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Alexander Scourby

Alexander Scourby

Acting1913Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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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."

Acting History

1985
The Stuff
as Evans
1984
Merton: A Film Biography
as Narrator (voice)
1979
1975
Mannix
TVas Count Boria2 eps
1971
Atonement
as Narrator (voice)
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TVas Anthony Alquist1 eps
1967
National Geographic Specials
TVas Narrator (voice)3 eps
1965
China!
as Narrator
Daniel Boone
TVas Eli Bothwell1 eps
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TVas Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp1 eps
Mr. Novak
TVas George Andreas1 eps
1963
Naked City
TVas Walter Gerrick1 eps
The Defenders
TVas John Wellman / George Matthias1 eps
1962
The Eleventh Hour
TVas Garrett Nolan
1961
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
as The Governor
Cain's Hundred
TVas Judge Philip Hallson1 eps
1960
Man on a String
as Colonel Vadja Kubelov
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TVas Horace Meade1 eps
The Twilight Zone
TVas George Harper1 eps
1959
The Shaggy Dog
as Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
The Big Fisherman
as David Ben-Zadok
Bonanza
TVas Jean Millain1 eps
Rawhide
TVas Albert Hadley1 eps
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TVas Judge Coogan1 eps
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TVas Colonel del Armija - Interrogator1 eps
The Rifleman
TVas Byron Claremont1 eps
1958
Me and the Colonel
as Major Von Bergen
Climax!
TVas Eric Betzdorff1 eps
The Phil Silvers Show
TVas Hubbell Robinson (uncredited)1 eps
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TVas King2 eps
1957
Studio One
TVas Carl Phillips1 eps
Kraft Television Theatre
TVas Narrator (voice)1 eps
1956
Ransom!
as Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
Giant
as Old Polo
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TVas Joe Markheim1 eps
Telephone Time
TVas Joseph Priestley1 eps
1954
The Shadow
as Rollo Grimbauer
The Wonderful World of Disney
TVas Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
The Secret Storm
TVas Dr. Ian Northcoate319 eps
Omnibus
TVas Odysseus / El Indio1 eps
1953
The Big Heat
as Mike Lagana
1952
Because of You
as Dr. Breen
Affair in Trinidad
as Max Fabian
1950

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/13/1913
Day of Death
2/22/1985
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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