Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1911-10-03
- Day of Death1995-05-02 (83 years)
- Place of BirthBerkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Also Known AsSir Michael HordernSir Michael Murray HordernMichael Murray HordernМайкл Хордерн
Michael Hordern
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.
Acting Career
- 1995
A Very Open Prison
As: Lord Langland
- 1994
Middlemarch
As: Peter Featherstone
- 1993
Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt
As: Narrator
- 1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
As: King (voice)
- 1992
Truckers
As: The Abbot (voice)
- 1992
Memento Mori
As: Godfrey Colston
- 1992
Beauty and the Beast
As: Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
- 1990
The Green Man
As: Gramps
1990Diamond Skulls
As: Lord Crewne
1990Chillers
As: Colonel Eddie Phelps
1989The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
As: Badger (voice)
1989Danny the Champion of the World
As: Lord Claybury
1989The Dog It Was That Died
As: George
1987The Trouble with Spies
As: Jason Locke
1987The Secret Garden
As: Ben Weatherstaff
1987Comrades
As: Mr. Pitt
1987Scoop
As: Uncle Theodor
1987The Secret World of Polly Flint
As: Narrator
1987Inspector Morse
As: Doctor Starkie
1987Suspicion
As: Lord McLaidlaw
1986The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales
As: Badger (voice)
1986Paradise Postponed
As: Rev. Simeon Simcox
- 1986
Labyrinth
As: The Wiseman (voice)
1986Lady Jane
As: Dr. Feckenham
1986Lovejoy
As: Wilfred Shotley
1986Paddington's Birthday Bonanza
As: Narrator
1985Young Sherlock Holmes
As: Older Watson (voice)
1985A Crack in the Ice
As: The Storyteller
1985Now Voyager
As: The Old Man
1985Screen Two
As: Lord Langland
- 1985
Screen Two
As: Godfrey Colston
1984The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
As: Psychoanalyst
1984The Wind in the Willows
As: Badger (voice)
1983The Wind in the Willows
As: Badger
1983Cymbeline
As: Jupiter
1983Yellowbeard
As: Dr. Gilpin
1983Clash of Loyalties
As: Narrator
- 1982
Gandhi
As: Sir George Hodge
1982The Missionary
As: Slatterthewaite/Narrator
1982King Lear
As: King Lear
1982Oliver Twist
As: Mr. Brownlow
1982Ivanhoe
As: Cedric
1981You're All Right, How Am I?
As: Patient
1981All's Well That Ends Well
As: Lafeu
1981The History Man
As: Prof Marvin
1980Shōgun
As: Friar Domingo
1980The Wildcats of St. Trinian's
As: Sir Charles Hackforth
1980Gauguin the Savage
As: Durand-Huel
1980Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies
As: Narrator (voice)
1980The Tempest
As: Prospero
1979Tales of the Unexpected
As: Cyril Bixby
1978The Talking Parcel
As: Oswald, the Sea Serpent
1978Romeo and Juliet
As: Capulet
1978Watership Down
As: Frith (voice)
1978The Medusa Touch
As: Atropos - Fortune Teller
1977A Christmas Carol
As: Ebenezer Scrooge
1977Joseph Andrews
As: Parson Adams
1976The Slipper and the Rose
As: King
1976Paddington Bear
As: Narrator
1975Lucky Lady
As: Captain Rockwell
- 1975
Barry Lyndon
As: Narrator (voice)
1975The Old Curiosity Shop
As: Edward Trent
1975Royal Flash
As: Headmaster
1975Edward the Seventh
As: W. E. Gladstone
1975King Lear
As: King Lear
1974Juggernaut
As: Mr. Baker
1974Fall of Eagles
As: Narrator
1974Playhouse
As: Patient
1973The Three Musketeers
As: Treville (voice)
1973The MacKintosh Man
As: Mr. Brown
1973England Made Me
As: F. Minty
1973Theatre of Blood
As: George Maxwell
1972The Pied Piper
As: Melius, Alchemist
1972Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
As: Mock Turtle
1972Demons of the Mind
As: Priest
1972The Possession of Joel Delaney
As: Justin
1971A Christmas Carol
As: Marley's Ghost (voice)
1971Girl Stroke Boy
As: George Mason
1971Up Pompeii
As: Ludicrus Sextus
1971Six Dates with Barker
As: Arch Funster
1970Some Will, Some Won't
As: Denniston Russell
1970Futtocks End
As: The Butler
1969Anne of the Thousand Days
As: Thomas Boleyn
1969The Bed Sitting Room
As: Bules Martin
- 1968
Where Eagles Dare
As: Adm. Rolland
1968Prudence and the Pill
As: Dr. Morley (uncredited)
1968Whistle and I'll Come to You
As: Professor Parkins
1967I'll Never Forget What's'isname
As: Headmaster
1967How I Won the War
As: Grapple
1967Omnibus
As: Professor Parkins
1967The Jokers
As: Sir Matthew
1967The Taming of the Shrew
As: Baptista
1967Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
As: Prof. Ainslie Grey
1966A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
As: Senex
1966Khartoum
As: Lord Granville
1966Cast a Giant Shadow
As: British Ambassador
1965The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
As: Ashe
1965BBC Play of the Month
As: Mr. Posket
- 1965
BBC Play of the Month
As: God
- 1965
BBC Play of the Month
As: The Devil
- 1965
BBC Play of the Month
As: Tartuffe
- 1965
BBC Play of the Month
As: Lear
1965Genghis Khan
As: Geen
1964The Yellow Rolls-Royce
As: Harnsworth
1964The Wednesday Play
As: Sir Jocelyn Symonds
- 1964
The Wednesday Play
As: Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police
1964Detective
As: Detective Inspector Rason
1964Macbeth
As: Banquo
1964The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
As: Squire Banks
1963Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
As: Squire Thomas Banks
1963The V.I.P.s
As: Airport Director
- 1963
Cleopatra
As: Cicero
1961El Cid
As: Don Diego
1960Man in the Moon
As: Dr. Davidson
1960Sink the Bismarck!
As: Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
1960Moment of Danger
As: Inspector Farrell
1958I Was Monty's Double
As: Governor of Gibralter
1958Girls at Sea
As: Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
1958The Spaniard's Curse
As: Judge Manton
1958I Accuse!
As: Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
1957Windom's Way
As: Patterson
1957No Time for Tears
As: Surgeon
1957The Dock Brief
As: Morgenhall
1956The Spanish Gardener
As: Harrington Brande
1956Armchair Theatre
As: Det. Supt. Coates
1956The Baby and the Battleship
As: Capt. Hugh
1956The Man Who Never Was
As: Gen. Coburn
1956Alexander the Great
As: Demosthenes
1956Pacific Destiny
As: Resident Commissioner
1955Storm Over the Nile
As: General Faversham
1955The Constant Husband
As: The Judge
1955The Dark Avenger
As: King Edward
1955The Night My Number Came Up
As: Lindsay
1954The Wonderful World of Disney
As: Squire Banks
1954Svengali
As: Billy's Uncle
1954The Beachcomber
As: The Headman
1954Forbidden Cargo
As: Director of Customs
1953The Heart of the Matter
As: Commissioner
1953Personal Affair
As: Headmaster Griffith
1953Grand National Night
As: Inspector Ayling
1953Street Corner
As: Insp. Heron
1952The Hour of 13
As: Sir Herbert Frensham
1952The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
As: Scathelock
1952The Card
As: Bank Manager
1952The Magic Box
As: Official Receiver
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
As: Banquo
- 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
As: Ben Weatherstaff
- 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
As: Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII
1951Scrooge
As: Jacob Marley
1951Tom Brown's Schooldays
As: Wilkes
1951Flesh and Blood
As: Webster
1950Highly Dangerous
As: Lab Director Owens
1950Trio
As: Vicar
1950The Astonished Heart
As: Ernest
1950Sunday Night Theatre
As: Epilogue spoken by (voice)
- 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
As: Jacques
- 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
As: Hugh Wigmore
- 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
As: Trigorin
- 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
As: General Parmenion
- 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
As: Christopher Williams
- 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
As: Major Booth Voysey
- 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
As: Rev. James Mavor Morell
- 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
As: Shylock
- 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
As: Maurice Lammering
1949Passport to Pimlico
As: Bashford
1949Train of Events
As: First Plain Clothes Man
1948Portrait from Life
As: Johnson
1948The Small Voice
As: Dr. Mennell
1948Good-Time Girl
As: Seddon
1947Nightbeat
As: Police Training Officer
1947Mine Own Executioner
As: Co-Counsel at Inquest
1946School for Secrets
As: Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
1946A Girl in a Million
As: Divorce Counsel
1946The Years Between
As: Member of Parliament (uncredited)
1940Girl in the News
As: Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
1940Band Waggon
As: (uncredited)