George C. Scott

...1970 musical version) and Michael Caine (with the Muppets) on the big screen, and by John Carradine, Ralph Richardson, Fredric March, George C. Scott and country star Hoyt Axton on the small. The story was worked into episodes of The Six...

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...whether Tina was on Saturday night's show or not. Remakes: just thinking the other day that I hope they re-broadcast George C. Scott's A Christmas Carol this season. Love the Alistair Sim version but have quite a fondness for Scott's...

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...Australian horsemen fighting for the British during the Boer War, and in 1984 he was the Ghost of Christmas Present, with George C Scott as Scrooge, in the TV movie of A Christmas Carol. In the Biblical epic King David (1985), he proved his...

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...the subways." INFLUENCES: "I love the old character actors and a lot of the actors from the '70s - Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, George C. Scott. … As far as directors go, I'm a huge fan of [Martin] Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Frank...

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...- Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse as Bob Cratchit, Goofy as Jacob Marley's ghost and Jiminy Cricket as the Ghost of Christmas Past. George C. Scott "A Christmas Carol" (1984) Clive Donner, editor of the 1951 adaptation, helmed this...

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...with his only nephew Fred (Colin Firth). CarreyaEUR™s turn as Scrooge might not rise to the performances of actors including George C. Scott or Alastair Sim in their respected versions, but Zemeckis gives his character a bit more free range...

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...mark. Obviously, the vast majority of moviegoers already know the story -- it's been done on film by everyone from Mickey Mouse to George C. Scott to the Muppets. What can director Robert Zemeckis ("The Polar Express") bring to the table...

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...and his voice a dry, creaky growl, takes his place in a long and diverse line of screen Scrooges, including Mr. Magoo, George C. Scott, Bill Murray and Alastair Sim, the British actor whose 1951 version remains definitive. But Mr. Carrey,...

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...(Myron McCormick). Sarah nurses Eddie back to health, but before long he falls under the spell of Scott's glittering-eyed Bert, who vows to reintroduce him to big-time pool. The rap on this movie has long been that its strength is in the...

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...comic mugging of "Scrooged'' (1988) to the sleaze of the recent "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. '' (The best? All votes for George C. Scott and Mr. Magoo will be counted, but anyone who puts in the research knows the 1951 British "Christmas...

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