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
1984
- Merton: A Film Biography as Narrator (voice)
- Among the Wild Chimpanzees as Narrator (voice)
- Australia's Animal Mysteries as Narrator (voice)
1981
- The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945 as English language narrator
1979
- Jesus as Luke (voice)
- Uncommon Women and Others as Narrator (voice)
- This Other Eden as Narrator (voice)
- Etosha: Place of Dry Water 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
- Atonement as Narrator (voice)
- People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer as Narrator (voice)
- People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter 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)
1965
- National Geographic Specials as Narrator (voice)
- The Gendarme in New York as Alex Scourby
- The Incredible World of James Bond as Narrator (voice)
- China! as Narrator
- The Unending Struggle as Narrator
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 Asphalt Jungle as Roy Bradley
- The Devil at 4 O'Clock as The Governor
1960
- Man on a String as Colonel Vadja Kubelov
- Seven Thieves as Raymond Le May
1959
- Bonanza as Jean Millain
- The Twilight Zone as George Harper
- Rawhide as Albert Hadley
- Johnny Staccato
- Philip Marlowe as Dr. Steve Vincent
- The Shaggy Dog as Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
- The Big Fisherman as David Ben-Zadok
- The Velvet Alley as Harvey Diedrich
- 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 Walter Winchell File as Agent
- The Night America Trembled as Host
- 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
- Telephone Time as Joseph Priestley
- Giant as Old Polo
- Ransom! as Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
- Project XX: The Great War - World War I as Self - Narrator
- The Twisted Cross as Narrator (voice)
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Joe Markheim
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Horace Meade
- The Phil Silvers Show as Hubbell Robinson (uncredited)
1954
- Climax! as Frank Martin
- The Secret Storm as Dr. Ian Northcoate
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
- The Silver Chalice as Luke
- Sign of the Pagan as Chrysaphius
- The Shadow as Rollo Grimbauer
- Three Two One - Zero! as Narrator
- Victory at Sea as Narrator (voice)
1953
- The Big Heat as Mike Lagana
- The Redhead from Wyoming as Reece Duncan
- The Glory Brigade as Lt. Niklas
- The Spirit of Christmas as Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1952
- Omnibus as Odysseus
- Affair in Trinidad as Max Fabian
- Because of You as Dr. Breen
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Hagen
1948
- Studio One as Edward