Ghost of Christmas Present - Appearance in Various Film Adaptations

Appearance in Various Film Adaptations

• In the 1970 musical adaptation "Scrooge", Kenneth More portrays the main character. After a song ("I Like Life"), the ghost takes Scrooge to Cratchit's house to see a brief argument after Bob claims that the dinner is courtesy of Scrooge instead of Bob's compensation, followed by a song by Tiny Tim ("The Beautiful Day"). After questioning the ghost about Tiny Tim, the ghost takes Scrooge to his nephew's house for a round of "The Minister's Cat" before the ghost leaves Scrooge back in his home to meet the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. "Ignorance" and "Want" do not appear in this adaptation.
• In the Disney 1983 animated adaptation titled "Mickey's Christmas Carol", Willie the Giant (Will Ryan) portrays the ghost.
• In the 1984 film A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott, the ghost, portrayed by Edward Woodward, greatly resembles the illustrations in the Dickens' version.
• In "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" (1988) Ebenezer Blackadder is visited by "the Spirit of Christmas" (played by Robbie Coltrane) who bears a close resemblance to the Ghost of Christmas Present of Dickens' verion.
• The 1988 comedy film Scrooged's incarnation of the ghost was a fairy played by Carol Kane.
• The Muppet portraying the ghost in Disney's 1992 film The Muppet Christmas Carol greatly resembles Dickens' version, however the vile forms of Ignorance and Want are absent, most likely to make the film more suitable for children. He is portrayed to have similarities to Santa Claus.
• In The Real Ghostbusters episode "X-mas Marks The Spot" the Ghostbusters are whisked into the past to relive Dickens classic as real events, where they meet characters including the Ghost of Christmas Present, all who greatly resemble Dickens characters as in his novel.
• In the 1998 animated made-for-television film An All Dogs Christmas Carol, Sasha La Fleur becomes the ghost appearing to Carface Carruthers.
• In the 1999 film starring Patrick Stewart, the ghost greatly resembles the illustrations in the Dickens version. He is portrayed by Desmond Barrit
• An unknown character of the Flintstones played the role of the ghost in A Flintstones Christmas Carol (he was previously portrayed as a bell ringing Santa).
• In Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, Yosemite Sam (Maurice LaMarche) is portrayed as the Ghost of Christmas Present.
• Duran Duran's John Taylor portrayed the Ghost in A Diva's Christmas Carol.
• William Shatner, who played a fictional TV host, Dr. Bob, in A Carol Christmas, also appears to Carol Cartman as the Ghost, who has an annoying habit of speaking in cliches.
• In the 2009 film Disney's A Christmas Carol, the ghost greatly resembles the version in the novel. (Jim Carrey voices all three ghosts, and Scrooge himself.) This version is depicted dying at length when midnight strikes (to the point of dissolving into a skeleton before the twelfth strike) and the forms of Ignorance and Want repeat Scrooge's unkind comments instead of the ghost saying them himself (Ignorance growing up and appearing in a prison cell, and Want growing up and put in a straight-jacket).
• In the 2008 film Barbie in a Christmas Carol the ghost is revealed to be a obese red-haired woman in a green dress who shows Eden, the present in where her employees tease her at Eden's back, and shows her that Catherine is a generous person who gives clothes to the orphans, and that the orphanage have no funds to stay open and the children shall end up on the streets and she repeats Eden's cruel words.
• In the 2009 Christmas special of The Catherine Tate Show, the ghost is played by David Tennant.
• In a 2010 episode of The Young and the Restless, "Victor's Christmas Carol," the Ghost of Christmas Present is portrayed by Sabrina Costelana Newman (Raya Meddine), Victor Newman's wife who was killed in a car accident. In this form, she wears a dramatic hooded cloak.
• In The second part of The Angry Video Game Nerd Christmas Carol, He is portrayed by Handsome Tom of ScrewAttack. He shows the Angry Video Game Nerd his present self reviewing Shaq Fu.