Edmund PurdomFilmography

Born:: December 19, 1924 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom
Biography:: Broodingly handsome British leading man Edmond Purdom was the son of a London drama critic. An actor from 1945, Purdom came to the attention of Hollywood when he appeared on Broadway in 1951 as a member of Olivier's acting troupe. His chance for full-fledged screen stardom was stymied by his...Read More

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I Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa

Actors: Edward Furlong, Raoul Bova, Marco Leonardi, Thomas Kretschmann, Stanislas Merhar

Synopsis: A handful of young knights are given the grave responsibility of rescuing one of the most sacred relics in Christianity in this lavish historical epic. In the year 1272, the bloody swath of the Crusades has swept much of Europe, and King Louis IX of France dies after a battle in Tunisia. After the Read More

2001
La Grieta

Actors: Jack Scalia, R. Lee Ermey, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair, Emilio Linder

Synopsis: The success of The Abyss led to slew of deep-sea adventures in 1989, including this silly monster movie from the director of Pieces and Slugs. Jack Scalia stars as the head of a rescue mission sent to retrieve a nuclear sub sunken off the coast of Norway, only to be menaced by phony-looking Read More

1990
Appuntamento a Trieste

1988
Fracchia Contro Dracula

Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Edmund Purdom, Anja Pieroni, Isabella Ferrari

Synopsis: Meant to be farcical but with comedy that somehow falls between the cracks, this horror spoof starts off with inept real estate agent Fracchia (Paolo Villaggio) trying to redeem his job. Fracchia has to save his hide by selling something within three days, and his only client is a hard-nosed cuss Read More

12/20/85
Don't Open Till Christmas

Crew: Director

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne, Gerry Sundquist

Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill horror film, it is the Christmas season, and derelicts who need money for food and/or booze get jobs playing Saint Nick in the city's department stores. An insane killer has taken a strong dislike to these Santas and either violently does them in or disfigures them in very Read More

1984
The Assisi Underground

Actors: Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas, Maximilian Schell, Karlheinz Hackl

Synopsis: Set during World War II, The Assisi Underground deals with the efforts made by a handful of hardy European souls to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Ben Cross plays a dynamic young Catholic priest who puts his own life on the line to save thousands of refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy. While the Read More

1984
Thomas E . . . Gli Indemonati

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Anita Sanders, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani

Synopsis: An actor writes a play for the members of his second rate thespian group. A strange man who conducts a seance brings about a young boy a couple had always wanted. Each member of the troupe may indulge in a fantasy while the boy watches. Four women drag off a dwarf who lectures on sex education. A Read More

2/25/83
Pieces

Actors: Christopher George, Edmund Purdom, Lynda Day George, Paul L. Smith, Frank Brana

Synopsis: With a tagline that reads, "You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre," this Spanish-Italian entry into slasher film territory went on to achieve a dubious distinction as one of the most tasteless films ever produced. The bloodshed opens in 1942 with a scene of a little boy axing his Read More

1983
Winds of War, Part 3: Cataclysm

Synopsis: In the third episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, President Roosevelt has dispatched Naval Commander "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) to Germany, there to try to reason with the power-mad Adolf Hitler (Gunter Meisner), whose army has just invaded Poland. Henry also Read More

1983
The Scarlet and the Black

Actors: Gregory Peck

Synopsis: Gregory Peck had made scattered television appearances before, but the 3-hour Scarlet and the Black was his first starring assignment in a made-for-TV movie. Peck plays Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a real-life cleric who, during World War II, rescued thousands of escaped POWs from the Gestapo. Read More

1983
2019: After the Fall of New York

Actors: Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Anna Kanakis, Roman Geer, Vincent Scalondro

Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Sergio Martino directed this violent sci-fi actioner, one of many to pour out of Italy in the wake of Mad Max (1979). Michael Sopkiw stars as Parsifal, who travels to New York in order to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth following a nuclear holocaust. Graphic scenes of rape Read More

1983
Ator the Fighting Eagle

Actors: Miles O'Keeffe, Sabrina Siani, Ritza Brown, Edmund Purdom, Laura Gemser

Synopsis: The dialogue in this "sword and sorcery" film argues for a return to the silent screen as Ator, son of Thorn, fights off giant spiders and the evil Black Knights and chases after a comely, blond maiden, but not at the same time. Scripted lines like "not to go the maternity route" in a medieval Read More

10/7/82
L'Altra Donna

Actors: Francesca de Sapio, Edmund Purdom, Marisa Merlini

Synopsis: There could be no more disparate people than Olga (Francesca deSapio), temporarily separated from her husband, and Regina (Fantu Mengasha), her Ethiopian maid and nanny. Although from different social and ethnic groups, Olga and Regina eventually become friends and help each other out in times of Read More

4/28/82
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

Actors: Sophia Loren

Synopsis: This made-for-television biography chronicles the life of Italian actress and beauty Sophia Loren, from her childhood in Naples to her international stardom. Joanna Crawford adapted the screenplay from A.E. Hotchner's biographical book. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Mister Scarface

Synopsis: This Italian feature is about an ambitious criminal who attempts upward mobility in the criminal world. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

12/3/76
Il Medaglione Insanguinato

Synopsis: The Cursed Medallion may not be a household title, but it certainly has received generous airplay on the many UHF television stations throughout the land. The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit Read More

4/22/75
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

Actors: Michael Dunn, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: Another horrible horror from Italy, which undoubtedly marked the absolute nadir of Rossano Brazzi's career in the wake of South Pacific. Brazzi plays the deranged Dr. Frankenstein (the credits list him as a Count -- someone must have gotten their monsters mixed) who, like many Frankensteins of Read More

1973
L'Amante del Demonio

1/26/72
Un Capitan de Quince Años

Actors: Marc Cassot, Edmund Purdom, Armand Mestral

Synopsis: This atypical adventure film from cult director Jesus Franco was based on a story by Jules Verne. Jose Manuel Marcos portrays 15-year-old Dick Sands, whose lifelong dream is to be a sailor like his godfather, Adm. Marlowe (Edmund Purdom). Marlowe gets Dick a job as a cabin-boy on a ship commanded Read More

1972
Giornata Nera Per l'Ariete

Actors: Franco Nero, Wolfgang Preiss

Synopsis: Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders. After he investigates the first, he becomes a suspect himself but eventually manages to unravel a complex plot involving Read More

8/28/71
Rulers of the City

Synopsis: Jack Palance must have been in 375 movies in the early 1970s. In Rulers of the City, Palance shares star billing with another "take the money and run" veteran Edmund Purdom. The two stars don't have as much screen time as the nominal male lead Al Cliver, however. The story is the old one about the Read More

1971
Svezia Inferno e Paradiso

Actors: Edmund Purdom

Synopsis: Complete with narration from the Italian perspective, this Italian color documentary examines the cultural, sexual and night-time behavior of the Swedish people. Open forums of teenage sex-education are followed by a throng of willful wife swappers and journeys into a lesbian bar. Also covered are Read More

9/4/68
The Man Who Laughs

Actors: Lisa Gastoni, Edmund Purdom, Jean Sorel

Synopsis: Those fun-loving Borgia's are back in yet another chronicle of their 16th century political and sexual shenanigans in this bizarre Italian exploitation film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Contest Girl

Actors: Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser, Edmund Purdom, Jean Claudio

Synopsis: The Beauty Jungle can hardly be considered an expose of the beauty-contest business, since most of what happens in the film is what the average viewer has suspected all along. The lovely and graceful British leading lady Janette Scott stars as an ambitious typist who enters the "Miss Globe" Read More

1966
Shoot to Kill

Synopsis: In this western, a bad guy finds the tables have turned and that he is now being pursued by vengeful townsfolk. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
The Comedy Man

Actors: Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Norman Rossington

Synopsis: Kenneth More is The Comedy Man in this cinemazation of Douglas Hayes' novel. Having spent most of his life playing the provinces in obscurity, More gives the London TV scene a try. He fails at attaining stardom on his own terms, but becomes a celebrity on TV commercials. After basking in fame for Read More

1964
La Chevauchee Vers Santa Cruz

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Marisa Mell, Mario Adorf

1964
The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Actors: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, Shirley MacLaine, George C. Scott, Moira Lister, Ingrid Bergman, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their possession of an unusual car, a yellow Rolls Royce Phantom II. Lord Frinton (Rex Harrison) is a diplomat who purchases the exquisite auto as a gift for his wife (Jeanne Read More

1964
Suleiman the Conqueror

Synopsis: This low-budget 16th century set epic follows the exploits of the conqueror Suleiman the Magnificent, the leader of the Ottoman Empire who tried to over take Europe. In this film, his target is the town of Szigetvar, a heavily fortified Christian outpost. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
Lafayette

Actors: Michel LeRoyer, Howard St. John, Jack Hawkins, Wolfgang Preiss, Pascale Audret

Synopsis: The story of a Frenchman who fought to liberate the American colonies from British rule is colorfully brought to the screen. Lafayette (Michel Leroyer) is an engaging young landowner who spends his time in taverns drinking and talking politics. When he ends up on the wrong side of the minister's Read More

2/14/62
White Slave Ship

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Ivan Desny, Armand Mestral

Synopsis: In this adventure, a dozen imprisoned women are sent to America to become slaves. The year is 1675, and the women must sail aboard the ill-fated Albatross. A few well-heeled passengers are also aboard the ship, and among them is a political prisoner. Somehow the prisoners escape and commandeer the Read More

1962
Nefertiti, regina del Nilo

Synopsis: In this Italian costume epic chronicles the exploits of an innocent maiden who lives near Thebes. She is in love with a sculptor but cannot marry him when a high-ranking reveals that he is her father and that she was betrothed at birth to a mentally ill prince slated to soon take over the country. Read More

9/20/61
L'Ultimo dei Vikinghi

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Edmund Purdom, Giorgio Ardisson, Isabelle Corey

Synopsis: In this historical drama, a Viking prince returns to his homeland only to learn that his father has been murdered by King Sven of Norway. He then discovers that Sven is forcing his sister to marry in order to create an alliance with the Danes. The prince rallies his loyal fighters to storm the Read More

2/8/61
Big Request Concert

Actors: Carlos Thompson, Linda Christian, Edmund Purdom

Synopsis: This undistinguished drama from Austrian director Arthur Maria Rabenalt overdoses on melodrama and clichés as it tells the story of a young girl who tries to help her father find happiness. He is an important conductor who has been living alone with his daughter since his wife died. The daughter Read More

1961
Die Letzte Ritt nach Santa Cruz

Synopsis: Anyone who really tried to ride to Santa Cruz in this western would have had to negotiate the Alps. The explanation? The film's original title was Die Letzte Ritt nach Santa Cruz. That's right, this Austrian/German coproduction is what is known in the trade as a "strudel western." Briton Edmund Purdom Read More

1961
La Furia dei Barbari

Synopsis: Sixth-century Italy is the setting for Fury of the Pagans. Edmund Purdom plays Toryok, the peace-loving ruler of a tranquil Northern province. Pagan leader Kovo (Livio Lorenzon) wreaks havoc upon Toryok's domain, raping and pillaging to a fare-thee-well. Years later, Toryok gets his chance to Read More

10/27/60
Salammbo

Actors: Jean Valerie, Jacques Sernas, Edmund Purdom, Arnoldo Foa, Riccardo Garrone

Synopsis: In this drama, the daughter of the leader of Carthage falls in love with the mercenary leader of an angered band of soldiers who are out to get the pay they were cheated out of after they valiantly fought to save the city. The woman promises to give him her jewels to repay them, but then a Read More

9/16/60
Les Nuits de Raspoutine

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Gianna Maria Canale, Yvette Lebon, John Drew Barrymore

Synopsis: This somewhat inaccurate biography of Russia's power-hungry "Mad Monk" concentrates on the attempts on Rasputin's life, including the (almost un-) successful one carried out by a prince. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

5/12/60
The Cossacks

Actors: Edmund Purdom, John Drew Barrymore, Giorgia Moll, Pierre Brice, Elena Zareschi

Synopsis: Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this routine costume drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil (Edmund Purdom) and Czar Alexander (Massimo Girotti). As a condition of an early truce, Shamil's young son Jamal (John Drew Barrymore) Read More

1960
Malaga

Actors: Trevor Howard, Dorothy Dandridge, Edmund Purdom, Michael Hordern, Paul Stassino

Synopsis: This routine crime drama with a dash of romance begins with a tense opening, a jewel theft is carried out almost without a word of dialogue. One of the thieves, John Bain (Trevor Howard) an expert locksmith plagued by a stint in prison, has been coerced into helping the master thief Peter Curran (Edmund Purdom Read More

1960
Erode il Grande

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Sylvia Lopez, Sandra Milo, Alberto Lupo, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: The long-forgotten Italian historical epic Herod the Great (AKA Erode il Grande, 1960), dramatizes the dark final years of the title figure, an evil Judean Tetrarch notorious for sending Christ to the cross in league with Pontius Pilate. The story begins with Herod (Edmond Purdom) and Antony's Read More

1/1/59
Agguato a Tangeri

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Geneviève Page, Gino Cervi, José Guardiola

Synopsis: Director Riccardo Freda does not take this uninspired, turgid spy film very far in its story about a federal agent (Edmund Purdom) and his efforts at blasting apart an international drug cartel. In one of the more unlikely turns of a plotline, the agent falls in love with the daughter of the Read More

11/8/57
Strange Intruder

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Ida Lupino, Ann Harding, Jacques Bergerac, Gloria Talbott

Synopsis: In one of his last appearances in a Hollywood production, Edmund Purdom plays Korean war veteran Paul Quentin. Keeping his promise to his dead war buddy Adrian (Donald Murphy), Quentin arrives at the doorstep of his Adrian's widow Alice (Ida Lupino). Alice and her children welcome Quentin with Read More

1956
The Prodigal

Actors: Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern, Audrey Dalton, James Mitchell, Neville Brand

Synopsis: One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the then-flagging MGM studios. In its retelling of the 22-verse Biblical story of the Prodigal Son, the film helpfully fills in the story details inconsiderately left out of the Old Read More

1955
The King's Thief

Actors: Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven, George Sanders, Roger Moore

Synopsis: Director Robert Z. Leonard brought his 31-year association with MGM to a rousing close with The King's Thief. Set in England during the reign of Charles II (drolly portrayed by George Sanders), the film stars Edmund Purdom as Michael Dermott, who sets about to steal the crown jewels on behalf of Read More

1955
The Egyptian

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Synopsis:
Based on the novel by Mika Waltari and helmed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, The Egyptian, a lavish period soaper, is set several centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ. Young Egyptian healer Sinuhe Edmund Purdom (ere accompanied by his servant, Kaptah, played by Peter Ustinov) Read More

1954
Athena

Actors: Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Virginia Gibson, Nancy Kilgas, Dolores Starr

Synopsis: Health faddist Mulvain (Louis Calhern) and his astrology-minded wife Salome (Norma Varden) hold court over their seven musical-prodigy daughters. Each girl is named after a mythical Greek: Athena (Jane Powell), Minerva (Debbie Reynolds), Niobe (Virginia Gibson), Aphrodite (Nancy Kligas), Medea (Jane Fischer Read More

1954
The Student Prince

Actors: Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the 1927 Ernst Lubitsch silent picture based on the renowned 1924 operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly, which itself was based on the novel and play by Wilhelm Read More

1954
Julius Caesar

Actors: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Greer Garson, Edmond O'Brien, Deborah Kerr

Synopsis: Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed this exquisite version of William Shakespeare's play. Louis Calhern is Julius Caesar, whose conquests have enabled him to rise to the status of Roman dictator. But his ascent to almost God-like status has given pause to influential members of the Roman Senate. Chief Read More

1953
Titanic

Actors: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: The 1912 sinking of the luxury liner Titanic is used as a backdrop for a several fictional subplots, chief of which involves snooty socialite Clifton Webb and his wife Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck has booked passage on the ill-fated passenger ship with her daughter (Audrey Dalton) and son (Harper Carter Read More

1953

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