The Man Who Invented Christmas
How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition.
6.8(877) 2017-10-12 105 minDramaHistoryComedyFamily
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
DirectorBharat Nalluri
WriterSusan Coyne
ProducerNiv Fichman
ProducerVadim Jean
ProducerRobert Mickelson
ProducerSusan Mullen
ProducerIan Sharples
Original Music ComposerMychael Danna
Cast & characters
Dan Stevens
as Charles Dickens
Christopher Plummer
as Scrooge
Jonathan Pryce
as Mr. John Dickens
Justin Edwards
as John Forster / Ghost of Christmas Present
Morfydd Clark
as Kate Dickens
Donald Sumpter
as Haddock / Ghost of Marley
Miles Jupp
as Thackeray
Simon Callow
as Leech
Miriam Margolyes
as Mrs. Fisk
Ian McNeice
as Chapman
Bill Paterson
as Mr. Grimsby
John Henshaw
as Butcher / Mr. Fezziwig
Annette Badland
as Butcher's Wife / Mrs. Fezziwig
Katie McGuinness
as Fanny Dickens / Mrs. Cratchit
Pearse Kearney
as Henry Jr. / Tiny Tim
Ger Ryan
as Mrs. Dickens
Marcus Lamb
as Rev. Henry Burnett / Mr. Cratchit
Cosimo Fusco
as Signor Mazzini
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Anna Murphy
as Tara / Ghost of Christmas Past
Ely Solan
as Young Charles
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Mark Schrier
as Presenter
Patrick Joseph Byrnes
as Stage Manager
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Jasper Hughes Cotter
as Walter Dickens
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James Heffernan
as Charley Dickens
