Eric Portman appeared in the following films
Plot: World War II thriller in which a group of stranded Nazi
servicemen try cross Canada in order to reach the USA when their
U-boot is sunk off the coast of Canada
Eric played Leutnant Ernst Hirth
Plot: Set in Turkey in 1900, an opera singer gives herself to
a wicked sultan in order to protect her fiancé
Eric played a conspirator
Luddenden tenor Robert Naylor played the part of an opera singer
Plot: A New York insurance company hires a private detective
to investigate a shady finance corporation in Switzerland
Eric played A notary
Plot: An authoritarian Navy captain looks for Russian
submarines off the coast of Greenland during the Cold War of the
1960s and accidentally discharges an atomic weapon
Eric played Commodore Wolfgang Schrepke
Plot: The head of an international public institution is
exposed in political corruption and malevolence
Eric played Sir John Dearing
Other members of the cast included
Plot: The Cairo Chief of Police lays a trap to catch drug
smugglers
Eric played Colonel Youssef Bey
Other members of the cast included
Plot: A fairly bizarre story set in Kent during World War II.
A local magistrate attacks women at night – pouring glue into their
hair – in an attempt to encourage people to attend evening classes.
Three people – the terminally posh Sim and Price and the terminally
dim and irritating Sweet – are quickly on Portman's trail, but do not
ultimately reveal the truth to the police when they each witness
their own individual miracle; Sim learns that her boy friend is alive
and well, Sweet learns that his girl friend is alive and well, and
Price gets to play the organ in Canterbury Cathedral
Eric played Thomas Colpeper JP
Plot: In the 16th century, a cardinal's brother becomes the
scapegoat for a murder actually committed by a soldier
Eric played Giuliano de Medici
Plot: A lonely eleven-year-old girl goes to stay with her
fussy and uncaring aunt and uncle when her mother falls ill and her
father is hiding from the police
Eric played the uncle, Henry Acheson
Plot: World War II POW drama set in
Germany's escape-proof Colditz Castle
Eric played Colonel Richmond
Plot: The Gothic horror story of a strange man in a strange
house.
Paul Mangin is an eccentric millionaire obsessed with
Renaissance art.
He believes that he and his mistress are the reincarnations of lovers
in a 400-year old painting.
Edana Romney plays the girl who comes to stay at his mansion
and falls under his spell and is strangled
Eric played Paul Mangin
Other members of the cast included
Plot: In 19th century London, the kindly money-lender and the
fiendish killer who has terrorised London, and known as the Spine
Breaker, are one and the same man
Eric played Matthew Trimble
Plot: A barber – and part-time hangman – marries a girl, and,
when she is taken away by a Swedish sailor, kills himself in order to
incriminate the sailor
Eric played Eddie
Other members of the cast included
Plot: Henry Clarke, a jewel thief, falls in love with the
beautiful wife of his homosexual partner, Richard Moreau, as they
attempt to steal a millionaire's hoard of gems from his mansion
Eric played Richard Moreau
Plot: Thriller about Lee Warren, a jealous husband who
tries to commit the perfect crime and murders his wife's
secret lover (Price) in order to pin the murder on another of her
lovers
Eric played Lee Warren
Other members of the cast included
Plot: The wife of a judge attempts to kill herself when she is
jilted by her ex-RAF lover
Eric played Miller
Plot: A British schoolmistress becomes a spy
Eric played Arthur Lawrence
Other members of the cast included
Plot: Biographical drama about Sigmund Freud – his theories
and treatments – and the struggle for acceptance in Vienna of 1885.
He becomes interested in a boy who hates his father because of his
own incestuous love of his mother
Eric played Dr Theodore Meynert
Plot: A doctor is forced to pass off a singer as his wife
Eric was not credited in the film
Other members of the cast included
Plot: The J. B. Priestley story of the Dinky Doos, a
group of travelling performers
Eric played Jess Oakroyd
Plot: During World War II, the members of the village Women's
Institute are inspired by the visit of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt
Eric played Captain John Ellis
Other members of the cast included
Aka Crypt, Abide with Me
Eric played Jack Clinton
Other members of the cast included
Plot: George Harrison is the former leader of a dockers' trade
union appointed to the post of governor of Artista, a British
Mediterranean island colony.
An industrial island, it finds itself further embroiled in a terrible
fight over low pay and terrible working conditions.
A strike ensues, but the new governor remembers what it feels like to
be an abused working stiff and so refuses to call out troops to break
the strike.
He tries to use his experiences on both sides of the fence to mediate
between the angry labourers, but it is to no avail and the governor
must make a difficult decision.
The key scene has him facing an incipient riot and drawing on his
experience of dockyard militancy to win over the mob and the
admiration of the sceptical Britons
Eric played George Harrison
Plot: Events which happened at Hyde Park Corner in 1780 seem
to happen again today
Eric played Edward Chester
Plot: The story of William Friese-Greene inventor and
early experimenter with cinematography and his pioneering film-making
in London of 1889
Eric played Arthur Collings
Plot: A man returns to his home-town in Bavaria to discover
what happened to his father during World War II, and becomes involved
in a spy plot
Eric played Inspector Hofmeister
Plot: Squire William Corder (Tod Slaughter) wins the affection
of Maria Marten (Sophie Stewart) but when she tells him that she is
pregnant, Corder schemes to get rid of her by murdering her in
the Red Barn
Eric played Carlos, a gypsy boy
Plot: Set in Manchester, the housekeeper of a Lancashire
businessman is suspected when he is poisoned by his brother
Eric played Richard Howard
Plot: Set in Africa in the 1940s, an educated native helps the
British authorities to persuade the tribes to flee a tsetse infested
area.
The film was shot in Tanganyika
Eric played District Commissioner Randall
Plot: A factory worker falls in love with a World War II pilot
who is ultimately killed in battle
Eric played Charlie Forbes
Other members of the cast included
Plot: Romance set in the home of a Swedish baroness in the
1930s when the stranded victims of a plane crash are affected by the
art of a concert pianist
Eric played Mario de la Costa
Plot: Six years after George Radcliffe's testimony helps to
convict another man of murder, his wife, Martha, finds a blackmail
letter accusing her husband of the crime, and she begins to doubt his
innocence
Eric played Jeremy Clay
Eric played Lou
Other members of the cast included
Plot: The crew of a World War II RAF bomber which crash-lands
in the occupied Netherlands struggle to escape the Nazis and make
their way back to England with the help of brave Dutch patriots
Eric played Tom Earnshaw, the copilot in B for Bertie
Other members of the cast included
Plot: In Tudor London, the young Edward VI changes
places with a street urchin who is his double
Eric played The First Lord
Plot: A sailor wins a singing contest and success goes to his
head
Eric played a bit-part as a down-and-out and was not
credited in the film
Plot: A journalist teams up with an archæologist and his
daughter in a search for a precious golden mask in the Egyptian desert
Eric played Doctor Burnet
Plot: A thriller set in 1913 France as a Parisian safe-cracker
joins a gang of British crooks to retrieve government documents
Eric played Fernand Maubert
Other members of the cast included
Plot: Spoof international intrigue, in which a British counter
intelligence agent persuades a fashionable vet to implant a spying
device under the skin of a bulldog, a goodwill gift from the British
prime minister to the Soviet prime minister.
The agent hopes to be able to monitor the activities of the Soviets
but things go wrong when the dog needs an operation, and exposure
threatens international chaos
Eric played The British Ambassador
Plot: A Nazi poses as a British pilot and has difficulty
returning home
Eric played Erich Kohler
Other members of the cast included
Plot: During the Nazi occupation of Brussels, the editor of a
newspaper leads a group of patriots
Eric played Andre Delange
Other members of the cast included
Original title of Wanted for Murder
Aka A Voice in the Night
Plot: A man is obsessed with his father's being the public
hangman, and becomes a murderer himself
Eric played Victor Colebrooke
Plot: World War II drama about the crew of the British
submarine – the Sea Tiger – as they are recalled from leave for a
special mission to find and sink the German battleship Brandenburg.
Tension builds as they approach their target when it enters the
heavily defended Baltic.
Afterwards, escape seems impossible – and they are presumed lost in
action – as they are without fuel and food, unless they can refuel in
enemy waters.
Eric saves the vessel by going ashore on a Danish island disguised as
a German officer to get fuel, helped by Danish fisherman.
Arriving back in England, they discover that they have successfully
sunk the Brandenburg
Eric played Hydrophones LS James Hobson
Plot: A young man is offered £10,000 to commit a murder
Eric played Richard Dyce
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