André Morell
Acting
Born: 1909-08-20 in Saint Pancras, London, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia André Morell (20 August 1909 – 28 November 1978; sometimes credited as Andre Morell) was a British actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). He also appeared in the Academy Award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Ben-Hur (1959), in several of Hammer's well-known horror films throughout the 1960s and in the acclaimed ITV historical drama The Caesars (1968). His obituary in The Times newspaper described him as possessing a "commanding presence with a rich, responsive voice... whether in the classical or modern theatre he was authoritative and dependable." Description above from the Wikipedia article André Morell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Barry Lyndon
Lord Wendover
Ben-Hur
Sextus
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Col. Green
The Lord of the Rings
Elrond (voice)
The First Great Train Robbery
Judge
The Message
Abu-Talib
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doctor Watson
Stage Fright
Inspector Byard
10 Rillington Place
Judge Lewis
Summertime
Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited)
The Plague of the Zombies
Sir James Forbes
The Avengers
Lord Teale
The Saint
Bernhard Raxel
The Man Who Never Was
Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Dark of the Sun
Bussier
The Wrong Box
Club Butler
She
Haumeid
The Giant Behemoth
Prof. James Bickford
Cash on Demand
Colonel Gore Hepburn
The Moon-Spinners
Yacht Captain
Woman of Straw
Judge
The Mummy's Shroud
Sir Basil Walden
The Slipper and the Rose
Bride's Father
The Professionals
Brigadier Stadden
Seven Days to Noon
Superintendent G.W. Folland
So Long at the Fair
Doctor Hart
Nineteen Eighty-Four
O'Brien
Julius Caesar
Cicero
The Shadow of the Cat
Walter Venable
Madeleine
Defense Attorney
The Vengeance of She
Kassim
Stolen Face
David
Three Cases of Murder
Dr. Audlin ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
Danger Man
Quatermass and the Pit
Professor Bernard Quatermass
The Clouded Yellow
Secret Service Chief Chubb (as Andre Morell)
The Camp on Blood Island
Col. Lambert
Interpol
Commissioner Breckner
His Majesty O'Keefe
Alfred Tetins
One Step Beyond
Gen. Guenther Hautmann