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Alexander Scourby

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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."

Known For: Acting

Born: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, 1913-11-13

Died: 1985-02-22

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Affair in Trinidad	Max Fabian	63
2	1952	Because of You	Dr. Breen	57
3	1953	The Redhead from Wyoming	Reece Duncan	61
4	1953	The Glory Brigade	Lt. Niklas	57
5	1953	The Big Heat	Mike Lagana	77
6	1953	The Spirit of Christmas	Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	64
7	1954	The Shadow	Rollo Grimbauer	45
8	1954	Victory at Sea	Narrator (voice)	0
9	1954	Three Two One - Zero!	Narrator	60
10	1954	Sign of the Pagan	Chrysaphius	52
11	1954	The Silver Chalice	Luke	44
12	1956	Ransom!	Dr. Paul Y. Gorman	72
13	1956	The Twisted Cross	Narrator (voice)	0
14	1956	Project XX: The Great War - World War I	Self - Narrator	0
15	1956	Giant	Old Polo	76
16	1957	Venice: Theme and Variations	Narrator (voice)	40
17	1957	The Night America Trembled	Host	75
18	1957	Project XX: The Innocent Years	Self - Narrator	0
19	1957	The Song of Christmas	Narrator (voice)	0
20	1958	Me and the Colonel	Major Von Bergen	62
21	1959	The Velvet Alley	Harvey Diedrich	0
22	1959	The Shaggy Dog	Dr. Mikhail Andrassy	61
23	1959	The Big Fisherman	David Ben-Zadok	46
24	1959	Project XX: Life in the Thirties	Narrator	70
25	1960	Seven Thieves	Raymond Le May	65
26	1960	Man on a String	Colonel Vadja Kubelov	60
27	1961	The Devil at 4 O'Clock	The Governor	63
28	1962	The Wall	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	70
29	1965	The Gendarme in New York	Alex Scourby	63
30	1965	The Incredible World of James Bond	Narrator (voice)	60
31	1967	1999 A.D.	Narrator (voice)	62
32	1967	Grizzly!	Narrator (voice)	0
33	1968	The Lonely Dorymen	Narrator (voice)	70
34	1970	The Executioner	Prof. Parker	61
35	1971	People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter	Narrator (voice)	50
36	1971	People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer	Narrator (voice)	0
37	1971	Montserrat		0
38	1971	Atonement	Narrator (voice)	0
39	1972	Buddhism in China	Narrator (voice)	0
40	1976	The Story of Jesus Through the Eyes of Children	Luke (voice)	0
41	1979	Uncommon Women and Others	Narrator (voice)	0
42	1979	Jesus	Luke (voice)	83
43	1980	Etosha: Place of Dry Water	Narrator (voice)	0
44	1984	Merton: A Film Biography	Narrator (voice)	80
45		Hell Gate: The Watery Grave	Narrator (voice)	0
46	1976	The Hemingway Play	Ernest Hemingway (middle-aged)	0
47	1979	This Other Eden	Narrator (voice)	0
48	1981	The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945	English language narrator	61
49	1984	Australia's Animal Mysteries	Narrator (voice)	70
50	1984	Among the Wild Chimpanzees	Narrator (voice)	73
51	1985	The Stuff	Evans	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Kraft Television Theatre		75
2	1947	Kraft Television Theatre	Narrator (voice)	75
3	1948	Studio One	Edward	50
4	1948	Studio One	Narrator (voice)	50
5	1948	Studio One	Prof. Tom Monev	50
6	1948	Studio One	Carl Phillips	50
7	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Hagen	63
8	1952	Omnibus	Odysseus	60
9	1952	Omnibus	El Indio	60
10	1954	The Secret Storm	Dr. Ian Northcoate	37
11	1954	Climax!	Frank Martin	33
12	1954	Climax!	David Potter	33
13	1954	Climax!	Eric Betzdorff	33
14	1955	The Phil Silvers Show	Hubbell Robinson (uncredited)	70
15	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Horace Meade	77
16	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Joe Markheim	54
17	1956	Telephone Time	Joseph Priestley	63
18	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Colonel del Armija - Interrogator	55
19	1957	The Walter Winchell File	Agent	50
20	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	King	62
21	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Judge Coogan	69
22	1958	Naked City	Walter Gerrick	55
23	1958	The Rifleman	Byron Claremont	70
24	1959	Rawhide	Albert Hadley	72
25	1959	Johnny Staccato		56
26	1959	Bonanza	Jean Millain	75
27	1959	The Twilight Zone	George Harper	85
28	1959	Philip Marlowe	Dr. Steve Vincent	50
29	1961	The Asphalt Jungle	Roy Bradley	50
30	1961	The Defenders	John Wellman	62
31	1961	The Defenders	George Matthias	62
32	1961	Cain's Hundred	Judge Philip Hallson	47
33	1962	The Eleventh Hour	Garrett Nolan	60
34	1963	Mr. Novak	Allen Ferguson	65
35	1963	Mr. Novak	George Andreas	65
36	1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp	72
37	1964	Daniel Boone	Eli Bothwell	69
38	1965	National Geographic Specials	Narrator (voice)	65
39	1967	Mannix	Count Boria	67
40	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Lucas Coleman	65
41	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Anthony Alquist	65
42	1971	Great Performances		53
43	1977	Meeting of Minds	Galileo Galilei	95
44	1978	The Word	Narrator (voice)	50