Edmund Purdom
Gender: Male
Born: 19th December 1924
Died: 1st January 2009
Nationality: England, United Kingdom
Movies: The Egyptian, Concorde Affaire '79, Athena, The Student Prince, The Prodigal, Ator l'invincible, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, 2019, After the Fall of New York, Last of the Vikings, The Fifth Cord, Invaders of the Lost Gold, The Last Ride to Santa Cruz, Titanic, Julius Caesar, Pieces, The King's Thief, Don't Open Till Christmas, The Beauty Jungle, Elvira's Movie Macabre: Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, Mister Scarface, Absurd, Herod the Great, Lucifera: Demon Lover, Naked and Violent, Gli eroi di Fort Worth, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Comedy Man, Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks, Strange Intruder, Malaga
Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1926 – 1 January 2009) was a British actor.
Purdom was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England and educated at St. Augustine's Abbey School, Ramsgate, then by the Jesuits at St. Ignatius Grammar School and Welwyn Garden City Grammar School. He began his acting career in 1946 by joining the Northampton Repertory Company, appearing in productions which included Romeo and Juliet and Molière's The Imaginary Invalid. Followed by two years of military service where he joined the Army Pool of Artists. He then joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon.
In 1951-52, Purdom appeared in small roles with the Laurence Olivier/Vivien Leigh company on Broadway in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra when his good looks brought him to the attention of Hollywood. His appearance in small roles in Titanic and Julius Caesar led to his being cast in the leading role opposite Ann Blyth in the MGM musical The Student Prince in 1954, a part originally intended for Mario Lanza, whose disagreement with director Curtis Bernhardt over the way a certain song was to be sung had led to his dismissal by MGM. (The
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