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

[Denise R]

No: HPFGUIDX 9214

Peter Lorrie as Wormtail, wow.

At least he's got experience playing animals (aka Ravens.....!)
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dave Hardenbrook 
  To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Time-Turner Casting (was Worst-Case Casting)


  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


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