
Birthday
1924/12/20
Day of death
2009/01/01 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Also know as
Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom, Edmond Purdom, Edmund Purdon
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, Pu...Read more

(1974) Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
as Prefect Ewing

(1964) The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
as Sheriff Kelly

(1959) The Diary of Anne Frank
as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

(1970) Naked and Violent
as Narrator (voice): English version

(1953) Julius Caesar
as Strato

(1985) Who's Afraid of Dracula?
as Count Vlad

(1983) 2019: After the Fall of New York
as President of the Pan American Confederacy

(1954) The Egyptian
as Sinuhe

(1975) The Night Child
as Doctor

(1982) Ator, the Fighting Eagle
as Griba

(1990) The Rift
as CEO Steensland

(1971) The Fifth Cord
as Edouard Vermont

(1976) Rulers of the City
as Luigi Cherico

(1982) Pieces
as The Dean

(1964) The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Fane

(1954) The Student Prince
as Prince Karl Franz

(1971) Blackie the Pirate
as The Viceroy

(1961) The Last of the Vikings
as King Sveno

(1982) Invaders of the Lost Gold
as Rex Larson

(1984) Don't Open Till Christmas
as Inspector Harris

(1961) Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
as Tumos

(1955) The King's Thief
as Michael Dermott

(1953) Titanic
as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)

(1954) Athena
as Adam Calhorn Shaw

(1956) Strange Intruder
as Paul Quentin

(1965) Assault on Fort Texan
as Major 'Sugar' Patterson
(1968) Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine
as Padre

(1968) Gun Shy Piluk
as Piluk

(1955) The Prodigal
as Micah

(1968) Sweden: Heaven and Hell
as Narrator (English version)

(1968) Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
as Narrator of English version

(1960) Moment of Danger
as Peter Carran

(1966) The Man Who Laughs
as Cesare Borgia

(1965) Texas Jim
as Tom Jameson / Jim James

(1960) Fury of the Pagans
as Toryok

(1983) Champagne in paradiso
as Paola's Father

(1959) Herod the Great
as Erode

(1988) Don Bosco
as Urbano Rattazzi

(1964) The Beauty Jungle
as Rex Carrick

(1961) Suleiman the Conqueror
as Ibrahim Pascià

(1979) The New Godfathers
as Secret Service Chief

(1973) The Big Family
as Giovanni Lutture

(1985) The Assisi Underground
as Cardinal Della Costa

(1961) White Slave Ship
as Dr. Bradley

(1960) The Cossacks
as Shamil, the Sheik
(1984) The Making of a Horror Film
as Self

(1973) The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
as Inspector Crosby

(1969) Naked England
as Narrator (English version)

(1957) Ambush in Tangier
as John Milwood

(1969) Wages of Sin
as Narrator

(1983) Amok
as Jaarsveld

(1960) The Night They Killed Rasputin
as Rasputin

(1992) A Bear Called Arthur
as ---

(1970) Thomas
as Marcus

(1970) Witchcraft '70
as Narrator (voice) (English version)

(1969) The Queer ... The Erotic
as Narrator (voice)

(1960) Das große Wunschkonzert
as Harry Mell

(1980) Deep Thoughts
as The Pianist

(1980) Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
as Vittorio de Sica

(1979) Concorde Affair
as Danker

(2001) Knights Of The Quest
as Ugo di Clarendon

(1974) Fifteen Year Old Captain
as Admiral Marlowe

(1976) Big Pot
as Professor Vanderberg

(1973) From the Archives of the Criminal Police
as Teddy Webbs

(1962) Lafayette
as Silas Deane

(1985) Killer vs Killers
as His Excelency

(1976) Povero Cristo
as Man in Tuxedo / Satan

(1980) L'altra donna
as Phillip

(1997) 7 Signs of Christ's Return
as Host

(1964) The Comedy Man
as Julian Baxter

(1960) The Loves of Salammbo
as Narr Havas

(1979) Lo scoiattolo
as Robert Sincap

(1972) Karzan, Jungle Lord
as Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)

(1972) The Devil's Lover
as Gunther

(1981) Absurd
as Father

(1983) The Scarlet and the Black
as ---

(1974) The Suspects
as American journalist

(1954) Great Lady Has an Interview
as Reporter (uncredited)

(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self

(1999) The Seventh Scroll
as Pharaoh Mamose
(1989) Appointment in Trieste
as Groves

(1964) Theatre 625
as Weislingen