Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Portman , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Deadfall
1968
as Moreau
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
Assignment to Kill
1968
as Notary
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...
The Whisperers
1967
as Archie Ross
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...
The Spy with a Cold Nose
1966
as British Ambassador
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...
The Bedford Incident
1965
as Commodore Wolfgang Schrepke, Deutsche Marine
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...
The Man Who Finally Died
1963
as Inspector Hofmeister
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...
West 11
1963
as Richard Dyce
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description...
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962
as Dr. Theodore Meynert
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of...
The Naked Edge
1961
as Jeremy Clay
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...
The Good Companions
1957
as Jess Oakroyd
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Child in the House
1956
as Henry Acheson
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...
The Deep Blue Sea
1955
as Miller
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....
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...
The Colditz Story
1955
as Colonel Richmond
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval...
South of Algiers
1953
as Doctor Burnet
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
His Excellency
1952
as George Harrison
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony.
The Magic Box
1952
as Arthur Collings
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 i...
Cairo Road
1950
as Col. Youssef Bey
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
The Spider and the Fly
1949
as Fernand Maubert
"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...
The Blind Goddess
1948
as Sir John Dearing KC
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...
Daybreak
1948
as Eddie Tribe
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Corridor of Mirrors
1948
as Paul Mangin
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.
Dear Murderer
1947
as Lee Warren
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
The Mark of Cain
1947
as Richard Howard
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...
Men of Two Worlds
1946
as District Commissioner Randall
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 ...
Wanted for Murder
1946
as Victor James Colebrooke
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
The Air Plan
1945
as Himself - Commentator
Eric Portman narrates this 1945 retrospective account from the RAF Film Production Unit, celebrating the RAF's role in the Normandy campaign, with out...
Great Day
1945
as Capt. John Ellis
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
A Canterbury Tale
1944
as Thomas Colpeper, JP
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Escape to Danger
1943
as Arthur Lawrence
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
Millions Like Us
1943
as Charlie Forbes
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...
We Dive at Dawn
1943
as L/S Hobson
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...
Squadron Leader X
1943
as Erich Kohler
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...
Uncensored
1942
as Andre Delage
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter ...
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942
as Tom Earnshaw, Copilot in B for Bertie
On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands ...
49th Parallel
1941
as Lieutenant Hirth
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...
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
as First Lord
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...
Moonlight Sonata
1937
as Mario de la Costa
In this romantic tale Paderewski, the famed pianist, and two other plane crash survivors are guests of a Swedish baroness. Interwoven throughout this ...
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936
as Matthew Trimble
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...
The Cardinal
1936
as Giuliano de Medici
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 ...
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935
as Carlos, the gypsy
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...
Abdul the Damned
1935
as Conspirastor
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...
Old Roses
1935
as Lou
An elderly man assists the police in solving a murder, but accidentally reveals his own criminal past in the process.
Hyde Park Corner
1935
as Edward Chester
A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
The Girl from Maxim's
1933
A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
Painter and Poet No. 2
N/A
as Narrator
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...