Alexander Scourby
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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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Films (53)
The Stuff
1985 · Evans
Among the Wild Chimpanzees
1984 · Narrator (voice)
Merton: A Film Biography
1984 · Narrator (voice)
Australia's Animal Mysteries
1984 · Narrator (voice)
Jesus
1979 · Luke (voice)
Etosha: Place of Dry Water
1979 · Narrator (voice)
Uncommon Women and Others
1979 · Narrator (voice)
This Other Eden
1979 · Narrator (voice)
The Hemingway Play
1976 · Ernest Hemingway (middle-aged)
Buddhism in China
1972 · Narrator (voice)
Atonement
1971 · Narrator (voice)
Montserrat
1971
People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter
1971 · Narrator (voice)
People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer
1971 · Narrator (voice)
The Executioner
1970 · Prof. Parker
The Glory of Their Times
1970 · Narrator
The Lonely Dorymen
1968 · Narrator (voice)
Grizzly!
1967 · Narrator (voice)
1999 A.D.
1967 · Narrator (voice)
Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man
1966 · Narrator
The Incredible World of James Bond
1965 · Narrator (voice)
The Gendarme in New York
1965 · Alex Scourby
China!
1965 · Narrator
The Unending Struggle
1965 · Narrator
The Wall
1962 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
1961 · The Governor
Man on a String
1960 · Colonel Vadja Kubelov
Seven Thieves
1960 · Raymond Le May
Project XX: Life in the Thirties
1959 · Self - Narrator
The Big Fisherman
1959 · David Ben-Zadok
The Shaggy Dog
1959 · Mikhail Andrassy
The Velvet Alley
1959 · Harvey Diedrich
Me and the Colonel
1958 · Major Von Bergen
The Song of Christmas
1957 · Narrator (voice)
Project XX: The Innocent Years
1957 · Self - Narrator
The Night America Trembled
1957 · Host
Venice: Theme and Variations
1957 · Narrator (voice)
Giant
1956 · Old Polo
Project XX: The Great War - World War I
1956 · Self - Narrator
The Twisted Cross
1956 · Narrator (voice)
Ransom!
1956 · Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
The Silver Chalice
1954 · Luke
Sign of the Pagan
1954 · Chrysaphius
Three Two One - Zero!
1954 · Narrator
Victory at Sea
1954 · Narrator (voice)
The Shadow
1954 · Rollo Grimbauer
The Spirit of Christmas
1953 · Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Big Heat
1953 · Mike Lagana
The Glory Brigade
1953 · Lt. Niklas
The Redhead from Wyoming
1953 · Reece Duncan
Because of You
1952 · Dr. Breen
Affair in Trinidad
1952 · Max Fabian
Hell Gate: The Watery Grave
· Narrator (voice)
Séries (35)
The Word
1978 · Narrator (voice)
Meeting of Minds
1977 · Galileo Galilei
Great Performances
1971
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969 · Lucas Coleman, Anthony Alquist
Mannix
1967 · Count Boria
National Geographic Specials
1965 · Narrator (voice), Self - Narrator
Daniel Boone
1964 · Eli Bothwell
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp
Mr. Novak
1963 · Allen Ferguson, George Andreas
The Eleventh Hour
1962 · Garrett Nolan
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Judge Philip Hallson
The Defenders
1961 · John Wellman, George Matthias
The Asphalt Jungle
1961 · Roy Bradley
Philip Marlowe
1959 · Dr. Steve Vincent
The Twilight Zone
1959 · George Harper
Bonanza
1959 · Jean Millain
Johnny Staccato
1959
Rawhide
1959 · Albert Hadley
Naked City
1958 · Walter Gerrick
The Rifleman
1958 · Byron Claremont
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Judge Coogan
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958 · King
The Walter Winchell File
1957 · Agent
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Colonel del Armija - Interrogator
Telephone Time
1956 · Joseph Priestley
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · Joe Markheim
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Horace Meade
The Phil Silvers Show
1955 · Hubbell Robinson (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
Climax!
1954 · Frank Martin, David Potter, Eric Betzdorff
The Secret Storm
1954 · Dr. Ian Northcoate
Omnibus
1952 · Odysseus, El Indio
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Hagen
Studio One
1948 · Edward, Narrator (voice), Prof. Tom Monev, Carl Phillips
Kraft Television Theatre
1947 · Narrator (voice)