Francis L. Sullivan

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.

Known For	Acting
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Birthday	1903-01-06
Place of Birth	Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Also Known As	Френсис Л. Салливан, Фрэнсис Л. Салливан, Francis Loftus Sullivan,

The Wandering Jew

Oliver Twist

Caesar and Cleopatra

The Red Danube

Great Expectations

Joan of Arc

'Pimpernel' Smith

21 Days Together

Hell's Island

Night and the City

The Citadel

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Plunder of the Sun

The Winslow Boy

My Favorite Spy

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

Take My Life

Drums of Tahiti

Called Back

Christopher Columbus

Fiddlers Three

Sangaree

The Lady from Lisbon

The Four Just Men

Broken Journey

Non-Stop New York

The Drum

Red Wagon

Caribbean

Spy of Napoleon

The Ware Case

F.P.1

Strange Wives

Kate Plus Ten

Action for Slander

When London Sleeps

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Chu Chin Chow

The Fire Raisers

Climbing High

The Butler's Dilemma

The Day Will Dawn

The Warren Case

What Happened Then?

Cheating Cheaters

The Chinese Puzzle

The Missing Rembrandt

The Right to Live

Her Last Affaire

The Prodigal

Pontius Pilate

Great Expectations

The Foreman Went to France

Behave Yourself!

Dinner at the Ritz

The Man Within

Young Man's Fancy

Fine Feathers

The Laughing Lady

A Woman Alone