🎬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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Lord of the Rings (1978)	Elrond (voice)		6.3
2	The First Great Train Robbery (1978)	Judge		7
3	The Message (1976)	Abu-Talib		5.2
4	Barry Lyndon (1975)	Lord Wendover		8.1
5	10 Rillington Place (1971)	Judge Lewis		7.3
6	Julius Caesar (1970)	Cicero	-	-
7	The Vengeance of She (1968)	Kassim	-	-
8	The Mummy's Shroud (1967)	Sir Basil Walden	-	-
9	The Plague of the Zombies (1966)	Sir James Forbes		7
10	The Moon-Spinners (1964)	Yacht Captain		6
11	Cash on Demand (1961)	Colonel Gore Hepburn		5
12	Ben-Hur (1959)	Sextus		7.7
13	The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)	Doctor Watson		7
14	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	Col. Green		7.7
15	The Baby and the Battleship (1956)	Marshal		5
16	The Man Who Never Was (1956)	Sir Bernard Spilsbury		5
17	Summertime (1955)	Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited)	-	-
18	Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)	O'Brien		6
19	Stolen Face (1952)	David		4
20	The Clouded Yellow (1950)	Secret Service Chief Chubb (as Andre Morell)		5
21	So Long at the Fair (1950)	Doctor Hart		4
22	Stage Fright (1950)	Inspector Byard		7.3