Sir Michael Murray Hordern (3 October 1911 – 2 May 1995) was an English actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre, which stretched back to before the Second World War.

Filmography

• 2008Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh — Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
• 1995A Very Open Prison — Lord Langland
• Middlemarch — Peter Featherstone
• 1993Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt — Narrator
• 1992Beauty and the Beast — Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
• 1992Freddie As F.R.O.7. — King (voice)
• 1992Memento Mori — Godfrey Colston
• 1992The Christmas Collection — Badger (voice)
• 1992Truckers — The Abbot (voice)
• Chillers — Colonel Eddie Phelps
• 1990Diamond Skulls — Lord Crewne
• 1990More Children's Holiday Favourites — Badger (voice)
• Oh, Mr. Toad — Badger
• Perfect Scoundrels — Sir Norman
• 1990The Fool — Mr. Tatham
• The Green Man — Gramps
• 1989Danny the Champion of the World — Lord Claybury
• 1989Ending Up — George
• 1989Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1 — Badger (voice)
• 1989Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2 — Badger (voice)
• 1989More Children's Summer Stories — Badger (voice)
• 1989The Dog It Was That Died — George
• 1989The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads — Badger (voice)
• 1988Children's Favourites - Volume 1 — Badger (voice)
• 1987Comrades — Mr. Pitt
• Daytime Live
• Inspector Morse — Doctor Starkie
• 1987Scoop — Uncle Theodor
• 1987Suspicion — Lord McLaidlaw
• 1987The Secret Garden — Ben Weatherstaff
• 1987The Secret World of Polly Flint — Narrator
• The Secret World of Polly Flint — Narrator
• 1987The Trouble with Spies — Jason Locke
• 1986Labyrinth — The Wiseman (voice)
• 1986Lady Jane — Dr. Feckenham
• Lovejoy — Wilfred Shotley
• 1986Paddington Goes to School — Vocals
• 1986Paddington's Birthday Bonanza — Narrator
• 1986Paradise Postponed — Simeon Simcox
• Paradise Postponed — Rev. Simeon Simcox
• 1986The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales — Badger (voice)
• 1985A Crack in the Ice — The Storyteller
• 1985Now Voyager — The Old Man
• Screen Two — Lord Langland, Godfrey Colston
• Theatre Night
• 1985Young Sherlock Holmes — Older Watson (voice)
• The Wind in the Willows — Badger (voice)
• 1984The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood — Psychoanalyst
• 1983Clash of Loyalties — Narrator
• 1983Cymbeline — Jupiter
• 1983The Wind in the Willows — Badger
• 1983Yellowbeard — Dr. Gilpin
• American Playhouse — Lord McLaidlaw
• 1982Gandhi — Sir George Hodge
• 1982Ivanhoe — Cedric
• 1982King Lear — King Lear
• 1982Oliver Twist — Mr. Brownlow
• 1982The Missionary — Slatterthewaite/Narrator
• 1981All's Well That Ends Well — Lafeu
• The History Man — Professor Marvin
• 1981You're All Right, How Am I? — Patient
• 1980Gauguin the Savage — Durand-Huel
• 1980Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies — Narrator (voice)
• Shōgun — Friar Domingo
• 1980The Spirit of Cheshire
• 1980The Tempest — Prospero
• 1980The Wildcats of St Trinian's — Sir Charles Hackforth
• Tales of the Unexpected — Cyril Bixby
• 1978Romeo and Juliet — Capulet
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Capulet, Prospero, Lafeu
• 1978The Medusa Touch — Atropos - Fortune Teller
• 1978The Talking Parcel — Oswald, the Sea Serpent
• 1978Watership Down — Frith (voice)
• 1977A Christmas Carol — Ebenezer Scrooge
• 1977Joseph Andrews — Parson Adams
• Cakes and Ale — Willie Ashenden
• Paddington — Narrator
• 1976Paddington Bear — Narrator / All
• Paddington Bear — Narrator
• 1976The Chester Mystery Plays — God
• 1976The Slipper and the Rose — King
• 1975Barry Lyndon — Narrator (voice)
• Edward the Seventh — W. E. Gladstone
• 1975King Lear — King Lear
• 1975Lucky Lady — Captain Rockwell
• 1975Royal Flash — Headmaster
• 1975The Old Curiosity Shop — Edward Trent
• Fall of Eagles — Narrator, Narrator (voice)
• 1974Juggernaut — Mr. Baker
• Playhouse — Patient
• 1973England Made Me — F. Minty
• 1973The MacKintosh Man — Brown
• 1973The Three Musketeers — Treville (voice)
• 1973Theatre of Blood — George Maxwell
• 1972Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Mock Turtle
• 1972Demons of the Mind — Priest
• 1972The Pied Piper — Melius, Alchemist
• 1972The Possession of Joel Delaney — Justin
• 1971A Christmas Carol — Marley's Ghost (voice)
• A Ghost Story for Christmas — Professor Parkins
• 1971Girl Stroke Boy — George Mason
• Six Dates with Barker — Arch Funster
• Tall Stories
• 1971Up Pompeii — Ludicrus Sextus
• 1970Futtocks End — The Butler
• 1970Some Will, Some Won't — Denniston Russell
• 1969Anne of the Thousand Days — Thomas Boleyn
• 1969The Bed Sitting Room — Bules Martin
• 1968Prudence and the Pill — Dr. Morley (uncredited)
• 1968Where Eagles Dare — Adm. Rolland
• 1968Whistle and I'll Come to You — Professor Parkins
• 1967How I Won the War — Grapple
• 1967I'll Never Forget What's'isname — Headmaster
• Omnibus — Self, Self - Narrator (voice), Professor Parkins
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — Prof. Ainslie Grey
• 1967The Jokers — Sir Matthew
• 1967The Taming of the Shrew — Baptista
• 1966A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum — Senex
• 1966Cast a Giant Shadow — British Ambassador
• 1966Khartoum — Lord Granville
• 1966Turner — Reads recollections
• BBC Play of the Month — Mr. Posket, God, The Devil, Tartuffe, Lear
• 1965Genghis Khan — Geen
• 1965The Spy Who Came In from the Cold — Ashe
• Detective — Detective Inspector Rason
• 1964Macbeth — Banquo
• Story Parade — Anatol Stiller
• The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh — Squire Banks
• The Wednesday Play — Sir Jocelyn Symonds, Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police
• 1964The Yellow Rolls-Royce — Harnsworth
• 1963Cleopatra — Cicero
• 1963Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow — Squire Thomas Banks
• Espionage — Minister
• Festival — Sir Augustus Thwaites
• 1963The V.I.P.s — Airport Director
• 1961El Cid — Don Diego
• 1961The Square — The Man
• 1960Man in the Moon — Dr. Davidson
• 1960Moment of Danger — Inspector Farrell
• 1960Sink the Bismarck! — Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
• Sunday-Night Play — Walter Ormund
• 1959Back to Back
• 1958Girls at Sea — Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
• 1958I Accuse! — Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
• 1958I Was Monty's Double — Governor of Gibralter
• 1958The Spaniard's Curse — Judge Manton
• 1957No Time for Tears — Surgeon
• 1957The Dock Brief — Morgenhall
• 1957Windom's Way — Patterson
• 1956Alexander the Great — Demosthenes
• Armchair Theatre — Det. Supt. Coates
• 1956Pacific Destiny — Resident Commissioner
• 1956The Baby and the Battleship — Capt. Hugh
• 1956The Man Who Never Was — Gen. Coburn
• 1956The Spanish Gardener — Harrington Brande
• 1955Storm Over the Nile — General Faversham
• 1955The Constant Husband — The Judge
• 1955The Dark Avenger — King Edward
• 1955The Night My Number Came Up — Lindsay
• 1954Forbidden Cargo — Director of Customs
• 1954Svengali — Billy's Uncle
• 1954The Beachcomber — The Headman
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Squire Banks
• 1954You Know What Sailors Are
• 1953Grand National Night — Inspector Ayling
• 1953Personal Affair — Headmaster Griffith
• 1953Street Corner — Insp. Heron
• 1953The Heart of the Matter — Commissioner
• 1952The Card — Bank Manager
• 1952The Hour of 13 — Herbert Frensham
• 1952The Magic Box — Official Receiver
• 1952The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men — Scathelock
• 1951Flesh and Blood — Webster
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Banquo, Ben Weatherstaff, Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII
• 1951Scrooge — Jacob Marley
• 1951Tom Brown's Schooldays — Wilkes
• 1950Highly Dangerous — Lab Director Owens
• Sunday Night Theatre — Epilogue spoken by (voice), Jacques, Hugh Wigmore, Trigorin, General Parmenion, Christopher Williams, Major Booth Voysey, Rev. James Mavor Morell, Shylock, Maurice Lammering
• 1950The Astonished Heart — Ernest
• 1950Trio — Vicar
• 1949Passport to Pimlico — Bashford
• 1949Train of Events — First Plain Clothes Man
• 1948Good-Time Girl — Seddon
• 1948Portrait from Life — Johnson
• 1948The Small Voice — Dr. Mennell
• 1947Mine Own Executioner — Co-Counsel at Inquest
• 1947Nightbeat — Police Training Officer
• 1947Rebecca — Maxim de Winter
• 1946A Girl in a Million — Divorce Counsel
• 1946Morning Departure — Commander Gates
• 1946School for Secrets — Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
• 1946The Years Between — Member of Parliament (uncredited)
• 1940Band Waggon — (uncredited)
• 1940Girl in the News — Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
• 1939A Girl Must Live

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 1986The Little Match Girl — Himself - Introduction
• 1983Group Madness — Self / Dr. Gilpin
• Wogan — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• 1954Tonight in Britain — Self