Eric Porter actor
- Toate serialele tv cunoscute 15
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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
Film 1973
Lansen
Film 1968
Chief Superintendent Lomas
Film 1978
Dr. John Pritchard
Film 1971
Hunter
Film 1974
Enobarbus
Film 1972
Dr. Nicholson
Film 1980
Asher Smith
Film 1973
James Player
Film 1994
Fagin
Film 1985
Macbeth
Film 1970
Narrator (voice)
Film 1977
Mr. Havisham
Film 1980
Arthur Winslow
Film 1977
Self (archive footage)
Film 2001
Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim
Film 1973
Tobin
Film 1975
Terboven
Film 1965
Deputy Governor Danforth
Film 1980
Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
Film 1979
Polonius
Film 1980
Stanley Wilkinson
Film 1981
Major Pollock / John Malcolm
Film 1970
Stolypin
Film 1971
Henry VII
Film 1965
Film 2003
Film 2007
Harold
Film 1966
Film 1948
Petersham
Film 1982
Stanley Wilkinson
Tv 1970
Fagin
Tv 1985
Neville Chamberlain
Tv 1981
Tv 1978
Macbeth (voice)
Tv 1969
Himself
Tv
Himself
Tv 1969
