Biography

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.

Known for

★7.2

The Diary of Anne Frank

1959

★5.9

Pieces

1982

★7.1

Julius Caesar

1953

★6.1

Who's Afraid of Dracula?

1985

★6.6

Titanic

1953

★6.5

The Egyptian

1954

★5.5

Absurd

1981

★5.4

2019: After the Fall of New York

1983

★4.0

Ator, the Fighting Eagle

1982

★5.8

Blackie the Pirate

1971

★4.7

The Rift

1990

★6.6

The Fifth Cord

1971

★4.9

Don't Open Till Christmas

1984

★7.1

The Scarlet and the Black

1983

★6.1

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964