In 1973 Sykes had a small role as a police sergeant in the Douglas Hickox thriller Theatre of Blood, starring Vincent Price with an all-star supporting cast including Jack Hawkins, Diana Rigg, Robert Morley, Diana Dors, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Dennis Price and Milo O ' Shea.

Hobbs scored 126 not out, his first century against Australia, and scored particularly well from the bowling of Ranji Hordern, a googly bowler who had taken 12 wickets in the first Test.

Hordern had an extensive mechanical puzzle collection and was an author on the topic of mechanical puzzles.

Later that year he also portrayed Jacob Marley in a 1977 BBC television adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which starred Michael Hordern as Scrooge ; Sergio Angelini, writing for the British Film Institute considered that " although never frightening, he does exert a strong sense of melancholy, his every move and inflection seemingly tinged with regret and remorse ".

A BBC radio adaptation in 1982 starred Michael Hordern as Merlyn.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

In the BBC radio dramatizations, Gandalf has been voiced by Norman Shelley in The Lord of the Rings ( 1955 – 1956 ), Heron Carvic in The Hobbit ( 1968 ), Bernard Mayes in The Lord of the Rings ( 1979 ) and Sir Michael Hordern in The Lord of the Rings ( 1981 ).

* Gandalf the Grey / Gandalf the White: Michael Hordern

Jonathan Miller has twice directed Michael Hordern in the title role for English television, the first for the BBC's Play of the Month in 1975 and the second for the BBC Television Shakespeare in 1982.

To commemorate the centenary of the first performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation on 13 February 1995 ; directed by Glyn Dearman, it featured Judi Dench as " Lady Bracknell ", Sir Michael Hordern as " Lane ", Michael Sheen as " Jack Worthing ", Martin Clunes as " Algernon Moncrieff ", John Moffatt as " Rev.

It was produced by Ned Sherrin and retained only Frankie Howerd from the cast of the original series ( Ludicrus, for example, was played by Michael Hordern in the film adaptation, Erotica by Madeline Smith and Nausius by Royce Mills ).

During World War II Hordern served on HMS Illustrious ( R87 ), in Operation Ironclad in 1942 and later as a Lt .- Commander in the office of the first Sea Lord.

David Burns did not return for the film role of Senex, which was played in the film by Michael Hordern.

* 1982: Ivanhoe, a television movie starring Anthony Andrews as Ivanhoe, Michael Hordern as his Cedric, Sam Neill as Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert, Olivia Hussey as Rebecca, James Mason as Isaac, Lysette Anthony as Rowena, Julian Glover as King Richard, and David Robb as Robin Hood.

* 1911 – Sir Michael Hordern, British actor ( d. 1995 )

Others in the cast include Anthony Quayle, John Colicos, Michael Hordern, Katharine Blake, Peter Jeffrey, Joseph O ' Conor, William Squire, Vernon Dobtcheff, Denis Quilley, Esmond Knight and T. P. McKenna.

The festival began in 1992 as a Sydney-only show with Violent Femmes as the headline act, along with Nirvana and a range of other foreign and local alternative music acts playing at the Hordern Pavilion.

Mardi Gras Party attendances at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion / Royal Hall of Industries peaked in 1998 with 27, 000 tickets sold.

The actor Michael Hordern ( 1911-1995 ) was born in The Poplars, an 18th century townhouse on the High Street.

* Sir Michael Hordern played Prospero in a 1980 production for BBC television.

In 1967, one of his earliest successes was playing alongside Michael Hordern and Celia Johnson in the London production of Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking.

Potts Point, NSW: Hordern House, 2008.

Sir Michael Murray Hordern ( 3 October 19112 May 1995 ) was an English actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre.

The Poplars, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, birthplace of Sir Michael Hordern.

Hordern was born in The Poplars, an 18th century townhouse in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the son of Margaret Emily ( Murray ) and Capt.

Edward Joseph Calverly Hordern.

In addition to his many Shakespearean roles ( Jaques in As You Like It, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Polonius in Hamlet, Malvolio in Twelfth Night ), Hordern performed in plays by Strindberg, Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinero, Pinter, Dürrenmatt, Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mercer and Tom Stoppard.

On January 26, 2011 ( Australia Day ), Buffett was performing a concert in Australia at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion and fell off the stage after an encore.

.’ Being an Account of the Voyage of Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten 1615-1616 published in Amsterdam in 1622, Hordern House for the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 1999, pp. 202, ISBN 1-875567-25-9.

To this effect I had already severed all connections which bound me to my former existence.

As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.

He already had that slow pace that comes over the elderly, while she herself had all the signs of one who appreciates the joys of living.

and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

When May came the Caravan had already crossed the Equator.

Esther, mistaking my hesitation, assured me that the hospital expense would be taken care of by a leading merchant in Strasbourg whom she had already approached.

These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

This time, added to that which I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes a total of twenty-two ( 22 ) years of education.

It was not so much that the shot had stunned the audience, as that they had been stunned already.

The front of their column had already passed us, when another officer came riding down the side of the road, not five paces from where we were.

They had already lost most of their corn, she thought.

The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

He had already been studying the Bible ; ;

But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.

At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.

The experiments of Romagnosi and others have already been noted but no one had determined the cause-and-effect relationship between these two primary forces.