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Acting

Michael Hordern

Career: Active from 1946 to 2008, with a break from 1996 to 2007, busiest in 1976 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 47
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Scrooge
83/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 100 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Michael Hordern Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.9, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.3, average 2.2
Tech & Humanity
0.8, average 1.6
Violence
3.4, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 7
Political Intrigue 6
Social Commentary 4
Character-Driven 4
Period Piece 4
British Comedy 3
Wholesome Entertainment 3
Character Study 3
Social Satire 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Literary Adaptation 3
Coming-of-Age 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

193

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title

Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

as Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)

1990s

15 titles · average score 63

A Very Open Prison

as Lord Langland

Middlemarch

76

TV show · as Peter Featherstone

Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt

as Narrator

Beauty and the Beast

as Monsieur Du Blois (voice)

Memento Mori

70

as Godfrey Colston

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

50

as King (voice)

Truckers

71

as The Abbot (voice)

Diamond Skulls

40

as Lord Crewne

The Green Man

70

TV show · as Gramps

Chillers

65

TV show · as Colonel Eddie Phelps

Perfect Scoundrels

TV show · as Sir Norman

as Mr. Tatham

1980s

52 titles · average score 65

as George

Scoop

as Uncle Theodor

Paradise Postponed

TV show · as Rev. Simeon Simcox

Lady Jane

58

as Dr. Feckenham

Now Voyager

as The Old Man

The Wind in the Willows

78

TV show · as Badger (voice)

The Wind in the Willows

73

as Badger

Yellowbeard

38

as Dr. Gilpin

Oliver Twist

65

as Mr. Brownlow

Ivanhoe

68

as Cedric

The Wildcats of St Trinian's

41

as Sir Charles Hackforth

The Tempest

69

as Prospero

1970s

39 titles · average score 64

Joseph Andrews

51

as Parson Adams

A Christmas Carol

66

as Ebenezer Scrooge

Paddington Bear

71

TV show · as Narrator

The Slipper and the Rose

76

as King

TV show · as Willie Ashenden

Lucky Lady

37

as Captain Rockwell

The MacKintosh Man

57

as Brown

The Possession of Joel Delaney

50

as Justin

The Pied Piper

43

as Melius, Alchemist

Girl Stroke Boy

58

as George Mason

Some Will, Some Won't

55

as Denniston Russell

Futtocks End

60

as The Butler

1960s

35 titles · average score 66

The Bed Sitting Room

62

as Bules Martin

Anne of the Thousand Days

59

as Thomas Boleyn

Where Eagles Dare

75

as Adm. Rolland

Whistle and I'll Come to You

75

as Professor Parkins

The Taming of the Shrew

75

as Baptista

Khartoum

82

as Lord Granville

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

75

as Senex

Macbeth

as Banquo

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

82

TV show · as Squire Banks

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

75

as Squire Thomas Banks

Sink the Bismarck!

78

as Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'

Man in the Moon

61

as Dr. Davidson

1950s

37 titles · average score 63

The Spaniard's Curse

57

as Judge Manton

Girls at Sea

as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt

The Dock Brief

as Morgenhall

The Spanish Gardener

58

as Harrington Brande

Pacific Destiny

as Resident Commissioner

The Baby and the Battleship

59

as Capt. Hugh

Storm Over the Nile

49

as General Faversham

The Dark Avenger

55

as King Edward

Personal Affair

57

as Headmaster Griffith

The Hour of 13

62

as Herbert Frensham

Scrooge

83

as Jacob Marley

Tom Brown's Schooldays

70

as Wilkes

1940s

14 titles · average score 66

Passport to Pimlico

83

as Bashford

Train of Events

64

as First Plain Clothes Man

Good-Time Girl

64

as Seddon

The Small Voice

63

as Dr. Mennell

Portrait from Life

65

as Johnson

Nightbeat

as Police Training Officer

Mine Own Executioner

68

as Co-Counsel at Inquest

The Years Between

67

as Member of Parliament (uncredited)

School for Secrets

68

as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther

A Girl in a Million

as Divorce Counsel

Girl in the News

66

as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)

Band Waggon

55

as (uncredited)