Eric Portman
Eric Portman (13 July 1901, Akroydon, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire - 7 December 1969, St Veep, Cornwall) was a distinguished English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in several films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5515 |
| Birthday | 1901-07-13 |
| Place of Birth | Halifax, Yorkshire |
| Also Known As | Эрик Портман, |
1933
The Girl from Maxim's
8/1
A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
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The Girl from Maxim's
1941
49th Parallel
6.965/127
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by com...
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49th Parallel
1948
Corridor of Mirrors
6/21
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
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Corridor of Mirrors
1947
Dear Murderer
5.9/22
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
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Dear Murderer
1937
The Prince and the Pauper
6.8/42
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meet...
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The Prince and the Pauper
1943
We Dive at Dawn
6.317/30
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tige...
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We Dive at Dawn
1942
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
6.633/45
During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by Dutch...
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1944
A Canterbury Tale
6.924/132
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
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A Canterbury Tale
1965
The Bedford Incident
6.995/99
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Th...
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The Bedford Incident
1948
Daybreak
6.038/13
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
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Daybreak
1968
Deadfall
5.375/32
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
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Deadfall
1946
Wanted for Murder
6.382/34
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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Wanted for Murder
1935
Old Roses
10/1
An elderly man assists the police in solving a murder, but accidentally reveals his own criminal past in the process.
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Old Roses
1963
West 11
6.9/14
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a tu...
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West 11
1961
The Naked Edge
6.323/31
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the cri...
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The Naked Edge
1953
South of Algiers
6.6/5
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
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South of Algiers
1936
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
5.654/13
The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an intervi...
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1963
The Man Who Finally Died
6.25/16
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bav...
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The Man Who Finally Died
1951
Painter and Poet No. 2
8/1
A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, mus...
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Painter and Poet No. 2
1935
Hyde Park Corner
6.167/6
A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
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Hyde Park Corner
1937
Moonlight Sonata
7/2
In this romantic tale Paderewski, the famed pianist, and two other plane crash survivors are guests of a Swedish baroness. Interwoven throughout this...
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Moonlight Sonata
1945
Great Day
7.417/6
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Great Day
1955
The Deep Blue Sea
4.857/14
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle.
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The Deep Blue Sea
1949
The Spider and the Fly
6.9/8
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe p...
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The Spider and the Fly
1952
His Excellency
7/4
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony.
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His Excellency
1946
Men of Two Worlds
6.75/2
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and attempt to take them to healthier land away from...
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Men of Two Worlds
1948
The Blind Goddess
5.786/7
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Den...
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The Blind Goddess
1950
Cairo Road
6.357/7
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
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Cairo Road
1957
The Good Companions
7/1
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Good Companions
1966
The Spy with a Cold Nose
4/5
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British int...
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The Spy with a Cold Nose
1968
Assignment to Kill
6/8
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance mon...
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Assignment to Kill
1956
Child in the House
6.6/5
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companion...
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Child in the House
1935
Abdul the Damned
6.5/4
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the le...
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Abdul the Damned
1943
Squadron Leader X
10/1
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into oc...
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Squadron Leader X
1943
Millions Like Us
5.6/15
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a fa...
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Millions Like Us
1947
The Mark of Cain
6.2/8
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it lea...
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The Mark of Cain
1955
The Last Reunion
0/0
While holding their annual reunion, the former members of a Royal Air Force bomber crew begin to sense the supernatural presence of their old squadron...
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The Last Reunion
1955
The Colditz Story
6.823/62
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This...
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The Colditz Story
1936
The Cardinal
5.7/6
Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable...
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The Cardinal
1935
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
5.632/19
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad i...
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1943
Escape to Danger
8/1
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
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Escape to Danger
1952
The Magic Box
6.52/25
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first w...
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The Magic Box
1942
Uncensored
9/1
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...
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Uncensored
1967
The Whisperers
6.456/34
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers st...
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The Whisperers
1945
The Air Plan
0/0
Eric Portman narrates this 1945 retrospective account from the RAF Film Production Unit, celebrating the RAF's role in the Normandy campaign, with out...
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The Air Plan
1962
Freud: The Secret Passion
6.519/81
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of...
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Freud: The Secret Passion
1961
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
0/0
Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist and a politician in London remember him as a ferve...
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A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
1961
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
0/0
Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed.
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A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
1967
The Crossfire
0/0
Tension increases among French settlers in Algeria. A secret ultranationalist group decides to take action against a doctor who treats Muslim patients...
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