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Michael Hordern

Highest Rated:: 100% The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Lowest Rated:: 0% Alexander the Great (1956)

Birthday:: Oct 3, 1911
Birthplace:: Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Bio:: A graduate of Britain's Brighton College, Michael Hordern entered the workaday world as a schoolteacher. Engaging in amateur theatricals in his off-hours, Hordern turned pro in 1937, making his film debut two years later. After serving in the Royal Navy from 1940 to 1945, Hordern returned to show…

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Highest Rated Movies

The Man Who Never Was
100%
Theater of Blood (Theatre of Blood) (Much Ado About Murder)
96%
Barry Lyndon
94%
El Cid
92%

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%

Number of Movies: 98

Box Office Since 2001: $15.4M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2006		Futtocks End	Actor	--
2003		Broadway Theatre Archive - Back To Back	Actor	--
1994		The Dark Avenger (The Warriors)	Edward III	--
1992		Freddie as F.R.O.7 (Freddie the Frog)	King	--
1992		Now Voyager	Actor	--
1992		Beauty and the Beast	Actor	$15.4M
1991		Titmuss Regained	Reverand Simcox	--
1990	36%	Diamond Skulls (Dark Obsession)	Lord Crewne	--
1989		Ending Up	Actor	--
1989		Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World	Lord Claybury	--
1987		The Secret Garden	Actor	--
1987		Trouble With Spies	Actor	--
1987		Trouble With Spies, The	Jason Lock	--
1987	33%	Scoop	Uncle Theodore	--
1987		Suspicion	Lord McLaidlaw	--
1986	62%	Labyrinth	The Wiseman	--
1986		Paradise Postponed	Reverand Simcox	--
1986	57%	Lady Jane	Dr. Feckenham	--
1986		Comrades	Mr. Pitt	--
1985	65%	Young Sherlock Holmes	Older Watson	--
1984		The Zany Adventures Of Robin Hood	Actor	--
1983		The Wind in the Willows	Badger	--
1983		King Lear	King Lear	--
1983	22%	Yellowbeard	Dr. Gilpin	--
1982		Oliver Twist	Mr. Brownlow	--
1982	88%	Gandhi	Sir George Hodge	--
1982		The Missionary	Slatterthwaite	--
1982		Ivanhoe	Cedric	--
1980		The Wildcats of St. Trinians	Actor	--
1980		All's Well That Ends Well	Lafeu	--
1980	80%	Shogun	Friar Domingo	--
1979		Romeo & Juliet	Capulet	--
1979		The Tempest	Prospero	--
1978		The Medusa Touch	Atropos the Fortune Teller	--
1978	81%	Watership Down	Frith	--
1977		Joseph Andrews	Parson Adams	--
1976		The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella	King	--
1975		Lucky Lady	Capt. Rockwell	--
1975		Royal Flash	Headmaster	--
1975	94%	Barry Lyndon	Narrator	--
1975		Old Curiosity Shop	Grandfather/Edward Trent	--
1975		Edward the King	Actor	--
1974		Juggernaut	Actor	--
1973		England Made Me	F. Minty	--
1973	56%	The MacKintosh Man	Brown	--
1973	96%	Theater of Blood (Theatre of Blood) (Much Ado About Murder)	George Maxwell	--
1972		Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Mock Turtle	--
1972		The Possession of Joel Delaney	Justin Lorenz	--
1972		Demons of the Mind (Blood Evil)(Nightmare of Terror)(Blood Will Have Blood)	Priest	--
1972	43%	The Pied Piper	Melius Alchemist	--
1971		Up Pompeii	Ludicrus	--
1971		A Christmas Carol	Jacob Marley	--
1969	50%	Anne of the Thousand Days	Thomas Boleyn	--
1969		The Bed Sitting Room	Blues Martin	--
1969	88%	Where Eagles Dare	Vice Adm. Rolland	--
1968		Prudence and the Pill	Dr. Morley	--
1968		Whistle and I'll Come to You	Actor	--
1967	58%	How I Won the War	Grapple	--
1967	85%	The Taming of the Shrew	Baptista	--
1967		The Jokers	Sir Matthew	--
1966	89%	Khartoum	Lord Granville	--
1966	82%	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	Senex	--
1966		Cast a Giant Shadow	British ambassador	--
1965		Genghis Khan	Geen	--
1965	83%	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Ashe	--
1964		Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow	Actor	--
1964		Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh	Squire	--
1964		The Yellow Rolls-Royce	Harmsworth	--
1963	38%	Cleopatra	Cicero	--
1963		The V.I.P.s (International Hotel)	Airport Director	--
1961	92%	El Cid	Don Diego	--
1960		Man in the Moon	Dr. Davidson	--
1960		Sink the Bismarck!	Commander on King George	--
1958		I Was Monty's Double (Hell, Heaven or Hoboken)	"Rusty" the Governor of Gibraltar	--
1958		Spaniard's Curse	Judge Manton	--
1957		The Spanish Gardener	Harrington Brande	--
1957		Windom's Way	Patterson	--
1956	100%	The Man Who Never Was	Gen. Coburn	--
1956		Baby and the Battleship	Captain	--
1956	0%	Alexander the Great	Demosthenes	--
1955		Storm Over the Nile	Gen. Faversham	--
1954		The Beachcomber	Mr. Gray	--
1953		Personal Affair	Headmaster	--
1953		Wicked Wife	Actor	--
1953		The Heart of the Matter	Commissioner	--
1952		Promoter	Banker	--
1952		The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men	Scathelock	--
1951	83%	Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)	Actor	--
1951		A Christmas Carol	Jacob Marley	--
1951		The Magic Box	Official Receiver	--
1951		Tom Brown's School Days	Wilkes	--
1950		Trio	The Vicar	--
1950		Highly Dangerous	Rawlings	--
1949	89%	Passport to Pimlico	Bashford	--
1948		Night Beat	Actor	--
1946		Girl in a Million	Actor	--
		Green Man	Actor	--
		Gauguin the Savage	Actor	--

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1. Narrator: Barry had resolved never to see Nora again, but such resolutions, though they may be steadfastly held for a whole week, are abandoned in a few moments of despair.
From Barry Lyndon. Submitted by Chad E (7 months ago)