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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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André Morell Biography / Wiki
| Name | André Morell |
| Also Know | Cecil André Mesritz, Andre Morell, Ðндре Морелл |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | St. Pancras, London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1909-08-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 69 |
| Deathday | 1978-11-28 |
André Morell Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Plague of the Zombies | Sir James Forbes | 1966-01-09 | Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Ha… |
| The Mummy’s Shroud | Sir Basil Walden | 1967-03-15 | Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they un… |
| The Camp on Blood Island | Col. Lambert | 1958-04-15 | Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as … |
| André Morell: Best of British | Self | 2015-01-01 | Documentary about actor André Morell…. |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Doctor Watson | 1959-05-04 | When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate…. |
| The Giant Behemoth | Prof. James Bickford | 1959-03-03 | Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean’s ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which … |
| Cash on Demand | Colonel Gore Hepburn | 1961-12-20 | A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds…. |
| Seven Days to Noon | Superintendent G.W. Folland | 1950-10-30 | An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the … |
| High Treason | Supt. Folland | 1951-11-13 | Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring…. |
| The Man and the Snake | Dr. Druring | 1972-01-01 | A young man visits the house of a snake collector…horror ensues… |
| Flesh and Blood | Dr. “Willie” Marshall | 1951-03-06 | Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various con… |
| Hell’s Angel | Sir Geoffrey Wolf | 1971-01-21 | Dick Foster is adopted as a child, but has grown into a youth who causes problems and upsets…. |
| The Shadow of the Cat | Walter Venable | 1961-05-01 | Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The… |
| The Black Knight | Sir Ontzlake | 1954-08-26 | John (Alan Ladd), a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can’t hope to win the hand of Lady Linet (Patricia Medina), da… |
| Stolen Face | David | 1952-05-01 | A doctor changes a woman’s face to match the one that broke his heart. Trouble starts when his love returns…. |
| The Baby and the Battleship | Marshal | 1956-06-01 | After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to re… |
| His Majesty O’Keefe | Alfred Tetins | 1954-01-16 | Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil – and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. … |
| The Secret | Chief Inspector Blake | 1955-06-01 | An American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the c… |
| Diamond Safari | Williamson | 1958-02-21 | A U.S. private eye falls for a smuggler and clears a native for murder in South Africa…. |
| The Black Tent | Sheik Salem ben Yussef | 1956-04-09 | During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief’s daughter. Sometime late… |
| They Can’t Hang Me | Robert Isaac Pitt | 1955-10-01 | A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring…. |
| The Frightened Bride | George Rackham | 1952-04-15 | A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl…. |
| Wuthering Heights | Hindley Earnshaw | 1948-03-07 | Tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors…. |
| Dark of the Sun | Bussier | 1968-02-08 | A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut d… |
| Paris Holiday | American Ambassador | 1958-04-05 | Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counter… |
| Interpol | Commissioner Breckner | 1957-04-02 | Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Stur… |
| Three Cases of Murder | Dr. Audlin (“Lord Mountdrago” segment) | 1955-03-15 | Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong friend… |
| Cone of Silence | Capt. Edward Manningham | 1960-05-09 | A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for … |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | O’Brien | 1954-12-12 | A man who works for ‘The Party’ (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as ‘Big Brother’) begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a … |
| Madeleine | Defense Attorney | 1950-02-16 | The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standi… |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | Col. Green | 1957-10-11 | The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence… |
| Stage Fright | Inspector Byard | 1950-02-23 | A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he’s accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer…. |
| The Clouded Yellow | Secret Service Chief Chubb (as Andre Morell) | 1950-11-21 | After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas an… |
| The Vengeance of She | Kassim | 1968-04-14 | Beautiful young European girl, Carol, is possessed by the spirit of Ayesha – “She, who must be obeyed†– and led to the lost city of Kuma, whe… |
| She | Haumeid | 1965-04-18 | The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing … |
| Judith | Haim | 1966-01-20 | A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband…. |
| 10 Rillington Place | Judge Lewis | 1971-02-10 | The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justic… |
| Three Silent Men | Charles Klein | 1940-09-07 | An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of t… |
| So Long at the Fair | Doctor Hart | 1950-03-28 | Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up … |
| Unpublished Story | Marchand | 1942-08-10 | Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings…. |
| The Message | Abu-Talib | 1976-03-09 | Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed…. |
| The Man Who Never Was | Sir Bernard Spilsbury | 1956-04-03 | The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a Britis… |
| Woman of Straw | Judge | 1964-04-28 | Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs,… |
| Ten Days in Paris | Victor | 1940-06-01 | Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true b… |
| The Moon-Spinners | Yacht Captain | 1964-01-01 | Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is… |
| Zarak | Maj. Atherton | 1956-12-01 | A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him…. |
| Summertime | Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited) | 1955-01-01 | Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she doe… |
| Ben-Hur | Sextus | 1959-11-18 | In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of tr… |
| No Place for Jennifer | Counsel | 1950-01-17 | A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent’s divorce and seperate re-marriages…. |
| Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Wickham | 1938-01-01 | … |
| The Lord of the Rings | Elrond (voice) | 1978-11-15 | The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron’s reign over Middle-earth…. |
| Barry Lyndon | Lord Gustavos Adolphus Wendover | 1975-11-26 | An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Ba… |
| Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve | Marshal Tavannes | 1966-02-26 | The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befrien… |
| The First Great Train Robbery | Judge | 1978-12-14 | In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train…. |
| Pope Joan | Emperor Louis | 1972-08-16 | Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is… |
| Trio | Dr. Lennox | 1950-10-10 | W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles…. |
| The Slipper and the Rose | Bride’s Father | 1976-03-24 | In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, you… |
| The Wrong Box | Club Butler | 1966-06-19 | In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so…. |
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