
Alexander Scourby
Biography
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Alexander Scourby (November 13, 1913 – February 22, 1985) was an American film, television, and voice actor known for his deep and resonant voice. He is best known for his film role as the ruthless mob boss Mike Lagana in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953), and is also particularly well-remembered in the English-speaking world for his landmark recordings of the entire King James Version audio Bible, which have been released in numerous editions. He later recorded the entire Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Scourby recorded 422 audiobooks for the blind which he considered his most important work. He has a reputation in the audiobook industry as being one of the greatest narrators: "He is heralded as having the greatest voice ever recorded."
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Known For
Acting History
1985
The Stuff as Evans
1984Among the Wild Chimpanzees as Narrator (voice)
1984Merton: A Film Biography as Narrator (voice)
1984Australia's Animal Mysteries as Narrator (voice)
1981The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945 as English language narrator
1980Etosha: Place of Dry Water as Narrator (voice)
1979Jesus as Luke (voice)
1979Uncommon Women and Others as Narrator (voice)
1979This Other Eden as Narrator (voice)
1978The Word as Narrator (voice)
1977Meeting of Minds as Galileo Galilei
1976The Hemingway Play as Ernest Hemingway (middle-aged)
1972Buddhism in China as Narrator (voice)
1971Atonement as Narrator (voice)
1971Montserrat
1971Great Performances
1971People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer as Narrator (voice)
1971People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter as Narrator (voice)
1970The Executioner as Prof. Parker
1970The Glory of Their Times as Narrator
1969Marcus Welby, M.D. as Lucas Coleman
1969Marcus Welby, M.D. as Anthony Alquist
1968The Lonely Dorymen as Narrator (voice)
1967Grizzly! as Narrator (voice)
1967Mannix as Count Boria
19671999 A.D. as Narrator (voice)
1965The Incredible World of James Bond as Narrator (voice)
1965The Gendarme in New York as Alex Scourby
1965National Geographic Specials as Narrator (voice)
1964Daniel Boone as Eli Bothwell
1964The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp
1963Mr. Novak as Allen Ferguson
1963Mr. Novak as George Andreas
1962The Wall as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1962The Eleventh Hour as Garrett Nolan
1961The Devil at 4 O'Clock as The Governor
1961Cain's Hundred as Judge Philip Hallson
1961The Defenders as John Wellman
1961The Defenders as George Matthias
1961The Asphalt Jungle as Roy Bradley
1960Man on a String as Colonel Vadja Kubelov
1960Seven Thieves as Raymond Le May
1959Project XX: Life in the Thirties as Self - Narrator
1959Philip Marlowe as Dr. Steve Vincent
1959The Twilight Zone as George Harper
1959Bonanza as Jean Millain
1959Johnny Staccato
1959The Big Fisherman as David Ben-Zadok
1959The Shaggy Dog as Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
1959The Velvet Alley as Harvey Diedrich
1959Rawhide as Albert Hadley
1958Me and the Colonel as Major Von Bergen
1958The Rifleman as Byron Claremont
1958Naked City as Walter Gerrick
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive as Judge Coogan
1958Shirley Temple's Storybook as King
1957The Song of Christmas as Narrator (voice)
1957Project XX: The Innocent Years as Self - Narrator
1957The Walter Winchell File as Agent
1957The Night America Trembled as Host
1957Venice: Theme and Variations as Narrator (voice)
1956Giant as Old Polo
1956Project XX: The Great War - World War I as Self - Narrator
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Colonel del Armija - Interrogator
1956Telephone Time as Joseph Priestley
1956The Twisted Cross as Narrator (voice)
1956Ransom! as Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour as Joe Markheim
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Horace Meade
1955The Phil Silvers Show as Hubbell Robinson (uncredited)
1954The Silver Chalice as Luke
1954Sign of the Pagan as Chrysaphius
1954Three Two One - Zero! as Narrator
1954Climax! as Frank Martin
1954Climax! as David Potter
1954Climax! as Eric Betzdorff
1954Victory at Sea as Narrator (voice)
1954The Shadow as Rollo Grimbauer
1954The Secret Storm as Dr. Ian Northcoate
1953The Spirit of Christmas as Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1953The Big Heat as Mike Lagana
1953The Glory Brigade as Lt. Niklas
1953The Redhead from Wyoming as Reece Duncan
1952Because of You as Dr. Breen
1952Omnibus as Odysseus
1952Omnibus as El Indio
1952Affair in Trinidad as Max Fabian
1950Lux Video Theatre as Hagen
1948Studio One as Edward
1948Studio One as Narrator (voice)
1948Studio One as Prof. Tom Monev
1948Studio One as Carl Phillips
1947Kraft Television Theatre
1947Kraft Television Theatre as Narrator (voice)
—Hell Gate: The Watery Grave as Narrator (voice)







