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Actor, Michael Hordern, was born Michael Murray Hordern on Oct 3, 1911 in Berkhamsted, England. Hordern died at the age of 83 on May 2, 1995 in Oxford, England .

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Geen: The only time that Mongols are joined together is in death.


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King Henry VIII: What is the verdict?
Thomas Cromwell: Guilty - Your Grace.
King Henry VIII: All of them?
Thomas Cromwell: Guilty.


Senex: Son, if you're only as happy as your mother and I have been... my heart bleeds for you.


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Notable stage work for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and in London, at the Old Vic and in the West End. In addition to his many Shakespearean roles (As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Twelfth Night), Hordern performed in plays by Strindberg, Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinero, Pinter, Dürrenmatt, Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mercer and Tom Stoppard. His King Lear is considered his most respected work, which he also played on the BBC.

He appeared in three different adaptations of Charles Dickens's 1843 novel "A Christmas Carol". He played Jacob Marley in both Scrooge (1951) and A Christmas Carol (1971) (TV) and Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1977) (TV).

Made his professional debut in 1937 at the People's Palace, east London, playing Lodovico in "Othello". Later in the year he joined the repertory company of the Little Theatre in Bristol; it was here that he met his future wife, actress Eve Mortimer. They had one daughter.

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