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André Morell
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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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As actor
André Morell: Best of British
The Lord of the Rings
The First Great Train Robbery
The Last Romantic
The Slipper and the Rose
The Message
Barry Lyndon
The Prison
The Man and the Snake
Pope Joan
10 Rillington Place
Hell's Angel
Julius Caesar
Dark of the Sun
The Vengeance of She
The Mummy's Shroud
The Plague of the Zombies
Judith
The Wrong Box
Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
She
The Siege of Manchester
Woman of Straw
The Moon-Spinners
The Shadow of the Cat
Cash on Demand
Cone of Silence
The Trial of Oscar Wilde
Ben-Hur
The Hound of the Baskervilles