Biography
Francis L. Sullivan (6 January 1903 – 19 November 1956) was an English film and stage actor. He was born in Wandsworth, London, and attended Stonyhurst, a Jesuit public school in Lancashire. He made his stage debut at the Old Vic at the age of 18 in Shakespeare's Richard III and appeared in his first film, The Missing Rembrandt, in 1932.
Sullivan is known for his roles in several adaptations of Charles Dickens, including Jaggers in both the 1934 and 1946 versions of Great Expectations, Mr Bumble in Oliver Twist (1948), and Crisparkle in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935). Other notable film roles include Philip Nosseross in Night and the City (1950) and Pothinus in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). He also appeared in Joan of Arc (1948) and The Citadel (1938).
In 1935 he married stage designer Frances Joan Perkins. Sullivan became a naturalised US citizen in 1954 and won a Tony Award in 1955 for his performance in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution.
