Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 20, 1909
Place of Birth:
Saint Pancras, London, England, UK
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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."
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Year | Movie | Role |
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2015 | André Morell: Best of British | Self |
1978 | The Lord of the Rings | Elrond (voice) |
1978 | The First Great Train Robbery | Judge |
1976 | The Slipper and the Rose | Bride's Father |
1976 | The Message | Abu-Talib |
1975 | Barry Lyndon | Lord Wendover |
1972 | The Man and the Snake | Dr. Druring |
1972 | Pope Joan | Emperor Louis |
1971 | 10 Rillington Place | Judge Lewis |
1971 | Hell's Angel | Sir Geoffrey Wolf |
1970 | Julius Caesar | Cicero |
1968 | Dark of the Sun | Bussier |
1968 | The Vengeance of She | Kassim |
1967 | The Mummy's Shroud | Sir Basil Walden |
1966 | The Plague of the Zombies | Sir James Forbes |
1966 | Judith | Haim |
1966 | The Wrong Box | Club Butler |
1966 | Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve | Marshal Tavannes |
1965 | She | Haumeid |
1965 | The Siege of Manchester | Richard Heyrick |
1964 | Woman of Straw | Judge |
1964 | The Moon-Spinners | Yacht Captain |
1961 | The Shadow of the Cat | Walter Venable |
1961 | Cash on Demand | Colonel Gore Hepburn (as Andre Morell) |
1960 | Cone of Silence | Capt. Edward Manningham |
1960 | The Trial of Oscar Wilde | Sir Edward Clarke QC |
1959 | Ben-Hur | Sextus |
1959 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Doctor Watson |
1959 | The Giant Behemoth | Prof. James Bickford |
1958 | Paris Holiday | American Ambassador |
1958 | Diamond Safari | Williamson |
1958 | The Camp on Blood Island | Col. Lambert |
1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Col. Green |
1957 | Interpol | Commissioner Breckner |
1956 | The Man Who Never Was | Sir Bernard Spilsbury |
1956 | The Black Tent | Sheik Salem ben Yussef |
1956 | The Baby and the Battleship | Marshal |
1956 | Zarak | Maj. Atherton |
1955 | Three Cases of Murder | Dr. Audlin ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) |
1955 | They Can't Hang Me | Robert Isaac Pitt |
1955 | The Secret | Chief Inspector Blake |
1955 | Summertime | Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited) |
1954 | The Black Knight | Sir Ontzlake |
1954 | His Majesty O'Keefe | Alfred Tetins |
1954 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | O'Brien |
1952 | Stolen Face | David |
1952 | Tall Headlines | George Rackham |
1951 | High Treason | Supt. Folland |
1951 | Flesh and Blood | Dr. "Willie" Marshall |
1950 | Stage Fright | Inspector Byard |
1950 | The Clouded Yellow | Secret Service Chief Chubb (as Andre Morell) |
1950 | Seven Days to Noon | Superintendent G.W. Folland |
1950 | So Long at the Fair | Doctor Hart |
1950 | No Place for Jennifer | Counsel |
1950 | Trio | Dr. Lennox |
1950 | Madeleine | Defense Attorney |
1948 | Wuthering Heights | Hindley Earnshaw |
1948 | Health in Our Time | |
1946 | The Queen's Husband | Dr. Fellman |
1942 | Unpublished Story | Marchand |
1940 | Three Silent Men | Charles Klein |
1940 | Ten Days in Paris | Victor |
1938 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Le Bret |
1938 | Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Wickham |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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1978 | Life of Shakespeare | Edward Alleyn |
1977 | The Professionals | Brigadier Stadden |
1972 | The Adventurer | Le Père Antonius |
1970 | Play for Today | Sir Geoffrey Wolf |
1969 | Special Branch | |
1968 | The Expert | Major Williams |
1968 | The Caesars | Tiberius |
1965 | Public Eye | Robert Stuart |
1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Cyril Horsham |
1963 | The Human Jungle | Sir Desmond Shaw |
1963 | Festival | Senator Clarke |
1962 | The Saint | Bernhard Raxel |
1961 | The Avengers | |
1960 | Danger Man | |
1959 | One Step Beyond | Gen. Guenther Hautmann |
1959 | International Detective | Howard Conway |
1958 | Quatermass and the Pit | Professor Bernard Quatermass |
1957 | Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! | Sven |
1956 | The Buccaneers | Governor |
1950 | Sunday Night Theatre | O'Brien |