
Michael Hordern
Highest Rated: 100% Khartoum (1966)
Lowest Rated: 0% Lucky Lady (1975)
Birthday: Oct 03, 1911
Birthplace: Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
A distinguished, long-faced character player, often of rumpled establishment figures, Sir Michael Hordern, in the English tradition, worked with equal ease both on stage and before the cameras. He played King Lear (onstage and on TV), Prospero in "The Tempest" (for both mediums) and Macbeth (he was Banquo on film and TV), and he created the central role of the flustered philosopher in the original London production of Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers" (1972). However, he became a star for his supporting turns, portraying an assortment of parsons and vicars, headmasters and barristers in a career that spanned practically 100 films and almost as many TV appearances. Knighted in 1983, he delighted audiences that same year in "The Rivals" at the National Theatre, eating his eggs while silently and passionately lusting after his son's fiancee.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | 29% | Freddie the Frog | King (Voice) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Memento Mori | Godfrey Colston (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fool | Mr. Tatham (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ending Up | George (Character) | - | 1989 |
36% | 29% | Dark Obsession | Lord Crewne (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 78% | The Secret Garden | Ben Weatherstaff (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The Trouble With Spies | Jason Locke (Character) | $57K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scoop | The Country - Uncle Theodore (Character) | - | 1987 |
56% | 76% | Lady Jane | Doctor Feckenham (Character) | $132K | 1986 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Comrades | Unknown (Character) | - | 1986 |
64% | 63% | Young Sherlock Holmes | Older Watson (Voice) | $18.1M | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood | Unknown (Character) | - | 1984 |
85% | 92% | Gandhi | Sir George Hodge (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Oliver Twist | Mr. Brownlow (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Ivanhoe | Cedric (Character) | - | 1982 |
100% | 41% | The Missionary | Slatterthwaite (Character) | - | 1982 |
75% | 91% | Shogun | Friar Domingo (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | 64% | The Wildcats of St. Trinian's | Sir Charles Hackforth (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gauguin the Savage | Durand-Huel (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | 73% | The Medusa Touch | Atropos (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Romeo and Juliet | Capulet (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Christmas Carol | Unknown (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Christmas Carol | Scrooge (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Joseph Andrews | Parson Adams (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 91% | The Slipper and the Rose |
The King/ |
- | 1976 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Royal Flash | Headmaster (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Quilp |
Grandfather/ |
- | 1975 |
0% | 40% | Lucky Lady | Capt. Rockwell (Character) | - | 1975 |
58% | 44% | The Mackintosh Man | Brown (Character) | - | 1973 |
93% | 81% | Theatre of Blood | George William Maxwell (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | England Made Me | F. Minty (Character) | - | 1972 |
44% | 25% | The Pied Piper | Melius (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 36% | The Possession of Joel Delaney | Justin (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Up Pompeii | Ludicrus Sextus (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl/Boy | George Mason (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl Stroke Boy | George Mason (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Some Will, Some Won't | Denniston Russell (Character) | - | 1970 |
64% | 62% | The Bed Sitting Room | Bules Martin (Character) | - | 1969 |
91% | 89% | Where Eagles Dare | Adm. Rolland (Character) | - | 1969 |
38% | 83% | Anne of the Thousand Days | Count Thomas Boleyn (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | 92% | Whistle and I'll Come to You | Unknown (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 52% | I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name | Headmaster (Character) | - | 1967 |
83% | 74% | The Taming of the Shrew | Baptista (Character) | - | 1967 |
44% | 61% | How I Won the War | Grapple (Character) | - | 1967 |
87% | 82% | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | Ashe (Character) | - | 1966 |
100% | 65% | Khartoum | Lord Granville (Character) | - | 1966 |
85% | 77% | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Senex (Character) | - | 1966 |
62% | 69% | Cleopatra | Cicero (Character) | - | 1963 |
92% | 78% | El Cid | Don Diego (Character) | $26.9K | 1961 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Man in the Moon | Dr. Davidson (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Macbeth | Banquo (Character) | - | 1960 |
86% | 77% | Sink the Bismarck! | Commander-in-Chief (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Was Monty's Double | Governor of Gibraltar (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spaniard's Curse | Judge Manton (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girls at Sea | Adm. Reginald Victor Hewitt (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 41% | The Spanish Gardener | Harrington Brande (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Baby and the Battleship | Capt. Hugh (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Night My Number Came Up | Commander Lindsay (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pacific Destiny | Resident Commissioner (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Warriors | King Edward (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Constant Husband | Judge (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beachcomber | The Headman (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Know What Sailors Are | Captain Hamilton (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hour of 13 | Sir Herbert Frensham (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 67% | The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men | Scathelock (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Wilkes (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flesh and Blood | Webster (Character) | - | 1951 |
85% | 89% | A Christmas Carol |
Jacob Marley/ |
- | 1951 |
94% | 84% | Passport to Pimlico | Bashford (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Girl in a Million | Divorce Counsel (Character) | - | 1946 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paddington | Narrator | 2002 1979-1980 1975-1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lovejoy | Unknown (Character) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chillers | Unknown (Character) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wind in the Willows | Unknown (Voice) | 1984-1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inspector Morse | Doctor Starkie (Character) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | BBC Television Shakespeare | Lear (Character) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Unknown (Character) | 1979 |
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