Eric Portman
Birthday: 1901-07-13
Place of Birth: Halifax, Yorkshire
Biography: Eric Portman (13 July 1901, Akroydon, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire - 7 December 1969, St Veep, Cornwall) was a distinguished English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in several films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Portman , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
The Girl from Maxim's
A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904....
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49th Parallel
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade c...
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Corridor of Mirrors
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved h...
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Dear Murderer
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime....
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The Prince and the Pauper
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young ...
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We Dive at Dawn
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a B...
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. ...
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A Canterbury Tale
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbu...
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The Bedford Incident
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and...
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Daybreak
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy....
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Deadfall
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau ...
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Wanted for Murder
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist th...
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Old Roses
An elderly man assists the police in solving a murder, but accidentally reveals his own criminal pas...
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West 11
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young u...
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The Naked Edge
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife rece...
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South of Algiers
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancien...
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open...
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The Man Who Finally Died
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at...
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Painter and Poet No. 2
A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is someth...
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Hyde Park Corner
A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936....
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Moonlight Sonata
In this romantic tale Paderewski, the famed pianist, and two other plane crash survivors are guests ...
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Great Day
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with...
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The Deep Blue Sea
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF ...
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The Spider and the Fly
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline inte...
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Men of Two Worlds
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and...
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The Blind Goddess
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, H...
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Cairo Road
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs opera...
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The Good Companions
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth....
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The Spy with a Cold Nose
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the R...
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Assignment to Kill
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of delibe...
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Child in the House
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estr...
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Abdul the Damned
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by t...
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Squadron Leader X
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players ...
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Millions Like Us
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the service...
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The Mark of Cain
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride o...
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The Last Reunion
While holding their annual reunion, the former members of a Royal Air Force bomber crew begin to sen...
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The Colditz Story
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "esc...
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The Cardinal
Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the ...
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When ...
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Escape to Danger
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans...
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...
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Uncensored
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the ne...
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The Whisperers
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fa...
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The Air Plan
Eric Portman narrates this 1945 retrospective account from the RAF Film Production Unit, celebrating...
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Freud: The Secret Passion
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagn...
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A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist ...
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A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed....
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