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Cecil André Mesritz, known professionally as André Morell, was an English actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). He also appeared in the films The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Ben-Hur (1959), in several of Hammer's horror films throughout the 1960s and in the acclaimed ITV historical drama The Caesars (1968).
Birth Name
Cecil André Mesritz
Born
Friday, 20 August 1909
Died
Tuesday, 28 November 1978
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Elementary My Dear Watson: The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes | Doctor Watson | 2009 |
Peter Cushing: A One-Way Ticket to Hollywood | Dr.Watson / O' Brien | 1989 |
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes | Dr. Watson | 1985 |
The Great Train Robbery | Judge | 1978 |
The Lord of the Rings | Elrond / Elrond (voice) | 1978 |
Will Shakespeare | Edward Alleyn | 1978 |
The Professionals | Brigadier Stadden | 1977 |
The Message | Abu Talib | 1977 |
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella | Bride's Father | 1976 |
The Message | Abu-Talib | 1976 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Elementary My Dear Watson: The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes | Doctor Watson | 2009 |
Peter Cushing: A One-Way Ticket to Hollywood | Dr.Watson / O' Brien | 1989 |
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes | Dr. Watson | 1985 |
The Great Train Robbery | Judge | 1978 |
The Lord of the Rings | Elrond / Elrond (voice) | 1978 |
Will Shakespeare | Edward Alleyn | 1978 |
The Professionals | Brigadier Stadden | 1977 |
The Message | Abu Talib | 1977 |
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella | Bride's Father | 1976 |
The Message | Abu-Talib | 1976 |
Barry Lyndon | Lord Gustavus Adolphus Wendover / Lord Gustavos Adolphus Wendover | 1975 |
Edward the King | Lord Palmerston | 1975 |
Armchair Cinema | André Fage | 1974 |
Crown Court | Mr. Justice Caldwell / Justice Caldwell | 1972 |
The Adventurer | Father Antonius | 1972 |
Pope Joan | Emperor Louis | 1972 |
Spyder's Web | Lord Rashmore | 1972 |
The Man and the Snake | Dr. Druring | 1972 |
10 Rillington Place | Judge Lewis | 1971 |
Play for Today | Sir Geoffrey Wolf | 1970 |
Julius Caesar | Cicero | 1970 |
Special Branch | Scabrienski | 1969 |
The Caesars | Tiberius | 1968 |
The Expert | Major Williams | 1968 |
The Vengeance of She | Kassim | 1968 |
Dark of the Sun | Bussier | 1968 |
ITV Playhouse | Piers Collingham | 1967 |
The Mummy's Shroud | Sir Basil Walden | 1967 |
The Wrong Box | Club Butler | 1966 |
Judith | Haim | 1966 |
The Plague of the Zombies | Sir James Forbes | 1966 |
BBC Play of the Month | Cyril Horsham | 1965 |
Call My Bluff | Self | 1965 |
Knock on Any Door | McIntyre | 1965 |
She | Haumeid | 1965 |
Public Eye | Robert Stuart / Bishop | 1965 |
Secret Agent | Sir Duncan | 1964 |
The Moon-Spinners | Yacht Captain | 1964 |
Theatre 625 | Richard Heyrick | 1964 |
Woman of Straw | Judge | 1964 |
Doctor Who | Marshal Gaspard de Saux-Tavannes | 1963 |
Maupassant | The Abbe Vilbois | 1963 |
Love Story | The Rev. Roderick Ordway | 1963 |
The Human Jungle | Sir Desmond Shaw | 1963 |
The Saint | Bernhard Raxel | 1962 |
Cash on Demand | Colonel Gore Hepburn | 1961 |
The Shadow of the Cat | Walter Venable | 1961 |
The Avengers | Horatio Kane / Lord Teale | 1961 |
On Trial | Sir Edward Clarke | 1960 |
Theatre 70 | Colonel Gore-Hepburn | 1960 |
Trouble in the Sky | Capt. Manningham / Capt. Edward Manningham | 1960 |
Ben-Hur | Sextus | 1959 |
The Hound of the Baskervilles | Doctor Watson | 1959 |
The Giant Behemoth | Prof. James Bickford | 1959 |
One Step Beyond | Gen. Guenther Hautmann | 1959 |
Quatermass and the Pit | Professor Bernard Quatermass | 1958 |
The Invisible Man | General Shafari (as Andre Morell) | 1958 |
The Camp on Blood Island | Lambert / Col. Lambert | 1958 |
Paris Holiday | American Ambassador | 1958 |
Diamond Safari | Williamson | 1958 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai | Colonel Green / Col. Green | 1957 |
Pickup Alley | Commissioner Breckner | 1957 |
Zarak | Maj. Atherton | 1956 |
The Buccaneers | Governor | 1956 |
Armchair Theatre | Halvard Solness / Etienne / Elver Task / Doctor Sloper | 1956 |
The Baby and the Battleship | Marshal | 1956 |
The Black Tent | Sheik Salem ben Yussef | 1956 |
The Man Who Never Was | Sir Bernard Spilsbury | 1956 |
They Can't Hang Me | Robert Isaac Pitt / Robert Pitt | 1955 |
ITV Play of the Week | Valentine Lefevre | 1955 |
Lilli Palmer Theatre | Doctor | 1955 |
ITV Television Playhouse | Judge Bentley / Greek wrestling champion / David / (segment 'The Bet') | 1955 |
Summertime | Englishman | 1955 |
The Secret | Chief Inspector Blake | 1955 |
Three Cases of Murder | Dr. Audlin ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) / Dr. Audlin (segment "Lord Mountdrago") | 1955 |
The Magical World of Disney | Yacht Captain | 1954 |
The Black Knight | Sir Ontzlake | 1954 |
The Black Knight | Sir Ontzlake | 1954 |
His Majesty O'Keefe | Alfred Tetins | 1954 |
The Golden Link | Supt. Blake | 1954 |
Rheingold Theatre | Jan / Georges / Capt. Arthur Welch / Brigadier Gromov | 1953 |
Stolen Face | David | 1952 |
The Frightened Bride | George Rackham | 1952 |
High Treason | Supt. Folland / Supt. Alec Folland | 1951 |
Flesh and Blood | Dr. Marshall / Dr. "Willie" Marshall | 1951 |
The Clouded Yellow | Secret Service Chief Chubb (as Andre Morell) / Secret Service Chief Chubb | 1950 |
Seven Days to Noon | Superintendent Folland / Superintendent G.W. Folland | 1950 |
Trio | Dr. Lennox (in segment Sanatorium) / Dr. Lennox | 1950 |
Stage Fright | Inspector Byard | 1950 |
So Long at the Fair | Doctor Hart | 1950 |
Madeleine | Defending Counsel / Defense Attorney | 1950 |
No Place for Jennifer | Counsel / William's Counsel | 1950 |
If This Be Sin | Doctor McCatcheon | 1949 |
Against the Wind | Abbot | 1948 |
Unpublished Story | Marchand | 1942 |
Three Silent Men | Klein / Charles Klein | 1940 |
Ten Days in Paris | Victor | 1940 |
Many Tanks Mr. Atkins | Hart | 1938 |
13 Men and a Gun | Kroty | 1938 |