Alexander Scourby

Of Greek parentage, Alexander Scourby hid his natural Brooklynese cadence behind a "stage British" accent in his earliest stage appearance. After an apprenticeship with Eva LeGalliene's company, Scourby graduated to Broadway with a major role in Leslie Howard's 1936 production of Hamlet. In radio from 1937, Scourby became one of the busiest and most sought-after voice-over specialists in the business, functioning as narrator on innumerable TV documentaries and as commercial spokesman for a myriad of products (most notably Johnson & Johnson bandages). In his Broadway and film work, Scourby was frequently cast as a villain, such as the Italian-American gangster boss in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953). One of his last assignments was as the host of the PBS broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera. The resonant voice of Alexander Scourby can still be heard on religious radio stations by virtue of his mid-'60s syndicated series "Alexander Scourby Reads the Scriptures."

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Merton: A Film Biography	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Life in the Thirties	Actor	—	2003
69%	The Stuff	Evans	—	1985
No Score Yet	Toscanini: The Maestro	Narrator	—	1985
No Score Yet	National Geographic: Miniature Miracle - The Computer Chip	Narrator	—	1985
No Score Yet	National Geographic	Narrator	—	1982
No Score Yet	Superliners: Twilight of an Era	Narrator	—	1980
No Score Yet	Jesus (The Jesus Film)	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Jesus	Narrator	—	1979
No Score Yet	National Geographic Video - The Great Whales	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Great Whales	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Executioner	Prof. Parker	—	1970
80%	The Devil at 4 O'clock	The Governor	—	1961
No Score Yet	Seven Thieves	Raymond Le May	—	1960
No Score Yet	Man on a String	Vadja Kubelov	—	1960
No Score Yet	Innocent Years	Narrator	—	1960
No Score Yet	Project XX	Narrator	—	1960
No Score Yet	The Big Fisherman	David Ben-Zadok	—	1959
67%	The Shaggy Dog	Dr. Mikhail Andrassy	—	1959
No Score Yet	Me and the Colonel	Maj. von Bergen	—	1958
95%	Giant	Old Polo	—	1956
No Score Yet	Ransom!	Dr. Paul Y. Gorman	—	1956
43%	Sign of the Pagan	Chrysaphius	—	1954
13%	The Silver Chalice	Luke	—	1954
No Score Yet	The Redhead from Wyoming	Reece Duncan	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Glory Brigade	Lt. Niklas	—	1953
100%	The Big Heat	Mike Lagana	—	1953
No Score Yet	Affair in Trinidad	Max Fabian	—	1952
No Score Yet	With These Hands	Doctor	—	1950

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
No Score Yet	Marcus Welby, M.D. 1969-1976		1971
100%	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 1964-1968	Amadeus	1964
No Score Yet	Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-1962	Horace Meade	1960
80%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	General Harper	1960
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Millian	1959
No Score Yet	Rawhide 1959-1965	Hadley	1959

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