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Sir Michael Hordern (1911 - 1995) was a British character actor in film, stage, television, and radio, who supplied the voice of The Wiseman in the 1986 Creature Shop film Labyrinth.

Hordern's film credits included The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Gandhi, The VIPs, Theater of Blood (with Vincent Price) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (as Senex, with Zero Mostel). In television, he was especially active as a voice actor, as the narrator (and all character voices) in The Adventures of Paddington Bear and Badger in the stop-motion Wind in the Willows. His BBC radio roles included P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and J. R. R. Tolkien's Gandalf.