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Michael Hordern and Clifton Webb in The Man Who Never Was (1956)

Alec Guinness and Michael Hordern in The Promoter (1952)

Michael Hordern and Hugh Moxey in The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

Michael Hordern and Michael Redgrave in The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

Michael Hordern in The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

John Fabian, Michael Hordern, and Hugh Moxey in The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

John Fabian and Michael Hordern in The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

Michael Hordern, Patricia Jessel, and Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Jack Gilford, Michael Hordern, and Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Michael Hordern and Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Annette Andre and Michael Hordern in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Michael Hordern and Patricia Jessel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Michael Hordern and Peter Jeffrey in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Katharine Blake, Gary Bond, John Colicos, Michael Hordern, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Johnson, T.P. McKenna, and Denis Quilley in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Geneviève Bujold, Katharine Blake, and Michael Hordern in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Valerie Gearon and Michael Hordern in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Michael Hordern in The Taming of The Shrew (1967)

Julie Harris and Michael Hordern in Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

Lally Bowers and Michael Hordern in The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)

Annette Crosbie, Michael Hordern, Kenneth More, and André Morell in The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)

Richard Chamberlain, Geoffrey Bayldon, Christopher Gable, Michael Hordern, Vivienne McKee, and André Morell in The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)

Lally Bowers, Michael Hordern, and Julian Orchard in The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)

Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Gable, Michael Hordern, and Kenneth More in The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)

Michael Hordern and John Le Mesurier in A Christmas Carol (1977)

Michael Hordern and Richard Vernon in Paradise Postponed (1986)

Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Katharine Blake, Michael Hordern, and Anthony Quayle in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Michael Hordern in The Baby and the Battleship (1956)

"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" Richard Burton 1965 Paramount Pictures

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rex Harrison, Kenneth Haigh, and Michael Hordern in Cleopatra (1963)

Michael Hordern and Yvonne Mitchell in Demons of the Mind (1972)

Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie, Frank Oz, Brian Henson, Marc Antona, Michael Attwell, David Alan Barclay, Sean Barrett, Timothy Bateson, Denise Bryer, Kevin Clash, Dave Goelz, Michael Hordern, Peter Marinker, Rob Mills, Ron Mueck, Toby Philpott, Karen Prell, David Shaughnessy, and Shari Weiser in Labyrinth (1986)

Michael Hordern and David Threlfall in Paradise Postponed (1986)

Jack Gilford, Michael Hordern, Zero Mostel, and Phil Silvers in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Some of Hordern's finest work was not in films or television but on radio: His performance as Gandalf in the BBC's radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings was arguably the definitive portrayal of that character (contrast Hordern's Gandalf with that of Ian McKellen in the 3-part film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings directed by Peter Jackson).

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