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. The son of Richard John Porter and Phoebe Elizabeth Spall, Porter first attended Wimbledon Technical College before stepping onto the stage as a wa...
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The Day of the Jackal
As Colonel Rodin
The Lost Continent
As Lansen
Kaleidoscope
As Harry Dominion
The Thirty Nine Steps
As Chief Superintendent Lomas
The Fall of the Roman Empire
As Julianus
Hands of the Ripper
As Dr. John Pritchard
Callan
As Hunter
Antony and Cleopatra
As Enobarbus
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
As Dr. Nicholson
The Belstone Fox
As Asher Smith
Message for Posterity
As James Player
Oliver Twist
As Fagin
Macbeth
As Macbeth
The Shetland Experience
As Narrator (voice)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
As Mr. Havisham
The Winslow Boy
As Arthur Winslow
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
As Self (archive footage)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
As Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim
Hennessy
As Tobin
The Heroes of Telemark
As Terboven
The Crucible
As Deputy Governor Danforth
Churchill and the Generals
As Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
Hamlet
As Polonius
The Sin Bin
As Stanley Wilkinson
Separate Tables
As Major Pollock / John Malcolm
Nicholas and Alexandra
As Stolypin
The Wars of the Roses
As Henry VII
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials
The Last Invasion
As Harold
Emma
A Shilling Life
As Petersham
The Jewel in the Crown
As Dimitri Bronowsky
Play for Today
As Stanley Wilkinson
Oliver Twist
As Fagin
BBC Play of the Month
As Cyrano De Bergerac
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Anna Karenina
As Karenin
BBC Television Shakespeare
The Forsyte Saga
As Soames Forsyte
Civilisation
As Macbeth (voice)
The Perfect Morecambe & Wise
As Himself
Sherlock Holmes
As Professor Moriarty
Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials
As Himself