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