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Scourby read 422 books for the Talking Books program of the American Foundation for the Blind, including Homer's Iliad, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Joyce's Ulysses, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. [1]
Alexander Scourby has 79 books on Goodreads with 1629 ratings. Alexander Scourby’s most popular book is 81 Famous Poems: An Audio Companion to the Norton...
Scourby, a radio, film and stage actor, read 422 books for the Talking Books program of the American Foundation for the Blind, including Homer`s “Iliad,” Tolstoy`s “War and Peace,” Joyce`s “Ulysses,” Faulkner`s “The Sound and the Fury” and the King James Version of the Bible.
24 lut 1985 · His most famous recording for the American Foundation for the Blind was the set containing all 66 books of the King James version of the Bible. Mr. Scourby took four years to record the set,...
1 wrz 1974 · The reading by Alexander Scourby has been around for some time on 16‐rpm LP's on various labels, but its reissue in cassette form makes it far more accessible and convenient to hear over a ...
Alexander Scourby was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 13, 1913, to Constantine Nicholas Scourby, a successful restaurateur, wholesale baker and sometime investor in independent motion-pictures, and Betsy Scourby (née Patsakos), a homemaker, both of whom were immigrants from Greece.
Although he had a long and varied career as an actor and narrator, Alexander Scourby (1913-1985), considered his most important work to be the performances he gave as a voice actor in the Talking Books recordings he made for the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB).
