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Alexander Scourby
Born: 13th Nov 1913 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA - Died 22nd Feb 1985
Dept: Acting
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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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 88
Film: 53 (60%)
Television: 35 (40%)
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Filmography
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A documentary covering many aspects of the Hell Gate waterway history, including the clearing of the channel, the building of Hell Gate Bridge, and th ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1985
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new ... view
Character:
Evans
1984
In 1960 Jane Goodall set out for Tanzania's remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve to study the behavior of man's closest living relative, the chimpanzee. W ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1984
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the auste ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1984
Enjoy some of the bizarre and unbelievable creatures unique to Australia's shores as investigators and scientists probe the secrets of this infinitely ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Der gelbe Stern
1981
This Oscar nominated documentary serves not only as a remembrance but a lesson and a warning for the future. It follows the plight of Europe's Jews du ... view
Character:
English language narrator
1980
Records the wildlife in Etosha, a preserve surrounding a huge dry lake bed in the southwest African country of Namibia. Presents nature's interplay of ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Character:
Luke (voice)
1979
While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations agains ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1979
A study of England's history, with particular emphasis on the role religion has played in shaping the nation and its people. Includes scenes of Stoneh ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Nov 1978 (first aired)
A document is discovered that appears to be an ancient eyewitness account of the life of Jesus Christ. A public relations executive is hired to public ... view
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Narrator (voice) (4 ep.)
Jan 1977 (first aired)
The show featured guests who played significant roles in world history. Guests would interact with each other and host Steve Allen, discussing philoso ... view
Character:
Galileo Galilei (2 ep.)
1976
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously. ... view
Character:
Ernest Hemingway (middle-aged)
1972
Documentary exploring the origins and proliferation of Buddhism throughout Chinese history ... view
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Narrator (voice)
1971
Canadian wildlife specialists work to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderness areas - species such as the whooping crane, pra ... view
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Narrator (voice)
1971
The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has escaped from Spanish custody with the aid of an id ... view
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Jan 1971 (first aired)
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1971
The first of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summe ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1971
The second of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Wint ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1970
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent. ... view
Character:
Prof. Parker
1970
Documentary using still photographs, vintage film footage and interviews with some of the early stars of American baseball to trace the development of ... view
Character:
Narrator
Sep 1969 (first aired)
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Youn ... view
Character:
Lucas Coleman (1 ep.)
Anthony Alquist (1 ep.)
1968
For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenla ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1967
The grizzly has roamed North America for nearly a million years. And now, in the last century and a half, he has come dangerously close to extinction. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Sep 1967 (first aired)
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed b ... view
Character:
Count Boria (2 ep.)
1967
A whimsical yet serious-minded look into the future sponsored by the appliance and radio manufacturer Philco-Ford. In the "1999 House of Tomorrow", ea ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1965
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander ... view
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Narrator (voice)
Original title: Le Gendarme à New-York
1965
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y. ... view
Character:
Alex Scourby
Sep 1965 (first aired)
For decades, the National Geographic Society has presented specials on nature, foreign culture, scientific breakthroughs, and things which fall under ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (3 ep.)
1965
"China!" is a documentary by Felix Greene presenting everyday life in the People’s Republic of China, filmed during extensive travel across the coun ... view
Character:
Narrator
1965
POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY: Presents various aspects of the political, economic, military, and cultural interests of the U.S. abroad, showing some of the w ... view
Character:
Narrator
Sep 1964 (first aired)
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10 ... view
Character:
Eli Bothwell (1 ep.)
Sep 1964 (first aired)
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N.
Their immediate superior is Mr. ... view
Character:
Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp (1 ep.)
Sep 1963 (first aired)
Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965. ... view
Character:
Allen Ferguson (1 ep.)
George Andreas (1 ep.)
1962
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gath ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Oct 1962 (first aired)
The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episod ... view
Character:
Garrett Nolan (1 ep.)
1961
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smolderin ... view
Character:
The Governor
Sep 1961 (first aired)
A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice. ... view
Character:
Judge Philip Hallson (1 ep.)
Sep 1961 (first aired)
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in ... view
Character:
John Wellman (1 ep.)
George Matthias (1 ep.)
Apr 1961 (first aired)
Police adventure series set in a modern American metropolis, concerning the problems of a special police group formed to fight high echelon crime. The ... view
Character:
Roy Bradley (1 ep.)
1960
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy. ... view
Character:
Colonel Vadja Kubelov
1960
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo. ... view
Character:
Raymond Le May
1959
Project XX examines American life in the 1930s from the Depression and election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the eve of World War II. Note: Originally ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator
Oct 1959 (first aired)
Philip Marlowe is a 1959-1960 half-hour ABC crime series, featuring Philip Carey as Marlowe, the fictional detective originally created by Raymond Cha ... view
Character:
Dr. Steve Vincent (1 ep.)
Oct 1959 (first aired)
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or un ... view
Character:
George Harper (1 ep.)
Sep 1959 (first aired)
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. ... view
Character:
Jean Millain (1 ep.)
Sep 1959 (first aired)
Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is hi ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1959
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus. ... view
Character:
David Ben-Zadok
1959
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an ... view
Character:
Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
1959
Ernie Pandash has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time. ... view
Character:
Harvey Diedrich
Jan 1959 (first aired)
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventu ... view
Character:
Albert Hadley (1 ep.)
1958
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel ... view
Character:
Major Von Bergen
Sep 1958 (first aired)
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It ... view
Character:
Byron Claremont (1 ep.)
Sep 1958 (first aired)
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the sam ... view
Character:
Walter Gerrick (1 ep.)
Sep 1958 (first aired)
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three sea ... view
Character:
Judge Coogan (1 ep.)
Jan 1958 (first aired)
Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations o ... view
Character:
King (2 ep.)
1957
A richly animated, exquisitely scored film and narrated by Alexander Scourby. Roy Ringwald composed "The Song of Christmas" as an original musical wor ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1957
The relatively calm years between 1900 and 1914 represented a time of tranquility and opulence in America, before World War I removed any carefree vir ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator
Oct 1957 (first aired)
The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York C ... view
Character:
Agent (1 ep.)
1957
A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938. [An episode of the CBS anthology series "St ... view
Character:
Host
1957
Ivory's initial effort as a filmmaker was Venice: Theme and Variations, a documentary made as his master's thesis at the USC film school that, althoug ... view
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Narrator (voice)
1956
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She m ... view
Character:
Old Polo
1956
Alexander Scourby narrates this fascinating look at Western culture between 1914 and 1918, when the nations of Europe, and later America, plunged into ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator
Oct 1956 (first aired)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961 ... view
Character:
Colonel del Armija - Interrogator (1 ep.)
Apr 1956 (first aired)
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbit ... view
Character:
Joseph Priestley (1 ep.)
1956
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers. ... view
Character:
Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
Oct 1955 (first aired)
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this ser ... view
Character:
Joe Markheim (1 ep.)
Oct 1955 (first aired)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. ... view
Character:
Horace Meade (1 ep.)
Sep 1955 (first aired)
The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, was a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 for 142 episodes, plus a 1959 special. ... view
Character:
Hubbell Robinson (uncredited) (1 ep.)
1954
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels ... view
Character:
Luke
1954
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosi ... view
Character:
Chrysaphius
1954
The voice of an officer counts out the last tense seconds- 'Three Two One - Zero!' - and another atomic explosion rends the stillness. This film, made ... view
Character:
Narrator
Oct 1954 (first aired)
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series prem ... view
Character:
Dr. Mikhail Andrassy (1 ep.)
Oct 1954 (first aired)
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Cos ... view
Character:
Frank Martin (1 ep.)
David Potter (1 ep.)
Eric Betzdorff (1 ep.)
1954
A feature-length, condensed version of the 1952 documentary TV series 'Victory at Sea'. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1954
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont ... view
Character:
Rollo Grimbauer
Feb 1954 (first aired)
The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created th ... view
Character:
Dr. Ian Northcoate (319 ep.)
1953
This Christmas film, created as a special for television broadcast throughout the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania viewing region, was produced by puppeteer ... view
Character:
Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1953
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicio ... view
Character:
Mike Lagana
1953
During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Due to h ... view
Character:
Lt. Niklas
1953
A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling. ... view
Character:
Reece Duncan
1952
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past. ... view
Character:
Dr. Breen
Nov 1952 (first aired)
Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series. ... view
Character:
Odysseus (1 ep.)
El Indio (1 ep.)
1952
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer. ... view
Character:
Max Fabian
Oct 1950 (first aired)
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original telep ... view
Character:
Hagen (1 ep.)
Nov 1948 (first aired)
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, prese ... view
Character:
Edward (1 ep.)
Narrator (voice) (1 ep.)
Prof. Tom Monev (1 ep.)
Carl Phillips (1 ep.)
May 1947 (first aired)
Kraft Television Theater is an American, well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (4 ep.)
Narrator (voice) (1 ep.)