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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 6, 1903
Died
November 19, 1956
Place of Birth
Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Френсис Л. Салливан
- Фрэнсис Л. Салливан
- Francis Loftus Sullivan
Francis L. Sullivan
0.5 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
4.0
Bosra
The Prodigal
1955
5.4
Barzland
Hell's Island
1955
0.0
Commissioner Pierre Duvois
Drums of Tahiti
1954
6.1
Thomas Berrien
Plunder of the Sun
1953
6.4
Dr. Bristol
Sangaree
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
Captain William Bligh
General Electric Theater
1953
3.5
Cavalcade of America
1952
5.8
Andrew McAllister
Caribbean
1952
Credits
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1996
6.7
The Prodigal
as Bosra
1955
4.0
Hell's Island
as Barzland
1955
5.4
Drums of Tahiti
as Commissioner Pierre Duvois
1954
0.0
Plunder of the Sun
as Thomas Berrien
1953
6.1
Sangaree
as Dr. Bristol
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Captain William Bligh
1953
6.4
Cavalcade of America
1952
3.5
Caribbean
as Andrew McAllister
1952
5.8
Pontius Pilate
as Herod Antipas
1952
0.0
My Favorite Spy
as Karl Brubaker
1951
6.0
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Garman
1951
7.2
Behave Yourself!
as Fat Freddy
1951
6.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Detective Yates
1950
6.3
🎬
Sure As Fate
1950
6.0
Night and the City
as Philip Nosseross
1950
7.5
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
The Red Danube
as Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron
1949
6.3
Christopher Columbus
as Francisco de Bobadilla
1949
5.7
Lights Out
1949
5.8
Suspense
1949
4.9
Joan of Arc
as Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais
1948
6.1
Studio One
as Herod Antipas
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Long John Silver
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Winslow Boy
as Attorney General
1948
6.9
Oliver Twist
as Mr. Bumble
1948
7.6
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Broken Journey
as Anton Perami
1948
6.0
Take My Life
as Prosecuting Counsel
1947
7.6
The Man Within
as Mr. Braddock
1947
5.7
Great Expectations
as Mr. Jaggers
1946
7.3
The Laughing Lady
as Sir Williams Tremayne
1946
7.0
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Pothinus
1945
6.2
Fiddlers Three
as Nero
1944
8.2
The Butler's Dilemma
as Leo Carrington
1943
4.5
The Lady from Lisbon
as Minghetti
1942
6.0
The Foreman Went to France
as French Skipper
1942
6.6
The Day Will Dawn
as Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
1942
5.6
"Pimpernel" Smith
as General von Graum
1941
7.2
21 Days Together
as Mander
1940
6.1
Young Man's Fancy
as Blackbeard, Vincent St George
1939
5.8
The Four Just Men
as Leon Poiccard
1939
6.2
The Ware Case
as Attorney General
1938
6.3
Climbing High
as Madman
1938
6.2
The Citadel
as Ben Chenkin
1938
6.5
The Drum
as Governor
1938
5.9
Kate Plus Ten
as Lord Flamborough
1938
8.0
🎬
Fine Feathers
as Hugo Steinway
1937
0.0
Dinner at the Ritz
as Brogard
1937
5.5
Non-Stop New York
as Hugo Brant
1937
6.5
Action for Slander
as Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan)
1937
0.0
🎬
Spy of Napoleon
as Chief of Police
1936
0.0
🎬
A Woman Alone
as Prosecutor
1936
5.7
Her Last Affaire
as Sir Julian Weyre
1935
6.0
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as Rev. Mr. Crisparkle
1935
5.6
Strange Wives
as Bellamy
1934
0.0
Cheating Cheaters
as Dr. George Brockton
1934
0.0
Great Expectations
as Jaggers
1934
6.2
What Happened Then?
as Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel
1934
5.0
🎬
The Warren Case
as Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)
1934
5.0
Chu Chin Chow
as The Caliph
1934
4.3
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
as Carl Peterson
1934
6.1
The Fire Raisers
as Stedding
1934
5.0
Red Wagon
as Cranley
1933
0.0
The Wandering Jew
as Juan de Texada (Phase IV)
1933
7.6
Called Back
as Kaledin
1933
0.0
F.P.1
as A Sailor
1933
6.4
The Right to Live
as Roger Stoneham
1933
0.0
When London Sleeps
as Rodney Haines
1932
0.0
🎬
The Chinese Puzzle
as Herman Strumm
1932
0.0
The Missing Rembrandt
as Baron von Guntermann
1932
0.0
🎬
Destiny
N/A
0.0