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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 20, 1924
Died
January 1, 2009
Place of Birth
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom
- Edmond Purdom
- Edmund Purdon
Edmund Purdom
0.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
4.6
Ugo di Clarendon
Knights Of The Quest
2001
5.6
Pharaoh Mamose
The Seventh Scroll
1999
6.0
Host
7 Signs of Christ's Return
1997
0.0
A Bear Called Arthur
1992
4.7
CEO Steensland
The Rift
1990
🎬
0.0
Groves
Appointment in Trieste
1989
6.0
Urbano Rattazzi
Don Bosco
1988
6.1
Count Vlad
Who's Afraid of Dracula?
1985
5.2
Cardinal Della Costa
The Assisi Underground
1985
4.0
His Excelency
Killer vs Killers
1985
Credits
Knights Of The Quest
as Ugo di Clarendon
2001
4.6
The Seventh Scroll
as Pharaoh Mamose
1999
5.6
7 Signs of Christ's Return
as Host
1997
6.0
A Bear Called Arthur
1992
0.0
The Rift
as CEO Steensland
1990
4.7
🎬
Appointment in Trieste
as Groves
1989
0.0
Don Bosco
as Urbano Rattazzi
1988
6.0
Who's Afraid of Dracula?
as Count Vlad
1985
6.1
The Assisi Underground
as Cardinal Della Costa
1985
5.2
Killer vs Killers
as His Excelency
1985
4.0
Don't Open Till Christmas
as Inspector Harris
1984
4.9
🎬
The Making of a Horror Film
as Self
1984
0.0
Champagne in paradiso
as Paola's Father
1983
4.0
2019: After the Fall of New York
as President of the Pan American Confederacy
1983
5.4
Amok
as Jaarsveld
1983
0.0
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
7.0
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
as Griba
1982
3.9
Invaders of the Lost Gold
as Rex Larson
1982
3.8
Pieces
as The Dean
1982
5.9
Absurd
as Father
1981
5.5
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
as Vittorio de Sica
1980
5.2
Deep Thoughts
as The Pianist
1980
3.5
L'altra donna
as Phillip
1980
0.0
Lo scoiattolo
as Robert Sincap
1979
5.0
The New Godfathers
as Secret Service Chief
1979
6.8
Concorde Affair
as Danker
1979
6.4
Rulers of the City
as Luigi Cherico
1976
6.3
Big Pot
as Professor Vanderberg
1976
0.0
Povero Cristo
as Man in Tuxedo / Satan
1976
7.0
The Night Child
as Doctor
1975
5.5
The Suspects
as American journalist
1974
5.2
Fifteen Year Old Captain
as Admiral Marlowe
1974
5.0
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
as Prefect Ewing
1974
4.1
From the Archives of the Criminal Police
as Teddy Webbs
1973
4.0
The Big Family
as Giovanni Lutture
1973
5.8
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
as Inspector Crosby
1973
4.2
Karzan, Jungle Lord
as Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)
1972
5.5
The Devil's Lover
as Gunther
1972
4.6
The Fifth Cord
as Edouard Vermont
1971
6.6
Blackie the Pirate
as The Viceroy
1971
5.7
Thomas
as Marcus
1970
7.7
Naked and Violent
as Narrator (voice): English version
1970
1.0
Witchcraft '70
as Narrator (voice) (English version)
1970
4.9
Wages of Sin
as Narrator
1969
5.0
Naked England
as Narrator (English version)
1969
2.0
The Queer ... The Erotic
as Narrator (voice)
1969
0.0
Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
as Narrator of English version
1968
2.0
Sweden: Heaven and Hell
as Narrator (English version)
1968
5.5
Gun Shy Piluk
as Piluk
1968
4.5
Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine
as Padre
1968
0.0
The Man Who Laughs
as Cesare Borgia
1966
5.0
Texas Jim
as Tom Jameson / Jim James
1965
8.0
Assault on Fort Texan
as Major 'Sugar' Patterson
1965
7.0
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Fane
1964
6.0
The Comedy Man
as Julian Baxter
1964
6.9
The Beauty Jungle
as Rex Carrick
1964
4.7
Theatre 625
as Weislingen
1964
7.2
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
as Sheriff Kelly
1964
6.2
Lafayette
as Silas Deane
1962
5.2
Suleiman the Conqueror
as Ibrahim Pascià
1961
0.0
White Slave Ship
as Dr. Bradley
1961
4.0
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
as Tumos
1961
5.5
The Last of the Vikings
as King Sveno
1961
4.5
Das große Wunschkonzert
as Harry Mell
1960
0.0
Fury of the Pagans
as Toryok
1960
0.0
The Night They Killed Rasputin
as Rasputin
1960
4.0
The Loves of Salammbo
as Narr Havas
1960
4.3
The Cossacks
as Shamil, the Sheik
1960
5.0
Moment of Danger
as Peter Carran
1960
0.0
The Diary of Anne Frank
as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1959
7.2
Herod the Great
as Erode
1959
5.0
Ambush in Tangier
as John Milwood
1957
6.0
Strange Intruder
as Paul Quentin
1956
5.6
The King's Thief
as Michael Dermott
1955
6.3
The Prodigal
as Micah
1955
4.0
Athena
as Adam Calhorn Shaw
1954
5.6
The Egyptian
as Sinuhe
1954
6.4
The Student Prince
as Prince Karl Franz
1954
6.1
Great Lady Has an Interview
as Reporter (uncredited)
1954
2.0
Julius Caesar
as Strato
1953
7.1
Titanic
as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)
1953
6.6
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8