The Story of Mankind (film)
The Story of Mankind is a 1957 American dark fantasy film, loosely based on the nonfiction book The Story of Mankind (1921) by Hendrik Willem van Loon. The film was directed and coproduced by Irwin Allen and released by Warner Bros.
1957 U.S. theatrical poster
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly 50 years. His theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of Shakespeare and Shaw, and his film work included leading roles in several adapted literary classics.
On the radio show Three Thirds of the Nation, 3 June 1942
Hardwicke in the 1937 Broadway production of The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Hardwicke portraying Egyptian Pharaoh Sethi in The Ten Commandments (1956)