Michael Hordern

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-10-03 (84 years old)

Deathday

1995-05-02

Place of Birth

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Michael Hordern

Biography

Sir Michael Murray Hordern (3 October 1911 – 2 May 1995) was an English actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre, which stretched back to before the Second World War. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Hordern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Acting

1965

1968

Where Eagles Dare

as Adm. Rolland

1983

Yellowbeard

as Dr. Gilpin

1969

1978

The Medusa Touch

as Atropos - Fortune Teller

1963

Cleopatra

as Cicero

1970

Futtocks End

as The Butler

1971

Up Pompeii

as Ludicrus Sextus

1992

Beauty and the Beast

as Monsieur Du Blois (voice)

1973

The MacKintosh Man

as Mr. Brown

1969

The Bed Sitting Room

as Bules Martin

1951

Scrooge

as Jacob Marley

1973

Theatre of Blood

as George Maxwell

1977

Joseph Andrews

as Parson Adams

1966

Khartoum

as Lord Granville

1963

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

as Squire Thomas Banks

1963

The V.I.P.s

as Airport Director

1956

The Man Who Never Was

as Gen. Coburn

1971

A Christmas Carol

as Marley's Ghost (voice)

1977

A Christmas Carol

as Ebenezer Scrooge

1972

1964

1982

Ivanhoe

as Cedric

1987

The Secret Garden

as Ben Weatherstaff

1992

Truckers

as The Abbot (voice)

1982

Oliver Twist

as Mr. Brownlow

1960

Sink the Bismarck!

as Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'

1946

School for Secrets

as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther

1960

Man in the Moon

as Dr. Davidson

1955

The Dark Avenger

as King Edward

1975

Lucky Lady

as Captain Rockwell

1958

I Was Monty's Double

as Governor of Gibralter

1950

Highly Dangerous

as Lab Director Owens

1953

Grand National Night

as Inspector Ayling

1953

Personal Affair

as Headmaster Griffith

1956

The Spanish Gardener

as Harrington Brande

1992

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

as King (voice)

1971

Girl Stroke Boy

as George Mason

1946

Morning Departure

as Commander Gates

1966

Turner

as Reads recollections

1987

Scoop

as Uncle Theodor

1990

Dark Obsession

as Lord Crewne

1967

The Jokers

as Sir Matthew

1976

Paddington Bear

as Narrator / All

1978

The Talking Parcel

as Oswald, the Sea Serpent

1953

1970

Some Will, Some Won't

as Denniston Russell

1987

1972

The Pied Piper

as Melius, Alchemist

1968

Prudence and the Pill

as Dr. Morley (uncredited)

1960

Moment of Danger

as Inspector Farrell

1958

I Accuse!

as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial

1975

The Old Curiosity Shop

as Edward Trent

1986

The Little Match Girl

as Himself - Introduction

1948

The Small Voice

as Dr. Mennell

1952

The Hour of 13

as Sir Herbert Frensham

1958

The Spaniard's Curse

as Judge Manton

1957

Windom's Way

as Patterson

1958

Girls at Sea

as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt

1973

The Three Musketeers

as Treville (voice)

1968

Whistle and I'll Come to You

as Professor Parkins

1966

Cast a Giant Shadow

as British Ambassador

1975

King Lear

as King Lear

1956

Alexander the Great

as Demosthenes

1973

England Made Me

as F. Minty

1947

Mine Own Executioner

as Co-Counsel at Inquest

1947

Nightbeat

as Police Training Officer

1952

The Card

as Bank Manager

1982

Gandhi

as Sir George Hodge

1980

Gauguin the Savage

as Durand-Huel

1957

The Dock Brief

as Morgenhall

1940

Girl in the News

as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)

1940

Band Waggon

as (uncredited)

1947

Rebecca

as Maxim de Winter

1956

Pacific Destiny

as Resident Commissioner

1961

The Square

as The Man

1957

1990

The Fool

as Mr. Tatham

1964

Macbeth

as Banquo

1983

1989

Ending Up

as George

1975

Royal Flash

as Headmaster

1982

The Missionary

as Slatterthewaite/Narrator

1982

King Lear

as King Lear

1955

Storm Over the Nile

as General Faversham

1980

The Wildcats of St. Trinian's

as Sir Charles Hackforth

1987

Comrades

as Mr. Pitt

1974

Juggernaut

as Mr. Baker

1978

Watership Down

as Frith (voice)

1980

1953

Street Corner

as Insp. Heron

1967

1952

The Magic Box

as Official Receiver

1949

1951

Flesh and Blood

as Webster

1986

Lady Jane

as Dr. Feckenham

1950

Trio

as Vicar

1948

1975

Barry Lyndon

as Narrator (voice)

1978

1995

A Very Open Prison

as Lord Langland

1954

Forbidden Cargo

as Director of Customs

1986

Labyrinth

as The Wiseman (voice)

1954

The Beachcomber

as The Headman

1983

Group Madness

as Self / Dr. Gilpin

1955

1961

El Cid

as Don Diego

1982

Cymbeline

as Jupiter

1949

Train of Events

as First Plain Clothes Man

1980

The Tempest

as Prospero

1992

Memento Mori

as Godfrey Colston

1985

Young Sherlock Holmes

as Older Watson (voice)

1948

1986

Paradise Postponed

as Simeon Simcox

1987

Suspicion

as Lord McLaidlaw

1985

Now Voyager

as The Old Man

1954

Svengali

as Billy's Uncle

1946

The Years Between

as Member of Parliament (uncredited)

1946

A Girl in a Million

as Divorce Counsel

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