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.

Фільмографія

• 2001Knights of the Quest — Ugo di Clarendon
• The Seventh Scroll — Pharaoh Mamose
• 19977 Signs of Christ's Return — Host
• 1992A Bear Called Arthur
• 1990The Rift — CEO Steensland
• Appointment in Trieste — Groves
• 1988Don Bosco — Urbano Rattazzi
• 1985Killer vs Killers — His Excelency
• 1985The Assisi Underground — Cardinal Della Costa
• 1985Who's Afraid of Dracula? — Count Vlad
• 1984Don't Open Till Christmas — Inspector Harris, Director
• 19832019: After the Fall of New York — President of the Pan American Confederacy
• 1983Amok — Jaarsveld
• 1983Champagne in paradiso — Paola's Father
• 1983The Scarlet and the Black
• The Winds of War — Luigi Gianelli
• 1982Ator, the Fighting Eagle — Griba
• 1982Invaders of the Lost Gold — Rex Larson
• 1982Pieces — The Dean
• 1981Червона кров — Father
• 1980Deep Thoughts — The Pianist
• 1980L'altra donna — Phillip
• 1980Sophia Loren: Her Own Story — Vittorio de Sica
• 1979Concorde Affair — Danker
• 1979The New Godfathers — Secret Service Chief
• 1979The Squirrel — Robert Sincap
• 1976Malù
• 1976Povero Cristo — Man in Tuxedo / Satan
• 1976Rulers of the City — Luigi Cherico
• 1976The Jackpot — Professor Vanderberg
• 1975The Night Child — Doctor
• 1974Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks — Prefect Ewing
• 1974The Suspects — American journalist
• 1973Fifteen Year Old Captain — Admiral Marlowe
• 1973From the Archives of the Criminal Police — Teddy Webbs
• 1973The Big Family — Giovanni Lutture
• 1973The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff — Inspector Crosby
• 1972Karzan, Jungle Lord — Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)
• 1972The Devil's Lover — Gunther
• 1971Blackie the Pirate — The Viceroy
• 1971The Fifth Cord — Edouard Vermont
• 1970Naked and Violent — Narrator (voice): English version
• 1970Thomas — Marcus
• 1969Naked England — Narrator (English version)
• 1969The Queer ... The Erotic — Narrator (voice)
• 1969Wages of Sin — Narrator
• 1969Witchcraft '70 — Narrator (voice) (English version)
• 1968Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine — Padre
• 1968Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex? — Narrator of English version
• 1968Gun Shy Piluk — Piluk
• 1968Sweden: Heaven and Hell — Narrator (English version)
• 1966The Man Who Laughs — Cesare Borgia
• 1965Assault on Fort Texan — Major 'Sugar' Patterson
• 1965Texas Jim — Tom Jameson / Jim James
• 1964The Beauty Jungle — Rex Carrick
• 1964The Comedy Man — Julian Baxter
• 1964The Last Ride to Santa Cruz — Sheriff Kelly
• 1964The Yellow Rolls-Royce — Fane
• Theatre 625 — Weislingen
• Thursday Theatre — Merton Denver
• 1962Lafayette — Silas Deane
• 1961Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile — Tumos
• 1961Suleiman the Conqueror — Ibrahim Pascià
• 1961The Last of the Vikings — King Sveno
• 1961White Slave Ship — Dr. Bradley
• 1960Das große Wunschkonzert — Harry Mell
• 1960Fury of the Pagans — Toryok
• 1960Moment of Danger — Peter Carran
• 1960The Cossacks — Shamil, the Sheik
• 1960The Loves of Salammbo — Narr Havas
• 1960The Night They Killed Rasputin — Rasputin
• 1959Herod the Great — Erode
• 1959The Diary of Anne Frank — British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
• 1957Ambush in Tangier — John Milwood
• 1956Strange Intruder — Paul Quentin
• 1955The King's Thief — Michael Dermott
• 1955The Prodigal — Micah
• 1954Athena — Adam Calhorn Shaw
• 1954Great Lady Has an Interview — Reporter (uncredited)
• 1954The Egyptian — Sinuhe
• 1954The Student Prince — Prince Karl Franz
• 1953Julius Caesar — Strato
• The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse — Tom Rutherford
• 1953Титанік — Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 1984The Making of a Horror Film — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self