André Morell
ActingAlso Known As
Cecil André Mesritz, Andre Morell, Андре Морелл
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.
Movies
(67 total)
Barry Lyndon
as Lord Wendover
Ben-Hur
as Sextus
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Col. Green
The Lord of the Rings
as Elrond (voice)
The Message
as Abu-Talib
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Doctor Watson
Stage Fright
as Inspector Byard
10 Rillington Place
as Judge Lewis
Summertime
as Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited)
The Plague of the Zombies
as Sir James Forbes
The Man Who Never Was
as Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Dark of the Sun
as Bussier
The Wrong Box
as Club Butler
The Giant Behemoth
as Prof. James Bickford
Cash on Demand
as Colonel Gore Hepburn
She
as Haumeid
The Moon-Spinners
as Yacht Captain
Woman of Straw
as Judge
The Mummy's Shroud
as Sir Basil Walden
TV Shows
(23 total)
The Saint
as Bernhard Raxel
The Professionals
as Brigadier Stadden
Quatermass and the Pit
as Professor Bernard Quatermass
One Step Beyond
as Gen. Guenther Hautmann
Edward the Seventh
as Lord Palmerston
Play for Today
as Sir Geoffrey Wolf
BBC Play of the Month
as Cyril Horsham
The Caesars
as Tiberius
Public Eye
as Robert Stuart
The Adventurer
as Le Père Antonius
The Buccaneers
as Governor
The Human Jungle
as Sir Desmond Shaw
Theatre 625
as Richard Heyrick
Sunday Night Theatre
as O'Brien
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
The Expert
as Major Williams
Armchair Cinema
as André Fage
Life of Shakespeare
as Edward Alleyn