Michael Hordern

All Movies of Michael Hordern

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  Chillers (TV Series)
  Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature. Episode 1: The Cat Brought It In Episode 2: Sauce for the Goose Episode 3: Old Folks at Home Episode 4:...
  Character:  Colonel Eddie Phelps 1 episode, 1990

   1990

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  The Green Man (TV Miniseries)
  Maurice Allington, the alcoholic, sexually promiscuous, and unappealing lead character owns a country inn called "The Green Man." He frightens and regales his guests, when he's not trying to seduce them, with tales of gh...
   1990

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  Diamond Skulls (Dark Obsession)
  Hugo, heir to a fortune, is married to Ginny. They have a young son, and she seems devoted to Hugo, but jealousy wracks him: he imagines her in the arms of a colleague, he spies on her, he rages. One night, after drinking with mem...
   1989

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  6.4
  Danny, the Champion of the World
  Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for a...
   1989

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  The Trouble with Spies
  George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for infor...
  Character: Jason Locke

   1987

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  The Secret Garden (TV)
  When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so...
   1987

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  8.0
  Comrades
  The story of a group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
   1986

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  Paradise Postponed (TV Miniseries)
  The plot focused on inquires into why the leftist Reverend Simeon Simcox left the Simcox brewery millions to Leslie Titmuss, a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister. Simeon's sons Fred, a jazz-drumming doctor, and Henry...
   1986

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  6.6
  Labyrinth
  15-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in 13 hours.
  Character: The Wiseman (voice)

   1986

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  6.8
  Lady Jane
  After the death of King Henry and his young son and heir Edward VI, Henry's 15-year-old great-niece, Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter), is chosen to rule by a group of palace conspirators who vow to keep the country Protestant...
  Character: Dr. Feckenham

   1986

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  The Missionary
  In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes. Charles hopes Deborah, his fiancee, will...
   1982

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  Ivanhoe (TV)
   1982

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  The Tale of Beatrix Potter
   1982

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  8.1
  Gandhi
  Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up with the unjust political system, he j...
  Character: Sir George Hodge

   1982

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  Gauguin the Savage (TV)
  Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentement in Tahiti.
   1980

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  7.3
  Shogun (TV Miniseries)
  TV Series (1980). 10 episodes. John Blackthorne, an English ship pilot, whose vessel wrecked upon the Japanese coast in the early 17th century is forced to deal with the two most powerful men in Japan in these days. He is thrown i...
   1980

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  3.9
  The Wildcats of St Trinian's
  Character: Sir Charles Hackforth

   1980

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  Romeo & Juliet (TV)
  Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd...
   1978

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  6.8
  The Medusa Touch
  The Medusa Touch is the fantastic story of a middle age English man tormented by the terrifying revelation, he is responsible for the the world's disasters. Richard Burton gives an unforgetable performance as writer John Morlar, w...
  Character: Altropos - Fortune Teller

   1978

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  7.0
  Joseph Andrews
  Peter Firth stars in this picaresque tale as Joseph Andrews, a young servant switched at birth who undergoes a series of romantic escapades. Joseph even has the fortune of becoming the personal footman to Lady Booby (Ann-Margaret)...
  Character: Parson Adams

   1977

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  6.8
  The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderell
  In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's fo...
  Character: King

   1976

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  Edward the Seventh (TV Series)
  TV Series (1975). 13 episodes. The life of Edward VII (1841-1910), the King of the United Kingdom. Before becoming the king he developed a reputation of a playboy which angered his mother, Queen Victoria. He was a reformer and mod...
   1975

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  5.7
  Lucky Lady
  Lucky Lady is the story of an unlikely menage a trois between two rumrunners, Hackman and Reynolds, and nightclub singer Minnelli. They make their living by running booze across the mexican border.
  Character: Capt. Rockwell

   1975

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  Fall of Eagles (TV Miniseries)
  A 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the ruling dynasties Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns), and Russia (the
  Character:  Narrator 7 episodes, 1974

   1974

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  Cakes and Ale (TV)
  TV Mini-Series (1974). 3 episodes.
   1974

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  6.5
  The MacKintosh Man
  Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a remote manor at an unknown location where he is kept isolated. He overpowers his gua...
  Character: Brown

   1973

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  6.0
  The Pied Piper
  The story of the Pied Piper who gets rid of the town of Hamelin’s rats, reveals a gripping story of evil in the Middle-Ages, a time when millions of people across Europe died of the plague. Demy focuses on the corruption of the ...
  Character: Melius

   1972

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  5.0
  The possession of Joel Delaney
  A woman begins to suspect that her brother is possessed by a voodoo spirit.
   1972

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  6.4
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Character: Mock Turtle

   1972

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  7.3
  Anne of the Thousand Days
  Henry VIII of England discards one wife Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of a young and beautiful woman, Anne Boleyn, whose one-thousand-day reign as Queen of England ends with the loss of her h...
  Character: Thomas Boleyn

   1969

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  7.1
  Where Eagles Dare
  A high-powered, big-budget WWII espionage thriller, the film follows an elite group of Allied commandos, led by John Smith (Richard Burton), assigned to rescue an American general being held captive by the Nazis in a castle high i...
  Character: Adm. Rolland

   1968

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  6.0
  Prudence and the Pill
  Prudence is on the pill; so is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teen-age niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband, or all of the above?
  Character: Dr. Morley

   1968

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  4.5
  How I Won The War
  This film features former Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men in under the inept command of Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody. The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class be...
   1967

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  The Jokers
  Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Crawford is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who gets caught. Af...
   1967

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  6.5
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young master has fallen in love with a virgin in the house of Lycus, a slave d...
  Character: Senex

   1966

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  6.7
  Khartoum
  After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war but they hav...
  Character: Lord Granville

   1966

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  7.2
  The Taming of the Shrew
  Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor bring gusto and ferocity to their roles as Katherine and Petruchio in this quintessential battle of the sexes, a vibrant adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play. When young student Lucentio (...
  Character: Baptista

   1966

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  6.2
  Cast a Giant Shadow
  After WWII an American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepa...
  Character: British Ambassador

   1966

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  6.0
  Genghis Khan
  Omar Sharif plays the Mongolian leader Genghis Khan in this epic re-telling of the warlord's life. Escaping from the evil leader Jamuga, who killed his father, Khan becomes a powerful guerilla leader, and soon manages to unite the...
   1965

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  BBC Play of the Month (TV Series)
  TV Series (1965-1983). 16 seasons. 120 episodes
   1965

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  7.3
  The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
  When a fellow British agent is killed at Checkpoint Charlie right before his eyes, Alec Lemas, head of the Berlin station, returns to London headquarters. There his boss, Control, inquires if he is tired, burnt out, ready to come ...
   1965

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  6.6
  The Yellow Rolls-Royce
  Written by Terence Rattigan, The Yellow Rolls-Royce presented three stages in the life of the Rolls. We saw it first in a West End shop-window, where its impressive dignity and hypnotic appeal arrest the eye of Rex Harrison, an En...
  Character: Harnsworth

   1964

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  5.0
  Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
  A poor 18th century English coastal farming community survives the King's ruinous taxes thanks to a smuggling ring created by its masked leader called the Scarecrow. The ring's success leads King George to order the Royal Army's G...
   1963

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  7.6
  El Cid
  Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar--dubbed El Cid by his followers--vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Vigorously brave and reso...
  Character: Don Diego

   1961

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  7.0
  Sink the Bismarck!
  Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the supe...
   1960

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  Macbeth (TV)
  Second and successful adaptation of Hallmark Hall of Fame which performed the play by William Shakespeare. (FILMAFFINTY)
   1960

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  Moment of Danger
  A jewel thief pulls off a big heist, stabs his partner in crime in the back, dumps his girlfriend and goes on the run with the loot. The ex-partner and the girlfriend team up to go after him.
  Character: Inspector Farrell

   1960

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  Windom's Way
  A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decision
   1957

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  Alexander the Great
  Philip of Macedonia (Fredric March) is getting nowhere with his various wars against the Persians and other Greek states, but when he gives his son Alexander (Richard Burton) the regency of Parra, the eager young man goes into act...
   1956

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  6.0
  The Spanish Gardener
  Nicholas is a 'sensitive' British pre-teen, an overprotected only son who is forced by circumstance to accompany his unfamiliar father to a new posting as Ambassador to a Spanish region. The residential estate's handsome gardener,...
   1956

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  6.7
  The Man Who Never Was
  British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift it's forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion of a plan for England to invade Greece a dead body is to be procu...
  Character: Gen. Cockburn

   1956

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  6.0
  The Baby and the Battleship
  After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts t...
  Character: Capt. Hugh

   1956

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  7.0
  The Night My Number Came Up
  A group of people indulge in an after-dinner conversation in which the question of fate and preordained life arises. One of the party, played by Michael Hordern, relates a dream in which another of those present, a senior Royal Ai...
   1955

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  ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
  TV Series (1955-1974). 13 seasons. 610 episodes.
   1955

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  The Dark Avenger
  Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in batt...
   1955

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  6.8
  The Constant Husband
  Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with...
   1955

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  You Know What Sailors Are
  A fun frolic involving a fake secret weapon (accidentally created during a drinking bout), naval bureaucracy, political maneuvering and the hareem and palace of the exotic eastern country of Agraria.
   1954

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  Personal Affair
  Barbara Vining, a teen-age girl in a small English town falls in love with her teacher Stephen Barlow, who has no interest in her other than as a pupil and has done nothing to encourage her. When his wife, Kay Barlow confronts her...
   1953

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  The Heart of the Matter
  Details a life-changing moral crisis for Major Henry Scobie, a Catholic police officer in a British West African Colony.
   1953

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  6.3
  The Hour of 13
  Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a young man any dowager in London welcomes to her parties. He has taking ways, and the Calgurie Emerald is one of the things he takes. This daring theft brings unexpected complications, among them...
  Character: Sir Herbert Frensham

   1952

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  Flesh & Blood
   1951

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  6.0
  Trio
  Three short playlets are presented in this omnibus feature. "The Verger" focuses on a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor write. With the help of his sympathetic wife, he becomes...
  Character: Vicar (segment "The Verger")

   1950

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  The Small Voice
  The British writer Murray Byrne and his wife Eleanor stop to help two men in a car crash only to find they are criminals on the run.
   1949