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Eric Portman

Eric Portman

Eric Portman (13 July 1901, Croydon, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire - 7 December 1969, St Veep, Cornwall) was a distinguished English stage and film actor. He and Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell is probably best remembered for roles in several films during the 1940s for feeling.

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Movies Starring Eric Portman (46)

Deadfall (1968)

Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas. ...

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Assignment to Kill (1968)

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder. ...

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The Whisperers (1967)

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 stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true. ...

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The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)

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 intelligence must get to the dog first and retrieve the spying device. ...

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The Bedford Incident (1965)

During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins ...

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The Man Who Finally Died (1963)

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 Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the ...

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West 11 (1963)

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 turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer. ...

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Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis. ...

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The Naked Edge (1961)

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 crime. ...

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The Good Companions (1957)

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth. ...

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Child in the House (1956)

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 companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, s ...

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The Deep Blue Sea (1955)

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 Last Reunion (1955)

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 commander, the only member of the group not to return from their last mission of the war. ...

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The Colditz Story (1955)

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 film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisone ...

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South of Algiers (1953)

Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask. ...

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His Excellency (1952)

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony. ...

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The Magic Box (1952)

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so go ...

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Painter and Poet No. 2 (1951)

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, music and paintings". Four films were made in this series for the BFI's Telekinema at the Festival of Brita ...

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Cairo Road (1950)

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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The Spider and the Fly (1949)

"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 plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cas ...

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The Blind Goddess (1948)

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 Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use. ...

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Daybreak (1948)

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy. ...

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Corridor of Mirrors (1948)

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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Dear Murderer (1947)

When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime. ...

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The Mark of Cain (1947)

An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. ...

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Men of Two Worlds (1946)

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 disease-infestation. ...

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Wanted for Murder (1946)

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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The Air Plan (1945)

Eric Portman narrates this 1945 retrospective account from the RAF Film Production Unit, celebrating the RAF's role in the Normandy campaign, with outstanding footage of RAF Typhoons's blitzing targets with salvos of rockets and cannon fire. ...

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Great Day (1945)

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems. ...

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A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury. ...

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Escape to Danger (1943)

During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade. ...

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Millions Like Us (1943)

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 factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a rela ...

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We Dive at Dawn (1943)

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 Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their families, and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi ...

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Squadron Leader X (1943)

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 occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgia ...

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Uncensored (1942)

During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the ...

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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

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 civilians. ...

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49th Parallel (1941)

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 commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet en ...

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The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

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 meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the p ...

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Moonlight Sonata (1937)

In this romantic tale Paderewski, the famed pianist, and two other plane crash survivors are guests of a Swedish baroness. Interwoven throughout this gentle and charming story are exquisite piano solos performed superbly by the elderly pianist, Paderewski. ...

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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)

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 interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a ...

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The Cardinal (1936)

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 to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's ...

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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)

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 is blamed. ...

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Abdul the Damned (1935)

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 leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With ...

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Hyde Park Corner (1935)

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936. ...

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Old Roses (1935)

An elderly man assists the police in solving a murder, but accidentally reveals his own criminal past in the process. ...

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The Girl from Maxim's (1933)

A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904. ...

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