All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Michael Hordern, ranked

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel miserly businessman until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three spirits, sent show him how his unhappy childhood and maladaptive adult behavior over has let him a selfish, lonely, bitter old man.

John Blackthorne, an English ship pilot, finds himself in a predicament when his vessel crashes on the Japanese coast in the early 17th century. Forced to navigate the complex political landscape, he becomes entangled in a power struggle between Toranaga and Ishido, the two most influential figures in Japan at the time. As they vie for the coveted title of Shogun, Blackthorne becomes a key player in a war that will determine the ultimate wielder of power.

During World War II, a British aircraft is shot down and crashes in Nazi held territory. The Germans capture the only survivor, American Brigadier General George Carnaby, who is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that’s nearly impossible to breach. It’s up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it’s too late.

The West Berlin office of MI6, under station chief Alec Leamas, has suffered from reduced effectiveness. Leamas is approached by a series of operatives, each one passing him up the chain of the East German intelligence service, and he expresses a willingness to sell British secrets for money.

Little Oliver Twist, already abused, starved, and overworked, is apprenticed to an undertaker and runs away to London after being bullied by an older apprentice. There, he is taken in by Fagin, a fence and thief-trainer, and his gang of pickpockets. He is befriended by Nancy, a good-hearted prostitute, and meets her lover, the brutal housebreaker Bill Sikes.

On Christmas Eve in London, Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly moneylender at a counting house, does not share the merriment of Christmas. In his house, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns Scrooge to repent or be condemned in the afterlife like he was, informing him that three spirits will visit him during the night.

Musical version of Charles Dickens tale The old curiosity shop. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

In 1955, William Smith, a widower, lives with his nine-year-old son, Danny, in a vardo behind the filling station and garage where he works in the English countryside. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy, and when he won’t take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father.

A journalist is inadvertently dispatched to report from the war front. Upon arrival, he encounters fellow reporters who are eagerly awaiting a big story. When a prominent journalist disappears, they assume he has uncovered a major scoop and band together to search for him.

The story of Joseph Andrews, a young man who is dismissed from his position as a footman and sets out on a journey to reunite with his sweetheart, Fanny. Along the way, he meets a variety of colorful characters, including Lady Booby, who tries to seduce him, and Parson Adams, a kind-hearted clergyman who becomes his traveling companion.