
Francis L. Sullivan
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").
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Acting (55 movies)

The Wandering Jew
1933

Oliver Twist
1948

Caesar and Cleopatra
1945

The Red Danube
1949

Great Expectations
1946

Joan of Arc
1948

'Pimpernel' Smith
1941

21 Days Together
1940

Hell's Island
1955

Night and the City
1950

The Citadel
1938

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935

Plunder of the Sun
1953

The Winslow Boy
1948

My Favorite Spy
1951

The Return of Bulldog Drummond
1934

Take My Life
1947

Drums of Tahiti
1954

Called Back
1933

Christopher Columbus
1949

Fiddlers Three
1944

Sangaree
1953

The Lady from Lisbon
1942

The Four Just Men
1939

Broken Journey
1948

Non-Stop New York
1937

The Drum
1938

Red Wagon
1933

Caribbean
1952

The Ware Case
1938

F.P.1
1933

Strange Wives
1934

Kate Plus Ten
1938

Action for Slander
1937

When London Sleeps
1932

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996

Chu Chin Chow
1934

The Fire Raisers
1934

Climbing High
1938

The Butler's Dilemma
1943

The Day Will Dawn
1942

What Happened Then?
1934

Cheating Cheaters
1934

The Missing Rembrandt
1932

The Right to Live
1933

Her Last Affaire
1935

The Prodigal
1955

Pontius Pilate
1952

Great Expectations
1934

The Foreman Went to France
1942

Behave Yourself!
1951

Dinner at the Ritz
1937

The Man Within
1947

Young Man's Fancy
1939

The Laughing Lady
1946
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