Alexander Scourby

Born: 1913-11-13 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Died: 1985-02-22

Known For: Acting

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

1985

The Stuff as Evans

1979

Jesus as Luke (voice)
Uncommon Women and Others as Narrator (voice)
This Other Eden as Narrator (voice)

1978

The Word as Narrator (voice)

1977

Meeting of Minds as Galileo Galilei

1976

The Hemingway Play as Ernest Hemingway (middle-aged)

1972

Buddhism in China as Narrator (voice)

1971

Great Performances
Montserrat
People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter as Narrator (voice)
People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer as Narrator (voice)
Atonement as Narrator (voice)

1970

The Executioner as Prof. Parker
The Glory of Their Times as Narrator

1969

Marcus Welby, M.D. as Lucas Coleman

1968

The Lonely Dorymen as Narrator (voice)

1967

Mannix as Count Boria
Grizzly! as Narrator (voice)
1999 A.D. as Narrator (voice)

1965

The Gendarme in New York as Alex Scourby
National Geographic Specials as Narrator (voice)
The Incredible World of James Bond as Narrator (voice)

1964

Daniel Boone as Eli Bothwell
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp

1963

Mr. Novak as Allen Ferguson

1962

The Eleventh Hour as Garrett Nolan
The Wall as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1961

The Defenders as John Wellman
Cain's Hundred as Judge Philip Hallson
The Devil at 4 O'Clock as The Governor
The Asphalt Jungle as Roy Bradley

1960

Seven Thieves as Raymond Le May
Man on a String as Colonel Vadja Kubelov

1959

Bonanza as Jean Millain
The Twilight Zone as George Harper
Rawhide as Albert Hadley
Johnny Staccato
The Big Fisherman as David Ben-Zadok
The Velvet Alley as Harvey Diedrich
The Shaggy Dog as Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
Philip Marlowe as Dr. Steve Vincent
Project XX: Life in the Thirties as Self - Narrator

1958

The Rifleman as Byron Claremont
Naked City as Walter Gerrick
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Judge Coogan
Shirley Temple's Storybook as King
Me and the Colonel as Major Von Bergen

1957

The Night America Trembled as Host
The Walter Winchell File as Agent
Venice: Theme and Variations as Narrator (voice)
The Song of Christmas as Narrator (voice)
Project XX: The Innocent Years as Self - Narrator

1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Colonel del Armija - Interrogator
Giant as Old Polo
Ransom! as Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
Telephone Time as Joseph Priestley
The Twisted Cross as Narrator (voice)
Project XX: The Great War - World War I as Self - Narrator

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Horace Meade
The 20th Century Fox Hour as Joe Markheim
The Phil Silvers Show as Hubbell Robinson (uncredited)

1954

Climax! as Frank Martin
The Secret Storm as Dr. Ian Northcoate
The Shadow as Rollo Grimbauer
The Silver Chalice as Luke
Sign of the Pagan as Chrysaphius
Victory at Sea as Narrator (voice)
Three Two One - Zero! as Narrator

1953

The Big Heat as Mike Lagana
The Glory Brigade as Lt. Niklas
The Redhead from Wyoming as Reece Duncan
The Spirit of Christmas as Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1952

Omnibus as Odysseus
Because of You as Dr. Breen
Affair in Trinidad as Max Fabian

1950

Lux Video Theatre as Hagen

1948

Studio One as Edward

1947

Kraft Television Theatre