
Michael Hordern
Known for Acting · 199 credits
- Born
- 1911-10-03
- Died
- 1995-05-02
- Place of birth
- Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Sir Michael Hordern · Sir Michael Murray Hordern · Michael Murray Hordern · Майкл Хордерн
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
TV Shows (42)

Wogan
1982
as Self

BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Mr. Posket / God / The Devil / Tartuffe / Lear

Screen Two
1985
as Lord Langland / Godfrey Colston

American Playhouse
1982
as Lord McLaidlaw

Playhouse
1974
as Patient

The Wednesday Play
1964
as Sir Jocelyn Symonds / Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Cyril Bixby

Omnibus
1967
as Self / Self - Narrator (voice) / Professor Parkins

Inspector Morse
1987
as Doctor Starkie
Film '72
1971
as Self
Sunday-Night Play
1960
as Walter Ormund

Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Epilogue spoken by (voice) / Jacques / Hugh Wigmore / Trigorin / General Parmenion / Christopher Williams / Major Booth Voysey / Rev. James Mavor Morell / Shylock / Maurice Lammering

Lovejoy
1986
as Wilfred Shotley
Story Parade
1964
as Anatol Stiller

Shōgun
1980
as Friar Domingo
Daytime Live
1987
Festival
1963
as Sir Augustus Thwaites

Detective
1964
as Detective Inspector Rason

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Squire Banks

The Wind in the Willows
1984
as Badger (voice)

Espionage
1963
as Minister

The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Capulet / Prospero / Lafeu

A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as Professor Parkins

Chillers
1990
as Colonel Eddie Phelps

Fall of Eagles
1974
as Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Banquo / Ben Weatherstaff / Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII

Theatre Night
1985

Middlemarch
1994
as Peter Featherstone

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1967
as Prof. Ainslie Grey

Paddington Bear
1976
as Narrator

Paradise Postponed
1986
as Rev. Simeon Simcox

Perfect Scoundrels
1990
as Sir Norman

Edward the Seventh
1975
as W. E. Gladstone

Six Dates with Barker
1971
as Arch Funster

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Det. Supt. Coates

Paddington
1976
as Narrator

The History Man
1981
as Professor Marvin

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
1964
as Squire Banks

The Green Man
1990
as Gramps
Tall Stories
1971
Oh, Mr. Toad
1990
as Badger
Cakes and Ale
1976
as Willie Ashenden
Movies (157)

I Was Monty's Double
1958
as Governor of Gibralter

Where Eagles Dare
1968
as Adm. Rolland

Labyrinth
1986
as The Wiseman (voice)

Barry Lyndon
1975
as Narrator (voice)

Cleopatra
1963
as Cicero

The Three Musketeers
1973
as Treville (voice)

Gandhi
1982
as Sir George Hodge

El Cid
1961
as Don Diego

Juggernaut
1974
as Mr. Baker

Lady Jane
1986
as Dr. Feckenham

Ivanhoe
1982
as Cedric

Scrooge
1951
as Jacob Marley

Watership Down
1978
as Frith (voice)

The Taming of the Shrew
1967
as Baptista

Young Sherlock Holmes
1985
as Older Watson (voice)

The Pied Piper
1972
as Melius, Alchemist

Now Voyager
1985
as The Old Man

Train of Events
1949
as First Plain Clothes Man

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
as Ashe

The Little Match Girl
1986
as Himself - Introduction

Oliver Twist
1982
as Mr. Brownlow

Beauty and the Beast
1992
as Monsieur Du Blois (voice)

Khartoum
1966
as Lord Granville

Danny the Champion of the World
1989
as Lord Claybury
Ending Up
1989
as George

The Dog It Was That Died
1989
as George

Alexander the Great
1956
as Demosthenes

Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
as Thomas Boleyn

Cast a Giant Shadow
1966
as British Ambassador

The Bed Sitting Room
1969
as Bules Martin

Theatre of Blood
1973
as George Maxwell

Lucky Lady
1975
as Captain Rockwell

Sink the Bismarck!
1960
as Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'

The MacKintosh Man
1973
as Mr. Brown

The Dark Avenger
1955
as King Edward
Morning Departure
1946
as Commander Gates

The Missionary
1982
as Slatterthewaite/Narrator

Prudence and the Pill
1968
as Dr. Morley (uncredited)

The Man Who Never Was
1956
as Gen. Coburn

Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
as King (voice)

The Trouble with Spies
1987
as Jason Locke

The Chester Mystery Plays
1976
as God

Yellowbeard
1983
as Dr. Gilpin

Scoop
1987
as Uncle Theodor

Man in the Moon
1960
as Dr. Davidson

The Slipper and the Rose
1976
as King

Genghis Khan
1965
as Geen

Girls at Sea
1958
as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt

Truckers
1992
as The Abbot (voice)

The Medusa Touch
1978
as Atropos - Fortune Teller

Storm Over the Nile
1955
as General Faversham

The Old Curiosity Shop
1975
as Edward Trent

Diamond Skulls
1990
as Lord Crewne

How I Won the War
1967
as Grapple

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Harnsworth

Good-Time Girl
1948
as Seddon

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952
as Scathelock

The Secret Garden
1987
as Ben Weatherstaff
The Square
1961
as The Man

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1972
as Mock Turtle

Some Will, Some Won't
1970
as Denniston Russell

The Dock Brief
1957
as Morgenhall

Group Madness
1983
as Self / Dr. Gilpin

School for Secrets
1946
as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther

Royal Flash
1975
as Headmaster

The Tempest
1980
as Prospero

Nightbeat
1947
as Police Training Officer

Memento Mori
1992
as Godfrey Colston

Moment of Danger
1960
as Inspector Farrell

The Heart of the Matter
1953
as Commissioner

The Small Voice
1948
as Dr. Mennell

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
1963
as Squire Thomas Banks

The Jokers
1967
as Sir Matthew

Passport to Pimlico
1949
as Bashford

Paddington Bear
1976
as Narrator / All

Joseph Andrews
1977
as Parson Adams

I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967
as Headmaster

Girl in the News
1940
as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)

The V.I.P.s
1963
as Airport Director

Highly Dangerous
1950
as Lab Director Owens

The Constant Husband
1955
as The Judge

The Magic Box
1952
as Official Receiver

Flesh and Blood
1951
as Webster
The Fool
1990
as Mr. Tatham

A Very Open Prison
1995
as Lord Langland

Pacific Destiny
1956
as Resident Commissioner

The Baby and the Battleship
1956
as Capt. Hugh

Romeo and Juliet
1978
as Capulet

England Made Me
1973
as F. Minty

I Accuse!
1958
as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966
as Senex

Girl Stroke Boy
1971
as George Mason

The Spanish Gardener
1956
as Harrington Brande

The Card
1952
as Bank Manager

Clash of Loyalties
1983
as Narrator

Demons of the Mind
1972
as Priest

A Christmas Carol
1971
as Marley's Ghost (voice)

Personal Affair
1953
as Headmaster Griffith

The Possession of Joel Delaney
1972
as Justin

Tom Brown's Schooldays
1951
as Wilkes

King Lear
1975
as King Lear

Mine Own Executioner
1947
as Co-Counsel at Inquest
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
1989
as Badger (voice)

King Lear
1982
as King Lear

Forbidden Cargo
1954
as Director of Customs

Up Pompeii
1971
as Ludicrus Sextus

Portrait from Life
1948
as Johnson

Gauguin the Savage
1980
as Durand-Huel
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1
1989
as Badger (voice)

The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
1989
as Badger (voice)

Trio
1950
as Vicar

A Christmas Carol
1977
as Ebenezer Scrooge

No Time for Tears
1957
as Surgeon

A Girl in a Million
1946
as Divorce Counsel

Svengali
1954
as Billy's Uncle

Grand National Night
1953
as Inspector Ayling

The Wind in the Willows
1983
as Badger
Paradise Postponed
1986
as Simeon Simcox
Tonight in Britain
1954
as Self

Comrades
1987
as Mr. Pitt
About Michael Hordern
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. With 199 credits spanning from 1939 to 2008, Michael Hordern has appeared in 157 films and 42 TV shows.
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- I Was Monty's Double (1958) — as Governor of Gibralter
- Where Eagles Dare (1968) — as Adm. Rolland
- Labyrinth (1986) — as The Wiseman (voice)
- Barry Lyndon (1975) — as Narrator (voice)
- Cleopatra (1963) — as Cicero
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