Background
Porter, Eric Richard was born on April 8, 1928 in London, England. Son of Richard John and Phoebe Elizabeth (Spall) Porter.
Porter, Eric Richard was born on April 8, 1928 in London, England. Son of Richard John and Phoebe Elizabeth (Spall) Porter.
Educated Wimbledon Technology College First professional appearance Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company, Arts, Cambridge, England. 1945; 1st appearance in London stage travelling repertory company Saint Joan, King"s Hammersmith, 1946. With Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1948-1950.
Under contract Her Majesty Tennant, Limited., 1951-1954.
Appeared in plays The Silver Box, 1951, The Three Sisters, 1951, Thor, With Angels, 1951, Noah, 1951, The Same Sky, 1952, Under the Sycamore Tree, 1952. With Lyric, Hammersmith, 1953, Bristol Old Vic Company, 1954, 55-56, Old Vic Company, 1954-1955.
Romanoff and Juliet, Piccadilly, 1956, A Manitoba of Distinction, Edinburgh Festival and Princes, 1957. Time and Again, 1957, The Visit, New York City, 1958.
Coast of Coromandel, 1959.
Rosmersholm, Royal Court, 1959, Comedy, 1965. Under contract Royal Shakespeare Company, 1960-1965. Government Inspector, Aldwych, 1966.
Stratford Season, 1968.
United States tour Doctor Faustus, 1969. My Little Boy. My Big Girl, Fortune, 1969.
The Protagonist, Brighton, 1971. Peter Pan, London Coliseum, 1971.
Twelfth Night, Street.George"s Elizabethean Theatre, 1976 (films) The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1964, The Pumpkin Eater, 1964, The Heroes of Telemark, 1965, Kaleidoscope, 1966, The Lost Continent, 1968.
Hands of the Ripper, 1971, Nicholas and Alexandra, 1971, Anthony and Cleopatra, 1972. Hitler, the Last 10 Days, 1973, The Day of the Jackal, 1973, The Belstone Fox, 1973, Callan, 1974, Hennessy, 1975, The 39 Steps, 1978, Little LordFauntleroy, 1980, also appeared on television including The Forsyte Saga, British Broadcasting Corporation (Best Actor award Guild television producers and Directors 1967), The Jewel in the Crown, 1984, Sherlock Holmes, 1984, Oliver Twist, 1985.
Club: Buckstone. Deceased.