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Michael Hordern on stage, screen and radio

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Michael Hordern (3 October 1911 — 2 May 1995) was an English actor whose career spanned seven decades. He made more than 160 film appearances, usually in supporting character roles, and appeared in over 100 theatrical productions, most of them Shakespeare.

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Production^[1]^[2]	Date	Theatre	Role	Notes
Othello	March 1937	People's Palace, Mile End	Lodovico
Arms and the Man	1937	Tour of Scandinavia and the Baltic capitals	Sergius	With Westminster Productions
Outward Bound	1937	Tour of Scandinavia and the Baltic capitals	Henry	With Westminster Productions
Various	1937–1939	Little Theatre, Bristol	Various	In repertory theatre
Without the Prince	April 1940	Whitehall Theatre	PC James Hawkins
A Doll's House	January 1946	Intimate Theatre	Torvald Helmer
Dear Murderer	July 1946	Aldwych Theatre	Richard Fenton
The Fairy-Queen	December 1946	Covent Garden Theatre	Bottom
Noose	June 1947	Saville Theatre	Captain Hoyle
Toad of Toad Hall	December 1948	Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon	Mr. Toad
A Woman in Love	April 1949	Embassy Theatre	Pascal
Stratton	October 1949	Touring	Rev John Courtenay
Toad of Toad Hall	December 1949	Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon	Mr. Toad
Ivanov	April 1950	Arts Theatre	Nikolai Ivanov
Macbeth	June 1950	Arts Theatre	Macduff
Party Manners	October 1950	Prince's Theatre	Christopher
Saint's Day	September 1951	Arts Theatre	Paul Southman
Coriolanus	1952 season	Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon	Menenius	With the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company
As You Like It	1952 season	Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon	Jaques	With the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company
Volpone	1952 season	Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon	Sir Politic Would-Be	With the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company
Hamlet	1953	Edinburgh Festival	Polonius
Hamlet	1953–1954	The Old Vic	Polonius	with the Old Vic Company
All's Well That Ends Well	1953–1954	The Old Vic	Parolles	with the Old Vic Company
Twelfth Night	1953–1954	The Old Vic	Malvolio	with the Old Vic Company
The Tempest	1953–1954	The Old Vic	Prospero	with the Old Vic Company
Nina	July 1955	Haymarket Theatre	Georges de Fourville
The Doctor's Dilemma	October 1955	Saville Theatre	Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington
What Shall We Tell Caroline?	April 1958	Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith	Tony Peters	On a double bill with The Dock Brief; transferred to the Garrick Theatre in May 1958
The Dock Brief	April 1958	Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith	Morgenhall	On a double bill with What Shall We Tell Caroline?; transferred to the Garrick Theatre in May 1958
Julius Caesar	Oct 1958	The Old Vic	Cassius	with the Old Vic Company
Ghosts	Oct 1958	The Old Vic	Pastor Manders	with the Old Vic Company
Macbeth	Oct 1958	The Old Vic	Macbeth	with the Old Vic Company
The Magistrate	Oct 1958	The Old Vic	Mr Posket	with the Old Vic Company
Moonbirds	October 1959	Cort Theatre, New York	Alexander Chabert
Oedipus Rex	April 1960	Sadler's Wells Theatre	Narrator
Playing With Fire	June 1962	Aldwych Theatre	Father	with the Royal Shakespeare Company
The Collection	June 1962	Aldwych Theatre	Harry	with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Troilus and Cressida	October 1962	Aldwych Theatre	Ulysses	with the Royal Shakespeare Company
The Physicists	January 1963	Aldwych Theatre	Herbert Georg Beutler	with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Saint's Day	May 1965	Royal Theatre	Paul Southman
Relatively Speaking	March 1967	Duke of York's Theatre	Philip
Enter a Free Man	March 1968	St Martin's Theatre	George Riley
A Delicate Balance	January 1969	Aldwych Theatre	Tobias	with the Royal Shakespeare Company
King Lear	October 1969	Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham	King Lear	Production visited The Old Vic, February 1970
Flint	May 1970	Criterion Theatre
Jumpers	1972	The Old Vic	George Moore	with the National Theatre company
Richard II	1972	The Old Vic	John of Gaunt	with the National Theatre company
The Cherry Orchard	May 1973	The Old Vic	Leonid Gayev	with the National Theatre company
Stripwell	October 1975	Royal Court Theatre	Graham Stripwell
Once upon a Time	1976	Bristol Old Vic	Fedya
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold	1977	Round House Theatre, Manchester	Gilbert Pinfold	then Round House Theatre, London, 1979
The Tempest	1978	Royal Shakespeare Theatre	Prospero	with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Love's Labour's Lost	1978	Royal Shakespeare Theatre	Don Adriano de Armado	with the Royal Shakespeare Company
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold	1979	Round House Theatre	Gilbert Pinfold
The Rivals	1983	National Theatre	Sir Anthony Absolute
You Never Can Tell	1987	Haymarket Theatre	William the waiter
Bookends	1990	Apollo Theatre
Trelawny of the 'Wells'	1992	Comedy Theatre

Film^[3]^[4]^[5]	Year	Role	Notes
A Girl Must Live	1939	Cast member
Band Waggon	1940	Minor Role	Uncredited
The Girl in the News	1940	Assistant Prosecuting Counsel	Uncredited
The Years Between	1946	MP in the House of Commons	Uncredited
A Girl in a Million	1946	Divorce counsel
School for Secrets	1946	Lieutenant-Commander Lowther
Mine Own Executioner	1947	Co-counsel at Felix's Hearing	Uncredited
Night Beat	1947	Cast member	Uncredited
Good-Time Girl	1948	Seddon, detective
The Small Voice	1948	Dr. Mennell
Third Time Lucky	1949	Second doctor	Uncredited
Portrait from Life	1949	Johnson
Passport to Pimlico	1949	Bashford
Train of Events	1949	First plain clothes man	(segment "The Actor")
The Astonished Heart	1950	Ernest
Trio	1950	Vicar	(in segment The Verger)
Highly Dangerous	1950	Rawlings, director of laboratory
Flesh and Blood	1951	Webster
Scrooge	1951	Jacob Marley
Tom Brown's Schooldays	1951	Wilkes
The Magic Box	1951	Official receiver
The Card	1952	Bank manager	Uncredited
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men	1952	Scathelock
The Hour of 13	1952	Sir Herbert Frensham
Street Corner	1953	Detective Inspector Heron
Grand National Night	1953	Inspector Ayling
Personal Affair	1953	Headmaster Griffith
The Heart of the Matter	1953	Commissioner of Police
You Know What Sailors Are	1954	Captain Hamilton
Forbidden Cargo	1954	Director
The Beachcomber	1954	Headman
Svengali	1954	Billy's Uncle	Uncredited
The Night My Number Came Up	1955	Commander Lindsay
The Dark Avenger	1955	King Edward III
The Constant Husband	1955	Judge
Storm Over the Nile	1955	General Faversham
The Man Who Never Was	1956	General Coburn
Alexander the Great	1956	Demosthenes
Pacific Destiny	1956	Gregory, resident commissioner
The Baby and the Battleship	1956	Captain Hugh
The Spanish Gardener	1956	Harrington Brande
No Time for Tears	1957	Surgeon
Windom's Way	1957	Patterson
The Dock Brief	1957	Barrister Wilfred Morganhall	BBC - TV film
I Accuse!	1958	Prosecutor
The Spaniard's Curse	1958	Mr Justice Manton
Girls at Sea	1958	Admiral Hewitt
I Was Monty's Double	1958	Rusty
Sink the Bismarck!	1960	Admiral Sir John Tovey
Moment of Danger	1960	Inspector Farrell
Man in the Moon	1960	Dr Davidson
El Cid	1961	Don Diego
The Scales of Justice	1962	Opening Credits Narrator	uncredited
The V.I.P.s	1963	Airport director
Cleopatra	1963	Cicero
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow	1963	Sir Thomas Banks
The Yellow Rolls-Royce	1964	Harmsworth
Genghis Khan	1965	Geen
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	1965	Ashe
Cast a Giant Shadow	1966	British Ambassador
Khartoum	1966	Lord Granville
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	1966	Senex
The Taming of the Shrew	1967	Baptista
The Jokers	1967	Sir Matthew
How I Won the War	1967	General Grapple
I'll Never Forget What's'isname	1967	Headmaster
Prudence and the Pill	1968	Dr Morley	Uncredited
Where Eagles Dare	1968	Vice-Admiral Rolland
The Bed Sitting Room	1969	Captain Bules Martin
Anne of the Thousand Days	1969	Thomas Boleyn
Futtocks End	1970	Butler
Some Will, Some Won't	1970	James Deniston Russell
Up Pompeii	1971	Ludicrus Sextus
A Christmas Carol	1971	Jacob Marley
The Possession of Joel Delaney	1972	Justin Lorenz
The Pied Piper	1972	Melius
Demons of the Mind	1972	Priest
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	1972	Mock Turtle
Theatre of Blood	1973	George William Maxwell
The Mackintosh Man	1973	Brown
England Made Me	1973	F. Minty
The Three Musketeers	1973	Treville	Voice, Uncredited
Girl Stroke Boy	1973	George Mason
Juggernaut	1974	Baker	Uncredited
Royal Flash	1975	Headmaster
Mister Quilp	1975	Grandfather
Barry Lyndon	1975	Narrator	Voice
Lucky Lady	1975	Captain Rockwell
The Slipper and the Rose	1976	King
Joseph Andrews	1977	Parson Adams
The Medusa Touch	1978	Fortune teller
Watership Down	1978	Narrator/Frith	Voice
The Talking Parcel	1978	Oswald, the Sea Serpent	Voice
The Wildcats of St Trinian's	1980	Sir Charles Hackforth
Ivanhoe	1982	Cedric
The Missionary	1982	Slatterthwaite
Gandhi	1982	Sir George Hodge
Oliver Twist	1982	Mr. Brownlow
Yellowbeard	1983	Dr Gilpin
The Wind in the Willows	1983	Badger	Voice
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood	1984	Rupert
Young Sherlock Holmes	1985	Older John Watson	Voice
Comrades	1986	Mr Pitt
Lady Jane	1986	Dr Feckenham
Labyrinth	1986	Wiseman	Voice
Suspicion	1987	Lord McLaidlaw
The Trouble with Spies	1987	Jason Locke
The Secret Garden	1987	Ben Weatherstaff
Diamond Skulls	1989	Lord Crewne
The Fool	1990	Mr Tatham
Beauty and the Beast	1992	Monsieur De Bois	Voice
Freddie as F.R.O.7	1992	King	Voice

Programme	Year	Role	Notes
Edward the Seventh	1975	William Ewart Gladstone	Prime Minister during the later reign of Queen Victoria.
Tales of the Unexpected	1979	Cyril Bixby	1 episode^[6]
Shōgun	1980	Friar Domingo	5 episodes
Gauguin the Savage	1980	Durand-Huel
Rod and Line	1982	monologues on fishing and philosophy	Produced by Granada^[7]
Sir Michael's House Party	1993	Himself	Temporary host of Noel's House Party for one episode.^[8]

Broadcast	Date	Role	Notes	Refs.
The Sunday Play: "Abraham Lincoln"	14 June 1947	Abraham Lincoln	tbc	^[9]
Third Programme: "The Dock Brief"	16 May 1957	Wilfred Morganhall		^[10]
Radio drama series: Jeeves & Wooster	1973–1981	Jeeves	8 series and 1 short story
The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)	March-August 1981	Gandalf
Saturday Night Theatre: "Leave It to Psmith"	3 October 1981	Lord Emsworth		^[11]
Globe Theater: "The Miser"	28 September 1986	Harpagon		^[12]
Cadfael: "Monk's Hood"	1991	Narrator		^[13]
Cadfael: "The Virgin in the Ice"	1992	Narrator		^[14]
Drama on 3: "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"	26 April 1992	Player King		^[15]
The Monday Play: "The Importance of Being Earnest"	13 February 1995	Lane		^[16]

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