Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

198

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-10-03

Deathday

1995-05-02 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Sir Michael Hordern
Sir Michael Murray Hordern
Michael Murray Hordern
Майкл 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.

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Known For

8.0%

Barry Lyndon

Dec 18, 1975

7.3%

Labyrinth

Jun 27, 1986

7.6%

Gandhi

Dec 1, 1982

7.5%

Where Eagles Dare

Dec 4, 1968

7.0%

Cleopatra

Jun 12, 1963

7.2%

Watership Down

Oct 14, 1978

6.7%

Young Sherlock Holmes

Dec 4, 1985

7.4%

Scrooge

Nov 28, 1951

6.8%

The Three Musketeers

Dec 11, 1973

7.1%

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Dec 16, 1965

6.8%

El Cid

Oct 24, 1961

6.7%

Theatre of Blood

Mar 16, 1973

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Acting

2008

Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh as Squire Thomas Banks

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 Fool as Mr. Tatham
1990		The Green Man as Gramps
1990		Perfect Scoundrels as Sir Norman
1990		Chillers as Colonel Eddie Phelps
1990		Oh, Mr. Toad as Badger
1990		Dark Obsession as Lord Crewne

1989		Danny the Champion of the World as Lord Claybury
1989		The Dog It Was That Died as George
1989		Ending Up as George

1988

The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads as Badger (voice)

1987		The Trouble with Spies as Jason Locke
1987		The Secret Garden as Ben Weatherstaff
1987		Daytime Live
1987		Comrades as Mr. Pitt
1987		Scoop as Uncle Theodor
1987		The Secret World of Polly Flint as Narrator
1987		Inspector Morse as Doctor Starkie
1987		Suspicion as Lord McLaidlaw

1986		The Little Match Girl as Himself - Introduction
1986		Paradise Postponed as Rev. Simeon Simcox
1986		Labyrinth as The Wiseman (voice)
1986		Paradise Postponed as Simeon Simcox
1986		Lady Jane as Dr. Feckenham
1986		Lovejoy as Wilfred Shotley
1986		Paddington Goes to School
1986		Paddington's Birthday Bonanza as Narrator

1985		Young Sherlock Holmes as Older Watson (voice)
1985		Theatre Night
1985		Now Voyager as The Old Man
1985		Screen Two as Lord Langland
1985		Screen Two as Godfrey Colston

1984		The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood as Psychoanalyst
1984		The Wind in the Willows as Badger (voice)

1983		The Wind in the Willows as Badger
1983		Yellowbeard as Dr. Gilpin
1983		Group Madness as Self / Dr. Gilpin
1983		Clash of Loyalties as Narrator

1982		Cymbeline as Jupiter
1982		Gandhi as Sir George Hodge
1982		The Missionary as Slatterthewaite/Narrator
1982		King Lear as King Lear
1982		Wogan as Self
1982		Oliver Twist as Mr. Brownlow
1982		Ivanhoe as Cedric

1981		You're All Right, How Am I? as Patient
1981		The History Man as Prof Marvin
1981		All's Well That Ends Well as Lafeu

1980		Shōgun as Friar Domingo
1980		The Wildcats of St. Trinian's as Sir Charles Hackforth
1980		Gauguin the Savage as Durand-Huel
1980		Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies as Narrator (voice)
1980		The Tempest as Prospero
1980		The Spirit of Cheshire

1979

Tales of the Unexpected as Cyril Bixby

1978		The Talking Parcel as Oswald, the Sea Serpent
1978		Romeo and Juliet as Capulet
1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare as King Lear
1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare as Jupiter
1978		Watership Down as Frith (voice)
1978		The Medusa Touch as Atropos - Fortune Teller

1977		A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge
1977		Joseph Andrews as Parson Adams

1976		The Slipper and the Rose as King
1976		Paddington Bear as Narrator
1976		Paddington Bear as Narrator / All

1975		Lucky Lady as Captain Rockwell
1975		Barry Lyndon as Narrator (voice)
1975		The Old Curiosity Shop as Edward Trent
1975		Royal Flash as Headmaster
1975		Edward the Seventh
1975		King Lear as King Lear

1974		Juggernaut as Mr. Baker
1974		Fall of Eagles as Narrator
1974		Playhouse as Patient

1973		The Three Musketeers as Treville (voice)
1973		The MacKintosh Man as Mr. Brown
1973		England Made Me as F. Minty
1973		Theatre of Blood as George Maxwell

1972		The Pied Piper as Melius, Alchemist
1972		Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
1972		Demons of the Mind as Priest
1972		The Possession of Joel Delaney as Justin

1971		A Ghost Story for Christmas as Professor Parkins
1971		A Christmas Carol as Marley's Ghost (voice)
1971		Tall Stories
1971		Girl Stroke Boy as George Mason
1971		Up Pompeii as Ludicrus Sextus
1971		Six Dates with Barker as Arch Funster

1970		Some Will, Some Won't as Denniston Russell
1970		Futtocks End as The Butler

1969		Anne of the Thousand Days as Thomas Boleyn
1969		The Bed Sitting Room as Bules Martin

1968		Where Eagles Dare as Adm. Rolland
1968		Prudence and the Pill as Dr. Morley (uncredited)
1968		Whistle and I'll Come to You as Professor Parkins

1967		I'll Never Forget What's'isname as Headmaster
1967		How I Won the War as Grapple
1967		Omnibus as Self
1967		Omnibus as Self - Narrator (voice)
1967		The Jokers as Sir Matthew
1967		The Taming of the Shrew as Baptista

1966		A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Senex
1966		Khartoum as Lord Granville
1966		Cast a Giant Shadow as British Ambassador
1966		Turner as Reads recollections

1965		The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Ashe
1965		BBC Play of the Month as Mr. Posket
1965		BBC Play of the Month as God
1965		Genghis Khan as Geen

1964		The Yellow Rolls-Royce as Harnsworth
1964		The Wednesday Play as General Kokoshkin, Chief of Police
1964		The Wednesday Play as Sir Jocelyn Symonds
1964		Detective as Detective Inspector Rason
1964		Macbeth as Banquo

1963		Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow as Squire Thomas Banks
1963		The V.I.P.s as Airport Director
1963		Cleopatra as Cicero

1961		El Cid as Don Diego
1961		The Square as The Man

1960		Man in the Moon as Dr. Davidson
1960		Sunday-Night Play as Walter Ormund
1960		Sink the Bismarck! as Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
1960		Moment of Danger as Inspector Farrell

1959

Back to Back

1958		I Was Monty's Double as Governor of Gibralter
1958		Girls at Sea as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
1958		The Spaniard's Curse as Judge Manton
1958		I Accuse! as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial

1957		Windom's Way as Patterson
1957		No Time for Tears as Surgeon
1957		The Dock Brief as Morgenhall
1957		Theatre Night as Tony Peters

1956		The Spanish Gardener as Harrington Brande
1956		Armchair Theatre as Det. Supt. Coates
1956		The Baby and the Battleship as Capt. Hugh
1956		The Man Who Never Was as Gen. Coburn
1956		Alexander the Great as Demosthenes
1956		Pacific Destiny as Resident Commissioner

1955		Storm Over the Nile as General Faversham
1955		The Constant Husband as The Judge
1955		The Dark Avenger as King Edward
1955		The Night My Number Came Up as Lindsay

1954		The Wonderful World of Disney as Squire Banks
1954		Svengali as Billy's Uncle
1954		The Beachcomber as The Headman
1954		Forbidden Cargo as Director of Customs
1954		You Know What Sailors Are
1954		Tonight in Britain as Self

1953		The Heart of the Matter as Commissioner
1953		Personal Affair as Headmaster Griffith
1953		Grand National Night as Inspector Ayling
1953		Street Corner as Insp. Heron

1952		The Hour of 13 as Sir Herbert Frensham
1952		The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men as Scathelock
1952		The Card as Bank Manager
1952		The Magic Box as Official Receiver

1951		Hallmark 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
1951		Scrooge as Jacob Marley
1951		Tom Brown's Schooldays as Wilkes
1951		Flesh and Blood as Webster

1950		Highly Dangerous as Lab Director Owens
1950		Trio as Vicar
1950		The Astonished Heart as Ernest
1950		Sunday 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

1949		Passport to Pimlico as Bashford
1949		Train of Events as First Plain Clothes Man

1948		Portrait from Life as Johnson
1948		The Small Voice as Dr. Mennell
1948		Good-Time Girl as Seddon

1947		Nightbeat as Police Training Officer
1947		Mine Own Executioner as Co-Counsel at Inquest
1947		Rebecca as Maxim de Winter

1946		School for Secrets as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
1946		Morning Departure as Commander Gates
1946		A Girl in a Million as Divorce Counsel
1946		The Years Between as Member of Parliament (uncredited)

1940		Girl in the News as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
1940		Band Waggon as (uncredited)

1939

A Girl Must Live

Sound

1986

Paddington Goes to School as Vocals