Edmund Purdom
Birthday: 1924-12-20 | Place of Birth: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UKEdmund 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as CEO Steensland
as Count Vlad
as Inspector Harris
as President of the Pan American Confederacy
as The Dean
as Rex Larson
as Father
as Danker
as Luigi Cherico
as Doctor
as Prefect Ewing
as Giovanni Lutture
as Gunther
as Edouard Vermont
as Marcus
as Narrator (voice) (English version)
as Narrator (voice): English version
as Fane
as Tumos
as Peter Carran
as Michael Dermott
as Adam Calhorn Shaw
as Sinuhe
