Alexander Scourby Trailers
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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."
Most Popular Alexander Scourby Trailers
Total trailers found: 52
02 March 1971
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 idealistic Spanish officer, Captain Montserrat.
01 January 1984
Enjoy some of the bizarre and unbelievable creatures unique to Australia's shores as investigators and scientists probe the secrets of this infinitely varied wildlife.
08 November 1956
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.
08 November 1962
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story".
06 September 1970
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
27 June 1954
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation.
26 November 1965
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965).
20 December 1954
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.
01 December 1953
This Christmas film, created as a special for television broadcast throughout the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania viewing region, was produced by puppeteer Mabel Beaton and her husband Les for Bell Telephone Company and first aired in 1953.
14 October 1953
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 vicious crime syndicate.
19 October 1979
Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.
14 June 1985
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water.
20 May 1953
During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines.
01 January 1984
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism.
12 September 1971
Canadian wildlife specialists work to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderness areas - species such as the whooping crane, prairie falcons, bighorn sheep, bison, polar bears, and grizzlies.
01 October 1958
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 Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews.
28 October 1965
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.
19 March 1959
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 act of bravery.
11 March 1960
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.
20 June 1979
While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations against their lives.
04 August 1959
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
08 January 1953
A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.
01 March 1957
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, although only 28 minutes long, is rich in composition and aesthetic texture.
31 October 1967
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.
01 January 1972
Documentary exploring the origins and proliferation of Buddhism throughout Chinese history
04 December 1952
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
20 December 1957
A richly animated, exquisitely scored film and narrated by Alexander Scourby. Roy Ringwald composed "The Song of Christmas" as an original musical work to tell the Nativity Story in songs, carols, and passages from the Bible.
24 November 1954
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome.
29 July 1952
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
16 April 1968
For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenland’s banks to fish the cold waters for cod.
11 March 1976
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.
25 March 1960
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.
24 January 1956
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
04 February 1979
A study of England's history, with particular emphasis on the role religion has played in shaping the nation and its people.
30 January 1984
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.
21 November 1957
The relatively calm years between 1900 and 1914 represented a time of tranquility and opulence in America, before World War I removed any carefree virtue that was left to be found.
01 January 1971
The second of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter is compiled from some of the most vivid footage ever filmed of the life of the Netsilik Inuit in the Pelly Bay region of the Canadian Arctic.
18 October 1961
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
09 September 1957
A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938.
01 January 1967
A whimsical yet serious-minded look into the future sponsored by the appliance and radio manufacturer Philco-Ford.
05 March 1981
This Oscar nominated documentary serves not only as a remembrance but a lesson and a warning for the future.
02 August 1954
A feature-length, condensed version of the 1952 documentary TV series 'Victory at Sea'.
22 January 1959
Ernie Pandash 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.
16 October 1959
Project XX examines American life in the 1930s from the Depression and election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the eve of World War II.
07 October 1979
Records the wildlife in Etosha, a preserve surrounding a huge dry lake bed in the southwest African country of Namibia.
01 January 1965
POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY: Presents various aspects of the political, economic, military, and cultural interests of the U.
01 January 1971
The first of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo Summer is compiled from some of the most vivid footage ever filmed of the life of the Netsilik Inuit in the Kugaaruk region (formerly Pelly Bay) of the Canadian Arctic.
25 May 1965
"China!" is a documentary by Felix Greene presenting everyday life in the People’s Republic of China, filmed during extensive travel across the country in the mid-1960s.
15 October 1956
Alexander Scourby narrates this fascinating look at Western culture between 1914 and 1918, when the nations of Europe, and later America, plunged into a level of warfare unlike any known before.
01 January 1970
Documentary using still photographs, vintage film footage and interviews with some of the early stars of American baseball to trace the development of the sport from the end of the 19th Century through the first decade and a half of the Twentieth.
11 November 1954
The voice of an officer counts out the last tense seconds- 'Three Two One - Zero!' - and another atomic explosion rends the stillness.
