André Morell
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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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Acting
Movie
Barry Lyndon
as Lord Wendover
1975
Movie
Ben-Hur
as Sextus
1959
Movie
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Col. Green
1957
Movie
The Lord of the Rings
as Elrond (voice)
1978
Movie
The First Great Train Robbery
as Judge
1978
Movie
The Message
as Abu-Talib
1976
Movie
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Doctor Watson
1959
Movie
Stage Fright
as Inspector Byard
1950
Movie
10 Rillington Place
as Judge Lewis
1971
Movie
Summertime
as Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited)
1955
Movie
The Plague of the Zombies
as Sir James Forbes
1966
TV
The Avengers
1961
TV
The Saint
as Bernhard Raxel
1962
Movie
The Man Who Never Was
as Sir Bernard Spilsbury
1956
Movie
Dark of the Sun
as Bussier
1968
Movie
The Wrong Box
as Club Butler
1966
Movie
Cash on Demand
as Colonel Gore Hepburn
1961
Movie
She
as Haumeid
1965
Movie
The Giant Behemoth
as Prof. James Bickford
1959
Movie
The Moon-Spinners
as Yacht Captain
1964
Movie
Woman of Straw
as Judge
1964
Movie
The Mummy's Shroud
as Sir Basil Walden
1967
Movie
The Slipper and the Rose
as Bride's Father
1976
TV
The Professionals
as Brigadier Stadden
1977