Harry Potter Films (Study Guide): Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Source Wikipedia

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 40. Chapters: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, List of Harry Potter cast members, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Critical response to the Harry Potter films, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Excerpt: Connection Timeout The list of Harry Potter cast members is a list of actors who voiced or portrayed characters appearing in the Harry Potter film series based on the book series by J. K. Rowling. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson have played Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in all the films. When they were cast only Radcliffe had previously acted in a film. Complementing them on screen are some of the most renowned actors of the United Kingdom and Ireland, including Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, and Julie Walters, among others. Twelve actors have appeared as the same character in all eight films of the franchise. Some well-known British actors who have not appeared in the series, are asked in jest why they have not been cast. In 2007, when Yates was directing the fifth film, Bill Nighy, who had previously collaborated with Yates on three of his television projects, said that he joked with Yates that maybe now he wouldn't be the only actor in England who hadn't been in Harry Potter. "But nobody called," Nighy added. Ironically, in 2009, Nighy was cast as Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour in Deathly Hallows, which Yates...