Edmund Purdom

Known for ActingBorn 1924-12-20Died 2009-01-01Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Appointment in Trieste

The Jackpot

The Queer ... The Erotic

Moment of Danger

The Making of a Horror Film

Suleiman the Conqueror

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

7 Signs of Christ's Return

Amok

L'altra donna

Das große Wunschkonzert

Thomas

Texas Jim

Povero Cristo

The Cossacks

The Winds of War

A Bear Called Arthur

Theatre 625

The Scarlet and the Black

The Diary of Anne Frank

Karzan, Jungle Lord

The Comedy Man

Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine

The New Godfathers

Assault on Fort Texan

The Last Ride to Santa Cruz

Julius Caesar

Fury of the Pagans

Don Bosco

The Big Family

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Fifth Cord

Concorde Affair

Titanic

Rulers of the City

Ambush in Tangier

The Egyptian

Who's Afraid of Dracula?

Herod the Great

Strange Intruder

Killer vs Killers

The Student Prince

The King's Thief

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Pieces

Wages of Sin

Gun Shy Piluk

The Seventh Scroll