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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.
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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21 March 1932
A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
29 November 1943
Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house.
22 July 1932
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs.
26 December 1946
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman.
26 December 1937
A Scottish shop-girl gets mixed up with crooks then has to pose as the mistress of the Crown Prince of Boravia.
01 May 1934
Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
22 June 1942
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
28 June 1948
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice.
09 September 1936
Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government.
22 December 1948
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England.
05 November 1934
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
11 December 1945
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
14 October 1949
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
30 November 1934
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
24 September 1934
Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy.
21 July 1937
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
31 July 1939
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
17 March 1938
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
15 November 1933
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return.
26 August 1953
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.
01 January 1933
A shady financier tries to acquire a new chemical
19 May 1936
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
16 October 1946
A musical set during the French Revolution.
07 January 1940
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime.
06 May 1955
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.
14 April 1948
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
02 December 1938
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the e
15 June 1950
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
01 September 1942
When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-loving South American wanna-be spy Tamara (Jane Carr) journeys to Lisbon to snoop for the Germans in return for the iconic painting.
02 April 1933
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.
24 September 1948
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
13 September 1937
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
30 July 1934
Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.
07 April 1952
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.
29 October 1938
Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have.
06 December 1933
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
05 June 1933
'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
07 April 1938
Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace.
25 December 1951
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
01 June 1939
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country.
04 February 1935
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
28 July 1941
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations.
22 September 1951
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
31 October 1938
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana.
01 October 1944
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
19 April 1934
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
22 January 1934
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists.
12 October 1949
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
21 October 1935
Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof he needs.
22 October 1934
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman.
06 May 1955
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
08 June 1942
When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassigned as a foreign correspondent in Norway.
12 February 1932
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
23 April 1954
A smuggler (Dennis O'Keefe) buys a bride (Patricia Medina) in San Francisco to help him run guns in 1877 Tahiti.
30 May 1947
When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
01 September 1952
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island.
17 May 1953
Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
06 April 1996
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring.
19 May 1947
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
26 November 1937
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
