Michael Hordern — Actor (45)
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Alexander the Great (1956)
Alexander the Great
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.
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Now Voyager (1985)
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Storm Thorgerson actor: Barry Gibb / Michael Hordern …
A spoiled pop star crashes his car in an irrigation ditch and comes to in a public indoor pool supervised by a mysterious man who attempts to show him the error of his ways.
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The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
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Leslie Norman actor: Michael Redgrave / Sheila Sim …
other title: La scogliera della morte / Sie waren 13 …
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
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Train of Events (1949)
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Sidney Cole / Charles Crichton … actor: Jack Warner / Gladys Henson …
other title: Le Train du destin
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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How I Won the War (1967)
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Richard Lester actor: Michael Crawford / John Lennon …
other title: Come ho vinto la guerra / Wie ich den Krieg gewann …
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)
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James Neilson actor: Patrick McGoohan / George Cole …
other title: L'inafferrabile primula nera / Den sorte Pimpernel …
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Girl Stroke Boy (1971)
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Bob Kellett actor: Joan Greenwood / Michael Hordern …
When a young man brings an unexpected new partner home for dinner, the underlying prejudices of his straitlaced, middle-class parents are brought to the fore.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
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William Sterling actor: Rodney Bewes / Fiona Fullerton …
other title: Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie / Alice im Wunderland …
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
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The Three Musketeers (1973)
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Richard Lester actor: Michael York / Oliver Reed …
other title: I tre moschettieri / De tre musketerer …
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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The V.I.P.s (1963)
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Anthony Asquith actor: Elizabeth Taylor / Richard Burton …
other title: International Hotel / Gente Muito Importante …
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
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The Medusa Touch (1978)
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Jack Gold actor: Richard Burton / Lino Ventura …
other title: Il tocco della medusa / Der Schrecken der Medusa …
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
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The Pied Piper (1972)
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Jacques Demy actor: Donovan / Diana Dors …
other title: Il pifferaio di Hamelin / O Tocador de Flauta …
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
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The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Waris Hussein actor: Shirley MacLaine / Perry King …
other title: Legame di sangue / Possession meurtrière …
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.
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The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
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Richard Lester actor: Ralph Richardson / Rita Tushingham …
other title: Mutazioni / Danach …
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
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Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Jonathan Miller actor: Michael Hordern / Ambrose Coghill …
other title: 吹哨吧，我会来找你
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
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Truckers (1992)
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Francis Vose / Jackie Cockle … actor: Joe McGann / Debra Gillett …
Truckers, the first of Terry Pratchett's novels to be adapted for TV brings to life the story of the Nomes. 15000 years ago the Nomes crashed to Earth in a scout ship from the starship Swan. Generations of them have come and gone with the passing years and the changing countryside. Suddenly faced with extinction, the ten surviving Nomes, guided by their reluctant leader Masklin, must face many exciting adventures during their search for a new home and hiding place in the big, bad world of the humans.
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Demons of the Mind (1972)
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Peter Sykes actor: Robert Hardy / Shane Briant …
other title: Rose rosse per il demonio / Dämonen der Seele …
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
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Yellowbeard (1983)
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Mel Damski actor: Graham Chapman / Martin Hewitt …
other title: Barbagialla, il terrore dei sette mari e mezzo / Kaptajn Guldskæg …
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
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Watership Down (1978)
Watership Down
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Martin Rosen actor: John Hurt / Richard Briers …
other title: La collina dei conigli / Kaninbjerget …
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.