Michael Hordern
Born: 1911-10-03 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Died: 1995-05-02
Known For: Acting
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
2008
- Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh as Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
1995
- A Very Open Prison as Lord Langland
1994
- Middlemarch as Peter Featherstone
1993
- Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt as Narrator
1992
- Truckers as The Abbot (voice)
- Freddie As F.R.O.7. as King (voice)
- Beauty and the Beast as Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
- Memento Mori as Godfrey Colston
- The Christmas Collection as Badger (voice)
1990
- Chillers as Colonel Eddie Phelps
- Perfect Scoundrels as Sir Norman
- Oh, Mr. Toad as Badger
- The Green Man as Gramps
- Diamond Skulls as Lord Crewne
- The Fool as Mr. Tatham
- More Children's Holiday Favourites as Badger (voice)
1989
- Danny the Champion of the World as Lord Claybury
- The Dog It Was That Died as George
- Ending Up as George
- Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2 as Badger (voice)
- The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads as Badger (voice)
- Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1 as Badger (voice)
- More Children's Summer Stories as Badger (voice)
1988
- Children's Favourites - Volume 1 as Badger (voice)
1987
- Inspector Morse as Doctor Starkie
- Daytime Live
- The Secret Garden as Ben Weatherstaff
- Scoop as Uncle Theodor
- The Trouble with Spies as Jason Locke
- Suspicion as Lord McLaidlaw
- Comrades as Mr. Pitt
- The Secret World of Polly Flint as Narrator
1986
- Lovejoy as Wilfred Shotley
- Labyrinth as The Wiseman (voice)
- Paradise Postponed as Rev. Simeon Simcox
- Lady Jane as Dr. Feckenham
- The Little Match Girl as Himself - Introduction
- Paradise Postponed as Simeon Simcox
- The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales as Badger (voice)
- Paddington Goes to School
- Paddington's Birthday Bonanza as Narrator
1985
- Screen Two as Lord Langland
- Theatre Night
- Young Sherlock Holmes as Older Watson (voice)
- Now Voyager as The Old Man
- A Crack in the Ice as The Storyteller
1984
- The Wind in the Willows as Badger (voice)
- The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood as Psychoanalyst
1983
- Yellowbeard as Dr. Gilpin
- The Wind in the Willows as Badger
- Cymbeline as Jupiter
- Group Madness as Self / Dr. Gilpin
- Clash of Loyalties as Narrator
1982
- Wogan as Self
- American Playhouse as Lord McLaidlaw
- Gandhi as Sir George Hodge
- Ivanhoe as Cedric
- Oliver Twist as Mr. Brownlow
- The Missionary as Slatterthewaite/Narrator
- King Lear as King Lear
1981
- The History Man as Professor Marvin
- All's Well That Ends Well as Lafeu
- You're All Right, How Am I? as Patient
1980
- Shōgun as Friar Domingo
- The Wildcats of St Trinian's as Sir Charles Hackforth
- The Tempest as Prospero
- Gauguin the Savage as Durand-Huel
- Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies as Narrator (voice)
- The Spirit of Cheshire
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Cyril Bixby
1978
- The BBC Television Shakespeare as Capulet
- Watership Down as Frith (voice)
- The Medusa Touch as Atropos - Fortune Teller
- Romeo and Juliet as Capulet
- The Talking Parcel as Oswald, the Sea Serpent
1977
- A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge
- Joseph Andrews as Parson Adams
1976
- Paddington as Narrator
- Paddington Bear as Narrator
- The Slipper and the Rose as King
- Cakes and Ale as Willie Ashenden
- Paddington Bear as Narrator / All
- The Chester Mystery Plays as God
1975
- Barry Lyndon as Narrator (voice)
- Edward the Seventh as W. E. Gladstone
- Lucky Lady as Captain Rockwell
- The Old Curiosity Shop as Edward Trent
- Royal Flash as Headmaster
- King Lear as King Lear
1974
- Playhouse as Patient
- Fall of Eagles as Narrator
- Juggernaut as Mr. Baker
1973
- The Three Musketeers as Treville (voice)
- Theatre of Blood as George Maxwell
- The MacKintosh Man as Mr. Brown
- England Made Me as F. Minty
1972
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
- The Possession of Joel Delaney as Justin
- The Pied Piper as Melius, Alchemist
- Demons of the Mind as Priest
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as Professor Parkins
- Six Dates with Barker as Arch Funster
- Tall Stories
- Up Pompeii as Ludicrus Sextus
- A Christmas Carol as Marley's Ghost (voice)
- Girl Stroke Boy as George Mason
1970
- Some Will, Some Won't as Denniston Russell
- Futtocks End as The Butler
1969
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Thomas Boleyn
- The Bed Sitting Room as Bules Martin
1968
- Where Eagles Dare as Adm. Rolland
- Prudence and the Pill as Dr. Morley (uncredited)
- Whistle and I'll Come to You as Professor Parkins
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Prof. Ainslie Grey
- The Taming of the Shrew as Baptista
- How I Won the War as Grapple
- I'll Never Forget What's'isname as Headmaster
- The Jokers as Sir Matthew
1966
- Khartoum as Lord Granville
- Cast a Giant Shadow as British Ambassador
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Senex
- Turner as Reads recollections
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Mr. Posket
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Ashe
- Genghis Khan as Geen
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Sir Jocelyn Symonds
- Detective as Detective Inspector Rason
- Story Parade as Anatol Stiller
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce as Harnsworth
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh as Squire Banks
- Macbeth as Banquo
1963
- Cleopatra as Cicero
- Festival as Sir Augustus Thwaites
- Espionage as Minister
- The V.I.P.s as Airport Director
- Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow as Squire Thomas Banks
1961
- El Cid as Don Diego
- The Square as The Man
1960
- Sunday-Night Play as Walter Ormund
- Sink the Bismarck! as Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
- Man in the Moon as Dr. Davidson
- Moment of Danger as Inspector Farrell
1959
1958
- I Was Monty's Double as Governor of Gibralter
- I Accuse! as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
- Girls at Sea as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
- The Spaniard's Curse as Judge Manton
1957
- The Dock Brief as Morgenhall
- Windom's Way as Patterson
- No Time for Tears as Surgeon
1956
- Alexander the Great as Demosthenes
- Armchair Theatre as Det. Supt. Coates
- The Man Who Never Was as Gen. Coburn
- The Baby and the Battleship as Capt. Hugh
- Pacific Destiny as Resident Commissioner
- The Spanish Gardener as Harrington Brande
1955
- The Night My Number Came Up as Lindsay
- Storm Over the Nile as General Faversham
- The Dark Avenger as King Edward
- The Constant Husband as The Judge
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Squire Banks
- Forbidden Cargo as Director of Customs
- You Know What Sailors Are
- Svengali as Billy's Uncle
- The Beachcomber as The Headman
- Tonight in Britain as Self
1953
- The Heart of the Matter as Commissioner
- Personal Affair as Headmaster Griffith
- Grand National Night as Inspector Ayling
- Street Corner as Insp. Heron
1952
- The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men as Scathelock
- The Card as Bank Manager
- The Magic Box as Official Receiver
- The Hour of 13 as Herbert Frensham
1951
- Scrooge as Jacob Marley
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Banquo
- Flesh and Blood as Webster
- Tom Brown's Schooldays as Wilkes
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Epilogue spoken by (voice)
- Trio as Vicar
- Highly Dangerous as Lab Director Owens
- The Astonished Heart as Ernest
1949
- Train of Events as First Plain Clothes Man
- Passport to Pimlico as Bashford
1948
- Good-Time Girl as Seddon
- Portrait from Life as Johnson
- The Small Voice as Dr. Mennell
1947
- Nightbeat as Police Training Officer
- Mine Own Executioner as Co-Counsel at Inquest
- Rebecca as Maxim de Winter
1946
- Morning Departure as Commander Gates
- School for Secrets as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
- A Girl in a Million as Divorce Counsel
- The Years Between as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
1940
- Girl in the News as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
- Band Waggon as (uncredited)