Edmund Purdom

Born: 1924-12-20

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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The Diary of Anne Frank

as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1959-03-18

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is...

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Julius Caesar

as Strato
Released: 1953-06-04

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic...

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Titanic

as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)
Released: 1953-04-11

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic....

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Pieces

as The Dean
Released: 1982-08-23

A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of...

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The Egyptian

as Sinuhe
Released: 1954-08-25

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his...

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Athena

as Adam Calhorn Shaw
Released: 1954-11-04

A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food...

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Blackie the Pirate

as The Viceroy
Released: 1971-03-12

Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the...

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The Rift

as CEO Steensland
Released: 1990-03-09

An experimental submarine with a very experienced crew, the "Siren II" is sent to find out what...

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The Scarlet and the Black

as uncredited
Released: 1983-02-02

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped...

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Ator, the Fighting Eagle

as Griba
Released: 1982-10-07

The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and...

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Absurd

as Father
Released: 1981-10-01

A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped...

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Who Is Afraid Of Dracula?

as Count Vlad
Released: 1985-12-20

Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or...

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Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile

as Tumos
Released: 1961-09-20

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.

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The King's Thief

as Michael Dermott
Released: 1955-08-05

An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.

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The Fifth Cord

as Edouard Vermont
Released: 1971-08-17

A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him,...

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Don't Open Till Christmas

as Inspector Harris
Released: 1984-12-07

It's just days before Christmas in London, but not everyone is full of good cheer - as a maniac...

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The Yellow Rolls-Royce

as Fane
Released: 1964-12-31

One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys...

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2019: After the Fall of New York

as President of the Pan American Confederacy
Released: 1983-07-22

After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel...

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The Student Prince

as Prince Karl Franz
Released: 1954-06-15

A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.

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The Cossacks

as Shamil, the Sheik
Released: 1960-02-04

Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the...

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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

as Prefect Ewing
Released: 1974-02-19

Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a...

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Herod the Great

as Erode
Released: 1959-01-01

Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being...

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Strange Intruder

as Paul Quentin
Released: 1956-09-02

A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise.

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Concorde Affair

as Danker
Released: 1979-03-23

A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save...

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The Suspects

as Le journaliste américain
Released: 1974-11-27

When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In...

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Rulers of the City

as Luigi Cherico
Released: 1976-12-03

Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one...

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Texas Jim

as Tom Jameson / Jim James
Released: 1965-05-24

A band of fierce rustlers is ravaging the region of Las Cruces. Appears an outsider who saves...

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The New Godfathers

as Secret Service Chief
Released: 1979-08-24

A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on...

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Don Bosco

as Urbano Rattazzi
Released: 1988-01-31

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and...

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The Night Child

as Doctor
Released: 1975-04-22

The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift...

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The Prodigal

as Micah
Released: 1955-05-06

A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an...

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Assault on Fort Texan

as Major 'Sugar' Patterson
Released: 1965-01-01

During the War of Independence, a group of Southern soldiers form an alliance with the Apache...

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The Comedy Man

as Julian Baxter
Released: 1964-09-03

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a...

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The Assisi Underground

as Cardinal Della Costa
Released: 1985-05-03

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing...

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The Last Ride to Santa Cruz

as Sheriff Kelly
Released: 1964-03-28

A former sheriff begins to persecute the gang led by Pedro Ortiz, after his wife is taken away.

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Deep Thoughts

as The Pianist
Released: 1980-01-01

An inventive Euro sex film, set in Paris and Rome.

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Knights of the Quest

as Ugo di Clarendon
Released: 2001-04-06

In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver...

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The Loves of Salammbo

as Narr Havas
Released: 1960-03-24

During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to...

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Amok

as Jaarsveld
Released: 1983-04-01

A rural teacher discovers the harsh realities of his South Africa.

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White Slave Ship

as Dr. Bradley
Released: 1961-12-01

The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a...

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Karzan, Jungle Lord

as Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1972-02-19

Financed by Lord Carter and led by Captain Fox, an expedition is mounted to find and capture a...

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Invaders of the Lost Gold

as Rex Larson
Released: 1982-09-20

Japanese soldiers battle a tribe of cannibals while protecting a gold shipment.

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The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff

as Inspector Crosby
Released: 1973-01-01

Amid the craggy, dusty hills of southern France, a woman screams in the night. Gorgeous Melissa...

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The Big Family

as Giovanni Lutture
Released: 1973-03-03

Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts...

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Champagne in paradiso

as Paola's Father
Released: 1983-07-28

Musical, in the style of GREASE, with dance numbers and entertainment. Set in a high school,...

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Lafayette

as Silas Deane
Released: 1962-02-16

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the...

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The Devil's Lover

as Gunther
Released: 1972-01-26

When a trio of free-spirited young women insists on spending the night in a castle rumored to be...

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The Beauty Jungle

as Rex Carrick
Released: 1964-08-25

A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

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Fifteen Year Old Captain

as Admiral Marlowe
Released: 1974-07-07

Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without...

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Naked and Violent

as Narrator (voice): English version
Released: 1970-07-29

Cult director Sergio Martino, during the most glorious mondo years, delivered Naked and Violent,...

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The Last of the Vikings

as King Sveno
Released: 1961-02-08

In this historical drama, a Viking prince returns to his homeland only to learn that his father...

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Sweden: Heaven and Hell

as Narrator (English version)
Released: 1968-09-04

Nine scenes about sexuality and morals in Sweden in the late sixties.

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The Man Who Laughs

as Cesare Borgia
Released: 1966-08-20

Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and...

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A Bear Called Arthur

as uncredited
Released: 1992-02-14

A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan....

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Moment of Danger

as Peter Carran
Released: 1960-01-26

Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double...

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Gun Shy Piluk

as Piluk
Released: 1968-03-07

A sheriff is killed by the leader of the local bad guys, and the father of the sheriff is not to...

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Thomas

as Marcus
Released: 1970-09-28

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Lo scoiattolo

as Robert Sincap
Released: 1979-10-01

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Fury of the Pagans

as Toryok
Released: 1960-10-26

In an imaginary northern European country during the High Middle Ages, two leaders of a...

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Big Pot

as Professor Vanderberg
Released: 1976-06-15

A gang of robbers takes possession of a load of diamonds.. Only one of them, Mark Lemmon, is...

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Das große Wunschkonzert

as Harry Mell
Released: 1960-12-19

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Suleiman the Conqueror

as Ibrahim Pascià
Released: 1961-12-07

Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The...

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Povero Cristo

as Man in Tuxedo
Released: 1976-01-03

A provincial young man with aspirations of becoming a private investigator is approached by a...

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The Night They Killed Rasputin

as Rasputin
Released: 1960-05-11

Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a...

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Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?

as Narrator of English version
Released: 1968-12-31

Using interviews and filmed reconstructions, the director analyzes eroticism from the period of...

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Killer vs Killers

as His Excelency
Released: 1985-01-01

A businessman recruits some thieves to steal a valuable chemical formula kept in an well guarded...

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From the Archives of the Criminal Police

as Teddy Webbs
Released: 1973-12-18

A corrupt cop steals evidence of a Mafia drug ring with plans to sell it to their rivals, but is...

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Ambush in Tangier

as John Milwood
Released: 1957-01-01

An American police detective's investigation into a series of murders leads him to drug...

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Witchcraft '70

as Narrator (voice) (English version)
Released: 1970-02-07

Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! ...

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Naked England

as Narrator (English version)
Released: 1969-04-05

"Mondo" sort of documentary around English customs.

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7 Signs of Christ's Return

as Host
Released: 1997-09-08

He promised to return. The scriptures foretell of seven events that will herald the second...

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The Queer ... The Erotic

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1969-03-06

The documentary shows in succession a ritual of male initiation in an African tribe, a lesson in...

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Wages of Sin

as Narrator
Released: 1969-10-07

Documentary that analyzes sexuality during it's so-called "revolution", the late sixties. The...

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L'altra donna

as Phillip
Released: 1980-01-01

Wealthy woman and her Ethiopian maid form a friendship.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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The Seventh Scroll

as Pharaoh Mamose
First aired: 1999-06-15

Past and present intertwine when an archaeologist and her husband find a mysterious child on the...

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