Edmund Purdom
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.
85 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 85
Theatre 625
1964
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953
The Winds of War
1983
The Seventh Scroll
1999
The Diary of Anne Frank
1959
Titanic
1953
Julius Caesar
1953
The Egyptian
1954
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
Deep Thoughts
1980
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
1982
Pieces
1982
Absurd
1981
Don Bosco
1988
Blackie the Pirate
1971
Lafayette
1962
The Man Who Laughs
1966
The Rift
1990
Concorde Affair
1979
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
1961
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
1980
The King's Thief
1955
2019: After the Fall of New York
1983
Herod the Great
1959
The Prodigal
1955
Rulers of the City
1976
Athena
1954
The Loves of Salammbo
1960
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
1974
The Night Child
1975
Don't Open Till Christmas
1984
The Assisi Underground
1985
Knights Of The Quest
2001
The Student Prince
1954
Appointment in Trieste
1989
Invaders of the Lost Gold
1982
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
1964
The Fifth Cord
1971
The Comedy Man
1964
The Suspects
1974
Karzan, Jungle Lord
1972
Fifteen Year Old Captain
1974
The New Godfathers
1979
Sweden: Heaven and Hell
1968
Suleiman the Conqueror
1961
Who's Afraid of Dracula?
1985
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
1973
Thomas
1970
The Cossacks
1960
Gun Shy Piluk
1968
A Bear Called Arthur
1992
Texas Jim
1965
Big Pot
1976
The Beauty Jungle
1964
Assault on Fort Texan
1965
Witchcraft '70
1970
The Devil's Lover
1972
The Squirrel
1979
Fury of the Pagans
1960
Moment of Danger
1960
White Slave Ship
1961
Strange Intruder
1956
The Last of the Vikings
1961
Amok
1983
The Big Family
1973
Das große Wunschkonzert
1960
Povero Cristo
1976
Wages of Sin
1969
The Queer ... The Erotic
1969
Naked and Violent
1970
From the Archives of the Criminal Police
1973
The Night They Killed Rasputin
1960
Champagne in paradiso
1983
Great Lady Has an Interview
1954
Naked England
1969
Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
1968
Killer vs Killers
1985
Malù
1976
Ambush in Tangier
1957
Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine
1968
The Making of a Horror Film
1984
7 Signs of Christ's Return
1997
L'altra donna
1980