- Scourby did readings for his own company, Lectern Records, in addition to the hundreds of recordings he made for The Talking Books for the Blind. He may be best-known (if not by name) for having read the entire Bible onto cassette.
- His father was a successful Greek restaurateur and baker. He had two sisters, Lula and Mary, and a brother, Nicholas.
- He played a king in three different adaptations of fairy tales on the series "Shirley Temple's Storybook". They were the only roles he ever played on the series.
- Portrayed various characters in at least four stage versions of "Hamlet" throughout his career - The Player King, Rosencrantz, and Claudius.
- In 1954 NBC created a feature-length (89-minute) motion picture condensation of the TV series, "Victory at Sea" that Alexander Scourby narrated. The original 26 episodes of the 1952-53 series "Victory at Sea" were narrated by Leonard Graves.
- His daughter, Alexandra, was born on March 27, 1944.
- He was one of the founders of New Stages, a Greenwich Village drama company in the 1947-1948 season. During its two-year stay, the company presented such classics as "Blood Wedding" and "The Victors."
- Son-in-law of actor Theodore von Eltz and Peggy Prior.
- He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Big Heat (1953) and Giant (1956).
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 716-717. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
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