André Morell
Biography
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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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Filmography
André Morell: Best of British
2015
as Self
The First Great Train Robbery
1978
as Judge
The Lord of the Rings
1978
as Elrond (voice)
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The Last Romantic
1978
as Gantry
The Slipper and the Rose
1976
as Bride's Father
The Message
1976
as Abu-Talib
Barry Lyndon
1975
as Lord Wendover
The Prison
1974
as André Fage
Pope Joan
1972
as Emperor Louis
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The Man and the Snake
1972
as Dr. Druring
10 Rillington Place
1971
as Judge Lewis
Hell's Angel
1971
as Sir Geoffrey Wolf
Julius Caesar
1970
as Cicero
The Vengeance of She
1968
as Kassim
Dark of the Sun
1968
as Bussier
The Mummy's Shroud
1967
as Sir Basil Walden
The Wrong Box
1966
as Club Butler
Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
1966
as Marshal Tavannes
Judith
1966
as Haim
The Plague of the Zombies
1966
as Sir James Forbes
The Siege of Manchester
1965
as Richard Heyrick
She
1965
as Haumeid
The Moon-Spinners
1964
as Yacht Captain
Woman of Straw
1964
as Judge