Ebenezer Scrooge - Actors Portraying Ebenezer Scrooge

Actors Portraying Ebenezer Scrooge

Scrooge has been portrayed by:

• Tom Ricketts in 1908
• Marc McDermott in 1910
• Seymour Hicks in 1913 and again in 1935
• Rupert Julian in 1916
• Russell Thorndike in 1923
• Lionel Barrymore on radio throughout the 1930s and 1940s
• John Barrymore on radio, for ailing brother Lionel 1930s
• Orson Welles in 1939 on radio replacing Lionel Barrymore for one appearance only.
• Reginald Owen in 1938
• John Carradine in 1947
• Malcolm Keen in 1947
• Taylor Holmes in 1949
• Bransby Williams in 1950
• Alastair Sim in 1951, and again in 1971 (voice)
• Fredric March in 1954
• Basil Rathbone in 1956 and 1958
• Stan Freberg in Green Chri$tma$, 1958. "Mr Scrooge" is portrayed as an advertising executive "...trying to find new ways of tying their product into Christmas." The satirical skit was so sarcastic that sponsors threatened to pull their ads from any radio station that dared play it. As a result, the skit received very little airplay until 1983, and still doesn't get much.
• Jim Backus (as Quincy Magoo) in Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, 1962
• Cyril Ritchard in 1964
• Wilfrid Brambell in a 1966 radio musical version (adapted from his Broadway role)
• Sid James in the Carry On Christmas Specials, 1969
• Albert Finney in 1970
• Marcel Marceau in 1973
• Michael Hordern in 1977
• Rich Little as W.C. Fields playing Scrooge in Rich Little's Christmas Carol, 1978
• Walter Matthau (voice) in The Stingiest Man in Town, 1978
• Henry Winkler as Benedict Slade in An American Christmas Carol, 1979
• Hoyt Axton as Cyrus Flint in Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol, 1979
• Alan Young (as Scrooge McDuck) in Mickey's Christmas Carol, 1983
• George C. Scott in 1984
• Robert Guillaume as John Grin in John Grin's Christmas, 1986
• Bill Murray as Frank Cross in Scrooged, 1988
  • Buddy Hackett (as himself) played Scrooge in the film-within-a-film.
• Rowan Atkinson as Ebenezer Blackadder in Blackadder's Christmas Carol, 1988
• Michael Caine in The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992
• Jeffrey Sanzel has appeared in more than 1,000 stage performances since 1992
• James Earl Jones in Bah, Humbug, 1994
• Henry Corden (as Fred Flintstone) in A Flintstones Christmas Carol, 1994
• Susan Lucci as Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge in Ebbie, 1995
• Beavis as Beavis Scrooge, 1995
• Cicely Tyson as Ebenita Scrooge in Ms. Scrooge, 1997
• Tim Curry (voice) in 1997
• Jack Palance in Ebenezer, 1997
• Patrick Stewart in 1999
• Vanessa Williams as Ebony Scrooge in A Diva's Christmas Carol, 2000
• Ross Kemp as Eddie Scrooge in 2000
• Dean Jones in Scrooge and Marley, 2001
• Tori Spelling as "Scroogette" Carol Cartman in A Carol Christmas, 2003
• Kelsey Grammer in 2004
• Bill Bourne in The Carol Project, 2006
• Joe Alaskey (as Daffy Duck) in Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, 2006
• Helen Fraser as Sylvia Hollamby in Bad Girls 2006 Christmas Special
• Morwenna Banks as Eden Starling (Barbie) in Barbie in a Christmas Carol, 2008
• Jim Carrey in 2009 (Carrey also played the three spirits haunting Scrooge).
• Catherine Tate as Nan in "Nan's Christmas Carol", 2009
• Christina Milian as Sloane Spencer in "Christmas Cupid," December 2010
• Eric Braeden as Victor Newman in "Victor's Christmas Carol" on The Young and the Restless, December 2010
• Michael Gambon as Kazran Sardick in " A Christmas Carol" on Doctor Who, December 2010.