Michael Hordern — Actor (43)
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Comrades (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Comrades
director: Bill Douglas actor: Robin Soans / William Gaminara …
other title: Comrades - Uomini liberi / Rebellion Der Rechtlosen …
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
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The Missionary (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Missionary
director: Richard Loncraine actor: Michael Palin / Maggie Smith …
other title: Il missionario / O Padre Apaixonado …
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.
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Man in the Moon (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Man in the Moon
director: Basil Dearden actor: Kenneth More / Shirley Anne Field …
other title: Il primo uomo sulla Luna
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.
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The Jokers (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Jokers
director: Michael Winner actor: Michael Crawford / Oliver Reed …
other title: I ribelli di Carnaby Street / Minirock und Kronjuwelen …
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
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Lucky Lady (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lucky Lady
director: Stanley Donen actor: Gene Hackman / Liza Minnelli …
other title: In 3 sul Lucky Lady / Abenteurer auf der Lucky Lady …
When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
director: Michael Winner actor: Oliver Reed / Orson Welles …
other title: Qu'arrivera-t-il après ?
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
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Diamond Skulls (1990) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Diamond Skulls
director: Nick Broomfield actor: Gabriel Byrne / Amanda Donohoe …
other title: L'ora del tè / Death and Desire …
Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.
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The MacKintosh Man (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The MacKintosh Man
director: John Huston actor: Paul Newman / Dominique Sanda …
other title: L'agente speciale Mackintosh / Med ryggen mod muren …
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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I Was Monty's Double (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I Was Monty's Double
director: John Guillermin actor: John Mills / Cecil Parker …
other title: La battaglia segreta di Montgomery / Montgomerys dobbeltgænger …
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
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Up Pompeii (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Up Pompeii
director: Bob Kellett actor: Frankie Howerd / Patrick Cargill …
A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.
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The Secret Garden (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Secret Garden
director: Alan Grint actor: Gennie James / Barret Oliver …
other title: El jardín secreto / Der geheime Garten
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 melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.
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Sink the Bismarck! (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sink the Bismarck!
director: Lewis Gilbert actor: Kenneth More / Dana Wynter …
other title: Affondate la Bismarck! / Sænk Bismarck! …
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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Scrooge (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Scrooge
director: Brian Desmond Hurst actor: Alastair Sim / Mervyn Johns …
other title: Lo schiavo dell'oro / O Homem e o Espectro …
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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A Christmas Carol (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Christmas Carol
director: Richard Williams actor: Alastair Sim / Michael Redgrave …
other title: Un Cuento De Navidad / A Christmas Carol (film 1971)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Fall of Eagles (1974) [TV] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Fall of Eagles
director: John Elliot actor: Barry Foster / Michael Hordern
other title: Sturz der Adler / La caída de las águilas …
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).
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Prudence and the Pill (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Prudence and the Pill
director: Fielder Cook / Ronald Neame actor: Deborah Kerr / David Niven …
other title: Prudenza e la pillola / Sarilhos Conjugais …
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?
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Alexander the Great (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Alexander the Great
director: Robert Rossen actor: Richard Burton / Fredric March …
other title: Alessandro il grande / Alexander den Store …
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.