Michael Hordern Archives | Memorable TV

Suspicion (ITV Thriller, Jane Curtin, Anthony Andrews)

Period thriller remake of the classic Hitchcock film about a newlywed who gradually begins to think her husband may be planning her murder. Based on the...

TV2 years ago

Nelson – A Study In Miniature (ITV Drama, Michael Bryant, Rachel Roberts)

Period drama Nelson – A Study In Miniature, broadcast under the Play of the Week banner, looking at Admiral Nelson’s relationship with Lady Hamilton and the...

Episodes2 years ago

The Wednesday Play: Sir Jocelyn, The Minister Would Like A Word (BBC Drama)

Original Publicity: Sir Jocelyn, The Minister Would Like A Word… The second play in the new Wednesday series has been written by Simon Raven and features...

TV3 years ago

The Wednesday Play: A Crack In The Ice (BBC Drama, Bill Fraser)

Original Publicity for A Crack In The Ice: In planning a season of plays the producer’s first consideration is his audience. What is my audience? I...

TV3 years ago

Paradise Postponed (ITV Drama, Michael Hordern, David Threllfall)

With the creation of Leslie Titmuss John Mortimer came up with one of the truly brilliant characters of British TV and provided David Threllfall with the...

TV3 years ago

All’s Well That Ends Well (BBC Drama, Ian Charleson, Celia Johnson)

Period comedy drama All’s Well That Ends Well, an entry in the BBC’s Television Shakespeare collection, when Bertram (Ian Charleson), the King of France marries Helena...

TV3 years ago

Festival (BBC 1963-1964)

Festival was a BBC anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. The first production was Noel Coward’s Fallen...

TV4 years ago

Green Man, The (BBC-2 1990, Michael Hordern, Albert Finney)

Fantasy drama serial. Adulterous restaurant owner Maurice Allington thinks he is losing his marbles when a doctor of the occult from the 17th Century begins haunting...

Movies4 years ago

The Spanish Gardener (1956, )

Adapted from AJ Cronin’s novel, this is the story of a minor diplomat, played with admirable restraint by Michael Horden, who becomes increasingly jealous of the...

TV4 years ago

Ivanhoe (CBS 1982, Anthony Andrews, James Mason)

This is another version of Walter Scott’s oft-filmed tale of derring do – Ivanhoe. In this TV Movie, Ivanhoe (played by Anthony Andrews), a worthy and...

Movies4 years ago

Cleopatra (1963, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton)

Still (in relative terms) the most expensive film ever made and famous for bringing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton together in what was to become one...

Movies4 years ago

Missionary The (1982, Michael Palin, Maggie Smith)

The Reverend Charles Fortesque (Michael Palin) has been spreading the word in Africa these ten years. But the new century – the 20th – presents concerns...

TV4 years ago

A Christmas Carol, A (BBC 1977, Michael Hordern, John Le Mesurier)

The quintessential Christmas story and the quintessential TV version of it. Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol has been one of cinema’s favourites for years, most notably...

Movies4 years ago

Khartoum (1966, Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier)

In 1884, bible-reading, brandy guzzling, slavery-busting, misogynist soldier General Charles Gordon (Charlton Heston) is sent to the Sudan by Prime Minister Gladstone (Ralph Richardson) to save...

Movies4 years ago

Theatre of Blood (1973, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg)

In the tongue in cheek horror Theatre of Blood Vincent Price portrays a Shakespearean actor who gets even with eight critics, who have all panned his...

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Suspicion (ITV Thriller, Jane Curtin, Anthony Andrews)

Nelson – A Study In Miniature (ITV Drama, Michael Bryant, Rachel Roberts)

The Wednesday Play: Sir Jocelyn, The Minister Would Like A Word (BBC Drama)

The Wednesday Play: A Crack In The Ice (BBC Drama, Bill Fraser)

Paradise Postponed (ITV Drama, Michael Hordern, David Threllfall)

All’s Well That Ends Well (BBC Drama, Ian Charleson, Celia Johnson)

Festival (BBC 1963-1964)

Green Man, The (BBC-2 1990, Michael Hordern, Albert Finney)

The Spanish Gardener (1956, )

Ivanhoe (CBS 1982, Anthony Andrews, James Mason)

Cleopatra (1963, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton)

Missionary The (1982, Michael Palin, Maggie Smith)

A Christmas Carol, A (BBC 1977, Michael Hordern, John Le Mesurier)

Khartoum (1966, Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier)

Theatre of Blood (1973, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg)

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