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Starring: Michael Hordern Dvd Release: 1st December, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Michael Hordern was a British actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre. For much of his career, Hordern was mainly known for comic roles, such as Mr Toad in Toad of Toad Hall on stage, but in his later years, his King Lear was much acclaimed. As narrator of FilmFair Productions Paddington Bear, his soothing voice will be familiar to TV audiences everywhere. Hordern was born in Berkhamsted & acted as an amateur with the St. Pancras Peoples Theatre before going into the profession. In 1937, he made his professional stage debut, playing a minor role in Othello & he appeared in many Shakespearean productions after World War II, taking roles such as Polonius in Hamlet & Malvolio in Twelfth Night. On radio he played Gandalf in the BBC s radio adaptation of Tolkien s Lord of the Rings ; another great wizard, Merlin, in an adaptation of T H White s The Sword in the Stone ; & P G Wodehouse s famous indefatigable butler Jeeves in several series in the 1970s. Posters Of Paddington Bear

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