Francis L. Sullivan

Francis L. Sullivan

Acting 1903-01-06 Wandsworth, London, England, UK

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"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis L. Sullivan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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1996 Self (archive footage)
1955 Barzland
1955 Bosra
1954 Commissioner Pierre Duvois
1953 Thomas Berrien
1953 Dr. Bristol
1953 Captain William Bligh
1952 Andrew McAllister
1952 Herod Antipas
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1951 Karl Brubaker
1951 Fat Freddy
1950 Philip Nosseross
1950 Detective Yates
1949 Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron
1949 Francisco de Bobadilla
1949
1949
1948 Mr. Bumble
1948 Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais
1948 Attorney General
1948 Anton Perami
1948 Herod Antipas
1948 Self
1948 Long John Silver
1947 Prosecuting Counsel
1947 Mr. Braddock
1946 Mr. Jaggers
1946 Sir Williams Tremayne
1945 Pothinus
1944 Nero
1943 Leo Carrington
1942 Minghetti
1942 Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
1942 French Skipper
1941 General von Graum
1940 Mander
1939 Leon Poiccard
1939 Blackbeard, Vincent St George
1938 Ben Chenkin
1938 Governor
1938 Attorney General
1938 Lord Flamborough
1938 Madman
1937 Hugo Brant
1937 Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan)
1937 Brogard
1937 Hugo Steinway
1936 Chief of Police
1936 Prosecutor
1935 Rev. Mr. Crisparkle
1935 Sir Julian Weyre
1934 Carl Peterson
1934 Bellamy
1934 The Caliph
1934 Stedding
1934 Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)
1934 Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel
1934 Dr. George Brockton
1934 Jaggers
1933 Juan de Texada (Phase IV)
1933 Kaledin
1933 Cranley
1933 A Sailor
1933 Roger Stoneham
1932 Rodney Haines
1932 Herman Strumm
1932 Baron von Guntermann