
Edmund Purdom
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.
Acting (76 movies)

Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
1974

The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
1964

The Diary of Anne Frank
1959

Naked and Violent
1970

Julius Caesar
1953

Who's Afraid of Dracula?
1985

2019: After the Fall of New York
1983

The Egyptian
1954

The Night Child
1975

Ator, the Fighting Eagle
1982

The Rift
1990

The Fifth Cord
1971

Rulers of the City
1976

Pieces
1982

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964

The Student Prince
1954

Blackie the Pirate
1971

The Last of the Vikings
1961

Invaders of the Lost Gold
1982

Don't Open Till Christmas
1984

Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
1961

The King's Thief
1955

Titanic
1953

Athena
1954

Strange Intruder
1956

Assault on Fort Texan
1965

Gun Shy Piluk
1968

The Prodigal
1955

Sweden: Heaven and Hell
1968

Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
1968

Moment of Danger
1960

The Man Who Laughs
1966

Texas Jim
1965

Fury of the Pagans
1960

Champagne in paradiso
1983

Herod the Great
1959

Don Bosco
1988

The Beauty Jungle
1964

Suleiman the Conqueror
1961

The New Godfathers
1979

The Big Family
1973

The Assisi Underground
1985

White Slave Ship
1961

The Cossacks
1960

The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
1973

Naked England
1969

Ambush in Tangier
1957

Wages of Sin
1969

Amok
1983

The Night They Killed Rasputin
1960

A Bear Called Arthur
1992

Thomas
1970

Witchcraft '70
1970

The Queer ... The Erotic
1969

Das große Wunschkonzert
1960

Deep Thoughts
1980

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
1980

Concorde Affair
1979

Knights Of The Quest
2001

Fifteen Year Old Captain
1974

Big Pot
1976

From the Archives of the Criminal Police
1973

Lafayette
1962

Killer vs Killers
1985

Povero Cristo
1976

L'altra donna
1980

7 Signs of Christ's Return
1997

The Comedy Man
1964

The Loves of Salammbo
1960

Lo scoiattolo
1979

Karzan, Jungle Lord
1972

The Devil's Lover
1972

Absurd
1981

The Scarlet and the Black
1983

The Suspects
1974

Great Lady Has an Interview
1954
Directing (1 movie)
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