Eric Porter
- Recitazione
- 8 aprile 1928 · Shepard's Bush, London, UK
- 15 maggio 1995
Biografia
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 "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 London's 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.
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Filmografia
- Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials
- The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
- The Best of Morecambe and Wise · In persona
- Message for Posterity · James Player
- The World of Hammer · In persona
- Performance · James Player
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes · Professor Moriarty
- Oliver Twist · Fagin
- Oliver Twist · Fagin
- Le avventure di Sherlock Holmes · Professor Moriarty
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · Professor Moriarty
- The Jewel in the Crown · Dimitri Bronowsky
- A Shilling Life · Petersham
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years · Neville Chamberlain
- The Crucible · Deputy Governor Danforth
- The Sin Bin · Stanley Wilkinson
- Il piccolo Lord · Mr. Havisham
- Hamlet · Polonius
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? · Dr. Nicholson
- Churchill and the Generals · Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
- I 39 scalini · Chief Superintendent Lomas
- Anna Karenina · Karenin
- The Winslow Boy · Arthur Winslow
- The Shetland Experience · Narrator (Voce)
- Hitler’s Germany - A World at War Special Presentation · Narrator
- Il giorno più lungo di Scotland Yard · Tobin
- The Final Solution · In persona
- The Statue and the Rose · Parnell
- Private Affairs · Charles Stewart Parnell
- The Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler · Narrator
- The Final Solution · Narrator
- Callan · Hunter
- From War to Peace · Narrator
- Warrior - World at War Special Presentation · Narrator
- Playhouse · Petersham
- Il giorno dello sciacallo · Colonel Rodin
- Gli ultimi 10 giorni di Hitler · Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim
- The Belstone Fox · Asher Smith
- All'ombra delle piramidi · Enobarbus
- Nicola e Alessandra · Stolypin
- Gli artigli dello squartatore · Dr. John Pritchard
- Play for Today · Stanley Wilkinson
- Macbeth · Macbeth
- Separate Tables · Major Pollock / John Malcolm
- Solo
- Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials · In persona
- Civilisation · Macbeth (Voce)
- La nebbia degli orrori · Lansen
- The Forsyte Saga · Soames Forsyte
- The Last Invasion · Harold
- La truffa che piaceva a Scotland Yard · Harry Dominion
- Gli eroi di Telemark · Terboven
- BBC Play of the Month · Cyrano de Bergerac, Councillor Albert Parker
- Knock on Any Door · Johnny Isaacs
- The Wars of the Roses · Henry VII
- Theatre 625 · 'Newton'
- La caduta dell'impero romano · Julianus
- Theatre Night · Vadim Romanoff
- Emma