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Owen is perhaps best known today for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a role he inherited from Lionel Barrymore, who had played the part on the radio for years. [3] Owen in Petticoat Fever (1936)
Sim's performance in Scrooge (1951) is considered by many to be the best portrayal of the title character on screen, [21] and it is among his best-known film roles, particularly in the U.S. [n 2] In the farcical The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) he played the dual roles of Millicent and Clarence Fritton, the headmistress of St Trinian's and ...
Michael Gough voiced Scrooge in a BBC Radio production, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 22 December 1990, with Timothy Bateson reprising his role as Fezziwig. [2] Liz Smith reprised the role of Mrs. Dilber in the 1999 film of A Christmas Carol starring Patrick Stewart, and played Joyce in the 2000 film, which starred Ross Kemp as a modern-day ...
Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley.
Parsons, who has acted and directed shows in Albert Lea since the 1970s, played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge four times. "The last time I played Scrooge and directed," Parsons said.
Ebenezer Scrooge (/ ˌ ɛ b ɪ ˈ n iː z ər ˈ s k r uː dʒ /) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol.Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by visits from the ghost of Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has become a defining ...
The beloved character actor agrees that Richard Curtis's 2003 holiday favorite could have been more diverse. Bill Nighy on playing the Scrooge in 'Love Actually' and why his new drama 'Living' is ...
Actor Paul Carlin, who wrote an adaptation and played Scrooge at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Florida this month, calls Dickens' work a sort of "backdoor brilliance" that sneaks up on its audience ...