane
The Student Prince
Movie • 1954
Prince Karl Franz
Blackie the Pirate
Movie • 1971
The Viceroy
The Last of the Vikings
Movie • 1961
King Sveno
Invaders of the Lost Gold
Movie • 1982
Rex Larson
Don't Open Till Christmas
Movie • 1984
Inspector Harris
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
Movie • 1961
Tumos
The King's Thief
Movie • 1955
Michael Dermott
Titanic
Movie • 1953
Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)
Athena
Movie • 1954
Adam Calhorn Shaw
Strange Intruder
Movie • 1956
Paul Quentin
Assault on Fort Texan
Movie • 1965
Major 'Sugar' Patterson
Gun Shy Piluk
Movie • 1968
Piluk
Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine
Movie • 1968
Padre
The Prodigal
Movie • 1955
Micah
Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
Movie • 1968
Narrator of English version
Sweden: Heaven and Hell
Movie • 1968
Narrator (English version)
Moment of Danger
Movie • 1960
Peter Carran
The Man Who Laughs
Movie • 1966
Cesare Borgia
Texas Jim
Movie • 1965
Tom Jameson / Jim James
Fury of the Pagans
Movie • 1960
Toryok
Champagne in paradiso
Movie • 1983
Paola's Father
Herod the Great
Movie • 1959
Erode
Don Bosco
Movie • 1988
Urbano Rattazzi
The Beauty Jungle
Movie • 1964
Rex Carrick
Suleiman the Conqueror
Movie • 1961
Ibrahim Pascià
The New Godfathers
Movie • 1979
Secret Service Chief
The Big Family
Movie • 1973
Giovanni Lutture
The Assisi Underground
Movie • 1985
Cardinal Della Costa
White Slave Ship
Movie • 1961
Dr. Bradley
The Cossacks
Movie • 1960
Shamil, the Sheik
The Making of a Horror Film
Movie • 1984
Self
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
Movie • 1973
Inspector Crosby
Naked England
Movie • 1969
Narrator (English version)
Ambush in Tangier
Movie • 1957
John Milwood
Wages of Sin
Movie • 1969
Narrator
Amok
Movie • 1983
Jaarsveld
The Night They Killed Rasputin
Movie • 1960
Rasputin
A Bear Called Arthur
Movie • 1992
Thomas
Movie • 1970
Marcus
The Queer ... The Erotic
Movie • 1969
Narrator (voice)
Witchcraft '70
Movie • 1970
Narrator (voice) (English version)
Das große Wunschkonzert
Movie • 1960
Harry Mell
Deep Thoughts
Movie • 1980
The Pianist
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Movie • 1980
Vittorio de Sica
Concorde Affair
Movie • 1979
Danker
Knights Of The Quest
Movie • 2001
Ugo di Clarendon
Fifteen Year Old Captain
Movie • 1974
Admiral Marlowe
Big Pot
Movie • 1976
Professor Vanderberg
From the Archives of the Criminal Police
Movie • 1973
Teddy Webbs
Lafayette
Movie • 1962
Silas Deane
Killer vs Killers
Movie • 1985
His Excelency
Povero Cristo
Movie • 1976
Man in Tuxedo / Satan
L'altra donna
Movie • 1980
Phillip
7 Signs of Christ's Return
Movie • 1997
Host
The Comedy Man
Movie • 1964
Julian Baxter
The Loves of Salammbo
Movie • 1960
Narr Havas
Lo scoiattolo
Movie • 1979
Robert Sincap
Karzan, Jungle Lord
Movie • 1972
Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)
The Devil's Lover
Movie • 1972
Gunther
Absurd
Movie • 1981
Father
The Scarlet and the Black
Movie • 1983
The Suspects
Movie • 1974
American journalist
Great Lady Has an Interview
Movie • 1954
Reporter (uncredited)
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Seventh Scroll
TV • 1999
Pharaoh Mamose
Appointment in Trieste
TV • 1989
Groves
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Weislingen
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
TV • 1953
Tom Rutherford