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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
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as Lord Wendover 
The Bridge on the River Kwai
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as Col. Green 
Ben-Hur
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as Sextus 
The Lord of the Rings
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as Elrond (voice) 
So Long at the Fair
as Doctor Hart 
The Message
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as Abu-Talib 
The First Great Train Robbery
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as Judge 
Dark of the Sun
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as Bussier 
Stage Fright
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as Inspector Byard 
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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as Doctor Watson 
The Man Who Never Was
as Sir Bernard Spilsbury 
Quatermass and the Pit
as Professor Bernard Quatermass 
10 Rillington Place
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as Judge Lewis 
The Moon-Spinners
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as Yacht Captain 
Woman of Straw
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as Judge 
The Vengeance of She
as Kassim 
The Giant Behemoth
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as Prof. James Bickford 
Julius Caesar
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as Cicero 
The Black Knight
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as Sir Ontzlake 
The Plague of the Zombies
as Sir James Forbes 
His Majesty O'Keefe
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as Alfred Tetins 
Summertime
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as Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited) 
The Shadow of the Cat
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as Walter Venable 
The Mummy's Shroud
as Sir Basil Walden 
She
as Haumeid 
Cash on Demand
as Colonel Gore Hepburn 
Seven Days to Noon
as Superintendent G.W. Folland 
Zarak
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as Maj. Atherton 
Stolen Face
as David 
Three Cases of Murder
as Dr. Audlin ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) 
Madeleine
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as Defense Attorney 
Cone of Silence
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as Capt. Edward Manningham 
They Can't Hang Me
as Robert Isaac Pitt 
The Black Tent
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as Sheik Salem ben Yussef