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André Morell
Known for: ActingFrom 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.
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Barry Lyndon
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Ben-Hur
The Lord of the Rings
So Long at the Fair
The Message
The First Great Train Robbery
Dark of the Sun
Stage Fright
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Man Who Never Was
as Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Quatermass and the Pit
as Professor Bernard Quatermass
10 Rillington Place
The Moon-Spinners
Woman of Straw
as Judge
The Vengeance of She
as Kassim
The Giant Behemoth
Julius Caesar
The Black Knight
The Plague of the Zombies
as Sir James Forbes
His Majesty O'Keefe
Summertime
The Shadow of the Cat
as Walter Venable
The Mummy's Shroud
as Sir Basil Walden
She
as Haumeid
Zarak
Cash on Demand
Seven Days to Noon
as Superintendent G.W. Folland
Stolen Face
Three Cases of Murder
Madeleine
Cone of Silence
They Can't Hang Me
as Robert Isaac Pitt
The Black Tent
as Sheik Salem ben Yussef