Edmund Purdom

The actor Edmund Purdom was born in Hertfordshire (United Kingdom) in 1924. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Ignatius. freshly grooved the II WarMundial began to take his first steps as an actor in London’s West End, where he performed in several important plays, such as “The Imaginary Patient” by Molière, or “Romeo and Juliet” by  William Shakespeare . His good work was quickly noticed and he joined the company of  Laurence Olivier  and  Vivien Leigh . It was with them that he traveled to Broadway to perform various works by the English bard, including “Antonio y Cleopatra”.

His arrival in the cinema came from the hand of  Jean Negulesco , to participate in  The Sinking of the Titanic , in 1953. But his grim and rectilinear physique made him a favorite to embody historical and classic characters, and that same year the great  Joseph L. Mankiewicz  called him to be part of his  Julius Caesar . And it was the following year that he found the character that would make him famous, playing Sinuhé in the movie Sinuhé, the Egyptian , directed by the maestro  Michael Curtiz .

In the following years he continued to make a lot of movies, although in lesser films and usually of Italian nationality, since he moved to live in Rome at the end of the 50s   .  The fury of the barbarians  (1960) and  Nefertiti, queen of the Nile  (1961). Years later, the British actor would also participate in some Spanish-produced films, such as those made by  Jesús Franco  The Sinister Eyes of Doctor Orloff  (1973) and  A Fifteen-Year-Old Captain (1975). Little by little her career was diluted in smaller and less important films. His last participation in the cinema took place in the interesting adventure telefilm  I Cavalieri che fecero l’impresa  (2001). The actor passed away in Rome on January 1, 2009.