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- He soon turned out to be a remarkable theatre performer: in 1959, he won London Evening Standard Award as Best Actor for his part of Rosmer in Ibsen's Rosmersholm. A highly dependable, versatile and compelling actor, Porter became, in the 1960s, one of the leading players at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Eric Richard Porter (8 April 1928 – 15 May 1995) was an English actor of stage, film and television. Early life. Porter was born in Shepherd's Bush, London, to bus conductor Richard John Porter and Phoebe Elizabeth (née Spall).
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A highly respected Shakespearean for five decades until his death of colon cancer in 1995, classical actor Eric Porter's claim to international fame would, ironically, be outside of that realm, with one superb portrayal in one superb miniseries, The Forsyte Saga (1967), in which he won the BAFTA award.
- April 8, 1928
- May 15, 1995
Aug 19, 2017 · Eric Porter is best remembered as tortured Victorian Soames Forsyte, anti-hero of groundbreaking BBC period drama The Forsyte Saga, which turned the renowned Shakespearean stage star into a ...
Eric Porter was born on the 8th of April, 1928. He was popular for being a Movie Actor. Stage and film actor who gained recognition for his BAFTA Award-winning role as Soames Forsyte in the BBC’s The Forsyte Saga. He won the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for his work on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Eric Porter was one of those actors often thought to be on the brink of greatness, rather than actually great at any time, writes Peter Cotes.
May 17, 1995 · Eric Porter, a reclusive British actor best known for his leading role in the television drama "The Forsyte Saga," died on Monday at a hospital in north London. He was 67. The cause was colon...
Dec 13, 2018 · Porter used to say he was “lucky” in his parts and accepted philosophically the fact that many a lesser actor than himself caught the stardom which is often accorded to the ordinary rather than the great. But who can doubt that Eric Porter had more than a modicum of greatness in his talent?
