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.
Known For
Credits
- 1996 · Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
- 1955 · The Prodigal as Bosra
- 1955 · Hell's Island as Barzland
- 1954 · Drums of Tahiti as Commissioner Pierre Duvois
- 1953 · Plunder of the Sun as Thomas Berrien
- 1953 · Sangaree as Dr. Bristol
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Captain William Bligh
- 1952 · Cavalcade of America as
- 1952 · Caribbean as Andrew McAllister
- 1952 · Pontius Pilate as Herod Antipas
- 1951 · My Favorite Spy as Karl Brubaker
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Garman
- 1951 · Behave Yourself! as Fat Freddy
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Detective Yates
- 1950 · Sure As Fate as
- 1950 · Night and the City as Philip Nosseross
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as
- 1949 · The Red Danube as Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron
- 1949 · Christopher Columbus as Francisco de Bobadilla
- 1949 · Lights Out as
- 1949 · Suspense as
- 1948 · Joan of Arc as Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais
- 1948 · Studio One as Herod Antipas
- 1948 · Studio One as Long John Silver
- 1948 · The Philco Television Playhouse as
- 1948 · The Winslow Boy as Attorney General
- 1948 · Oliver Twist as Mr. Bumble
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1948 · Broken Journey as Anton Perami
- 1947 · Take My Life as Prosecuting Counsel
- 1947 · The Man Within as Mr. Braddock
- 1946 · Great Expectations as Mr. Jaggers
- 1945 · Caesar and Cleopatra as Pothinus
- 1944 · Fiddlers Three as Nero
- 1943 · The Butler's Dilemma as Leo Carrington
- 1942 · The Lady from Lisbon as Minghetti
- 1942 · The Foreman Went to France as French Skipper
- 1942 · The Day Will Dawn as Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
- 1941 · 'Pimpernel' Smith as General von Graum
- 1940 · 21 Days Together as Mander
- 1939 · Young Man's Fancy as Blackbeard, Vincent St George
- 1939 · The Four Just Men as Leon Poiccard
- 1938 · The Ware Case as Attorney General
- 1938 · Climbing High as Madman
- 1938 · The Citadel as Ben Chenkin
- 1938 · The Drum as Governor
- 1938 · Kate Plus Ten as Lord Flamborough
- 1937 · Fine Feathers as Hugo Steinway
- 1937 · Dinner at the Ritz as Brogard
- 1937 · Non-Stop New York as Hugo Brant
- 1937 · Action for Slander as Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan)
- 1936 · Spy of Napoleon as Chief of Police
- 1935 · Her Last Affaire as Sir Julian Weyre
- 1935 · The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Rev. Mr. Septimus Crisparkle
- 1934 · Strange Wives as Bellamy
- 1934 · Cheating Cheaters as Dr. George Brockton
- 1934 · Great Expectations as Jaggers
- 1934 · What Happened Then? as Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel
- 1934 · The Warren Case as Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)
- 1934 · Chu Chin Chow as The Caliph
- 1934 · The Return of Bulldog Drummond as Carl Peterson
- 1934 · The Fire Raisers as Stedding
- 1933 · Red Wagon as Cranley
- 1933 · The Wandering Jew as Juan de Texada (Phase IV)
- 1933 · The Right to Live as Roger Stoneham
- Future · Destiny as
- 1933 · Called Back as Kaledin
- 1933 · F.P.1 as A Sailor
- 1932 · When London Sleeps as Rodney Haines
- 1932 · The Chinese Puzzle as Herman Strumm
- 1932 · The Missing Rembrandt as Baron von Guntermann