Alexander Scourby
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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."
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.124 |
| Birthday | 1913-11-13 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Alex Scourby, |
1956
Giant
7.6/670
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...
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Giant
1961
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
6.388/40
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...
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The Devil at 4 O'Clock
1953
The Big Heat
7.641/476
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...
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The Big Heat
1952
Affair in Trinidad
6.3/49
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
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Affair in Trinidad
1979
Jesus
8.3/213
Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.
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Jesus
1960
Seven Thieves
6.6/29
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.
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Seven Thieves
1954
The Silver Chalice
4.5/31
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...
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The Silver Chalice
1960
Man on a String
5.8/5
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.
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Man on a String
1953
The Glory Brigade
5.7/6
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...
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The Glory Brigade
Hell Gate: The Watery Grave
0/0
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...
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Hell Gate: The Watery Grave
1956
Ransom!
7.3/31
A rich man stuns his wife and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.
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Ransom!
1958
Me and the Colonel
6.3/13
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...
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Me and the Colonel
1971
Atonement
0/0
Canadian wildlife specialists work to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderness areas - species such as the whooping crane, pra...
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Atonement
1979
Uncommon Women and Others
0/0
While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations agains...
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Uncommon Women and Others
1970
The Executioner
5.7/7
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
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The Executioner
1985
The Stuff
5.898/433
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dess...
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The Stuff
1953
The Spirit of Christmas
6.3/3
This Christmas film, created as a special for television broadcast throughout the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania viewing region, was produced by puppeteer...
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The Spirit of Christmas
1959
The Big Fisherman
4.6/7
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
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The Big Fisherman
1954
Sign of the Pagan
5.2/4
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosi...
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Sign of the Pagan
1959
The Shaggy Dog
6.125/80
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...
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The Shaggy Dog
1971
Montserrat
0/0
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 ide...
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Montserrat
1984
Among the Wild Chimpanzees
7.3/3
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...
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Among the Wild Chimpanzees
1954
Victory at Sea
0/0
A feature-length, condensed version of the 1952 documentary TV series 'Victory at Sea'.
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Victory at Sea
1979
This Other Eden
0/0
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...
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This Other Eden
1962
The Wall
7/6
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gath...
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The Wall
1953
The Redhead from Wyoming
6.1/11
A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.
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The Redhead from Wyoming
1959
The Velvet Alley
0/0
Ernie Pandish 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.
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The Velvet Alley
1956
The Twisted Cross
0/0
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The Twisted Cross
1967
1999 A.D.
6.2/5
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...
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1999 A.D.
1967
Grizzly!
0/0
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....
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Grizzly!
1971
People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter
5/2
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...
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People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter
1965
The Gendarme in New York
6.324/487
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
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The Gendarme in New York
1957
Venice: Theme and Variations
4/3
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...
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Venice: Theme and Variations
1984
Australia's Animal Mysteries
7/1
Enjoy some of the bizarre and unbelievable creatures unique to Australia's shores as investigators and scientists probe the secrets of this infinitely...
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Australia's Animal Mysteries
1980
Etosha: Place of Dry Water
0/0
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...
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Etosha: Place of Dry Water
1976
The Hemingway Play
0/0
Writer Ernest Hemingway confronts himself at various stages of his life.
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The Hemingway Play
1957
The Night America Trembled
7/1
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...
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The Night America Trembled
1972
Buddhism in China
0/0
Documentary exploring the origins and proliferation of Buddhism throughout Chinese history
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Buddhism in China
1952
Because of You
6.2/4
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
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Because of You
1954
The Shadow
4.5/1
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont...
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The Shadow
1957
The Song of Christmas
0/0
A richly animated, exquisitely scored film and narrated by Alexander Scourby. Roy Ringwald composed "The Song of Christmas" as an original musical wor...
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The Song of Christmas
1984
Merton: A Film Biography
8/1
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...
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Merton: A Film Biography
1965
The Incredible World of James Bond
6/1
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander...
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1968
The Lonely Dorymen
7/1
For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenla...
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