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.
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Known For
Acting History
2008
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh as Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
1995A Very Open Prison as Lord Langland
1994Middlemarch as Peter Featherstone
1993Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt as Narrator
1992The Christmas Collection as Badger (voice)
1992Freddie As F.R.O.7. as King (voice)
1992Truckers as The Abbot (voice)
1992Memento Mori as Godfrey Colston
1992Chillers as Colonel Eddie Phelps
1992Beauty and the Beast as Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
1990The Fool as Mr. Tatham
1990The Green Man as Gramps
1990Diamond Skulls as Lord Crewne
1990More Children's Holiday Favourites as Badger (voice)
1990Perfect Scoundrels as Sir Norman
1990Oh, Mr. Toad as Badger
1989The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads as Badger (voice)
1989Danny the Champion of the World as Lord Claybury
1989More Children's Summer Stories as Badger (voice)
1989Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1 as Badger (voice)
1989Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2 as Badger (voice)
1989Ending Up as George
1989The Dog It Was That Died as George
1988Children's Favourites - Volume 1 as Badger (voice)
1987The Trouble with Spies as Jason Locke
1987The Secret Garden as Ben Weatherstaff
1987Daytime Live
1987Comrades as Mr. Pitt
1987Scoop as Uncle Theodor
1987The Secret World of Polly Flint as Narrator
1987Inspector Morse as Doctor Starkie
1987Suspicion as Lord McLaidlaw
1986The Little Match Girl as Himself - Introduction
1986The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales as Badger (voice)
1986Paradise Postponed as Rev. Simeon Simcox
1986Labyrinth as The Wiseman (voice)
1986Paradise Postponed as Simeon Simcox
1986Lady Jane as Dr. Feckenham
1986Lovejoy as Wilfred Shotley
1986Paddington Goes to School
1986Paddington's Birthday Bonanza as Narrator
1985Young Sherlock Holmes as Older Watson (voice)
1985Theatre Night
1985A Crack in the Ice as The Storyteller
1985Now Voyager as The Old Man
1985Screen Two as Lord Langland
1985Screen Two as Godfrey Colston
1984The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood as Psychoanalyst
1984The Wind in the Willows as Badger (voice)
1984The Wind in the Willows as Badger (voice)
1983The Wind in the Willows as Badger
1983Cymbeline as Jupiter
1983Yellowbeard as Dr. Gilpin
1983Group Madness as Self / Dr. Gilpin
1983Clash of Loyalties as Narrator
1982Gandhi as Sir George Hodge
1982The Missionary as Slatterthewaite/Narrator
1982King Lear as King Lear
1982Wogan as Self
1982Oliver Twist as Mr. Brownlow
1982Ivanhoe as Cedric
1981You're All Right, How Am I? as Patient
1981All's Well That Ends Well as Lafeu
1981The History Man as Prof Marvin
1980Shōgun as Friar Domingo
1980The Wildcats of St. Trinian's as Sir Charles Hackforth
1980Gauguin the Savage as Durand-Huel
1980Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies as Narrator (voice)
1980The Tempest as Prospero
1980The Spirit of Cheshire
1979Tales of the Unexpected as Cyril Bixby
1978The Talking Parcel as Oswald, the Sea Serpent
1978Romeo and Juliet as Capulet
1978Watership Down as Frith (voice)
1978The Medusa Touch as Atropos - Fortune Teller
1977A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge
1977Joseph Andrews as Parson Adams
1976The Slipper and the Rose as King
1976Paddington Bear as Narrator
1976Paddington Bear as Narrator / All
1975Lucky Lady as Captain Rockwell
1975Barry Lyndon as Narrator (voice)
1975The Old Curiosity Shop as Edward Trent
1975Royal Flash as Headmaster
1975Edward the Seventh as W. E. Gladstone
1975King Lear as King Lear
1974Juggernaut as Mr. Baker
1974Fall of Eagles as Narrator
1974Playhouse as Patient
1973The Three Musketeers as Treville (voice)
1973The MacKintosh Man as Mr. Brown
1973England Made Me as F. Minty
1973Theatre of Blood as George Maxwell
1972The Pied Piper as Melius, Alchemist
1972Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
1972Demons of the Mind as Priest
1972The Possession of Joel Delaney as Justin
1971A Ghost Story for Christmas as Professor Parkins
1971A Christmas Carol as Marley's Ghost (voice)
1971Tall Stories
1971Girl Stroke Boy as George Mason
1971Up Pompeii as Ludicrus Sextus
1971Six Dates with Barker as Arch Funster
1970Some Will, Some Won't as Denniston Russell
1970Futtocks End as The Butler
1969Anne of the Thousand Days as Thomas Boleyn
1969The Bed Sitting Room as Bules Martin
1968Where Eagles Dare as Adm. Rolland
1968Prudence and the Pill as Dr. Morley (uncredited)
1968Whistle and I'll Come to You as Professor Parkins
1967I'll Never Forget What's'isname as Headmaster
1967How I Won the War as Grapple
1967Omnibus as Self
1967Omnibus as Self - Narrator (voice)
1967Omnibus as Professor Parkins
1967The Jokers as Sir Matthew
1967The Taming of the Shrew as Baptista
1967Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Prof. Ainslie Grey
1966A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Senex
1966Khartoum as Lord Granville
1966Cast a Giant Shadow as British Ambassador
1966Turner as Reads recollections
1965The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Ashe
1965BBC Play of the Month as Mr. Posket
1965BBC Play of the Month as God
1965BBC Play of the Month as The Devil
1965BBC Play of the Month as Tartuffe
1965BBC Play of the Month as Lear
1965Genghis Khan as Geen
1964The Yellow Rolls-Royce as Harnsworth
1964The Wednesday Play as Sir Jocelyn Symonds
1964The Wednesday Play as Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police
1964Story Parade as Anatol Stiller
1964Detective as Detective Inspector Rason
1964Macbeth as Banquo
1964The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh as Squire Banks
1963Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow as Squire Thomas Banks
1963Festival as Sir Augustus Thwaites
1963The V.I.P.s as Airport Director
1963Cleopatra as Cicero
1961El Cid as Don Diego
1961The Square as The Man
1960Man in the Moon as Dr. Davidson
1960Sunday-Night Play as Walter Ormund
1960Sink the Bismarck! as Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
1960Moment of Danger as Inspector Farrell
1959Back to Back
1958I Was Monty's Double as Governor of Gibralter
1958Girls at Sea as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
1958The Spaniard's Curse as Judge Manton
1958I Accuse! as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
1957Windom's Way as Patterson
1957No Time for Tears as Surgeon
1957The Dock Brief as Morgenhall
1956The Spanish Gardener as Harrington Brande
1956Armchair Theatre as Det. Supt. Coates
1956The Baby and the Battleship as Capt. Hugh
1956The Man Who Never Was as Gen. Coburn
1956Alexander the Great as Demosthenes
1956Pacific Destiny as Resident Commissioner
1955Storm Over the Nile as General Faversham
1955The Constant Husband as The Judge
1955The Dark Avenger as King Edward
1955The Night My Number Came Up as Lindsay
1954The Wonderful World of Disney as Squire Banks
1954Svengali as Billy's Uncle
1954The Beachcomber as The Headman
1954Forbidden Cargo as Director of Customs
1954You Know What Sailors Are
1954Tonight in Britain as Self
1953The Heart of the Matter as Commissioner
1953Personal Affair as Headmaster Griffith
1953Grand National Night as Inspector Ayling
1953Street Corner as Insp. Heron
1952The Hour of 13 as Sir Herbert Frensham
1952The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men as Scathelock
1952The Card as Bank Manager
1952The Magic Box as Official Receiver
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Banquo
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Ben Weatherstaff
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII
1951Scrooge as Jacob Marley
1951Tom Brown's Schooldays as Wilkes
1951Flesh and Blood as Webster
1950Highly Dangerous as Lab Director Owens
1950Trio as Vicar
1950The Astonished Heart as Ernest
1950Sunday Night Theatre as Epilogue spoken by (voice)
1950Sunday Night Theatre as Jacques
1950Sunday Night Theatre as Hugh Wigmore
1950Sunday Night Theatre as Trigorin
1950Sunday Night Theatre as General Parmenion
1950Sunday Night Theatre as Christopher Williams
1950Sunday Night Theatre as Major Booth Voysey
1950Sunday Night Theatre as Rev. James Mavor Morell
1950Sunday Night Theatre as Shylock
1950Sunday Night Theatre as Maurice Lammering
1949Passport to Pimlico as Bashford
1949Train of Events as First Plain Clothes Man
1948Portrait from Life as Johnson
1948The Small Voice as Dr. Mennell
1948Good-Time Girl as Seddon
1947Nightbeat as Police Training Officer
1947Mine Own Executioner as Co-Counsel at Inquest
1947Rebecca as Maxim de Winter
1946School for Secrets as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
1946Morning Departure as Commander Gates
1946A Girl in a Million as Divorce Counsel
1946The Years Between as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
1940Girl in the News as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
1940Band Waggon as (uncredited)
1939A Girl Must Live