A Christmas Carol > Catalogs > Plays and films based on A Christmas Carol
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
Plays and films based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Scrooge (1935 film), a 1935 film featuring Seymour Hicks
- A Christmas Carol (1938 film), starry Reginald Owen
- Scrooge (1951 film), a 1951 film featuring Alastair Sim
- Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol 1962, starring Jim Backus as the miser.
- Scrooge (1970 film), a 1970 musical film starring Albert Finney
- Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983 animated film), Disney characters fill the roles, with Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge.
- Scrooged, a 1988 film starring Bill Murray
- Scrooge: The Musical, a 1992 stage musical adapted from the 1970 film starring Albert Finney
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), Michael Caine plays Scrooge in the Muppet universe.
- A Christmas Carol (1984), starred George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge, in an Emmy-Award-nominated performance.
- A Christmas Carol (1999), a television movie starring Patrick Stewart. Stewart had become already become known for a one-man show inspired by Dickens’s original readings of the work. This version featured a full supporting cast.
