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Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern

Michael Hordern

ActingBorn October 3, 1911Died May 2, 1995 (age 83)Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK

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.

Filmography

2008Movie
1995
A Very Open Prison

as Lord Langland

Movie
1994
Middlemarch

as Peter Featherstone

TV
1992
The Christmas Collection

as Badger (voice)

Movie
1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.

as King (voice)

Movie
1992
Truckers

as The Abbot (voice)

Movie
1992
Memento Mori

as Godfrey Colston

Movie
1992
Beauty and the Beast

as Monsieur Du Blois (voice)

Movie
1990
The Fool

as Mr. Tatham

Movie
1990
The Green Man

as Gramps

TV
1990
Diamond Skulls

as Lord Crewne

Movie
1990Movie
1990
Perfect Scoundrels

as Sir Norman

TV
1990
Oh, Mr. Toad

as Badger

TV
1990
Chillers

as Colonel Eddie Phelps

TV
1989Movie
1989Movie
1989Movie
1989
Ending Up

as George

Movie
1988Movie
1987Movie
1987
The Secret Garden

as Ben Weatherstaff

Movie
1987
Comrades

as Mr. Pitt

Movie
1987
Scoop

as Uncle Theodor

Movie
1987
Inspector Morse

as Doctor Starkie

TV
1987
Suspicion

as Lord McLaidlaw

Movie
1986
The Little Match Girl

as Himself - Introduction

Movie
1986Movie
1986
Paradise Postponed

as Rev. Simeon Simcox

TV
1986
Labyrinth

as The Wiseman (voice)

Movie
1986
Paradise Postponed

as Simeon Simcox

Movie
1986
Lady Jane

as Dr. Feckenham

Movie
1986
Lovejoy

as Wilfred Shotley

TV
1986Movie
1985
Young Sherlock Holmes

as Older Watson (voice)

Movie
1985
A Crack in the Ice

as The Storyteller

Movie
1985
Now Voyager

as The Old Man

Movie
1985
Screen Two

as Lord Langland

TV
1985
Screen Two

as Godfrey Colston

TV
1984Movie
1984
The Wind in the Willows

as Badger (voice)

TV
1983Movie
1983
Cymbeline

as Jupiter

Movie
1983
Yellowbeard

as Dr. Gilpin

Movie
1983
Group Madness

as Self / Dr. Gilpin

Movie
1983Movie
1982
Gandhi

as Sir George Hodge

Movie
1982
The Missionary

as Slatterthewaite/Narrator

Movie
1982
King Lear

as King Lear

Movie
1982
Wogan

as Self

TV
1982
Oliver Twist

as Mr. Brownlow

Movie
1982
Ivanhoe

as Cedric

Movie
1981Movie
1981Movie
1981
The History Man

as Professor Marvin

TV
1980
Shōgun

as Friar Domingo

TV
1980
The Wildcats of St Trinian's

as Sir Charles Hackforth

Movie
1980
Gauguin the Savage

as Durand-Huel

Movie
1980Movie
1980
The Tempest

as Prospero

Movie
1979TV
1978
The Talking Parcel

as Oswald, the Sea Serpent

Movie
1978Movie
1978
Watership Down

as Frith (voice)

Movie
1978
The Medusa Touch

as Atropos - Fortune Teller

Movie
1977
A Christmas Carol

as Ebenezer Scrooge

Movie
1977
Joseph Andrews

as Parson Adams

Movie
1976
Cakes and Ale

as Willie Ashenden

TV
1976Movie
1976
Paddington Bear

as Narrator / All

Movie
1976
Paddington Bear

as Narrator

TV
1976
Paddington

as Narrator

TV
1975
Lucky Lady

as Captain Rockwell

Movie
1975
Barry Lyndon

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1975
The Old Curiosity Shop

as Edward Trent

Movie
1975
Royal Flash

as Headmaster

Movie
1975
Edward the Seventh

as W. E. Gladstone

TV
1975
King Lear

as King Lear

Movie
1974
Juggernaut

as Mr. Baker

Movie
1974
Fall of Eagles

as Narrator

TV
1974
Fall of Eagles

as Narrator (voice)

TV
1974
Playhouse

as Patient

TV
1973
The Three Musketeers

as Treville (voice)

Movie
1973
The MacKintosh Man

as Mr. Brown

Movie
1973
England Made Me

as F. Minty

Movie
1973
Theatre of Blood

as George Maxwell

Movie
1972
The Pied Piper

as Melius, Alchemist

Movie
1972Movie
1972Movie
1971
A Ghost Story for Christmas

as Professor Parkins

TV
1971
A Christmas Carol

as Marley's Ghost (voice)

Movie
1971
Girl Stroke Boy

as George Mason

Movie
1971
Up Pompeii

as Ludicrus Sextus

Movie
1971
Six Dates with Barker

as Arch Funster

TV
1970
Some Will, Some Won't

as Denniston Russell

Movie
1970
Futtocks End

as The Butler

Movie
1969Movie
1969
The Bed Sitting Room

as Bules Martin

Movie
1968
Where Eagles Dare

as Adm. Rolland

Movie
1968
Prudence and the Pill

as Dr. Morley (uncredited)

Movie
1968
Whistle and I'll Come to You

as Professor Parkins

Movie
1967Movie
1967Movie
1967
Omnibus

as Self

TV
1967
Omnibus

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
1967
Omnibus

as Professor Parkins

TV
1967
The Jokers

as Sir Matthew

Movie
1967Movie
1967
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

as Prof. Ainslie Grey

TV
1966
Khartoum

as Lord Granville

Movie
1966
Cast a Giant Shadow

as British Ambassador

Movie
1966
Turner

as Reads recollections

Movie
1965TV
1965TV
1965TV
1965Movie
1964Movie
1964
The Wednesday Play

as Sir Jocelyn Symonds

TV
1964
The Wednesday Play

as Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police

TV
1964
Story Parade

as Anatol Stiller

TV
1964
Detective

as Detective Inspector Rason

TV
1964
Macbeth

as Banquo

Movie
1964TV
1963
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

as Squire Thomas Banks

Movie
1963
Festival

as Sir Augustus Thwaites

TV
1963
Espionage

as Minister

TV
1963
The V.I.P.s

as Airport Director

Movie
1963
Cleopatra

as Cicero

Movie
1961
El Cid

as Don Diego

Movie
1961
The Square

as The Man

Movie
1960
Man in the Moon

as Dr. Davidson

Movie
1960
Sunday-Night Play

as Walter Ormund

TV
1960
Sink the Bismarck!

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

Movie
1960
Moment of Danger

as Inspector Farrell

Movie
1959Movie
1958
I Was Monty's Double

as Governor of Gibralter

Movie
1958
Girls at Sea

as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt

Movie
1958
The Spaniard's Curse

as Judge Manton

Movie
1958
I Accuse!

as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial

Movie
1957
Windom's Way

as Patterson

Movie
1957Movie
1957
The Dock Brief

as Morgenhall

Movie
1956
The Spanish Gardener

as Harrington Brande

Movie
1956
Armchair Theatre

as Det. Supt. Coates

TV
1956Movie
1956
The Man Who Never Was

as Gen. Coburn

Movie
1956
Alexander the Great

as Demosthenes

Movie
1956
Pacific Destiny

as Resident Commissioner

Movie
1955
Storm Over the Nile

as General Faversham

Movie
1955Movie
1955
The Dark Avenger

as King Edward

Movie
1955Movie
1954TV
1954
Svengali

as Billy's Uncle

Movie
1954
The Beachcomber

as The Headman

Movie
1954
Forbidden Cargo

as Director of Customs

Movie
1954Movie
1953Movie
1953
Personal Affair

as Headmaster Griffith

Movie
1953
Grand National Night

as Inspector Ayling

Movie
1953
Street Corner

as Insp. Heron

Movie
1952
The Hour of 13

as Sir Herbert Frensham

Movie
1952
The Card

as Bank Manager

Movie
1952
The Magic Box

as Official Receiver

Movie
1951TV
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Ben Weatherstaff

TV
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII

TV
1951
Scrooge

as Jacob Marley

Movie
1951Movie
1951
Flesh and Blood

as Webster

Movie
1950
Highly Dangerous

as Lab Director Owens

Movie
1950
Trio

as Vicar

Movie
1950Movie
1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Epilogue spoken by (voice)

TV
1950TV
1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Hugh Wigmore

TV
1950TV
1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as General Parmenion

TV
1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Christopher Williams

TV
1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Major Booth Voysey

TV
1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Rev. James Mavor Morell

TV
1950TV
1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Maurice Lammering

TV
1949Movie
1949
Train of Events

as First Plain Clothes Man

Movie
1948Movie
1948
The Small Voice

as Dr. Mennell

Movie
1948Movie
1947
Nightbeat

as Police Training Officer

Movie
1947
Mine Own Executioner

as Co-Counsel at Inquest

Movie
1947
Rebecca

as Maxim de Winter

Movie
1946
School for Secrets

as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther

Movie
1946
Morning Departure

as Commander Gates

Movie
1946
A Girl in a Million

as Divorce Counsel

Movie
1946
The Years Between

as Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Movie
1940
Girl in the News

as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)

Movie
1940
Band Waggon

as (uncredited)

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayOctober 3, 1911
Day of DeathMay 2, 1995
Place of BirthBerkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Popularity1.1
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