Alexander Scourby
Actor
Born November 13, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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."
Filmography
The Stuff
Evans
Among the Wild Chimpanzees
Narrator (voice)
Merton: A Film Biography
Narrator (voice)
Australia's Animal Mysteries
Narrator (voice)
The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945
English language narrator
Jesus
Luke (voice)
Etosha: Place of Dry Water
Narrator (voice)
Uncommon Women and Others
Narrator (voice)
The Word
Narrator (voice)
Meeting of Minds
Galileo Galilei
The Hemingway Play
Ernest Hemingway (middle-aged)
Atonement
Narrator (voice)
Montserrat
Great Performances
People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter
Narrator (voice)
The Executioner
Prof. Parker
The Glory of Their Times
Narrator
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Lucas Coleman
The Lonely Dorymen
Narrator (voice)
Grizzly!
Narrator (voice)
Mannix
Count Boria
1999 A.D.
Narrator (voice)
The Incredible World of James Bond
Narrator (voice)
The Gendarme in New York
Alex Scourby
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice)
China!
Narrator
Daniel Boone
Eli Bothwell
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp
Mr. Novak
Allen Ferguson
The Wall
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Eleventh Hour
Garrett Nolan
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
The Governor
Cain's Hundred
Judge Philip Hallson
The Defenders
John Wellman
The Asphalt Jungle
Roy Bradley
Man on a String
Colonel Vadja Kubelov
Seven Thieves
Raymond Le May
Project XX: Life in the Thirties
Self - Narrator
Philip Marlowe
Dr. Steve Vincent
The Twilight Zone
George Harper
Bonanza
Jean Millain
Johnny Staccato
The Big Fisherman
David Ben-Zadok
The Shaggy Dog
Mikhail Andrassy
The Velvet Alley
Harvey Diedrich
Rawhide
Albert Hadley
Me and the Colonel
Major Von Bergen
Naked City
Walter Gerrick
The Rifleman
Byron Claremont
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Judge Coogan
Shirley Temple's Storybook
King
The Song of Christmas
Narrator (voice)
Project XX: The Innocent Years
Self - Narrator
The Walter Winchell File
Agent
The Night America Trembled
Host
Venice: Theme and Variations
Narrator (voice)
Giant
Old Polo
Project XX: The Great War - World War I
Self - Narrator
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Colonel del Armija - Interrogator
Telephone Time
Joseph Priestley
The Twisted Cross
Narrator (voice)
Ransom!
Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Joe Markheim
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Horace Meade
The Phil Silvers Show
Hubbell Robinson (uncredited)
The Silver Chalice
Luke
Sign of the Pagan
Chrysaphius
The Wonderful World of Disney
Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
Climax!
Frank Martin
Victory at Sea
Narrator (voice)
The Shadow
Rollo Grimbauer
The Spirit of Christmas
Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Big Heat
Mike Lagana
The Glory Brigade
Lt. Niklas
The Redhead from Wyoming
Reece Duncan
Because of You
Dr. Breen
Omnibus
Odysseus
Affair in Trinidad
Max Fabian
Studio One
Edward
Kraft Television Theatre