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

[Stephanie Becvar]

No: HPFGUIDX 9224

If we had a time turner, we need andre the giant to be hagrid...

Stephanie
Who is in Love with The Princess Bride



>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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