Eric Porter

Actor Apr 8 (died age 67) Shepard's Bush, London, UK 1948–2014 (66 year career)

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Biography

A highly respected Shakespearean for five decades until his death of colon cancer in 1995, classical actor Eric Porter's claim to international fame would, ironically, be outside of that realm, with one superb portrayal in one superb miniseries, The Forsyte Saga(1967), in which he won the BAFTA award. The son of Richard John Porter and Phoebe Elizabeth Spall, Porter first attended Wimbledon Technical College before stepping onto the stage as a walk-on in a production of William Shakespeare's "Tw…

Known For

Film

The Day of the Jackal

Colonel Rodin

Film

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Mr. Havisham

Film

The Heroes of Telemark

Terboven

Film

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Julianus

Film

Nicholas and Alexandra

Stolypin

Film

Hands of the Ripper

Dr. John Pritchard

Film

The Thirty Nine Steps

Chief Superintendent Lomas

Film

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim

Filmography

Acting (54)

Movies (38)

Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials

2007

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

2003

The Best of Morecambe and Wise

2001

as Self (archive footage)

Message for Posterity

1994

as James Player

Oliver Twist

1985

as Fagin

5.5

A Shilling Life

1982

as Petersham

The Sin Bin

1981

as Stanley Wilkinson

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

1980

as Dr. Nicholson

6.6

Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Mr. Havisham

Hamlet

as Polonius

The Crucible

as Deputy Governor Danforth

1.0

Churchill and the Generals

1979

as Gen. Sir Alan Brooke

The Thirty Nine Steps

1978

as Chief Superintendent Lomas

6.7

The Shetland Experience

as Narrator (voice)

The Winslow Boy

as Arthur Winslow

Hitler’s Germany - A World at War Special Presentation

1976

as Narrator

Hennessy

1975

as Tobin

4.7

The Statue and the Rose

1975

as Parnell

The Final Solution

1975

as Narrator

The Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler

1975

as Narrator

Callan

1974

as Hunter

6.9

The Day of the Jackal

as Colonel Rodin

The Belstone Fox

as Asher Smith

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973

as Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim

6.1

Antony and Cleopatra

1972

as Enobarbus

5.5

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Stolypin

6.9

Hands of the Ripper

1971

as Dr. John Pritchard

6.1

Separate Tables

1970

as Major Pollock / John Malcolm

Macbeth

1970

as Macbeth

The Lost Continent

as Lansen

Kaleidoscope

as Harry Dominion

The Last Invasion

as Harold

The Wars of the Roses

1965

as Henry VII

8.5

The Heroes of Telemark

1965

as Terboven

6.9

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964

as Julianus

6.5

Emma

1948

From War to Peace

as Narrator

Warrior - World at War Special Presentation

as Narrator

Television (16)

The Perfect Morecambe & Wise

2014

as Himself

The World of Hammer

1994

as Self (archive footage)

Performance

as James Player

Oliver Twist

as Fagin

Sherlock Holmes

as Professor Moriarty

8.1

The Jewel in the Crown

1984

as Dimitri Bronowsky

6.4

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

1981

as Neville Chamberlain

Anna Karenina

as Karenin

Playhouse

as Petersham

Play for Today

as Stanley Wilkinson

Civilisation

as Macbeth (voice)

Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials

1969

as Himself

The Forsyte Saga

1967

as Soames Forsyte

8.2

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Cyrano de Bergerac

Theatre 625

as 'Newton'

Theatre Night

as Vadim Romanoff