Michael Hordern
Highest Rated: 100% Khartoum (1966)
Lowest Rated: 17% Lucky Lady (1975)
Birthday: Oct 3, 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.
Photos
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Memento Mori | Godfrey Colston (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Freddie the Frog | King (Voice) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fool | Mr. Tatham (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 36% | 29% | Dark Obsession | Lord Crewne (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ending Up | George (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scoop | The Country - Uncle Theodore (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | The Trouble With Spies | Jason Locke (Character) | $57.0K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The Secret Garden | Ben Weatherstaff (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 56% | 76% | Lady Jane | Doctor Feckenham (Character) | $132.0K | 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 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Oliver Twist | Mr. Brownlow (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | Ivanhoe | Cedric (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 85% | 92% | Gandhi | Sir George Hodge (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 100% | 41% | The Missionary | Slatterthwaite (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Wildcats of St. Trinian's | Sir Charles Hackforth (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 75% | 91% | Shogun | Friar Domingo (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tempest | Prospero (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 | 45% | Joseph Andrews | Parson Adams (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Christmas Carol | Scrooge (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | The Slipper and the Rose |
The King/ |
- | 1976 |
| 17% | 40% | Lucky Lady | Capt. Rockwell (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Royal Flash | Headmaster (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Quilp |
Grandfather/ |
- | 1975 |
| 94% | 81% | Theatre of Blood | George William Maxwell (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 58% | 45% | The Mackintosh Man | Brown (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | The Possession of Joel Delaney | Justin (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 44% | 25% | The Pied Piper | Melius (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | England Made Me | F. Minty (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl Stroke Boy | George Mason (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Up Pompeii | Ludicrus Sextus (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl/Boy | George Mason (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Some Will, Some Won't | Denniston Russell (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 64% | 63% | Bed Sitting Room | Bules Martin (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 38% | 83% | Anne of the Thousand Days | Count Thomas Boleyn (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 87% | 89% | Where Eagles Dare | Adm. Rolland (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Whistle and I'll Come to You | Unknown (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 44% | 61% | How I Won the War | Grapple (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 83% | 73% | The Taming of the Shrew | Baptista (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name | Headmaster (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 100% | 65% | Khartoum | Lord Granville (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 89% | 81% | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | Ashe (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 86% | 77% | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Senex (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 60% | 69% | Cleopatra | Cicero (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Man in the Moon | Dr. Davidson (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 92% | 78% | El Cid | Don Diego (Character) | $26.9K | 1961 |
| 86% | 77% | Sink the Bismarck! | Commander-in-Chief (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Macbeth | Banquo (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | 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 Night My Number Came Up | Commander Lindsay (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Baby and the Battleship | Capt. Hugh (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pacific Destiny | Resident Commissioner (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beachcomber | The Headman (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Warriors | King Edward (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Constant Husband | Judge (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Know What Sailors Are | Captain Hamilton (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Personal Affair | Headmaster Griffith (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men | Scathelock (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hour of 13 | Sir Herbert Frensham (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 85% | 89% | A Christmas Carol |
Jacob Marley/ |
- | 1951 |
| 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 |
| 94% | 83% | Passport to Pimlico | Bashford (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Girl in a Million | Divorce Counsel (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Very Open Prison | Unknown (Character) | - | 0000 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paddington | Narrator | 1975-1976 1979-1980 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chillers | Unknown (Character) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | 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 | Cyril Bixby (Character) | 1979 |