
Harry, Ron and Hermione's breaking of the rules in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was for the good of the school. From the first book/film, Dumbledore made it pretty clear that Harry Potter and his friends could almost get away with murder. Then again, why not Broadbent's supporting-actor competition from last year, Tom Wilkinson (The Full Monty, In the Bedroom). But Dumbledore didn't hide his favoritism very well. And he can hide that lightness when he wants to seem sinister, as he was in Moulin Rouge. He has an air of jolliness, as he showed in such films as Bridget Jones's Diary. Veteran actor Jim Broadbent, last year's supporting actor Oscar winner can play old, as he did in Iris. Why not a wizard? He's a few years older (75), but always seemed healthier than either Harris or O'Toole. He's played pirates, a Star Trek alien and Mike Wallace.

Von Trapp has spent his latter career proving what an interesting actor he can be. Or Christopher Plummer? The once-and-always Capt. Being another member of that hard-drinking, hard-brawling generation of actors that included Richard Burton, Albert Finney and Oliver Reed, he also has the street cred.įor that matter, how about Albert Finney? The third Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, came out in 2004 and is one of the creepiest of the films, thanks to the eerie dementors, soulless, eyeless beings who guard the.

First introduced as the kind, if eccentric, headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Albus Dumbledore is in fact so much more than that. How about Peter O'Toole? He looks like Harris, is roughly the same age - 70, to Harris' 72. The 2022 release of Fantastic Beasts 3: The Secrets Of Dumbledore turns the attention of Harry Potter fans toward the powerful and mysterious wizard who was the original symbol of the war against Voldemort. "There have been Internet rumors and indications that it will be Christopher Lee," says Bob Longino of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
