Michael Hordern
Acting
Born: October 3, 1911 · Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Died: May 2, 1995 (aged 83)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Barry Lyndon
1975
Labyrinth
1986
Gandhi
1982
Where Eagles Dare
1968
Cleopatra
1963
Young Sherlock Holmes
1985
Watership Down
1978
Scrooge
1951
The Three Musketeers
1973
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
El Cid
1961
Theatre of Blood
1973
Photos (5)
Movies (140)
Barry Lyndon
Narrator (voice)
The Three Musketeers
Treville (voice)
Cleopatra
Cicero
Labyrinth
The Wiseman (voice)
Where Eagles Dare
Adm. Rolland
Cast a Giant Shadow
British Ambassador
Young Sherlock Holmes
Older Watson (voice)
Watership Down
Frith (voice)
Gandhi
Sir George Hodge
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Harnsworth
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
King (voice)
Yellowbeard
Dr. Gilpin
Lady Jane
Dr. Feckenham
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Ashe
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Squire Thomas Banks
Juggernaut
Mr. Baker
Sink the Bismarck!
Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
The Medusa Touch
Atropos - Fortune Teller
The Taming of the Shrew
Baptista
Alexander the Great
Demosthenes
Scrooge
Jacob Marley
El Cid
Don Diego
Lucky Lady
Captain Rockwell
The MacKintosh Man
Brown
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Senex
Storm Over the Nile
General Faversham
Danny the Champion of the World
Lord Claybury
The Man Who Never Was
Gen. Coburn
Anne of the Thousand Days
Thomas Boleyn
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Justin
The Heart of the Matter
Commissioner
Khartoum
Lord Granville
The Slipper and the Rose
King
Genghis Khan
Geen
Ivanhoe
Cedric
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Mock Turtle
Demons of the Mind
Priest
The Bed Sitting Room
Bules Martin
The Dark Avenger
King Edward
Theatre of Blood
George Maxwell
Passport to Pimlico
Bashford
Man in the Moon
Dr. Davidson
I Was Monty's Double
Governor of Gibralter
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Scathelock
I Accuse!
Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
The V.I.P.s
Airport Director
Royal Flash
Headmaster
Up Pompeii
Ludicrus Sextus
The Missionary
Slatterthewaite/Narrator
The Card
Bank Manager
How I Won the War
Grapple
The Pied Piper
Melius, Alchemist
Oliver Twist
Mr. Brownlow
The Baby and the Battleship
Capt. Hugh
The Jokers
Sir Matthew
Personal Affair
Headmaster Griffith
Some Will, Some Won't
Denniston Russell
The Secret Garden
Ben Weatherstaff
Beauty and the Beast
Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
Prudence and the Pill
Dr. Morley (uncredited)
Girl in the News
Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
Trio
Vicar
The Night My Number Came Up
Lindsay
Joseph Andrews
Parson Adams
The Magic Box
Official Receiver
A Christmas Carol
Marley's Ghost (voice)
Diamond Skulls
Lord Crewne
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Headmaster
The Trouble with Spies
Jason Locke
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Wilkes
Truckers
The Abbot (voice)
The Constant Husband
The Judge
The Wildcats of St Trinian's
Sir Charles Hackforth
Portrait from Life
Johnson
Futtocks End
The Butler
The Wind in the Willows
Badger
The Astonished Heart
Ernest
School for Secrets
Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
Romeo and Juliet
Capulet
A Very Open Prison
Lord Langland
Scoop
Uncle Theodor
The Chester Mystery Plays
God
Cymbeline
Jupiter
Now Voyager
The Old Man
Street Corner
Insp. Heron
Memento Mori
Godfrey Colston
The Spaniard's Curse
Judge Manton
The Hour of 13
Herbert Frensham
The Secret World of Polly Flint
Narrator
Paddington Bear
Narrator / All
King Lear
King Lear
The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
Badger (voice)
Gauguin the Savage
Durand-Huel
Good-Time Girl
Seddon
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
The Dog It Was That Died
George
All's Well That Ends Well
Lafeu
Back to Back
1959
Comrades
Mr. Pitt
Suspicion
Lord McLaidlaw
Mine Own Executioner
Co-Counsel at Inquest
Girl Stroke Boy
George Mason
The Old Curiosity Shop
Edward Trent
Grand National Night
Inspector Ayling
The Talking Parcel
Oswald, the Sea Serpent
A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
Psychoanalyst
Train of Events
First Plain Clothes Man
The Beachcomber
The Headman
Girls at Sea
Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
Macbeth
Banquo
Clash of Loyalties
Narrator
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Professor Parkins
England Made Me
F. Minty
You Know What Sailors Are
1954
Highly Dangerous
Lab Director Owens
A Girl Must Live
1939
The Spanish Gardener
Harrington Brande
The Small Voice
Dr. Mennell
A Crack in the Ice
The Storyteller
The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales
Badger (voice)
King Lear
King Lear
Svengali
Billy's Uncle
You're All Right, How Am I?
Patient
Moment of Danger
Inspector Farrell
Forbidden Cargo
Director of Customs
Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies
Narrator (voice)
Windom's Way
Patterson
The Dock Brief
Morgenhall
The Tempest
Prospero
Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt
Narrator
Flesh and Blood
Webster
A Girl in a Million
Divorce Counsel
No Time for Tears
Surgeon
The Years Between
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Paddington Goes to School
1986
Band Waggon
(uncredited)
Nightbeat
Police Training Officer
Pacific Destiny
Resident Commissioner
Paddington's Birthday Bonanza
Narrator
TV Shows (53)
American Playhouse
Lord McLaidlaw · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Mr. Posket · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
God · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
The Devil · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Tartuffe · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Lear · 1 eps
The Wednesday Play
Sir Jocelyn Symonds · 1 eps
The Wednesday Play
Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
Cyril Bixby · 1 eps
Omnibus
Professor Parkins · 1 eps
Screen Two
Lord Langland · 1 eps
Screen Two
Godfrey Colston · 1 eps
Playhouse
Patient · 1 eps
Inspector Morse
Doctor Starkie · 1 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Epilogue spoken by (voice) · 1 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Jacques · 2 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Hugh Wigmore · 1 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Trigorin · 1 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
General Parmenion · 1 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Christopher Williams · 1 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Major Booth Voysey · 1 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Rev. James Mavor Morell · 1 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Shylock · 2 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Maurice Lammering · 1 eps
Lovejoy
Wilfred Shotley · 1 eps
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Capulet · 1 eps
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Prospero · 1 eps
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Lafeu · 1 eps
Shōgun
Friar Domingo · 5 eps
Espionage
Minister · 1 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
Squire Banks · 3 eps
The Wind in the Willows
Badger (voice) · 65 eps
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Professor Parkins · 1 eps
Detective
Detective Inspector Rason · 1 eps
Paradise Postponed
Rev. Simeon Simcox · 14 eps
Fall of Eagles
Narrator · 13 eps
Fall of Eagles
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Theatre Night
Sir William Gower · 1 eps
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Prof. Ainslie Grey · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Banquo · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Ben Weatherstaff · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII · 1 eps
Chillers
Colonel Eddie Phelps · 1 eps
Middlemarch
Peter Featherstone · 6 eps
Edward the Seventh
W. E. Gladstone · 5 eps
Perfect Scoundrels
Sir Norman · 1 eps
Paddington Bear
Narrator · 56 eps
Armchair Theatre
Det. Supt. Coates · 1 eps
Paddington
Narrator · 56 eps
The History Man
Professor Marvin · 3 eps
Six Dates with Barker
Arch Funster · 1 eps
The Green Man
Gramps · 3 eps
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
Squire Banks · 3 eps
