Edmund Purdom
Birthday: 1924-12-20
Place of Birth: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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.
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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in...
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The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
A former sheriff begins to persecute the gang led by Pedro Ortiz, after his wife is taken away....
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The Diary of Anne Frank
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
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Naked and Violent
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Julius Caesar
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Who's Afraid of Dracula?
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2019: After the Fall of New York
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The Egyptian
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The Night Child
The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around...
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Ator, the Fighting Eagle
The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and res...
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The Rift
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The Fifth Cord
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Rulers of the City
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Pieces
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
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The Student Prince
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty....
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Blackie the Pirate
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The Last of the Vikings
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Invaders of the Lost Gold
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Don't Open Till Christmas
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Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
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The King's Thief
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Titanic
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Athena
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Strange Intruder
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Assault on Fort Texan
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Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine
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Gun Shy Piluk
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The Prodigal
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Sweden: Heaven and Hell
Nine scenes about sexuality and morals in Sweden in the late sixties....
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Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
Using interviews and filmed reconstructions, the director analyzes eroticism from the period of brea...
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Moment of Danger
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The Man Who Laughs
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Texas Jim
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Fury of the Pagans
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Champagne in paradiso
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Herod the Great
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Don Bosco
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Suleiman the Conqueror
Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The adva...
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The New Godfathers
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The Big Family
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The Assisi Underground
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White Slave Ship
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The Cossacks
Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife ...
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The Making of a Horror Film
Documentary/promotional film on the making of the horror film Don't Open Til Christmas....
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The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
Amid the craggy, dusty hills of southern France, a woman screams in the night. Gorgeous Melissa Comf...
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Ambush in Tangier
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Wages of Sin
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The Night They Killed Rasputin
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A Bear Called Arthur
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Thomas
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Witchcraft '70
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The Queer ... The Erotic
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Das große Wunschkonzert
A sentimental musical film about a star conductor and his motherless daughter, orphaned children, ch...
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom,...
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Concorde Affair
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Knights Of The Quest
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Fifteen Year Old Captain
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Big Pot
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From the Archives of the Criminal Police
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Lafayette
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Killer vs Killers
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Povero Cristo
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7 Signs of Christ's Return
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The Comedy Man
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The Loves of Salammbo
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Lo scoiattolo
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Karzan, Jungle Lord
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The Devil's Lover
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Absurd
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The Scarlet and the Black
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The Suspects
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Great Lady Has an Interview
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