Francis L. Sullivan
Acting
Born: January 6, 1903 · Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Died: November 19, 1956 (aged 53)
Highest Rated
Biography
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.
Known for
Great Expectations
1946
Night and the City
1950
Oliver Twist
1948
Joan of Arc
1948
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
The Citadel
1938
"Pimpernel" Smith
1941
The Winslow Boy
1948
21 Days
1940
The Drum
1938
Movies (54)
Night and the City
Philip Nosseross
Oliver Twist
Mr. Bumble
Plunder of the Sun
Thomas Berrien
Great Expectations
Mr. Jaggers
The Red Danube
Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron
The Prodigal
Bosra
Caesar and Cleopatra
Pothinus
Joan of Arc
Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais
Hell's Island
Barzland
Caribbean
Andrew McAllister
21 Days
Mander
Cheating Cheaters
Dr. George Brockton
My Favorite Spy
Karl Brubaker
The Citadel
Ben Chenkin
Christopher Columbus
Francisco de Bobadilla
"Pimpernel" Smith
General von Graum
Drums of Tahiti
Commissioner Pierre Duvois
The Four Just Men
Leon Poiccard
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Rev. Mr. Crisparkle
Great Expectations
Jaggers
Behave Yourself!
Fat Freddy
Action for Slander
Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan)
The Winslow Boy
Attorney General
Kate Plus Ten
Lord Flamborough
Dinner at the Ritz
Brogard
Non-Stop New York
Hugo Brant
The Foreman Went to France
French Skipper
The Day Will Dawn
Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
The Man Within
Mr. Braddock
Fiddlers Three
Nero
Young Man's Fancy
Blackbeard, Vincent St George
The Drum
Governor
The Butler's Dilemma
Leo Carrington
Broken Journey
Anton Perami
The Ware Case
Attorney General
Take My Life
Prosecuting Counsel
Strange Wives
Bellamy
Sangaree
Dr. Bristol
Her Last Affaire
Sir Julian Weyre
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Carl Peterson
Red Wagon
Cranley
The Laughing Lady
Sir Williams Tremayne
The Lady from Lisbon
Minghetti
The Fire Raisers
Stedding
The Wandering Jew
Juan de Texada (Phase IV)
Pontius Pilate
Herod Antipas
Climbing High
Madman
The Right to Live
Roger Stoneham
When London Sleeps
Rodney Haines
Chu Chin Chow
The Caliph
The Missing Rembrandt
Baron von Guntermann
What Happened Then?
Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel
F.P.1
A Sailor
Called Back
Kaledin
TV Shows (12)
The Philco Television Playhouse
1 eps
Studio One
Herod Antipas · 1 eps
Studio One
Long John Silver · 1 eps
Robert Montgomery Presents
1 eps
Suspense
3 eps
Lights Out
2 eps
Lux Video Theatre
Detective Yates · 1 eps
Cavalcade of America
1 eps
General Electric Theater
1 eps
General Electric Theater
Captain William Bligh · 1 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Garman · 1 eps
