Michael Hordern
Acting • Born 1911-10-03 – Died 1995-05-02
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
215 credits
Genghis Khan
Movie • 1965
Geen
Where Eagles Dare
Movie • 1968
Adm. Rolland
Yellowbeard
Movie • 1983
Dr. Gilpin
Anne of the Thousand Days
Movie • 1969
Thomas Boleyn
The Medusa Touch
Movie • 1978
Atropos - Fortune Teller
Cleopatra
Movie • 1963
Cicero
Futtocks End
Movie • 1970
The Butler
Up Pompeii
Movie • 1971
Ludicrus Sextus
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie • 1967
Baptista
Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Beauty and the Beast
Movie • 1992
Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
The MacKintosh Man
Movie • 1973
Mr. Brown
The Bed Sitting Room
Movie • 1969
Bules Martin
Scrooge
Movie • 1951
Jacob Marley
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Movie • 1972
Mock Turtle
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Movie • 1952
Scathelock
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Movie • 1965
Ashe
Theatre of Blood
Movie • 1973
George Maxwell
Joseph Andrews
Movie • 1977
Parson Adams
Khartoum
Movie • 1966
Lord Granville
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Movie • 1972
Justin
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Movie • 1963
Squire Thomas Banks
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Movie • 1951
Wilkes
The V.I.P.s
Movie • 1963
Airport Director
The Man Who Never Was
Movie • 1956
Gen. Coburn
The Slipper and the Rose
Movie • 1976
King
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 1971
Marley's Ghost (voice)
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 1977
Ebenezer Scrooge
The Wind in the Willows
Movie • 1983
Badger
Demons of the Mind
Movie • 1972
Priest
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Movie • 1964
Harnsworth
Ivanhoe
Movie • 1982
Cedric
The Secret Garden
Movie • 1987
Ben Weatherstaff
Truckers
Movie • 1992
The Abbot (voice)
Oliver Twist
Movie • 1982
Mr. Brownlow
Sink the Bismarck!
Movie • 1960
Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
Danny the Champion of the World
Movie • 1989
Lord Claybury
School for Secrets
Movie • 1946
Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
Man in the Moon
Movie • 1960
Dr. Davidson
The Dark Avenger
Movie • 1955
King Edward
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
Movie • 2008
Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
Lucky Lady
Movie • 1975
Captain Rockwell
I Was Monty's Double
Movie • 1958
Governor of Gibralter
Highly Dangerous
Movie • 1950
Lab Director Owens
Paddington Goes to School
Movie • 1986
Grand National Night
Movie • 1953
Inspector Ayling
Personal Affair
Movie • 1953
Headmaster Griffith
The Spanish Gardener
Movie • 1956
Harrington Brande
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Movie • 1992
King (voice)
Girl Stroke Boy
Movie • 1971
George Mason
Morning Departure
Movie • 1946
Commander Gates
Turner
Movie • 1966
Reads recollections
Scoop
Movie • 1987
Uncle Theodor
Diamond Skulls
Movie • 1990
Lord Crewne
The Jokers
Movie • 1967
Sir Matthew
Paddington Bear
Movie • 1976
Narrator / All
The Talking Parcel
Movie • 1978
Oswald, the Sea Serpent
The Heart of the Matter
Movie • 1953
Commissioner
Some Will, Some Won't
Movie • 1970
Denniston Russell
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Movie • 1967
Headmaster
The Trouble with Spies
Movie • 1987
Jason Locke
The Astonished Heart
Movie • 1950
Ernest
The Pied Piper
Movie • 1972
Melius, Alchemist
Prudence and the Pill
Movie • 1968
Dr. Morley (uncredited)
Moment of Danger
Movie • 1960
Inspector Farrell
I Accuse!
Movie • 1958
Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
The Old Curiosity Shop
Movie • 1975
Edward Trent
The Little Match Girl
Movie • 1986
Himself - Introduction
The Small Voice
Movie • 1948
Dr. Mennell
The Hour of 13
Movie • 1952
Sir Herbert Frensham
The Spaniard's Curse
Movie • 1958
Judge Manton
The Secret World of Polly Flint
Movie • 1987
Narrator
Windom's Way
Movie • 1957
Patterson
Girls at Sea
Movie • 1958
Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
You Know What Sailors Are
Movie • 1954
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1973
Treville (voice)
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Movie • 1968
Professor Parkins
Cast a Giant Shadow
Movie • 1966
British Ambassador
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
Movie • 1984
Psychoanalyst
King Lear
Movie • 1975
King Lear
Alexander the Great
Movie • 1956
Demosthenes
A Girl Must Live
Movie • 1939
England Made Me
Movie • 1973
F. Minty
Mine Own Executioner
Movie • 1947
Co-Counsel at Inquest
Nightbeat
Movie • 1947
Police Training Officer
The Card
Movie • 1952
Bank Manager
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Movie • 1966
Senex
Gandhi
Movie • 1982
Sir George Hodge
Gauguin the Savage
Movie • 1980
Durand-Huel
The Dock Brief
Movie • 1957
Morgenhall
Girl in the News
Movie • 1940
Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
Band Waggon
Movie • 1940
(uncredited)
Rebecca
Movie • 1947
Maxim de Winter
Pacific Destiny
Movie • 1956
Resident Commissioner
The Spirit of Cheshire
Movie • 1980
The Dog It Was That Died
Movie • 1989
George
The Square
Movie • 1961
The Man
No Time for Tears
Movie • 1957
Surgeon
The Fool
Movie • 1990
Mr. Tatham
Macbeth
Movie • 1964
Banquo
Clash of Loyalties
Movie • 1983
Narrator
Ending Up
Movie • 1989
George
Royal Flash
Movie • 1975
Headmaster
The Missionary
Movie • 1982
Slatterthewaite/Narrator
King Lear
Movie • 1982
King Lear
Storm Over the Nile
Movie • 1955
General Faversham
The Wildcats of St. Trinian's
Movie • 1980
Sir Charles Hackforth
Comrades
Movie • 1987
Mr. Pitt
Juggernaut
Movie • 1974
Mr. Baker
Watership Down
Movie • 1978
Frith (voice)
Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies
Movie • 1980
Narrator (voice)
Paddington's Birthday Bonanza
Movie • 1986
Narrator
Street Corner
Movie • 1953
Insp. Heron
How I Won the War
Movie • 1967
Grapple
The Magic Box
Movie • 1952
Official Receiver
Passport to Pimlico
Movie • 1949
Bashford
Flesh and Blood
Movie • 1951
Webster
Lady Jane
Movie • 1986
Dr. Feckenham
Trio
Movie • 1950
Vicar
Good-Time Girl
Movie • 1948
Seddon
Barry Lyndon
Movie • 1975
Narrator (voice)
The Night My Number Came Up
Movie • 1955
Lindsay
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1978
Capulet
A Very Open Prison
Movie • 1995
Lord Langland
Forbidden Cargo
Movie • 1954
Director of Customs
Labyrinth
Movie • 1986
The Wiseman (voice)
The Beachcomber
Movie • 1954
The Headman
Group Madness
Movie • 1983
Self / Dr. Gilpin
The Constant Husband
Movie • 1955
The Judge
El Cid
Movie • 1961
Don Diego
Cymbeline
Movie • 1983
Jupiter
Train of Events
Movie • 1949
First Plain Clothes Man
The Tempest
Movie • 1980
Prospero
Memento Mori
Movie • 1992
Godfrey Colston
Young Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1985
Older Watson (voice)
Back to Back
Movie • 1959
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie • 1981
Lafeu
Portrait from Life
Movie • 1948
Johnson
The Baby and the Battleship
Movie • 1956
Capt. Hugh
The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
Movie • 1989
Badger (voice)
Paradise Postponed
Movie • 1986
Simeon Simcox
Suspicion
Movie • 1987
Lord McLaidlaw
Now Voyager
Movie • 1985
The Old Man
Svengali
Movie • 1954
Billy's Uncle
The Years Between
Movie • 1946
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
You're All Right, How Am I?
Movie • 1981
Patient
Tonight in Britain
Movie • 1954
Self
A Girl in a Million
Movie • 1946
Divorce Counsel
The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales
Movie • 1986
Badger (voice)
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Movie • 1988
Badger (voice)
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Movie • 1989
Badger (voice)
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
Movie • 1989
Badger (voice)
More Children's Summer Stories
Movie • 1989
Badger (voice)
More Children's Holiday Favourites
Movie • 1990
Badger (voice)
The Christmas Collection
Movie • 1992
Badger (voice)
A Crack in the Ice
Movie • 1985
The Storyteller
The Wind in the Willows
Movie • 1984
Badger (voice)
The Chester Mystery Plays
Movie • 1976
God
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Cyril Bixby
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Doctor Starkie
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Wilfred Shotley
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Banquo
The Wind in the Willows
TV • 1984
Badger (voice)
Shōgun
TV • 1980
Friar Domingo
Fall of Eagles
TV • 1974
Narrator
Paradise Postponed
TV • 1986
Rev. Simeon Simcox
Middlemarch
TV • 1994
Peter Featherstone
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Mr. Posket
Detective
TV • 1964
Detective Inspector Rason
Tall Stories
TV • 1971
Daytime Live
TV • 1987
Perfect Scoundrels
TV • 1990
Sir Norman
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
God
Paddington Bear
TV • 1976
Narrator
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
Oh, Mr. Toad
TV • 1990
Badger
The Green Man
TV • 1990
Gramps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Ben Weatherstaff
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Squire Banks
Theatre Night
TV • 1985
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV • 1971
Professor Parkins
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Epilogue spoken by (voice)
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Lord Langland
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Godfrey Colston
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Jacques
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Patient
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Sir Jocelyn Symonds
Sunday-Night Play
TV • 1960
Walter Ormund
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Det. Supt. Coates
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Hugh Wigmore
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Trigorin
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
General Parmenion
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Christopher Williams
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Major Booth Voysey
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Rev. James Mavor Morell
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Shylock
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Maurice Lammering
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
TV • 1964
Squire Banks
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Professor Parkins
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
The Devil
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Tartuffe
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Lear
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
TV • 1967
Prof. Ainslie Grey
Festival
TV • 1963
Sir Augustus Thwaites
Story Parade
TV • 1964
Anatol Stiller
Edward the Seventh
TV • 1975
W. E. Gladstone
Paddington
TV • 1976
Narrator
The History Man
TV • 1981
Professor Marvin
Fall of Eagles
TV • 1974
Narrator (voice)
Chillers
TV • 1990
Colonel Eddie Phelps
Six Dates with Barker
TV • 1971
Arch Funster