Line #14 Creator/MichaelHordern


1	[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/michaelhordern.png]]
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3	[[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Sir]] Michael Murray Hordern (Oct 3, 1911 - May 2, 1995) was an extremely prolific English actor of stage, radio, screen, and television.
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5	After his service as a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and a short stint as a schoolteacher, Hordern started appearing in supporting roles on the stage and played bit-parts in films. By the 1950s he had made a name for himself as one of the leading ShakespeareanActors of his generation and started to have larger film roles.
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7	Although Hordern was largely known on screen as a supporting character actor rather than a lead actor, he often landed larger roles on television, particularly in BBC productions adapting stage plays or classical works of literature for the small screen. Due to his deep, rich voice, Hordern was also in high demand as a narrator, both on radio as well as live action films and animation. Among his voice roles, Hordern took great pride in being well-known to children in the 1970s for narrating the ''WesternAnimation/{{Paddington\|1975}}'' animated series. A lifelong avid fly-fisherman, Hordern also hosted a program called ''Rod and Line'' about recreational fishing on the BBC in 1982.
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9	As an indication of how prolific Michael Hordern was, he appeared in three different film and television adaptations of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' and as the title king in two television adaptations of ''Theatre/KingLear''. [[ThoseTwoActors He often appeared in films together with]] Creator/HarryAndrews, a similarly workaholic British character actor with a distinctive voice.
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11	Hordern was knighted in 1983 and continued to act through his final years.
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13	!!Selected filmography:
14	* ''Film/PassportToPimlico''
15	* ''Film/Scrooge1951''
16	* ''Film/AlexanderTheGreat1956''
17	* ''Film/SinkTheBismarck''
18	* ''Theatre/{{MacBeth}}'' (1960 TV movie)
19	* ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1965 film)
20	* ''Film/GenghisKhan1965''
21	* ''Film/TheBedSittingRoom''
22	* ''Theatre/AnneOfTheThousandDays'' (1969 film)
23	* ''Film/{{Khartoum}}''
24	* ''Film/WhereEaglesDare''
25	* ''Film/UpPompeii''
26	* ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol1971''
27	* ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' (1972 film)
28	* ''Film/TheatreOfBlood''
29	* ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' (1973)[[note]][[SameLanguageDub Dubbed]] Creator/GeorgesWilson[[/note]]
30	* ''Theatre/KingLear'' (1975 TV film)
31	* ''[[Literature/TheOldCuriosityShop Mister Quilp]]''
32	* ''Film/BarryLyndon''
33	* ''Series/EdwardTheSeventh''
34	* ''WesternAnimation/Paddington1975''
35	* ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' (1975 TV film)
36	* ''Film/TheMedusaTouch''
37	* ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown''
38	* ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' (1978 film)
39	* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' (1979 TV film)
40	* ''Theatre/TheTempest'' (1980 TV film)
41	* ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'' (1982 film)
42	* ''Theatre/KingLear'' (1982 TV film)
43	* ''Film/{{Gandhi}}''
44	* ''Literature/OliverTwist'' (1982 film)
45	* ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}''
46	* ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' (1983 film)
47	* ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes''
48	* ''WesternAnimation/FreddieAsFRO7''
49	* ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}'' (1994 TV Series)

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