Birthday

1911-10-03

Died

1995-05-02

Birthplace

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Gender

Male

Known For

Acting

Michael Hordern

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 Credits

Genghis Khan

Geen

Where Eagles Dare

Adm. Rolland

Yellowbeard

Dr. Gilpin

Anne of the Thousand Days

Thomas Boleyn

The Medusa Touch

Atropos - Fortune Teller

Cleopatra

Cicero

Futtocks End

The Butler

Up Pompeii

Ludicrus Sextus

The Taming of the Shrew

Baptista

Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt

Narrator

Beauty and the Beast

Monsieur Du Blois (voice)

The MacKintosh Man

Mr. Brown

The Bed Sitting Room

Bules Martin

Scrooge

Jacob Marley

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mock Turtle

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

Scathelock

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Ashe

Theatre of Blood

George Maxwell

Joseph Andrews

Parson Adams

Khartoum

Lord Granville

The Possession of Joel Delaney

Justin

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Squire Thomas Banks

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Wilkes

The V.I.P.s

Airport Director

The Man Who Never Was

Gen. Coburn

The Slipper and the Rose

King

A Christmas Carol

Marley's Ghost (voice)

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge

The Wind in the Willows

Badger

Demons of the Mind

Priest

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Harnsworth

Ivanhoe

Cedric

The Secret Garden

Ben Weatherstaff

Truckers

The Abbot (voice)

Oliver Twist

Mr. Brownlow

Sink the Bismarck!

Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'

Danny the Champion of the World

Lord Claybury

School for Secrets

Lt. Cmdr. Lowther

Man in the Moon

Dr. Davidson

The Dark Avenger

King Edward

Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)

Lucky Lady

Captain Rockwell

I Was Monty's Double

Governor of Gibralter

Highly Dangerous

Lab Director Owens

Paddington Goes to School

Grand National Night

Inspector Ayling

Personal Affair

Headmaster Griffith

The Spanish Gardener

Harrington Brande

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

King (voice)

Girl Stroke Boy

George Mason

Morning Departure

Commander Gates

Turner

Reads recollections

Scoop

Uncle Theodor

Diamond Skulls

Lord Crewne

The Jokers

Sir Matthew

Paddington Bear

Narrator / All

The Talking Parcel

Oswald, the Sea Serpent

The Heart of the Matter

Commissioner

Some Will, Some Won't

Denniston Russell

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

Headmaster

The Trouble with Spies

Jason Locke

The Astonished Heart

Ernest

Prudence and the Pill

Dr. Morley (uncredited)

The Pied Piper

Melius, Alchemist

Moment of Danger

Inspector Farrell

I Accuse!

Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial

The Old Curiosity Shop

Edward Trent

The Little Match Girl

Himself - Introduction

The Small Voice

Dr. Mennell

The Hour of 13

Sir Herbert Frensham

The Spaniard's Curse

Judge Manton

The Secret World of Polly Flint

Narrator

Windom's Way

Patterson

Girls at Sea

Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt

You Know What Sailors Are

The Three Musketeers

Treville (voice)

Whistle and I'll Come to You

Professor Parkins

Cast a Giant Shadow

British Ambassador

The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

Psychoanalyst

King Lear

King Lear

Alexander the Great

Demosthenes

A Girl Must Live

England Made Me

F. Minty

Mine Own Executioner

Co-Counsel at Inquest

Nightbeat

Police Training Officer

The Card

Bank Manager

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Senex

Gandhi

Sir George Hodge

Gauguin the Savage

Durand-Huel

The Dock Brief

Morgenhall

Girl in the News

Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)

Band Waggon

(uncredited)

Rebecca

Maxim de Winter

Pacific Destiny

Resident Commissioner

The Spirit of Cheshire

The Dog It Was That Died

George

The Square

The Man

No Time for Tears

Surgeon

The Fool

Mr. Tatham

Macbeth

Banquo

Clash of Loyalties

Narrator

Ending Up

George

Royal Flash

Headmaster

The Missionary

Slatterthewaite/Narrator

King Lear

King Lear

Storm Over the Nile

General Faversham

The Wildcats of St. Trinian's

Sir Charles Hackforth

Comrades

Mr. Pitt

Juggernaut

Mr. Baker

Watership Down

Frith (voice)

Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies

Narrator (voice)

Paddington's Birthday Bonanza

Narrator

Street Corner

Insp. Heron

How I Won the War

Grapple

The Magic Box

Official Receiver

Passport to Pimlico

Bashford

Flesh and Blood

Webster

Lady Jane

Dr. Feckenham

Trio

Vicar

Good-Time Girl

Seddon

Barry Lyndon

Narrator (voice)

The Night My Number Came Up

Lindsay

Romeo and Juliet

Capulet

A Very Open Prison

Lord Langland

Forbidden Cargo

Director of Customs

Labyrinth

The Wiseman (voice)

The Beachcomber

The Headman

Group Madness

Self / Dr. Gilpin

The Constant Husband

The Judge

El Cid

Don Diego

Cymbeline

Jupiter

Train of Events

First Plain Clothes Man

The Tempest

Prospero

Memento Mori

Godfrey Colston

Young Sherlock Holmes

Older Watson (voice)

Back to Back

All's Well That Ends Well

Lafeu

Portrait from Life

Johnson

The Baby and the Battleship

Capt. Hugh

The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads

Badger (voice)

Paradise Postponed

Simeon Simcox

Suspicion

Lord McLaidlaw

Now Voyager

The Old Man

Svengali

Billy's Uncle

The Years Between

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

You're All Right, How Am I?

Patient

Tonight in Britain

Self

A Girl in a Million

Divorce Counsel

The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales

Badger (voice)

Children's Favourites - Volume 1

Badger (voice)

Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1

Badger (voice)

Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2

Badger (voice)

More Children's Summer Stories

Badger (voice)

More Children's Holiday Favourites

Badger (voice)

The Christmas Collection

Badger (voice)

A Crack in the Ice

The Storyteller

The Wind in the Willows

Badger (voice)

Tales of the Unexpected

Cyril Bixby

Inspector Morse

Doctor Starkie

Lovejoy

Wilfred Shotley

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Banquo

Six Dates with Barker

Arch Funster

The Wind in the Willows

Badger (voice)

Shōgun

Friar Domingo

Fall of Eagles

Narrator

Paradise Postponed

Rev. Simeon Simcox

Middlemarch

Peter Featherstone

BBC Play of the Month

Mr. Posket

Detective

Detective Inspector Rason

Tall Stories

Daytime Live

Perfect Scoundrels

Perfect Scoundrels

Sir Norman

BBC Play of the Month

God

Chillers

Colonel Eddie Phelps

Paddington Bear

Narrator

Wogan

Self

Oh, Mr. Toad

Badger

The Green Man

Gramps

The History Man

Prof Marvin

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Ben Weatherstaff

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII

The Wonderful World of Disney

Squire Banks

Theatre Night

Sunday Night Theatre

Epilogue spoken by (voice)

Screen Two

Lord Langland

Screen Two

Godfrey Colston

Sunday Night Theatre

Jacques

Playhouse

Patient

Omnibus

Self

Omnibus

Self - Narrator (voice)

The Wednesday Play

Sir Jocelyn Symonds

Sunday-Night Play

Sunday-Night Play

Walter Ormund

Armchair Theatre

Det. Supt. Coates

Sunday Night Theatre

Hugh Wigmore

Sunday Night Theatre

Trigorin

Sunday Night Theatre

General Parmenion

Sunday Night Theatre

Christopher Williams

Sunday Night Theatre

Major Booth Voysey

Sunday Night Theatre

Rev. James Mavor Morell

Sunday Night Theatre

Shylock

Sunday Night Theatre

Maurice Lammering

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

Squire Banks

Omnibus

Professor Parkins

The Wednesday Play

Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police

BBC Play of the Month

The Devil

BBC Play of the Month

Tartuffe

BBC Play of the Month

Lear

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Prof. Ainslie Grey

Festival

Sir Augustus Thwaites

Story Parade

Anatol Stiller

Edward the Seventh

W. E. Gladstone

Film Credits

Paddington Goes to School

Vocals