Michael Hordern

Acting · Born 1911-10-03 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK

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.

Filmography

• Where Eagles Dare as Adm. Rolland
• Cleopatra as Cicero
• Scrooge as Jacob Marley
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Ashe
• Gandhi as Sir George Hodge
• Watership Down as Frith (voice)
• Barry Lyndon as Narrator (voice)
• Labyrinth as The Wiseman (voice)
• Genghis Khan as Geen
• Yellowbeard as Dr. Gilpin

TV

• Inspector Morse as Doctor Starkie
• Shōgun as Friar Domingo
• Tales of the Unexpected as Cyril Bixby
• Lovejoy as Wilfred Shotley
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Banquo
• The Wind in the Willows as Badger (voice)
• Fall of Eagles as Narrator
• Paradise Postponed as Rev. Simeon Simcox
• Middlemarch as Peter Featherstone
• BBC Play of the Month as Mr. Posket