Acting • AGE 67
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 o...


Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials
2007

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003

The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Self (archive footage)
2001

Message for Posterity
James Player
1994

The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
1994

Performance
James Player
1991

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Professor Moriarty
1986

Oliver Twist
Fagin
1985

Oliver Twist
Fagin
1985

Sherlock Holmes
Professor Moriarty
1984

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Professor Moriarty
1984

The Jewel in the Crown
Dimitri Bronowsky
1984

A Shilling Life
Petersham
1982

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Neville Chamberlain
1981

The Sin Bin
Stanley Wilkinson
1981

Little Lord Fauntleroy
Mr. Havisham
1980

Hamlet
Polonius
1980

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Dr. Nicholson
1980

Churchill and the Generals
Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
1979

The Thirty Nine Steps
Chief Superintendent Lomas
1978

Anna Karenina
Karenin
1977

The Winslow Boy
Arthur Winslow
1977

The Shetland Experience
Narrator (voice)
1977

Hitler’s Germany - A World at War Special Presentation
Narrator
1976

Hennessy
Tobin
1975

The Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler
Narrator
1975

The Final Solution
Narrator
1975

Callan
Hunter
1974

Playhouse
Petersham
1974

The Day of the Jackal
Colonel Rodin
1973

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim
1973

The Belstone Fox
Asher Smith
1973

Antony and Cleopatra
Enobarbus
1972

Nicholas and Alexandra
Stolypin
1971

Hands of the Ripper
Dr. John Pritchard
1971

Play for Today
Stanley Wilkinson
1970

Separate Tables
Major Pollock / John Malcolm
1970

Morecambe & Wise: Christmas Specials
Himself
1969

Civilisation
Macbeth (voice)
1969

The Lost Continent
Lansen
1968

The Forsyte Saga
Soames Forsyte
1967

Kaleidoscope
Harry Dominion
1966

The Heroes of Telemark
Terboven
1965

BBC Play of the Month
Cyrano de Bergerac
1965

The Wars of the Roses
Henry VII
1965

Theatre 625
'Newton'
1964

The Fall of the Roman Empire
Julianus
1964

Theatre Night
Vadim Romanoff
1957

From War to Peace
Narrator

Warrior - World at War Special Presentation
Narrator