Francis L. Sullivan
59 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 6, 1903
- Died
- Nov 19, 1956 (age 53)
- Place of birth
- Wandsworth, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Френсис Л. Салливан · Фрэнсис Л. Салливан · Francis Loftus Sullivan
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.
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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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Francis L. Sullivan: movies and TV shows
Acting (70)
- Upcoming Destiny · TV
- 1955 Hell's Island
as Barzland
- 1955 The Prodigal
as Bosra
- 1954 Drums of Tahiti
as Commissioner Pierre Duvois
- 1953 Plunder of the Sun
as Thomas Berrien
- 1953 Sangaree
as Dr. Bristol
- 1953
- 1952
- 1952 Caribbean
as Andrew McAllister
- 1952 Pontius Pilate
as Herod Antipas
- 1951 My Favorite Spy
as Karl Brubaker
- 1951
- 1951 Behave Yourself!
as Fat Freddy
- 1950
- 1950
- 1950 Night and the City
as Philip Nosseross
- 1950
- 1949 The Red Danube
as Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron
- 1949 Christopher Columbus
as Francisco de Bobadilla
- 1949
- 1948 Joan of Arc
as Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais
- 1948
- 1948
- 1948 The Winslow Boy
as Attorney General
- 1948 Oliver Twist
as Mr. Bumble
- 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
- 1946 The Laughing Lady
as Sir Williams Tremayne
- 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
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
- 1936 Spy of Napoleon
as Chief of Police
- 1936 A Woman Alone
as Prosecutor
- 1935 Her Last Affaire
as Sir Julian Weyre
- 1935 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as Rev. Mr. 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 Called Back
as Kaledin
- 1933 F.P.1
as A Sailor
- 1933 The Right to Live
as Roger Stoneham
- 1932 When London Sleeps
as Rodney Haines
- 1932 The Chinese Puzzle
as Herman Strumm
- 1932 The Missing Rembrandt
as Baron von Guntermann
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 1996
- 1949 Lights Out
2 episodes
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode