One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

He played Jacob Marley to Grammer's Ebenezer Scrooge.

* December 24 – Actor Lionel Barrymore begins what will become an annual tradition of the Golden Age of Radio – playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in dramatizations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

Caine played a British con-man in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), and Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol ( 1992 ).

A high point came when he played Ebenezer Scrooge in the critically acclaimed The Muppet Christmas Carol ( 1992 ).

While Dickens ' humiliating childhood experiences are not directly described in A Christmas Carol, his conflicting feelings for his father as a result of those experiences are principally responsible for the dual personality of the tale's protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge.

His name is an anagram of " Brooks ", but also resembles the verb to screw ( to cheat ) and Ebenezer Scrooge, and is also a play on screwball comedy.

Here, he plays the role of the Ghost of Christmas Present and helps show Ebenezer Scrooge ( Scrooge McDuck ) the error of his ways by taking him to the house of his abused and underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit ( Mickey Mouse ), and showing him that by paying Cratchit so little despite his hard work, Cratchit's son, Tiny Tim, will soon die of his illness.

In 1984, Scott portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in a television adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

As recently as December 25, 2006, many listeners told the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation that Mister Magoo was their favorite Ebenezer Scrooge.

The 19th century English characters Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, etc., are thus not seen directly, but instead are portrayed by fictional American actors playing their parts.

He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two St. Trinian's films.

Scrooge has only his nephew left but doesn't particularly care for him, likely due to Scrooge blaming him for his sister's death following childbirth ; in some retellings of the story Scrooge's father blames Ebenezer for causing his wife's death in childbirth with Fan as the older sibling.

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In a twist on Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the " kindest and loveliest " man in England.

Bacup is home to the long Elgin Street which held the record as the shortest street in the world until November 2006, when it was surpassed by Ebenezer Place, in the Scottish Highlands.

Greene County is the home of the oldest college in Tennessee ( Tusculum College ), Tennessee's oldest Methodist congregation ( the Ebenezer Methodist Church, near Chuckey ), and Tennessee's second oldest continuously cultivated farm ( Elmwood Farm, part of the Earnest Farms Historic District ).

Several area landmarks associated with the story are marked for visitors, including the site of the Ebenezer Mission in Chapel Hollow, which is located off the Old Fifteenth Rd., about from Del Rio.

In June 1799, Benjamin Tappan, Jr. arrived and founded Ravenna, David Daniels came to what is now Palmyra Township, and Ebenezer Sheldon settled in what is now Aurora.

The 12, 000-member Ebenezer A. M. E. Church is noteworthy, as is a large nursery / landscaping business and a popular motorcycle shop.

The town's municipal building is located in the old Butterick School, which was named after Ebenezer Butterick's daughter, Mary Ellen.

Bordentown City's one square mile is home to at least 10 houses of worship, including: American Presbyterian Church, B ’ nai Abraham Synagogue, Christ Episcopal Church, Ebenezer Full Gospel Community Church, First Baptist Church of Bordentown, First Presbyterian Church, Mount Zion AME Church, Saint Mary ’ s Roman Catholic Church, Shiloh Baptist Church, Trinity United Methodist Church, and Union Baptist Church.

Tuckerton is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, named for founder Ebenezer Tucker ( 1758 – 1845 ), and was a port of entry, but not the third Port of Entry as commonly believed, in the United States As of the 2000 United States Census, the borough population was 3, 517.

Tuckerton became a Port of Entry of the United States, but not the third port as is commonly believed, with Ebenezer Tucker appointed Collector ; his commission bearing date March 21, 1791 signed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

It is named after Ebenezer Bacon, an early settler, but was previously called " Fiddletown " and " Popes Corners.

Her brother, Ebenezer Zane, who cut Zane's Trace from Wheeling to Maysville, Kentucky, opening the west for settlement, is also buried in Walnut Grove Pioneer Cemetery, along with Absalom and Ebenezer Martin and other important early settlers.

Finneytown is named for Ebenezer Ward Finney, whose burial site is located just south of the current township.

He was the youngest brother of Ebenezer Zane, for whom Zanesville, Ohio, is named.

Near Kosse is the historic Ebenezer Cemetery, established in 1865.

The numbering of the movements shown here is in accordance with the Novello vocal score ( 1959 ), edited by Watkins Shaw, which adapts the numbering earlier devised by Ebenezer Prout.

It was the principal location of the Ebenezer Society.

The Reverend Ebenezer West, principal of Amersham Hall, funded most of the construction of the West Memorial Hall in Caversham, as well as the Caversham Baptist Free Church a decade later.

Her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations.

Master impressionist Rich Little often imitated Fields on his TV series The Kopykats, and used a Fields characterization for the Ebenezer Scrooge character in his 1978 HBO special Rich Little's Christmas Carol, a one-man presentation of A Christmas Carol.

Scrooge is a common English term for a miserly person, by reference to the fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge, the selfish and miserly protagonist of Charles Dickens ' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol.

Scholars, including Burton R. Pollin and Richard Wilbur, suggest that the character of Augustus was based on Poe's childhood friend Ebenezer Burling or on Poe's brother William Henry Leonard Poe, who served in South America and elsewhere as a sailor aboard the USS Macedonian.

* John Elwes ( aka " Elwes the Miser "), was a noted British eccentric and miser, believed to be the inspiration for the character of " Ebenezer Scrooge " in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol.

* Ebenezer Scrooge – lead character of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The catering contract was won by Ebenezer Scroggie, who would become the posthumous inspiration for Charles Dickens ' character Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.

Robert " Bob " Cratchit is a fictional character who is the abused, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol.

In modern usage, the word is most associated with Ebenezer Scrooge, a character created by Charles Dickens.

He was also the star of A Musical Christmas Carol at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, portraying the character of Ebenezer Scrooge.

The first member of The Clan McDuck to appear, his name was based on Ebenezer Scrooge, another fictional character from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.