Alexander Scourby
Acting • Born 1913-11-13 – Died 1985-02-22
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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."
Filmography
98 credits
Giant
Movie • 1956
Old Polo
Merton: A Film Biography
Movie • 1984
Narrator (voice)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
Movie • 1961
The Governor
The Big Heat
Movie • 1953
Mike Lagana
Affair in Trinidad
Movie • 1952
Max Fabian
Jesus
Movie • 1979
Luke (voice)
Seven Thieves
Movie • 1960
Raymond Le May
The Silver Chalice
Movie • 1954
Luke
Man on a String
Movie • 1960
Colonel Vadja Kubelov
The Glory Brigade
Movie • 1953
Lt. Niklas
Hell Gate: The Watery Grave
Movie
Narrator (voice)
Ransom!
Movie • 1956
Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
Me and the Colonel
Movie • 1958
Major Von Bergen
Buddhism in China
Movie • 1972
Narrator (voice)
Uncommon Women and Others
Movie • 1979
Narrator (voice)
The Executioner
Movie • 1970
Prof. Parker
The Incredible World of James Bond
Movie • 1965
Narrator (voice)
Because of You
Movie • 1952
Dr. Breen
The Stuff
Movie • 1985
Evans
The Lonely Dorymen
Movie • 1968
Narrator (voice)
The Big Fisherman
Movie • 1959
David Ben-Zadok
Sign of the Pagan
Movie • 1954
Chrysaphius
The Shadow
Movie • 1954
Rollo Grimbauer
The Shaggy Dog
Movie • 1959
Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
Atonement
Movie • 1971
Narrator (voice)
The Song of Christmas
Movie • 1957
Narrator (voice)
The Spirit of Christmas
Movie • 1953
Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Montserrat
Movie • 1971
Among the Wild Chimpanzees
Movie • 1984
Narrator (voice)
This Other Eden
Movie • 1979
Narrator (voice)
Victory at Sea
Movie • 1954
Narrator (voice)
The Wall
Movie • 1962
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Redhead from Wyoming
Movie • 1953
Reece Duncan
The Velvet Alley
Movie • 1959
Harvey Diedrich
1999 A.D.
Movie • 1967
Narrator (voice)
The Twisted Cross
Movie • 1956
Narrator (voice)
Grizzly!
Movie • 1967
Narrator (voice)
People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter
Movie • 1971
Narrator (voice)
The Gendarme in New York
Movie • 1965
Alex Scourby
Venice: Theme and Variations
Movie • 1957
Narrator (voice)
Etosha: Place of Dry Water
Movie • 1980
Narrator (voice)
Australia's Animal Mysteries
Movie • 1984
Narrator (voice)
The Hemingway Play
Movie • 1976
Ernest Hemingway (middle-aged)
The Night America Trembled
Movie • 1957
Host
People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer
Movie • 1971
Narrator (voice)
Three Two One - Zero!
Movie • 1954
Narrator
Project XX: Life in the Thirties
Movie • 1959
Self - Narrator
The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945
Movie • 1981
English language narrator
Project XX: The Great War - World War I
Movie • 1956
Self - Narrator
Project XX: The Innocent Years
Movie • 1957
Self - Narrator
The Glory of Their Times
Movie • 1970
Narrator
The Unending Struggle
Movie • 1965
Narrator
China!
Movie • 1965
Narrator
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Judge Philip Hallson
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Lucas Coleman
Naked City
TV • 1958
Walter Gerrick
Mannix
TV • 1967
Count Boria
Studio One
TV • 1948
Edward
The Secret Storm
TV • 1954
Dr. Ian Northcoate
Johnny Staccato
TV • 1959
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
George Harper
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Horace Meade
Philip Marlowe
TV • 1959
Dr. Steve Vincent
The Eleventh Hour
TV • 1962
Garrett Nolan
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Albert Hadley
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Eli Bothwell
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Hagen
Climax!
TV • 1954
Frank Martin
Meeting of Minds
TV • 1977
Galileo Galilei
The Word
TV • 1978
Narrator (voice)
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Joe Markheim
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Judge Coogan
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Byron Claremont
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Allen Ferguson
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Colonel del Armija - Interrogator
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
Joseph Priestley
The Walter Winchell File
TV • 1957
Agent
The Defenders
TV • 1961
John Wellman
The Defenders
TV • 1961
George Matthias
The Asphalt Jungle
TV • 1961
Roy Bradley
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Anthony Alquist
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Jean Millain
The Phil Silvers Show
TV • 1955
Hubbell Robinson (uncredited)
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
George Andreas
Studio One
TV • 1948
Narrator (voice)
Studio One
TV • 1948
Prof. Tom Monev
Studio One
TV • 1948
Carl Phillips
Climax!
TV • 1954
David Potter
Climax!
TV • 1954
Eric Betzdorff
National Geographic Specials
TV • 1965
Narrator (voice)
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Narrator (voice)
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Odysseus
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV • 1958
King
Omnibus
TV • 1952
El Indio
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Dr. Mikhail Andrassy