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"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis L. Sullivan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Wandering Jew
(Juan de Texada (Phase IV))
Oliver Twist
(Mr. Bumble)
Caesar and Cleopatra
(Pothinus)
The Red Danube
(Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron)
Great Expectations
(Mr. Jaggers)
Joan of Arc
(Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais)
'Pimpernel' Smith
(General von Graum)
21 Days Together
(Mander)
Hell's Island
(Barzland)
Night and the City
(Philip Nosseross)
The Citadel
(Ben Chenkin)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(Rev. Mr. Septimus Crisparkle)
Plunder of the Sun
(Thomas Berrien)
The Winslow Boy
(Attorney General)
My Favorite Spy
(Karl Brubaker)
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
(Carl Peterson)
Take My Life
(Prosecuting Counsel)
Drums of Tahiti
(Commissioner Pierre Duvois)
Called Back
(Kaledin)
Christopher Columbus
(Francisco de Bobadilla)
Fiddlers Three
(Nero)
Sangaree
(Dr. Bristol)
The Lady from Lisbon
(Minghetti)
The Four Just Men
(Leon Poiccard)
Broken Journey
(Anton Perami)
Non-Stop New York
(Hugo Brant)
The Drum
(Governor)
Red Wagon
(Cranley)
Caribbean
(Andrew McAllister)
Spy of Napoleon
(Chief of Police)
The Ware Case
(Attorney General)
F.P.1
(A Sailor)
Strange Wives
(Bellamy)
Kate Plus Ten
(Lord Flamborough)
Action for Slander
(Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan))
When London Sleeps
(Rodney Haines)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
(Self (archive footage))
Chu Chin Chow
(The Caliph)
The Fire Raisers
(Stedding)
Climbing High
(Madman)
The Butler's Dilemma
(Leo Carrington)
The Day Will Dawn
(Kommandant Ulrich Wettau)
The Warren Case
(Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited))
What Happened Then?
(Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel)
Cheating Cheaters
(Dr. George Brockton)
The Chinese Puzzle
(Herman Strumm)
The Missing Rembrandt
(Baron von Guntermann)
The Right to Live
(Roger Stoneham)
Her Last Affaire
(Sir Julian Weyre)
The Prodigal
(Bosra)
Pontius Pilate
(Herod Antipas)
Great Expectations
(Jaggers)
The Foreman Went to France
(French Skipper)
Behave Yourself!
(Fat Freddy)
Dinner at the Ritz
(Brogard)
The Man Within
(Mr. Braddock)
Young Man's Fancy
(Blackbeard, Vincent St George)
Fine Feathers
(Hugo Steinway)
The Laughing Lady
(Sir Williams Tremayne)
Studio One
(Herod Antipas)
General Electric Theater
Lux Video Theatre
(Detective Yates)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Philco Television Playhouse
Suspense
Robert Montgomery Presents
Cavalcade of America
Lights Out
Sure As Fate
Destiny
General Electric Theater
(Captain William Bligh)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
(Garman)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self)
Studio One
(Long John Silver)