Francis Loftus Sullivan (6 January 1903, Wandsworth, London - 19 November 1956, New York City) was an English film and stage actor. He attended Stonyhurst, the Jesuit public school in Lancashire, England whose alumni include Charles Laughton and Arthur Conan Doyle. A heavily built man with a striking double-chin and a deep voice, Sullivan made his acting debut at the Old Vic aged 18 in Shakespeare's Richard III and appeared in his first film in 1932. Some of his notable film roles include Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist (1948) and Phil Nosseross in the film noir Night and the City (1950). Sullivan also played the part of Jaggers in two versions of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - in 1934 and 1946. He appeared in a fourth Dickens film, the 1935 Universal Pictures version of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in which he played Crisparkle. In 1938, he was featured in The Citadel, starring Robert Donat, and a decade later, he played the role of Pierre Cauchon in the technicolor version of Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman. Also in 1938 he starred in a revival of the Stokes' brothers play Oscar Wilde at London's Arts Theatre. Sullivan also acted in light comedies, notably My Favorite Spy (1951), starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr, in which he played an enemy agent, and the comedy Fiddlers Three (1944), portraying Nero. He also played the role of Pothinus in the 1945 film version of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The film was directed by Gabriel Pascal, and was the last film personally supervised by Shaw himself. Sullivan later reprised the role in a stage revival of the play. Sullivan, who eventually became a naturalized US citizen, won a Tony Award in 1955 for the Agatha Christie play Witness for the Prosecution. Earlier, he had played Hercule Poirot at the Embassy Theatre (London) in the Christie play, Black Coffee (1930). He died of a heart attack, aged 53 (some sources claim he died from an unspecified "lung ailment"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis L. Sullivan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Фільмографія

• 1955Hell's Island — Barzland
• 1955The Prodigal — Bosra
• 1954Drums of Tahiti — Commissioner Pierre Duvois
• General Electric Theater — Captain William Bligh
• 1953Plunder of the Sun — Thomas Berrien
• 1953Sangaree — Dr. Bristol
• 1952Caribbean — Andrew McAllister
• Cavalcade of America
• 1952Pontius Pilate — Herod Antipas
• 1951Behave Yourself! — Fat Freddy
• 1951My Favorite Spy — Karl Brubaker
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Garman
• Lux Video Theatre — Detective Yates
• 1950Night and the City — Philip Nosseross
• Robert Montgomery Presents
• Sure As Fate
• 1949Christopher Columbus — Francisco de Bobadilla
• Lights Out
• Suspense
• 1949The Red Danube — Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron
• 1948Broken Journey — Anton Perami
• 1948Joan of Arc — Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais
• Studio One — Herod Antipas, Long John Silver
• The Philco Television Playhouse
• 1948The Winslow Boy — Attorney General
• 1948Олівер Твіст — Mr. Bumble
• 1947Take My Life — Prosecuting Counsel
• 1947The Man Within — Mr. Braddock
• 1946The Laughing Lady — Sir Williams Tremayne
• 1946Великі сподівання — Mr. Jaggers
• 1945Caesar and Cleopatra — Pothinus
• 1944Fiddlers Three — Nero
• 1943The Butler's Dilemma — Leo Carrington
• 1942The Day Will Dawn — Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
• 1942The Foreman Went to France — French Skipper
• 1942The Lady from Lisbon — Minghetti
• 1941"Pimpernel" Smith — General von Graum
• 194021 Days — Mander
• 1939The Four Just Men — Leon Poiccard
• 1939Young Man's Fancy — Blackbeard, Vincent St George
• 1938Climbing High — Madman
• 1938Kate Plus Ten — Lord Flamborough
• 1938The Citadel — Ben Chenkin
• 1938The Drum — Governor
• 1938The Ware Case — Attorney General
• 1937Action for Slander — Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan)
• 1937Dinner at the Ritz — Brogard
• 1937Fine Feathers — Hugo Steinway
• 1937Non-Stop New York — Hugo Brant
• 1936A Woman Alone — Prosecutor
• 1936Spy of Napoleon — Chief of Police
• Theatre Parade — Hercule Poirot
• 1935Her Last Affaire — Sir Julian Weyre
• 1935The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Rev. Mr. Crisparkle
• 1934Cheating Cheaters — Dr. George Brockton
• 1934Chu Chin Chow — The Caliph
• 1934Great Expectations — Jaggers
• 1934Strange Wives — Bellamy
• 1934The Fire Raisers — Stedding
• 1934The Return of Bulldog Drummond — Carl Peterson
• 1934The Warren Case — Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)
• 1934What Happened Then? — Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel
• 1933Called Back — Kaledin
• 1933F.P.1 — A Sailor
• 1933Red Wagon — Cranley
• 1933The Right to Live — Roger Stoneham
• 1933The Wandering Jew — Juan de Texada (Phase IV)
• 1932The Chinese Puzzle — Herman Strumm
• 1932The Missing Rembrandt — Baron von Guntermann
• 1932When London Sleeps — Rodney Haines
• Destiny

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 1996Ingrid Bergman Remembered — Self (archive footage)
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self