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person_profile-Francis L. Sullivan

Francis L. Sullivan Died at age: 53

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Francis L. Sullivan

Date of Birth:

Jan 06, 1903

Country of birth:

England

Died:

Nov 19, 1956

Biography of

Francis L. Sullivan

    Francis Loftus Sullivan (6 January 1903, Wandsworth, London - 19 November 1956, New York City) was an English film and stage actor. He attended Stonyhurst, the Jesuit public school in Lancashire, England whose alumni include Charles Laughton and Arthur Conan Doyle.

    A heavily built man with a striking double-chin and a deep voice, Sullivan made his acting debut at the Old Vic aged 18 in Shakespeare's Richard III and appeared in his first film in 1932. Some of his notable film roles include Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist (1948) and Phil Nosseross in the film noir Night and the City (1950). Sullivan also played the part of Jaggers in two versions of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - in 1934 and 1946. He appeared in a fourth Dickens film, the 1935 Universal Pictures version of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in which he played Crisparkle.

    In 1938, he was featured in The Citadel, starring Robert Donat, and a decade later, he played the role of Pierre Cauchon in the technicolor version of Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman. Also in 1938 he starred in a revival of the Stokes' brothers play Oscar Wilde at London's Arts Theatre.

    Sullivan also acted in light comedies, notably My Favorite Spy (1951), starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr, in which he played an enemy agent, and the comedy Fiddlers Three (1944), portraying Nero. He also played the role of Pothinus in the 1945 film version of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The film was directed by Gabriel Pascal, and was the last film personally supervised by Shaw himself. Sullivan later reprised the role in a stage revival of the play.

    Sullivan, who eventually became a naturalized US citizen, won a Tony Award in 1955 for the Agatha Christie play Witness for the Prosecution. Earlier, he had played Hercule Poirot at the Embassy Theatre (London) in the Christie play, Black Coffee (1930). He died of a heart attack, aged 53 (some sources claim he died from an unspecified "lung ailment").

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Filmography of

Francis L. Sullivan

Found 55 Movies in total

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1996

The Prodigal

Bosra ( Actor )

... 1955

Hell's Island

Barzland ( Actor )

... 1955

Drums of Tahiti

Commissioner Pierre Duvois ( Actor )

... 1954

Plunder of the Sun

Thomas Berrien ( Actor )

... 1953

Sangaree

Dr. Bristol ( Actor )

... 1953

Caribbean

Andrew McAllister ( Actor )

... 1952

Pontius Pilate

Herod Antipas ( Actor )

... 1952

My Favorite Spy

Karl Brubaker ( Actor )

... 1951

Behave Yourself!

Fat Freddy ( Actor )

... 1951

Night and the City

Philip Nosseross ( Actor )

... 1950

The Red Danube

Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron ( Actor )

... 1949

Christopher Columbus

Francisco de Bobadilla ( Actor )

... 1949

Joan of Arc

Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais ( Actor )

... 1948

The Winslow Boy

Attorney General ( Actor )

... 1948

Oliver Twist

Mr. Bumble ( Actor )

... 1948

Broken Journey

Anton Perami ( Actor )

... 1948

Take My Life

Prosecuting Counsel ( Actor )

... 1947

The Man Within

Mr. Braddock ( Actor )

... 1947

Great Expectations

Mr. Jaggers ( Actor )

... 1946

The Laughing Lady

Sir Williams Tremayne ( Actor )

... 1946

Caesar and Cleopatra

Pothinus ( Actor )

... 1945

Fiddlers Three

Nero ( Actor )

... 1944

The Butler's Dilemma

Leo Carrington ( Actor )

... 1943

The Lady from Lisbon

Minghetti ( Actor )

... 1942

The Foreman Went to France

French Skipper ( Actor )

... 1942

The Day Will Dawn

Kommandant Ulrich Wettau ( Actor )

... 1942

'Pimpernel' Smith

General von Graum ( Actor )

... 1941

21 Days Together

Mander ( Actor )

... 1940

Young Man's Fancy

Blackbeard, Vincent St George ( Actor )

... 1939

The Four Just Men

Leon Poiccard ( Actor )

... 1939

The Ware Case

Attorney General ( Actor )

... 1938

Climbing High

Madman ( Actor )

... 1938

The Citadel

Ben Chenkin ( Actor )

... 1938

The Drum

Governor ( Actor )

... 1938

Kate Plus Ten

Lord Flamborough ( Actor )

... 1938

Dinner at the Ritz

Brogard ( Actor )

... 1937

Non-Stop New York

Hugo Brant ( Actor )

... 1937

Action for Slander

Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan) ( Actor )

... 1937

Her Last Affaire

Sir Julian Weyre ( Actor )

... 1935

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Rev. Mr. Septimus Crisparkle ( Actor )

... 1935

Strange Wives

Bellamy ( Actor )

... 1934

Cheating Cheaters

Dr. George Brockton ( Actor )

... 1934

Great Expectations

Jaggers ( Actor )

... 1934

What Happened Then?

Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel ( Actor )

... 1934

Chu Chin Chow

The Caliph ( Actor )

... 1934

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

Carl Peterson ( Actor )

... 1934

The Fire Raisers

Stedding ( Actor )

... 1934

Red Wagon

Cranley ( Actor )

... 1933

The Wandering Jew

Juan de Texada (Phase IV) ( Actor )

... 1933

Called Back

Kaledin ( Actor )

... 1933

F.P.1

A Sailor ( Actor )

... 1933

The Right to Live

Roger Stoneham ( Actor )

... 1933

When London Sleeps

Rodney Haines ( Actor )

... 1932

The Missing Rembrandt

Baron von Guntermann ( Actor )

... 1932