Michael Hordern
Sir Michael Murray Hordern (* 3. Oktober 1911 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England; † 2. Mai 1995 in Oxford, England) war ein britischer Bühnen- und Filmschauspieler.
Hordern begann seine künstlerische Laufbahn als Darsteller auf den Bühnen verschiedener Amateurtheater.
Daneben spielte Hordern in zahlreichen Film- und Fernsehproduktionen. Bereits 1939 gab er sein Spielfilmdebüt. Dreizehn Jahre später wirkte er in einem Film um den Rächer aus dem Sherwood Forest mit: Robin Hood, Rebell des Königs, verkörpert von Richard Todd. In seiner über 50-jährigen Filmkarriere spielte Hordern in Literaturverfilmungen wie Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte (als Marley nach Charles Dickens), Ivanhoe (nach Walter Scott), Historienfilmen wie Alexander der Große (als griechischer Redner Demosthenes), Ich klage an (über die Dreyfus-Affäre), Richard Attenboroughs Gandhi und Cleopatra (als Cicero), Dramen wie Hotel International (neben Elizabeth Taylor), Kriegsfilmen wie Die letzte Fahrt der Bismarck und Agenten sterben einsam (nach Alistair MacLean), Agententhrillern wie Der Spion, der aus der Kälte kam (nach John le Carré) und Der MacKintosh-Mann (neben Paul Newman), Komödien wie Richard Lesters Plautus-Adaption Toll trieben es die alten Römer, Lesters Endzeit-Komödie Danach (mit Peter Cook und Dudley Moore), Graham Chapmans Schatzinsel-Persiflage Dotterbart, Horrorfilmen wie Theater des Grauens (neben Vincent Price und Diana Rigg) und großangelegten Fernsehproduktionen wie James Clavells Shogun. Darüber hinaus absolvierte er Gastauftritte in Fernsehserien wie Inspector Morse.
In der Regel wurde Hordern in Nebenrollen eingesetzt, denen er in markanter Weise Profil gab. Der hochgewachsene Charakterdarsteller mit der hohen Stirn war eine unverwechselbare Erscheinung und spielte auch kleinste Rollen mit starker Präsenz.
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Filme (158)
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
2008 · Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
A Very Open Prison
1995 · Lord Langland
Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt
1993 · Narrator
The Christmas Collection
1992 · Badger (voice)
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992 · King (voice)
Truckers
1992 · The Abbot (voice)
Memento Mori
1992 · Godfrey Colston
Beauty and the Beast
1992 · Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
The Fool
1990 · Mr. Tatham
Diamond Skulls
1990 · Lord Crewne
More Children's Holiday Favourites
1990 · Badger (voice)
The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
1989 · Badger (voice)
Danny the Champion of the World
1989 · Lord Claybury
More Children's Summer Stories
1989 · Badger (voice)
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1
1989 · Badger (voice)
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
1989 · Badger (voice)
The Dog It Was That Died
1989 · George
Ending Up
1989 · George
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
1988 · Badger (voice)
The Trouble with Spies
1987 · Jason Locke
The Secret Garden
1987 · Ben Weatherstaff
Comrades
1987 · Mr. Pitt
Scoop
1987 · Uncle Theodor
The Secret World of Polly Flint
1987 · Narrator
Suspicion
1987 · Lord McLaidlaw
The Little Match Girl
1986 · Himself - Introduction
The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales
1986 · Badger (voice)
Labyrinth
1986 · The Wiseman (voice)
Paradise Postponed
1986 · Simeon Simcox
Lady Jane
1986 · Dr. Feckenham
Paddington Goes to School
1986 · Vocals
Paddington's Birthday Bonanza
1986 · Narrator
Young Sherlock Holmes
1985 · Older Watson (voice)
A Crack in the Ice
1985 · The Storyteller
Now Voyager
1985 · The Old Man
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1984 · Psychoanalyst
The Wind in the Willows
1983 · Badger
The Tale of Beatrix Potter
1983 · Narrator (voice)
Cymbeline
1983 · Jupiter
Yellowbeard
1983 · Dr. Gilpin
Group Madness
1983 · Self / Dr. Gilpin
Clash of Loyalties
1983 · Narrator
Gandhi
1982 · Sir George Hodge
The Missionary
1982 · Slatterthewaite/Narrator
King Lear
1982 · King Lear
Oliver Twist
1982 · Mr. Brownlow
Ivanhoe
1982 · Cedric
You're All Right, How Am I?
1981 · Patient
All's Well That Ends Well
1981 · Lafeu
The Wildcats of St Trinian's
1980 · Sir Charles Hackforth
Gauguin the Savage
1980 · Durand-Huel
Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies
1980 · Narrator (voice)
The Tempest
1980 · Prospero
The Spirit of Cheshire
1980 · Silver Ghost (voice)
The Talking Parcel
1978 · Oswald, the Sea Serpent
Romeo and Juliet
1978 · Capulet
Watership Down
1978 · Frith (voice)
The Medusa Touch
1978 · Atropos - Fortune Teller
A Christmas Carol
1977 · Ebenezer Scrooge
Joseph Andrews
1977 · Parson Adams
The Chester Mystery Plays
1976 · God
The Slipper and the Rose
1976 · King
Paddington Bear
1976 · Narrator / All
Lucky Lady
1975 · Captain Rockwell
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Narrator (voice)
The Old Curiosity Shop
1975 · Edward Trent
Royal Flash
1975 · Headmaster
King Lear
1975 · King Lear
Juggernaut
1974 · Mr. Baker
The Three Musketeers
1973 · Treville (voice)
The MacKintosh Man
1973 · Brown
England Made Me
1973 · F. Minty
Theatre of Blood
1973 · George Maxwell
The Pied Piper
1972 · Melius, Alchemist
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1972 · Mock Turtle
Demons of the Mind
1972 · Priest
The Possession of Joel Delaney
1972 · Justin
A Christmas Carol
1971 · Marley's Ghost (voice)
Girl Stroke Boy
1971 · George Mason
Up Pompeii
1971 · Ludicrus Sextus
Some Will, Some Won't
1970 · Denniston Russell
Futtocks End
1970 · The Butler
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 · Thomas Boleyn
The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · Bules Martin
Where Eagles Dare
1968 · Adm. Rolland
Prudence and the Pill
1968 · Dr. Morley (uncredited)
Whistle and I'll Come to You
1968 · Professor Parkins
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967 · Headmaster
How I Won the War
1967 · Grapple
The Jokers
1967 · Sir Matthew
The Taming of the Shrew
1967 · Baptista
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966 · Senex
Khartoum
1966 · Lord Granville
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966 · British Ambassador
Turner
1966 · Reads recollections
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 · Ashe
Genghis Khan
1965 · Geen
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964 · Harnsworth
Macbeth
1964 · Banquo
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
1963 · Squire Thomas Banks
The V.I.P.s
1963 · Airport Director
Cleopatra
1963 · Cicero
El Cid
1961 · Don Diego
The Square
1961 · The Man
Man in the Moon
1960 · Dr. Davidson
Sink the Bismarck!
1960 · Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
Moment of Danger
1960 · Inspector Farrell
Back to Back
1959
I Was Monty's Double
1958 · Governor of Gibralter
Girls at Sea
1958 · Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
The Spaniard's Curse
1958 · Judge Manton
I Accuse!
1958 · Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
Windom's Way
1957 · Patterson
No Time for Tears
1957 · Surgeon
The Dock Brief
1957 · Morgenhall
The Spanish Gardener
1956 · Harrington Brande
The Baby and the Battleship
1956 · Capt. Hugh
The Man Who Never Was
1956 · Gen. Coburn
Alexander the Great
1956 · Demosthenes
Pacific Destiny
1956 · Resident Commissioner
Storm Over the Nile
1955 · General Faversham
The Constant Husband
1955 · The Judge
The Dark Avenger
1955 · King Edward
The Night My Number Came Up
1955 · Lindsay
Svengali
1954 · Billy's Uncle
The Beachcomber
1954 · The Headman
Forbidden Cargo
1954 · Director of Customs
You Know What Sailors Are
1954
Tonight in Britain
1954 · Self
The Heart of the Matter
1953 · Commissioner
Personal Affair
1953 · Headmaster Griffith
Grand National Night
1953 · Inspector Ayling
Street Corner
1953 · Insp. Heron
The Hour of 13
1952 · Herbert Frensham
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952 · Scathelock
The Card
1952 · Bank Manager
The Magic Box
1952 · Official Receiver
Scrooge
1951 · Jacob Marley
Tom Brown's Schooldays
1951 · Wilkes
Flesh and Blood
1951 · Webster
Highly Dangerous
1950 · Lab Director Owens
Trio
1950 · Vicar
The Astonished Heart
1950 · Ernest
Passport to Pimlico
1949 · Bashford
Train of Events
1949 · First Plain Clothes Man
Portrait from Life
1948 · Johnson
The Small Voice
1948 · Dr. Mennell
Good-Time Girl
1948 · Seddon
Nightbeat
1947 · Police Training Officer
Mine Own Executioner
1947 · Co-Counsel at Inquest
Rebecca
1947 · Maxim de Winter
School for Secrets
1946 · Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
Morning Departure
1946 · Commander Gates
A Girl in a Million
1946 · Divorce Counsel
The Years Between
1946 · Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Girl in the News
1940 · Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
Band Waggon
1940 · (uncredited)
A Girl Must Live
1939
Serien (44)
Middlemarch
1994 · Peter Featherstone
The Green Man
1990 · Gramps
Perfect Scoundrels
1990 · Sir Norman
Oh, Mr. Toad
1990 · Badger
Chillers
1990 · Colonel Eddie Phelps
Daytime Live
1987
The Secret World of Polly Flint
1987 · Narrator
Inspector Morse
1987 · Doctor Starkie
Paradise Postponed
1986 · Rev. Simeon Simcox
Lovejoy
1986 · Wilfred Shotley
Theatre Night
1985 · Sir William Gower
Summer Season
1985 · The Storyteller
Screen Two
1985 · Lord Langland, Godfrey Colston
The Wind in the Willows
1984 · Badger (voice)
Wogan
1982 · Self
American Playhouse
1982 · Lord McLaidlaw
The History Man
1981 · Professor Marvin
Shōgun
1980 · Friar Domingo
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Cyril Bixby
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · Capulet, Prospero, Lafeu
Cakes and Ale
1976 · Willie Ashenden
Paddington Bear
1976 · Narrator
Paddington
1976 · Narrator
Edward the Seventh
1975 · W. E. Gladstone
Fall of Eagles
1974 · Narrator, Narrator (voice)
Playhouse
1974 · Patient
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971 · Professor Parkins
Tall Stories
1971
Film '72
1971 · Self
Six Dates with Barker
1971 · Arch Funster
Omnibus
1967 · Self, Self - Narrator (voice), Professor Parkins
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1967 · Prof. Ainslie Grey
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Mr. Posket, God, The Devil, Tartuffe, Lear
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Sir Jocelyn Symonds, Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police
Story Parade
1964 · Anatol Stiller
Detective
1964 · Detective Inspector Rason
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
1964 · Squire Banks
Festival
1963 · Sir Augustus Thwaites
Espionage
1963 · Minister
Sunday-Night Play
1960 · Walter Ormund
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Det. Supt. Coates
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Squire Banks
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Banquo, Ben Weatherstaff, Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · Epilogue spoken by (voice), Jacques, Hugh Wigmore, Trigorin, General Parmenion, Christopher Williams, Major Booth Voysey, Rev. James Mavor Morell, Shylock, Maurice Lammering