[HPforGrownups] Time-Turner Casting (was Worst-Case Casting)

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 9213

At 04:39 AM 1/14/01 +0000, Caius Marcius wrote:
>Albus Dumbledore - Alec Guinness
>Minerva McGonagall - Joan Crawford
>Severus Snape - Basil Rathbone (Rickman as Snape? don't make me
>laugh - Rathbone owns this role)
>Rebeus Hagrid - Wallace Beery
>Gilderoy Lockhart - Errol Flynn
>Remus Lupin - Ronald Colman
>Sirius Black - Richard Burton
>Cornelius Fudge - Roland Young
>Lord Voldemort - Peter Sellers (we usually think of Sellers in terms
>of Inspector Clousseau, but he had a special flair for darkness -
>just think of Dr. Strangelove!)
>Peeves - Benny Hill

I think I've posted this before, but here's my own
"Time Turner" casting:

Harry: Roddy McDowell (When he was a kid, as in HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY)

Ron: Ron Howard (When he was too old for Opie but too young for Richie)

Hermione: Diana Lynn (Based on her role as the studious
                         Lucy "Madame Currie" Hill in
                         THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR)

Dumbledore: Robert Donat (Based on GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS)

Hagrid: Michael Bilton (The late British comedian who played the gruff but
                          softhearted groundskeeper in the British
                          sitcom TO THE MANOR BORN)

Prof. McGonnegall: Edna May Oliver (She played many stern matrons
                                with hearts of gold, such as Aunt Betsey in
                                DAVID COPPERFIELD)

Prof. Sprout: Margaret Rutherford  (She was sufficiently short and dumpy)  :)

Prof. Lupin: Michael Rennie  (The very polished fellow with a secret
                       identity in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL)

Snape: Basil Rathbone  (I agree with you, he *owns* the role!)  :)

Lucius Malfoy: Henry Daniell (Famous for portraying snarling bigots
                             in JANE EYRE, THE GREAT DICTATOR, and others)

Ginny: Margaret O'Brian  (I'm not sure how she'd look as a redhead, though.)

Mad-Eye Moody: Finlay Currie (Magwitch in David Lean's version of
                                  GREAT EXPECTATIONS)

You-Know-Who: Ramond Massey;  Wormtail: Peter Lorrie
       (These two are based on their roles in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE)

Rita Skeeter: Hedda Hopper (She'd have been essentially be playing herself!)

Prof. Trelawney: Elsa Lanchester  (I'm not sure why -- I just see her as
                                                        being masterful in 
the role)



                                                 -- Dave