Profile

Michael Hordern

Acting

Born 1911-10-03 · Died 1995-05-02

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK

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 across movies and TV

Movie

Genghis Khan

1965 · Geen

Movie

Where Eagles Dare

1968 · Adm. Rolland

Movie

Yellowbeard

1983 · Dr. Gilpin

Movie

Anne of the Thousand Days

1969 · Thomas Boleyn

Movie

The Medusa Touch

1978 · Atropos - Fortune Teller

Movie

Cleopatra

1963 · Cicero

Movie

Futtocks End

1970 · The Butler

Movie

Up Pompeii

1971 · Ludicrus Sextus

Movie

The Taming of the Shrew

1967 · Baptista

Movie

Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt

1993 · Narrator

Movie

Beauty and the Beast

1992 · Monsieur Du Blois (voice)

Movie

The MacKintosh Man

1973 · Mr. Brown

Movie

The Bed Sitting Room

1969 · Bules Martin

Movie

Scrooge

1951 · Jacob Marley

Movie

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1972 · Mock Turtle

Movie

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

1952 · Scathelock

Movie

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

1965 · Ashe

Movie

Theatre of Blood

1973 · George Maxwell

Movie

Joseph Andrews

1977 · Parson Adams

Movie

Khartoum

1966 · Lord Granville

Movie

The Possession of Joel Delaney

1972 · Justin

Movie

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

1963 · Squire Thomas Banks

Movie

Tom Brown's Schooldays

1951 · Wilkes

Movie

The V.I.P.s

1963 · Airport Director

Movie

The Man Who Never Was

1956 · Gen. Coburn

Movie

The Slipper and the Rose

1976 · King

Movie

A Christmas Carol

1971 · Marley's Ghost (voice)

Movie

A Christmas Carol

1977 · Ebenezer Scrooge

Movie

The Wind in the Willows

1983 · Badger

Movie

Demons of the Mind

1972 · Priest

Movie

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964 · Harnsworth

Movie

Ivanhoe

1982 · Cedric

Movie

The Secret Garden

1987 · Ben Weatherstaff

Movie

Truckers

1992 · The Abbot (voice)

Movie

Oliver Twist

1982 · Mr. Brownlow

Movie

Sink the Bismarck!

1960 · Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'

Movie

Danny the Champion of the World

1989 · Lord Claybury

Movie

School for Secrets

1946 · Lt. Cmdr. Lowther

Movie

Man in the Moon

1960 · Dr. Davidson

Movie

The Dark Avenger

1955 · King Edward

Movie

Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

2008 · Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)

Movie

Lucky Lady

1975 · Captain Rockwell

Movie

I Was Monty's Double

1958 · Governor of Gibralter

Movie

Highly Dangerous

1950 · Lab Director Owens

Movie

Paddington Goes to School

1986

Movie

Grand National Night

1953 · Inspector Ayling

Movie

Personal Affair

1953 · Headmaster Griffith

Movie

The Spanish Gardener

1956 · Harrington Brande

Movie

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

1992 · King (voice)

Movie

Girl Stroke Boy

1971 · George Mason

Movie

Morning Departure

1946 · Commander Gates

Movie

Turner

1966 · Reads recollections

Movie

Scoop

1987 · Uncle Theodor

Movie

Diamond Skulls

1990 · Lord Crewne

Movie

The Jokers

1967 · Sir Matthew

Movie

Paddington Bear

1976 · Narrator / All

Movie

The Talking Parcel

1978 · Oswald, the Sea Serpent

Movie

The Heart of the Matter

1953 · Commissioner

Movie

Some Will, Some Won't

1970 · Denniston Russell

Movie

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

1967 · Headmaster

Movie

The Trouble with Spies

1987 · Jason Locke

Movie

The Astonished Heart

1950 · Ernest

Movie

Prudence and the Pill

1968 · Dr. Morley (uncredited)

Movie

The Pied Piper

1972 · Melius, Alchemist

Movie

Moment of Danger

1960 · Inspector Farrell

Movie

I Accuse!

1958 · Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial

Movie

The Old Curiosity Shop

1975 · Edward Trent

Movie

The Little Match Girl

1986 · Himself - Introduction

Movie

The Small Voice

1948 · Dr. Mennell

Movie

The Hour of 13

1952 · Sir Herbert Frensham

Movie

The Spaniard's Curse

1958 · Judge Manton

Movie

The Secret World of Polly Flint

1987 · Narrator

Movie

Windom's Way

1957 · Patterson

Movie

Girls at Sea

1958 · Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt

Movie

You Know What Sailors Are

1954

Movie

The Three Musketeers

1973 · Treville (voice)

Movie

Whistle and I'll Come to You

1968 · Professor Parkins

Movie

Cast a Giant Shadow

1966 · British Ambassador

Movie

The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

1984 · Psychoanalyst

Movie

King Lear

1975 · King Lear

Movie

Alexander the Great

1956 · Demosthenes

Movie

A Girl Must Live

1939

Movie

England Made Me

1973 · F. Minty

Movie

Nightbeat

1947 · Police Training Officer

Movie

Mine Own Executioner

1947 · Co-Counsel at Inquest

Movie

The Card

1952 · Bank Manager

Movie

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1966 · Senex

Movie

Gandhi

1982 · Sir George Hodge

Movie

Gauguin the Savage

1980 · Durand-Huel

Movie

The Dock Brief

1957 · Morgenhall

Movie

Band Waggon

1940 · (uncredited)

Movie

Girl in the News

1940 · Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)

Movie

Rebecca

1947 · Maxim de Winter

Movie

Pacific Destiny

1956 · Resident Commissioner

Movie

The Spirit of Cheshire

1980

Movie

The Dog It Was That Died

1989 · George

Movie

The Square

1961 · The Man

Movie

No Time for Tears

1957 · Surgeon

Movie

The Fool

1990 · Mr. Tatham

Movie

Macbeth

1964 · Banquo

Movie

Clash of Loyalties

1983 · Narrator

Movie

Ending Up

1989 · George

Movie

Royal Flash

1975 · Headmaster

Movie

The Missionary

1982 · Slatterthewaite/Narrator

Movie

King Lear

1982 · King Lear

Movie

Storm Over the Nile

1955 · General Faversham

Movie

The Wildcats of St Trinian's

1980 · Sir Charles Hackforth

Movie

Comrades

1987 · Mr. Pitt

Movie

Juggernaut

1974 · Mr. Baker

Movie

Watership Down

1978 · Frith (voice)

Movie

Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies

1980 · Narrator (voice)

Movie

Paddington's Birthday Bonanza

1986 · Narrator

Movie

Street Corner

1953 · Insp. Heron

Movie

How I Won the War

1967 · Grapple

Movie

The Magic Box

1952 · Official Receiver

Movie

Passport to Pimlico

1949 · Bashford

Movie

Flesh and Blood

1951 · Webster

Movie

Lady Jane

1986 · Dr. Feckenham

Movie

Trio

1950 · Vicar

Movie

Good-Time Girl

1948 · Seddon

Movie

Barry Lyndon

1975 · Narrator (voice)

Movie

The Night My Number Came Up

1955 · Lindsay

Movie

Romeo and Juliet

1978 · Capulet

Movie

A Very Open Prison

1995 · Lord Langland

Movie

Forbidden Cargo

1954 · Director of Customs

Movie

Labyrinth

1986 · The Wiseman (voice)

Movie

The Beachcomber

1954 · The Headman

Movie

Group Madness

1983 · Self / Dr. Gilpin

Movie

The Constant Husband

1955 · The Judge

Movie

El Cid

1961 · Don Diego

Movie

Cymbeline

1983 · Jupiter

Movie

Train of Events

1949 · First Plain Clothes Man

Movie

The Tempest

1980 · Prospero

Movie

Memento Mori

1992 · Godfrey Colston

Movie

Young Sherlock Holmes

1985 · Older Watson (voice)

Movie

Back to Back

1959

Movie

All's Well That Ends Well

1981 · Lafeu

Movie

Portrait from Life

1948 · Johnson

Movie

The Baby and the Battleship

1956 · Capt. Hugh

Movie

The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads

1989 · Badger (voice)

Movie

Paradise Postponed

1986 · Simeon Simcox

Movie

Suspicion

1987 · Lord McLaidlaw

Movie

Now Voyager

1985 · The Old Man

Movie

Svengali

1954 · Billy's Uncle

Movie

The Years Between

1946 · Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Movie

You're All Right, How Am I?

1981 · Patient

Movie

Tonight in Britain

1954 · Self

Movie

A Girl in a Million

1946 · Divorce Counsel

Movie

The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales

1986 · Badger (voice)

Movie

Children's Favourites - Volume 1

1988 · Badger (voice)

Movie

Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1

1989 · Badger (voice)

Movie

Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2

1989 · Badger (voice)

Movie

More Children's Summer Stories

1989 · Badger (voice)

Movie

More Children's Holiday Favourites

1990 · Badger (voice)

Movie

The Christmas Collection

1992 · Badger (voice)

Movie

A Crack in the Ice

1985 · The Storyteller

Movie

The Wind in the Willows

1984 · Badger (voice)

Movie

The Chester Mystery Plays

1976 · God

Tales of the Unexpected

1979 · Cyril Bixby

Inspector Morse

1987 · Doctor Starkie

Lovejoy

1986 · Wilfred Shotley

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Banquo

The Wind in the Willows

1984 · Badger (voice)

Fall of Eagles

1974 · Narrator

Shōgun

1980 · Friar Domingo

Paradise Postponed

1986 · Rev. Simeon Simcox

Middlemarch

1994 · Peter Featherstone

BBC Play of the Month

1965 · Mr. Posket

Detective

1964 · Detective Inspector Rason

Tall Stories

1971

Daytime Live

1987

Perfect Scoundrels

1990 · Sir Norman

BBC Play of the Month

1965 · God

Paddington Bear

1976 · Narrator

Wogan

1982 · Self

Oh, Mr. Toad

1990 · Badger

The Green Man

1990 · Gramps

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Ben Weatherstaff

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954 · Squire Banks

Theatre Night

1985

A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971 · Professor Parkins

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · Epilogue spoken by (voice)

Screen Two

1985 · Lord Langland

Screen Two

1985 · Godfrey Colston

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · Jacques

Playhouse

1974 · Patient

Omnibus

1967 · Self

Omnibus

1967 · Self - Narrator (voice)

The Wednesday Play

1964 · Sir Jocelyn Symonds

Sunday-Night Play

1960 · Walter Ormund

Armchair Theatre

1956 · Det. Supt. Coates

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · Hugh Wigmore

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · Trigorin

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · General Parmenion

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · Christopher Williams

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · Major Booth Voysey

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · Rev. James Mavor Morell

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · Shylock

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 · Maurice Lammering

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

1964 · Squire Banks

Omnibus

1967 · Professor Parkins

The Wednesday Play

1964 · Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police

BBC Play of the Month

1965 · The Devil

BBC Play of the Month

1965 · Tartuffe

BBC Play of the Month

1965 · Lear

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1967 · Prof. Ainslie Grey

Festival

1963 · Sir Augustus Thwaites

Story Parade

1964 · Anatol Stiller

Edward the Seventh

1975 · W. E. Gladstone

Paddington

1976 · Narrator

The History Man

1981 · Professor Marvin

Fall of Eagles

1974 · Narrator (voice)

Chillers

1990 · Colonel Eddie Phelps

Six Dates with Barker

1971 · Arch Funster