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

American Playhouse
1988
Wogan
1985
BBC Play of the Month
1972
Screen Two
1995
The Wednesday Play
1965
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Omnibus
1969
Playhouse
1981
Film '72
1983
Inspector Morse
1987
Sunday Night Theatre
1956
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
222
Sound
1
2008
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
as Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
2005
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Professor Parkins
1995
A Very Open Prison
as Lord Langland
1995
Screen Two
as Lord Langland
1994
Middlemarch
as Peter Featherstone
1993
Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt
as Narrator
1993
Lovejoy
as Wilfred Shotley
1992
Beauty and the Beast
as Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
1992
Truckers
as The Abbot (voice)
1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as King (voice)
1992
Memento Mori
as Godfrey Colston
1992
The Christmas Collection
as Badger (voice)
1992
Screen Two
as Godfrey Colston
1990
Diamond Skulls
as Lord Crewne
1990
The Fool
as Mr. Tatham
1990
More Children's Holiday Favourites
as Badger (voice)
1990
Perfect Scoundrels
as Sir Norman
1990
Oh, Mr. Toad
as Badger
1990
The Green Man
as Gramps
1990
Chillers
as Colonel Eddie Phelps
1989
Danny the Champion of the World
as Lord Claybury
1989
The Dog It Was That Died
as George
1989
Ending Up
as George
1989
The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
as Badger (voice)
1989
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Badger (voice)
1989
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
as Badger (voice)
1989
More Children's Summer Stories
as Badger (voice)
1989
Daytime Live
1988
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Badger (voice)
1988
American Playhouse
as Lord McLaidlaw
1987
The Secret Garden
as Ben Weatherstaff
1987
Scoop
as Uncle Theodor
1987
The Trouble with Spies
as Jason Locke
1987
The Secret World of Polly Flint
as Narrator
1987
Comrades
as Mr. Pitt
1987
Suspicion
as Lord McLaidlaw
1987
Inspector Morse
as Doctor Starkie
1987
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Ben Weatherstaff
1987
The Secret World of Polly Flint
as Narrator
1986
Paddington Goes to School
1986
The Little Match Girl
as Himself - Introduction
1986
Paddington's Birthday Bonanza
as Narrator
1986
Lady Jane
as Dr. Feckenham
1986
Labyrinth
as The Wiseman (voice)
1986
Paradise Postponed
as Simeon Simcox
1986
The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales
as Badger (voice)
1986
Paradise Postponed
as Rev. Simeon Simcox
1985
Young Sherlock Holmes
as Older Watson (voice)
1985
Now Voyager
as The Old Man
1985
A Crack in the Ice
as The Storyteller
1985
Wogan
as Self
1985
Theatre Night
1984
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
as Psychoanalyst
1984
The Wind in the Willows
as Badger (voice)
1983
Yellowbeard
as Dr. Gilpin
1983
The Wind in the Willows
as Badger
1983
Clash of Loyalties
as Narrator
1983
Group Madness
as Self / Dr. Gilpin
1983
Cymbeline
as Jupiter
1983
Film '72
as Self
1982
Ivanhoe
as Cedric
1982
Oliver Twist
as Mr. Brownlow
1982
Gandhi
as Sir George Hodge
1982
The Missionary
as Slatterthewaite/Narrator
1982
King Lear
as King Lear
1981
All's Well That Ends Well
as Lafeu
1981
You're All Right, How Am I?
as Patient
1981
Playhouse
as Patient
1981
The History Man
as Professor Marvin
1981
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Lafeu
1980
Gauguin the Savage
as Durand-Huel
1980
The Spirit of Cheshire
1980
The Wildcats of St Trinian's
as Sir Charles Hackforth
1980
Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies
as Narrator (voice)
1980
The Tempest
as Prospero
1980
Shōgun
as Friar Domingo
1980
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Prospero
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
as Cyril Bixby
1978
The Medusa Touch
as Atropos - Fortune Teller
1978
The Talking Parcel
as Oswald, the Sea Serpent
1978
Watership Down
as Frith (voice)
1978
Romeo and Juliet
as Capulet
1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Capulet
1977
Joseph Andrews
as Parson Adams
1977
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
1976
The Slipper and the Rose
as King
1976
Paddington Bear
as Narrator / All
1976
The Chester Mystery Plays
as God
1976
BBC Play of the Month
as God
1976
Paddington Bear
as Narrator
1976
Paddington
as Narrator
1976
Cakes and Ale
as Willie Ashenden
1975
Lucky Lady
as Captain Rockwell
1975
The Old Curiosity Shop
as Edward Trent
1975
King Lear
as King Lear
1975
Royal Flash
as Headmaster
1975
Barry Lyndon
as Narrator (voice)
1975
BBC Play of the Month
as Lear
1975
Edward the Seventh
as W. E. Gladstone
1974
Juggernaut
as Mr. Baker
1974
Fall of Eagles
as Narrator
1974
Fall of Eagles
as Narrator (voice)
1973
The MacKintosh Man
as Brown
1973
Theatre of Blood
as George Maxwell
1973
The Three Musketeers
as Treville (voice)
1973
England Made Me
as F. Minty
1972
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle
1972
The Possession of Joel Delaney
as Justin
1972
Demons of the Mind
as Priest
1972
The Pied Piper
as Melius, Alchemist
1972
BBC Play of the Month
as Mr. Posket
1971
Up Pompeii
as Ludicrus Sextus
1971
A Christmas Carol
as Marley's Ghost (voice)
1971
Girl Stroke Boy
as George Mason
1971
Tall Stories
1971
BBC Play of the Month
as The Devil
1971
BBC Play of the Month
as Tartuffe
1971
Six Dates with Barker
as Arch Funster
1970
Futtocks End
as The Butler
1970
Some Will, Some Won't
as Denniston Russell
1969
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Thomas Boleyn
1969
The Bed Sitting Room
as Bules Martin
1969
Omnibus
as Self
1969
Omnibus
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
1968
Omnibus
as Professor Parkins
1967
The Taming of the Shrew
as Baptista
1967
The Jokers
as Sir Matthew
1967
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
as Headmaster
1967
How I Won the War
as Grapple
1967
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
as Prof. Ainslie Grey
1966
Khartoum
as Lord Granville
1966
Turner
as Reads recollections
1966
Cast a Giant Shadow
as British Ambassador
1966
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
as Senex
1966
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII
1965
Genghis Khan
as Geen
1965
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Ashe
1965
The Wednesday Play
as Sir Jocelyn Symonds
1964
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Harnsworth
1964
Macbeth
as Banquo
1964
Detective
as Detective Inspector Rason
1964
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Squire Banks
1964
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
as Squire Banks
1964
The Wednesday Play
as Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police
1964
Festival
as Sir Augustus Thwaites
1964
Story Parade
as Anatol Stiller
1963
Cleopatra
as Cicero
1963
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
as Squire Thomas Banks
1963
The V.I.P.s
as Airport Director
1963
Espionage
as Minister
1961
The Square
as The Man
1961
El Cid
as Don Diego
1960
Sink the Bismarck!
as Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
1960
Man in the Moon
as Dr. Davidson
1960
Moment of Danger
as Inspector Farrell
1960
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Banquo
1960
Sunday-Night Play
as Walter Ormund
1959
Back to Back
1959
Sunday Night Theatre
as Maurice Lammering
1958
I Was Monty's Double
as Governor of Gibralter
1958
I Accuse!
as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
1958
The Spaniard's Curse
as Judge Manton
1958
Girls at Sea
as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
1957
Windom's Way
as Patterson
1957
The Dock Brief
as Morgenhall
1957
No Time for Tears
as Surgeon
1957
Armchair Theatre
as Det. Supt. Coates
1956
The Man Who Never Was
as Gen. Coburn
1956
The Spanish Gardener
as Harrington Brande
1956
Alexander the Great
as Demosthenes
1956
Pacific Destiny
as Resident Commissioner
1956
The Baby and the Battleship
as Capt. Hugh
1956
Sunday Night Theatre
as Epilogue spoken by (voice)
1955
The Dark Avenger
as King Edward
1955
Storm Over the Nile
as General Faversham
1955
The Night My Number Came Up
as Lindsay
1955
The Constant Husband
as The Judge
1955
Sunday Night Theatre
as Rev. James Mavor Morell
1955
Sunday Night Theatre
as Shylock
1954
You Know What Sailors Are
1954
Forbidden Cargo
as Director of Customs
1954
The Beachcomber
as The Headman
1954
Svengali
as Billy's Uncle
1954
Tonight in Britain
as Self
1953
Grand National Night
as Inspector Ayling
1953
Personal Affair
as Headmaster Griffith
1953
The Heart of the Matter
as Commissioner
1953
Street Corner
as Insp. Heron
1953
Sunday Night Theatre
as Jacques
1952
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
as Scathelock
1952
The Hour of 13
as Herbert Frensham
1952
The Card
as Bank Manager
1952
The Magic Box
as Official Receiver
1951
Scrooge
as Jacob Marley
1951
Tom Brown's Schooldays
as Wilkes
1951
Flesh and Blood
as Webster
1951
Sunday Night Theatre
as Major Booth Voysey
1950
Highly Dangerous
as Lab Director Owens
1950
The Astonished Heart
as Ernest
1950
Trio
as Vicar
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
1949
Passport to Pimlico
as Bashford
1949
Train of Events
as First Plain Clothes Man
1948
The Small Voice
as Dr. Mennell
1948
Good-Time Girl
as Seddon
1948
Portrait from Life
as Johnson
1947
Mine Own Executioner
as Co-Counsel at Inquest
1947
Nightbeat
as Police Training Officer
1947
Rebecca
as Maxim de Winter
1946
School for Secrets
as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
1946
Morning Departure
as Commander Gates
1946
The Years Between
as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
1946
A Girl in a Million
as Divorce Counsel
1940
Girl in the News
as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
1940
Band Waggon
as (uncredited)
1939
A Girl Must Live