
Edmund Purdom
Born December 20, 1924 · Welwyn 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.
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Absurd

Titanic

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Scarlet and the Black

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The King's Thief

Pieces

Lafayette

The Fifth Cord

Blackie the Pirate

Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile

Athena

The Man Who Laughs

2019: After the Fall of New York

The Night Child

Rulers of the City

The Rift

Ator, the Fighting Eagle

Deep Thoughts

Knights of the Quest

The Last of the Vikings

Wages of Sin

The Prodigal

The New Godfathers

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

The Suspects

Don't Open Till Christmas

Fifteen Year Old Captain

Witchcraft '70

Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

Assault on Fort Texan

Don Bosco

The Assisi Underground

A Bear Called Arthur

Sweden: Heaven and Hell

Malù

The Student Prince

Fury of the Pagans

The Comedy Man

The Last Ride to Santa Cruz

The Loves of Salammbo

The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff

The Devil's Lover

Great Lady Has an Interview

Concorde Affair

Ambush in Tangier

Gun Shy Piluk

Invaders of the Lost Gold

Karzan, Jungle Lord

The Jackpot

Herod the Great

Who's Afraid of Dracula?

The Cossacks

Suleiman the Conqueror

The Beauty Jungle

From the Archives of the Criminal Police

Naked and Violent

The Queer ... The Erotic

Texas Jim

Moment of Danger

The Squirrel

Strange Intruder

The Night They Killed Rasputin

Killer vs Killers

Povero Cristo

White Slave Ship

Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?

Amok

Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine

Das große Wunschkonzert

Champagne in paradiso

The Big Family

Thomas

L'altra donna

7 Signs of Christ's Return






