Caption: The contractual "Credit Block" shown in the re-release by VCI Entertainment in their "BEST OF!" British Classics. Pictured (from left) MANDY MILLER; STANLEY BAKER; MOLLY URQUHART; CHRISTOPHER TOYNE; PHYLLIS CALVERT and DORA BRYAN.
Actor
Born: July 13, 1901
Star sign: Cancer
Known for: 49th Parallel (1941), A Canterbury Tale (1944), One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), The Bedford Incident (1965)
Source: IMDB
With his clipped delivery, aristocratic if somewhat ominous manner and suave, urbane demeanor, Eric Portman was so good at playing German and/or Nazi officers that many believed he actually was German, or at least Austrian. The fact is that he was British to the core, having been born and raised in Yorkshire and educated in Halifax. He began his ...