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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 3, 1911
Died
May 2, 1995
Place of Birth
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Sir Michael Hordern
- Sir Michael Murray Hordern
- Michael Murray Hordern
- Майкл Хордерн
Michael Hordern
1.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
8.3
Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
2008
10.0
Lord Langland
A Very Open Prison
1995
7.8
Peter Featherstone
Middlemarch
1994
0.0
Narrator
Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt
1993
🎬
0.0
Badger (voice)
The Christmas Collection
1992
5.2
King (voice)
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
6.5
The Abbot (voice)
Truckers
1992
6.2
Godfrey Colston
Memento Mori
1992
6.2
Colonel Eddie Phelps
Chillers
1992
4.2
Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
Beauty and the Beast
1992
Credits
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
as Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
2008
8.3
A Very Open Prison
as Lord Langland
1995
10.0
Middlemarch
as Peter Featherstone
1994
7.8
Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt
as Narrator
1993
0.0
🎬
The Christmas Collection
as Badger (voice)
1992
0.0
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as King (voice)
1992
5.2
Truckers
as The Abbot (voice)
1992
6.5
Memento Mori
as Godfrey Colston
1992
6.2
Chillers
as Colonel Eddie Phelps
1992
6.2
Beauty and the Beast
as Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
1992
4.2
🎬
The Fool
as Mr. Tatham
1990
7.0
The Green Man
as Gramps
1990
6.7
Diamond Skulls
as Lord Crewne
1990
3.1
🎬
More Children's Holiday Favourites
as Badger (voice)
1990
0.0
🎬
Perfect Scoundrels
as Sir Norman
1990
6.0
🎬
Oh, Mr. Toad
as Badger
1990
0.0
The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
as Badger (voice)
1989
5.0
Danny the Champion of the World
as Lord Claybury
1989
6.2
🎬
More Children's Summer Stories
as Badger (voice)
1989
0.0
🎬
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Badger (voice)
1989
0.0
🎬
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
as Badger (voice)
1989
0.0
🎬
Ending Up
as George
1989
0.0
The Dog It Was That Died
as George
1989
0.0
🎬
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Badger (voice)
1988
0.0
The Trouble with Spies
as Jason Locke
1987
4.2
The Secret Garden
as Ben Weatherstaff
1987
7.6
🎬
Daytime Live
1987
3.5
Comrades
as Mr. Pitt
1987
6.8
Scoop
as Uncle Theodor
1987
5.2
The Secret World of Polly Flint
as Narrator
1987
0.0
Inspector Morse
as Doctor Starkie
1987
7.8
Suspicion
as Lord McLaidlaw
1987
5.0
The Little Match Girl
as Himself - Introduction
1986
2.0
The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales
as Badger (voice)
1986
0.0
Paradise Postponed
as Rev. Simeon Simcox
1986
5.0
Labyrinth
as The Wiseman (voice)
1986
7.3
🎬
Paradise Postponed
as Simeon Simcox
1986
7.0
Lady Jane
as Dr. Feckenham
1986
6.9
Lovejoy
as Wilfred Shotley
1986
7.3
Paddington Goes to School
1986
7.0
Paddington's Birthday Bonanza
as Narrator
1986
0.0
Young Sherlock Holmes
as Older Watson (voice)
1985
6.7
🎬
Theatre Night
1985
0.0
A Crack in the Ice
as The Storyteller
1985
0.0
Now Voyager
as The Old Man
1985
0.0
Screen Two
as Lord Langland
1985
6.8
Screen Two
as Godfrey Colston
1985
6.8
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
as Psychoanalyst
1984
5.2
The Wind in the Willows
as Badger (voice)
1984
7.6
🎬
The Wind in the Willows
as Badger (voice)
1984
0.0
The Wind in the Willows
as Badger
1983
7.0
Cymbeline
as Jupiter
1983
5.7
Yellowbeard
as Dr. Gilpin
1983
5.6
Group Madness
as Self / Dr. Gilpin
1983
0.0
Clash of Loyalties
as Narrator
1983
5.0
Gandhi
as Sir George Hodge
1982
7.6
The Missionary
as Slatterthewaite/Narrator
1982
5.5
King Lear
as King Lear
1982
6.0
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Oliver Twist
as Mr. Brownlow
1982
6.6
Ivanhoe
as Cedric
1982
6.3
You're All Right, How Am I?
as Patient
1981
0.0
The History Man
as Prof Marvin
1981
3.6
All's Well That Ends Well
as Lafeu
1981
6.3
Shōgun
as Friar Domingo
1980
7.6
The Wildcats of St. Trinian's
as Sir Charles Hackforth
1980
3.9
Gauguin the Savage
as Durand-Huel
1980
0.0
Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies
as Narrator (voice)
1980
7.0
The Tempest
as Prospero
1980
7.0
🎬
The Spirit of Cheshire
1980
0.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Cyril Bixby
1979
6.7
The Talking Parcel
as Oswald, the Sea Serpent
1978
7.0
Romeo and Juliet
as Capulet
1978
7.3
Watership Down
as Frith (voice)
1978
7.2
The Medusa Touch
as Atropos - Fortune Teller
1978
6.8
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
1977
6.6
Joseph Andrews
as Parson Adams
1977
4.8
The Slipper and the Rose
as King
1976
6.8
Paddington Bear
as Narrator
1976
7.2
Paddington Bear
as Narrator / All
1976
0.0
Paddington
as Narrator
1976
0.0
Lucky Lady
as Captain Rockwell
1975
5.3
Barry Lyndon
as Narrator (voice)
1975
8.0
The Old Curiosity Shop
as Edward Trent
1975
3.3
Royal Flash
as Headmaster
1975
5.8
Edward the Seventh
as W. E. Gladstone
1975
6.3
King Lear
as King Lear
1975
0.0
Juggernaut
as Mr. Baker
1974
6.2
Fall of Eagles
as Narrator
1974
6.9
Playhouse
as Patient
1974
7.0
The Three Musketeers
as Treville (voice)
1973
6.7
The MacKintosh Man
as Mr. Brown
1973
6.1
England Made Me
as F. Minty
1973
5.7
Theatre of Blood
as George Maxwell
1973
6.7
The Pied Piper
as Melius, Alchemist
1972
5.9
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle
1972
6.2
Demons of the Mind
as Priest
1972
5.2
The Possession of Joel Delaney
as Justin
1972
5.6
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Professor Parkins
1971
7.4
A Christmas Carol
as Marley's Ghost (voice)
1971
7.2
🎬
Tall Stories
1971
0.0
Girl Stroke Boy
as George Mason
1971
5.1
Up Pompeii
as Ludicrus Sextus
1971
5.9
Six Dates with Barker
as Arch Funster
1971
7.0
Some Will, Some Won't
as Denniston Russell
1970
4.8
Futtocks End
as The Butler
1970
5.4
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Thomas Boleyn
1969
7.1
The Bed Sitting Room
as Bules Martin
1969
5.9
Where Eagles Dare
as Adm. Rolland
1968
7.5
Prudence and the Pill
as Dr. Morley (uncredited)
1968
5.4
Whistle and I'll Come to You
as Professor Parkins
1968
6.5
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
as Headmaster
1967
5.3
How I Won the War
as Grapple
1967
5.5
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
Omnibus
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1967
7.2
Omnibus
as Professor Parkins
1967
7.2
The Jokers
as Sir Matthew
1967
6.0
The Taming of the Shrew
as Baptista
1967
6.9
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
as Prof. Ainslie Grey
1967
0.0
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
as Senex
1966
6.0
Khartoum
as Lord Granville
1966
6.3
Cast a Giant Shadow
as British Ambassador
1966
6.2
🎬
Turner
as Reads recollections
1966
0.0
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Ashe
1965
7.1
BBC Play of the Month
as Mr. Posket
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as God
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as The Devil
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Tartuffe
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Lear
1965
5.0
Genghis Khan
as Geen
1965
5.8
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Harnsworth
1964
6.0
The Wednesday Play
as Sir Jocelyn Symonds
1964
4.5
The Wednesday Play
as Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police
1964
4.5
🎬
Story Parade
as Anatol Stiller
1964
8.0
Detective
as Detective Inspector Rason
1964
0.0
Macbeth
as Banquo
1964
6.0
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
as Squire Banks
1964
0.0
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
as Squire Thomas Banks
1963
6.9
🎬
Festival
as Sir Augustus Thwaites
1963
8.0
The V.I.P.s
as Airport Director
1963
6.1
Cleopatra
as Cicero
1963
7.0
El Cid
as Don Diego
1961
6.8
🎬
The Square
as The Man
1961
0.0
Man in the Moon
as Dr. Davidson
1960
6.4
🎬
Sunday-Night Play
as Walter Ormund
1960
0.0
Sink the Bismarck!
as Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
1960
6.8
Moment of Danger
as Inspector Farrell
1960
0.0
Back to Back
1959
0.0
I Was Monty's Double
as Governor of Gibralter
1958
6.9
Girls at Sea
as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
1958
6.0
The Spaniard's Curse
as Judge Manton
1958
5.3
I Accuse!
as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
1958
6.1
Windom's Way
as Patterson
1957
5.0
No Time for Tears
as Surgeon
1957
5.0
The Dock Brief
as Morgenhall
1957
0.0
The Spanish Gardener
as Harrington Brande
1956
6.2
Armchair Theatre
as Det. Supt. Coates
1956
5.8
The Baby and the Battleship
as Capt. Hugh
1956
6.0
The Man Who Never Was
as Gen. Coburn
1956
7.0
Alexander the Great
as Demosthenes
1956
6.0
Pacific Destiny
as Resident Commissioner
1956
5.2
Storm Over the Nile
as General Faversham
1955
6.1
The Constant Husband
as The Judge
1955
6.9
The Dark Avenger
as King Edward
1955
6.0
The Night My Number Came Up
as Lindsay
1955
6.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Squire Banks
1954
7.8
Svengali
as Billy's Uncle
1954
5.9
The Beachcomber
as The Headman
1954
6.0
Forbidden Cargo
as Director of Customs
1954
6.4
You Know What Sailors Are
1954
4.2
🎬
Tonight in Britain
as Self
1954
5.0
The Heart of the Matter
as Commissioner
1953
6.6
Personal Affair
as Headmaster Griffith
1953
6.2
Grand National Night
as Inspector Ayling
1953
7.9
Street Corner
as Insp. Heron
1953
5.4
The Hour of 13
as Sir Herbert Frensham
1952
5.7
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
as Scathelock
1952
6.2
The Card
as Bank Manager
1952
6.9
The Magic Box
as Official Receiver
1952
6.4
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Banquo
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Ben Weatherstaff
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII
1951
8.6
Scrooge
as Jacob Marley
1951
7.4
Tom Brown's Schooldays
as Wilkes
1951
6.9
Flesh and Blood
as Webster
1951
0.0
Highly Dangerous
as Lab Director Owens
1950
6.0
Trio
as Vicar
1950
6.3
The Astonished Heart
as Ernest
1950
3.8
Sunday Night Theatre
as Epilogue spoken by (voice)
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Jacques
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Hugh Wigmore
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Trigorin
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as General Parmenion
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Christopher Williams
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Major Booth Voysey
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Rev. James Mavor Morell
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Shylock
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Maurice Lammering
1950
3.5
Passport to Pimlico
as Bashford
1949
6.9
Train of Events
as First Plain Clothes Man
1949
6.2
Portrait from Life
as Johnson
1948
5.9
The Small Voice
as Dr. Mennell
1948
6.2
Good-Time Girl
as Seddon
1948
6.1
Nightbeat
as Police Training Officer
1947
5.2
Mine Own Executioner
as Co-Counsel at Inquest
1947
7.0
🎬
Rebecca
as Maxim de Winter
1947
0.0
School for Secrets
as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
1946
7.0
🎬
Morning Departure
as Commander Gates
1946
0.0
A Girl in a Million
as Divorce Counsel
1946
5.5
The Years Between
as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
1946
6.2
Girl in the News
as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
1940
6.4
Band Waggon
as (uncredited)
1940
5.3
A Girl Must Live
1939
3.5