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| rdfs:comment | - Michael Hordern was a British actor who voiced Badger in The Wind in the Willows and The Wiseman in Labyrinth.
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Michael Hordern Real Name Unknown Job Titles Voice Actor Gender First publication Unknown
- Hordern's film credits included The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Gandhi, The VIPs, Theater of Blood (with Vincent Price) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (as Senex, with Zero Mostel). In television, he was especially active as a voice actor, as the narrator (and all character voices) in The Adventures of Paddington Bear and Badger in the stop-motion Wind in the Willows. His BBC radio roles included P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and J. R. R. Tolkien's Gandalf.
- Sir Michael Murray Hordern, CBE (3 October 1911 – 2 May 1995) was an English actor who provided the voice of Lord Frith in Watership Down.
- Hordern was born in the Poplars, an 18th-century townhouse in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the son of Margaret Emily (Murray) and Capt. Edward Joseph Calverly Hordern. He was educated at Windlesham House School and Brighton College, as was his elder brother Peter, who played rugby for Gloucester in the 1930s and was capped four times by England. He acted at school and then as an amateur with the St Pancras People's Theatre. He worked as a schoolteacher and travelling salesman before becoming a professional actor. In 1937 he made his professional stage debut at the People's Palace, East London, playing a minor role in Othello and, later in the year, joined the repertory company of the Little Theatre in Bristol. There he met the actress Grace Eveline Mortimer; they married in 1943 and remaine
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| abstract | - Michael Hordern was a British actor who voiced Badger in The Wind in the Willows and The Wiseman in Labyrinth.
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Michael Hordern Real Name Unknown Job Titles Voice Actor Gender First publication Unknown
- Hordern's film credits included The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Gandhi, The VIPs, Theater of Blood (with Vincent Price) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (as Senex, with Zero Mostel). In television, he was especially active as a voice actor, as the narrator (and all character voices) in The Adventures of Paddington Bear and Badger in the stop-motion Wind in the Willows. His BBC radio roles included P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and J. R. R. Tolkien's Gandalf.
- Hordern was born in the Poplars, an 18th-century townhouse in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the son of Margaret Emily (Murray) and Capt. Edward Joseph Calverly Hordern. He was educated at Windlesham House School and Brighton College, as was his elder brother Peter, who played rugby for Gloucester in the 1930s and was capped four times by England. He acted at school and then as an amateur with the St Pancras People's Theatre. He worked as a schoolteacher and travelling salesman before becoming a professional actor. In 1937 he made his professional stage debut at the People's Palace, East London, playing a minor role in Othello and, later in the year, joined the repertory company of the Little Theatre in Bristol. There he met the actress Grace Eveline Mortimer; they married in 1943 and remained together until her death in 1986. They had one daughter, Joanna.
- Sir Michael Murray Hordern, CBE (3 October 1911 – 2 May 1995) was an English actor who provided the voice of Lord Frith in Watership Down.
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