Eric Porter actor
- All known tv series 15
- Total known movies 32
A highly respected Shakespearean for five decades until his death of colon cancer in 1995, classical actor Eric Porters 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 Shakespeares Twelfth Night in February 1945 at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge. He continued in repertory until joining the National Service with the RAF during the war years. Early post-war credits would include touring with Sir Donald Wolfit and Sir Barry Jackson in their prestigious companies. Favorite roles in his repertoire would eventually include Macbeth, King Lear and Uncle Vanya. He won Londons Evening Standard Award for Rosmersholm in 1959. Joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960, he became a prime, esteemed resident for decades. Porter made his film debut in mid-career with The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) at age 36, but it was the BBC that made him an international favorite as the ever-proper but intensely emotional and unhinged Soames Forsyte. Taboos were broken on that series with a violent rape scene that had people talking for months. Along with the newly acquired fame came leads in lesser films such as The Lost Continent(1968) and Hands of the Ripper (1971), adding class to both those atmospheric horrors. On the plus side, Porter engaged himself frequently in quality TV miniseries fare includingAnna Karenina (1977), The Jewel in the Crown (1984) and Oliver Twist (1985) (as Fagin), while transferring many classics to TV as well, with Cyrano de Bergerac, Man and Superman and Macbeth being but a few.
Colonel Rodin
Movie 1973
Lansen
Movie 1968
Chief Superintendent Lomas
Movie 1978
Dr. John Pritchard
Movie 1971
Hunter
Movie 1974
Enobarbus
Movie 1972
Dr. Nicholson
Movie 1980
Asher Smith
Movie 1973
James Player
Movie 1994
Fagin
Movie 1985
Macbeth
Movie 1970
Narrator (voice)
Movie 1977
Mr. Havisham
Movie 1980
Arthur Winslow
Movie 1977
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2001
Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim
Movie 1973
Tobin
Movie 1975
Terboven
Movie 1965
Deputy Governor Danforth
Movie 1980
Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
Movie 1979
Polonius
Movie 1980
Stanley Wilkinson
Movie 1981
Major Pollock / John Malcolm
Movie 1970
Stolypin
Movie 1971
Henry VII
Movie 1965
Movie 2003
Movie 2007
Harold
Movie 1966
Movie 1948
Petersham
Movie 1982
Stanley Wilkinson
Tv 1970
Fagin
Tv 1985
Neville Chamberlain
Tv 1981
Tv 1978
Macbeth (voice)
Tv 1969
Himself
Tv
Himself
Tv 1969
