Eric Portman

Eric Portman was a distinguished British stage and film actor, who is probably best remembered for his roles in the several films for Michael Latham Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the 1940s.

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British - Michael Latham Powell - Emeric Pressburger - 1940s

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He was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on July 13th, 1903.

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Halifax - Yorkshire

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He started work in 1922 as a salesman in the menswear department at Marshall and Snedgrove's in Leeds and acted in the amateur Halifax Light Opera Society .

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He was engaged by Lilian Baylis for the Old Vic Company, in 1928 he starred as Romeo in the rebuilt Old Vic.

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Lilian Baylis - Old Vic

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He was a familiar British actor in many films of the Second World War period, including

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a Nazi U-Boat commander in Forty-Ninth Parallel, a heroic RAF officer stranded in Holland in One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) and the Magistrate in A Canterbury Tale (1944). He also starred in Squadron Leader X (1941), Anthony Asquith's We Dive at Dawn (1943), Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder's Millions Like Us (1943), The Colditz Story (1955) and The Whisperers (1967). Portman's final film was Deadfall (1967) directed by Bryan Forbes.

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Forty-Ninth Parallel - RAF - Holland - One of Our Aircraft is Missing - A Canterbury Tale - Anthony Asquith - We Dive at Dawn - Sidney Gilliat - Frank Launder - Millions Like Us - The Colditz Story - The Whisperers - Bryan Forbes

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He also played Number Two in The Prisoner, episode; Free for All, screened on October 22nd 1967.

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Died at St Veep, Cornwall, on December 7th 1969.

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St Veep - Cornwall

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