Alexander Scourby
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 13, 1913
- Died
- February 22, 1985 (aged 71)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexander Scourby (November 13, 1913 – February 22, 1985) was an American film, television, and voice actor known for his deep and resonant voice. He is best known for his film role as the ruthless mob boss Mike Lagana in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953), and is also particularly well-remembered in the English-speaking world for his landmark recordings of the entire King James Version audio Bible, which have been released in numerous editions. He later recorded the entire Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Scourby recorded 422 audiobooks for the blind which he considered his most important work. He has a reputation in the audiobook industry as being one of the greatest narrators: "He is heralded as having the greatest voice ever recorded."
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Filmography
Hell Gate: The Watery Grave
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Stuff
Movie · as Evans
Merton: A Film Biography
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Among the Wild Chimpanzees
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Australia's Animal Mysteries
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Jesus
Movie · as Luke (voice)
Uncommon Women and Others
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
This Other Eden
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Etosha: Place of Dry Water
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Word
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
Meeting of Minds
TV · as Galileo Galilei · 2 eps
The Hemingway Play
Movie · as Ernest Hemingway (middle-aged)
Buddhism in China
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Atonement
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Montserrat
Movie
People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Great Performances
TV · 1 ep
The Executioner
Movie · as Prof. Parker
The Glory of Their Times
Movie · as Narrator
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV · as Lucas Coleman, Anthony Alquist · 1 ep
The Lonely Dorymen
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
1999 A.D.
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Grizzly!
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Mannix
TV · as Count Boria · 2 eps
Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man
Movie · as Narrator
The Incredible World of James Bond
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Gendarme in New York
Movie · as Alex Scourby
The Unending Struggle
Movie · as Narrator
China!
Movie · as Narrator
National Geographic Specials
TV · as Narrator (voice), Self - Narrator · 3 eps
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp · 1 ep
Daniel Boone
TV · as Eli Bothwell · 1 ep
Mr. Novak
TV · as Allen Ferguson, George Andreas · 1 ep
The Wall
Movie · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Eleventh Hour
TV · as Garrett Nolan · 1 ep
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
Movie · as The Governor
Cain's Hundred
TV · as Judge Philip Hallson · 1 ep
The Defenders
TV · as John Wellman, George Matthias · 1 ep
The Asphalt Jungle
TV · as Roy Bradley · 1 ep
Seven Thieves
Movie · as Raymond Le May
Man on a String
Movie · as Colonel Vadja Kubelov
The Big Fisherman
Movie · as David Ben-Zadok
The Shaggy Dog
Movie · as Mikhail Andrassy
The Velvet Alley
Movie · as Harvey Diedrich
Project XX: Life in the Thirties
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Johnny Staccato
TV · 1 ep
The Twilight Zone
TV · as George Harper · 1 ep
Philip Marlowe
TV · as Dr. Steve Vincent · 1 ep
Rawhide
TV · as Albert Hadley · 1 ep
Bonanza
TV · as Jean Millain · 1 ep
Me and the Colonel
Movie · as Major Von Bergen
Naked City
TV · as Walter Gerrick · 1 ep
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV · as Judge Coogan · 1 ep
The Rifleman
TV · as Byron Claremont · 1 ep
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV · as King · 2 eps
The Song of Christmas
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Venice: Theme and Variations
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Night America Trembled
Movie · as Host
Project XX: The Innocent Years
Movie · as Self - Narrator
The Walter Winchell File
TV · as Agent · 1 ep
Giant
Movie · as Old Polo
Ransom!
Movie · as Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
The Twisted Cross
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Project XX: The Great War - World War I
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Colonel del Armija - Interrogator · 1 ep
Telephone Time
TV · as Joseph Priestley · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Horace Meade · 1 ep
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV · as Joe Markheim · 1 ep
The Phil Silvers Show
TV · as Hubbell Robinson (uncredited) · 1 ep
The Silver Chalice
Movie · as Luke
Sign of the Pagan
Movie · as Chrysaphius
The Shadow
Movie · as Rollo Grimbauer
Victory at Sea
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Three Two One - Zero!
Movie · as Narrator
The Secret Storm
TV · as Dr. Ian Northcoate · 319 eps
Climax!
TV · as Frank Martin, David Potter, Eric Betzdorff · 1 ep
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Dr. Mikhail Andrassy · 1 ep
The Big Heat
Movie · as Mike Lagana
The Glory Brigade
Movie · as Lt. Niklas
The Spirit of Christmas
Movie · as Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Redhead from Wyoming
Movie · as Reece Duncan
Affair in Trinidad
Movie · as Max Fabian
Because of You
Movie · as Dr. Breen
Omnibus
TV · as Odysseus, El Indio · 1 ep
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Hagen · 1 ep
Studio One
TV · as Edward, Narrator (voice), Prof. Tom Monev, Carl Phillips · 1 ep
Kraft Television Theatre
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 4 eps