Alexander Scourby
Birthday: 1913-11-13
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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."
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Giant
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo...
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Merton: A Film Biography
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
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The Devil at 4 O'Clock
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper c...
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The Big Heat
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law in...
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Affair in Trinidad
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer....
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Seven Thieves
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull of...
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The Silver Chalice
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the fa...
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Man on a String
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy....
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The Glory Brigade
During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a recon...
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Hell Gate: The Watery Grave
A documentary covering many aspects of the Hell Gate waterway history, including the clearing of the...
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Ransom!
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers....
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Me and the Colonel
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitche...
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Buddhism in China
Documentary exploring the origins and proliferation of Buddhism throughout Chinese history...
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Uncommon Women and Others
While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Hol...
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The Executioner
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent....
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The Incredible World of James Bond
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the rel...
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The Stuff
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a ...
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The Lonely Dorymen
For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Ba...
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The Big Fisherman
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus....
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Sign of the Pagan
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On ar...
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The Shadow
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case...
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The Shaggy Dog
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inoppo...
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Atonement
Canadian wildlife specialists work to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderne...
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The Song of Christmas
A richly animated, exquisitely scored film and narrated by Alexander Scourby. Roy Ringwald composed ...
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The Spirit of Christmas
This Christmas film, created as a special for television broadcast throughout the Philadelphia, Penn...
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Montserrat
The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has e...
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Among the Wild Chimpanzees
In 1960 Jane Goodall set out for Tanzania's remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve to study the behavior o...
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This Other Eden
A study of England's history, with particular emphasis on the role religion has played in shaping th...
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Victory at Sea
A feature-length, condensed version of the 1952 documentary TV series 'Victory at Sea'....
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The Wall
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compellin...
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The Redhead from Wyoming
A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling....
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The Velvet Alley
Ernie Pandash has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he...
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1999 A.D.
A whimsical yet serious-minded look into the future sponsored by the appliance and radio manufacture...
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Grizzly!
The grizzly has roamed North America for nearly a million years. And now, in the last century and a ...
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People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter
The second of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board ...
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The Gendarme in New York
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmer...
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Venice: Theme and Variations
Ivory's initial effort as a filmmaker was Venice: Theme and Variations, a documentary made as his ma...
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Etosha: Place of Dry Water
Records the wildlife in Etosha, a preserve surrounding a huge dry lake bed in the southwest African ...
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Australia's Animal Mysteries
Enjoy some of the bizarre and unbelievable creatures unique to Australia's shores as investigators a...
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The Hemingway Play
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points...
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The Night America Trembled
A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in...
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People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer
The first of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board o...
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Three Two One - Zero!
The voice of an officer counts out the last tense seconds- 'Three Two One - Zero!' - and another ato...
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Project XX: Life in the Thirties
Project XX examines American life in the 1930s from the Depression and election of Franklin D. Roose...
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The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945
This Oscar nominated documentary serves not only as a remembrance but a lesson and a warning for the...
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Project XX: The Great War - World War I
Alexander Scourby narrates this fascinating look at Western culture between 1914 and 1918, when the ...
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Project XX: The Innocent Years
The relatively calm years between 1900 and 1914 represented a time of tranquility and opulence in Am...
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The Glory of Their Times
Documentary using still photographs, vintage film footage and interviews with some of the early star...
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