Francis L. Sullivan
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Francis L. Sullivan (January 6, 1903 - November 19, 1956) was a London-born film and stage actor. He attended Stonyhurst, the acclaimed Jesuit college (aka high school) in Lancashire, England whose alumni include Charles Laughton and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Some of his notable film roles include playing Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist (1948) and a supporting role in the film noir Night and the City (1950). Sullivan also played the part of Jaggers in two different 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. He also played the role of Pierre Cauchon, in the Technicolor film Joan of Arc (1948 film), starring Ingrid Bergman. But he also appeared in light comedies, notably My Favorite Spy, starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr, in which he played (of course) an enemy agent, and the 1944 comedy Fiddlers Three (no relation to the Agatha Christie play), in which he played Nero. Sullivan 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 play 'Witness for the Prosecution.' Earlier, he had been a notable Hercule Poirot on the London stage.
He died of a heart attack, aged 53 (most sources say he died of "a lung ailment").
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