Acting · Wandsworth, London, England, UK · Born January 6, 1903
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"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis L. Sullivan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
MovieIngrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHell's Island
1955
as Barzland
MovieThe Prodigal
1955
as Bosra
MovieDrums of Tahiti
1954
as Commissioner Pierre Duvois
MoviePlunder of the Sun
1953
as Thomas Berrien
MovieSangaree
1953
as Dr. Bristol
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
TVCavalcade of America
1952
MovieCaribbean
1952
as Andrew McAllister
MoviePontius Pilate
1952
as Herod Antipas
MovieMy Favorite Spy
1951
as Karl Brubaker
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
MovieBehave Yourself!
1951
as Fat Freddy
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Detective Yates
Sure As Fate
1950
MovieNight and the City
1950
as Philip Nosseross
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
MovieThe Red Danube
1949
as Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron
MovieChristopher Columbus
1949
as Francisco de Bobadilla
TVLights Out
1949
TVSuspense
1949
MovieJoan of Arc
1948
as Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais
TVStudio One
1948
as Herod Antipas
TVThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948
MovieThe Winslow Boy
1948
as Attorney General
MovieOliver Twist
1948
as Mr. Bumble
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieBroken Journey
1948
as Anton Perami
MovieTake My Life
1947
as Prosecuting Counsel
MovieThe Man Within
1947
as Mr. Braddock
MovieGreat Expectations
1946
as Mr. Jaggers
MovieThe Laughing Lady
1946
as Sir Williams Tremayne
MovieCaesar and Cleopatra
1945
as Pothinus
MovieFiddlers Three
1944
as Nero
MovieThe Butler's Dilemma
1943
as Leo Carrington
MovieThe Lady from Lisbon
1942
as Minghetti
MovieThe Foreman Went to France
1942
as French Skipper
MovieThe Day Will Dawn
1942
as Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
Movie"Pimpernel" Smith
1941
as General von Graum
Movie21 Days
1940
as Mander
MovieYoung Man's Fancy
1939
as Blackbeard, Vincent St George
MovieThe Four Just Men
1939
as Leon Poiccard
MovieThe Ware Case
1938
as Attorney General
MovieClimbing High
1938
as Madman
MovieThe Citadel
1938
as Ben Chenkin
MovieThe Drum
1938
as Governor
MovieKate Plus Ten
1938
as Lord Flamborough
Fine Feathers
1937
as Hugo Steinway
MovieDinner at the Ritz
1937
as Brogard
MovieNon-Stop New York
1937
as Hugo Brant
MovieAction for Slander
1937
as Sir Quinton Jessops (as Francis Sullavan)
Spy of Napoleon
1936
as Chief of Police
A Woman Alone
1936
as Prosecutor
MovieHer Last Affaire
1935
as Sir Julian Weyre
MovieThe Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935
as Rev. Mr. Crisparkle
MovieStrange Wives
1934
as Bellamy
MovieCheating Cheaters
1934
as Dr. George Brockton
MovieGreat Expectations
1934
as Jaggers
MovieWhat Happened Then?
1934
as Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel
The Warren Case
1934
as Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)
MovieChu Chin Chow
1934
as The Caliph
MovieThe Return of Bulldog Drummond
1934
as Carl Peterson
MovieThe Fire Raisers
1934
as Stedding
MovieRed Wagon
1933
as Cranley
MovieThe Wandering Jew
1933
as Juan de Texada (Phase IV)
MovieCalled Back
1933
as Kaledin
MovieF.P.1
1933
as A Sailor
MovieThe Right to Live
1933
as Roger Stoneham
MovieWhen London Sleeps
1932
as Rodney Haines
The Chinese Puzzle
1932
as Herman Strumm
MovieThe Missing Rembrandt
1932
as Baron von Guntermann
Destiny
