André Morell
Actor
Biography
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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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Filmography
Ben-Hur
as Sextus 1959
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Col. Green 1957
The Lord of the Rings
as Elrond (voice) 1978
The First Great Train Robbery
as Judge 1978
The Message
as Abu-Talib 1976
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Doctor Watson 1959
Stage Fright
as Inspector Byard 1950
10 Rillington Place
as Judge Lewis 1971
Summertime
as Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited) 1955
The Plague of the Zombies
as Sir James Forbes 1966
The Man Who Never Was
as Sir Bernard Spilsbury 1956
Dark of the Sun
as Bussier 1968
The Wrong Box
as Club Butler 1966
Cash on Demand
as Colonel Gore Hepburn 1961
She
as Haumeid 1965
The Moon-Spinners
as Yacht Captain 1964