Eric Porter

Biography

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 Febr
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39955

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Acting

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Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-04-08

Place of Birth

Shepard's Bush, London, UK

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    Macbeth

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    The Shetland

    Little Lord Fauntleroy

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    The Winslow Boy

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    Hitler: The Last Ten Days

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    The Heroes of Telemark

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    Churchill and the Generals

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    Hamlet

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    2007

    Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials

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    2003

    The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

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    2001

    The Best of Morecambe and Wise

    asSelf (archive footage)

    1994

    Message for Posterity

    asJames Player

    1985

    Oliver Twist

    asFagin

    1982

    A Shilling Life

    asPetersham

    1981

    The Sin Bin

    asStanley Wilkinson

    1980

    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    asMr. Havisham

    1980

    Hamlet

    asPolonius

    1980

    Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

    asDr. Nicholson

    1980

    The Crucible

    asDeputy Governor Danforth

    1979

    Churchill and the Generals

    asGen. Sir Alan Brooke

    1978

    The Thirty Nine Steps

    asChief Superintendent Lomas

    1977

    The Winslow Boy

    asArthur Winslow

    1977

    The Shetland Experience

    asNarrator (voice)

    1975

    Hennessy

    asTobin

    1975

    The Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler

    asNarrator

    1975

    The Final Solution

    asNarrator

    1974

    Callan

    asHunter

    1973

    The Day of the Jackal

    asColonel Rodin

    1973

    Hitler: The Last Ten Days

    asGeneralfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim

    1973

    The Belstone Fox

    asAsher Smith

    1972

    Antony and Cleopatra

    asEnobarbus

    1971

    Nicholas and Alexandra

    asStolypin

    1971

    Hands of the Ripper

    asDr. John Pritchard

    1970

    Macbeth

    asMacbeth

    1970

    Separate Tables

    asMajor Pollock / John Malcolm

    1968

    The Lost Continent

    asLansen

    1966

    The Last Invasion

    asHarold

    1966

    Kaleidoscope

    asHarry Dominion

    1965

    The Heroes of Telemark

    asTerboven

    1965

    The Wars of the Roses

    asHenry VII

    1964

    The Fall of the Roman Empire

    asJulianus

    1948

    Emma

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    From War to Peace

    asNarrator

    Warrior - World at War Special Presentation

    asNarrator

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    (14 episode)asDimitri Bronowsky

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    (1 episode)asStanley Wilkinson

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    (12 episode)asFagin

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    (1 episode)asCyrano De Bergerac

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    (8 episode)asNeville Chamberlain

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    (10 episode)asKarenin

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    (1 episode)asPolonius

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    (26 episode)asSoames Forsyte

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    (1 episode)asMacbeth (voice)

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    (1 episode)asCouncillor Albert Parker

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