Alexander Scourby

Alexander Scourby

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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Movies starring Alexander Scourby (52)

Jesus (1979)

Luke (Voice)

This Other Eden (1979)

Narrator (Voice)

The Hemingway Play (1976)

Ernest Hemingway (Middle-Aged)

Buddhism in China (1972)

Narrator (Voice)

Atonement (1971)

Narrator (Voice)

Grizzly! (1967)

Narrator (Voice)

1999 A.D. (1967)

Narrator (Voice)

The Wall (1962)

Narrator (Voice) (Uncredited)

Man on a String (1960)

Colonel Vadja Kubelov

Seven Thieves (1960)

Raymond Le May

The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Mikhail Andrassy

Giant (1956)

Old Polo

The Twisted Cross (1956)

Narrator (Voice)

Ransom! (1956)

Dr. Paul Y. Gorman

Victory at Sea (1954)

Narrator (Voice)

The Shadow (1954)

Rollo Grimbauer

The Spirit of Christmas (1953)

Clement Moore / 'Nativity' Narrator (Voice) (Uncredited)

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