The cast also included Tony Robinson as one of the Workhouse boys / Fagin's Gang, and John Bluthal ( now best known as The Vicar of Dibley's Frank Pickle ) as Fagin.

John Waters ( the actor, not to be confused with John Waters, the director ) portrayed Fagin, Tamsin Carroll was Nancy, and the production also featured Stuart Wagstaff, Steve Bastoni and Madison Orr and Keegan Joyce in the title role, which was rotated between the two.

Oliver Twist and Fagin also appeared.

DeLuise also voiced the legendary character of Charles Dickens ' Fagin in the Walt Disney film Oliver & Company and made voice guest appearances on several animated TV series. The handprints of Dom DeLuise in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

He played Count Brownowsky in The Jewel in the Crown ; he was also seen as Fagin in the 1985 BBC version of Oliver Twist ; as Thomas Danforth in the BBC production of The Crucible ; and as Professor Moriarty opposite Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in Granada Television's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes stories The Red-Headed League and The Final Problem ( both 1985 ).

The tone of the song is dark and angry, in marked contrast with the generally genial tone of Iolanthe, and the lyrics make the case that bad behavior by the underclasses is caused by their unfortunate circumstances: " I might be as bad – as unlucky, rather – if I only had Fagin for a father.

He was particularly praised for his vivid characters with eccentric and idiosyncratic and habits, including Fagin, Falstaff and Svengali.

The plot of Dickens ' original novel is considerably simplified for the purposes of the musical, with Fagin being represented more as a comic character than as a villain, and large portions of the latter part of the story being completely left out.

Ron Moody returned as Fagin, with Jackie Marks as Nancy, Linal Haft as Bill Sikes, Meg Johnson as Mrs Corney, Peter Bayliss as Mr Bumble, and Geoffrey Toone as Mr Brownlow.

Interestingly, a new intermediate scene was added just after " You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two ", in which Bill Sikes enters the Thieves ’ Kitchen and “ negotiates ” with Fagin.

In December 2009, Griff Rhys Jones took over as Fagin, with Steven Hartley as Bill Sikes.

With a brand new set and brand new direction, it starred Neil Morrissey and Brian Conley who will share the role of Fagin, with Samantha Barks as Nancy for the first six months ( Samantha came third in reality TV show I'd Do Anything, which was won by Jodie Prenger ).

A revival ran in November – December 2003 with Aivar Tommingas as Fagin and Evelin Samuel as Nancy.

It starred original Fagin Ron Moody with Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Mark Lester and Harry Secombe.

with Alma Cogan and Violet Carson, in which he played Fagin.

Jodie Prenger became the eventual winner and was subsequently cast as Nancy in the production, with Rowan Atkinson as Fagin.

The latter film reunited him with Ron Moody, who had played Fagin in Oliver !.

Unlike the previous 1933 American film version, the 1948 film omits the scene with a semi-hysterical Fagin in his prison cell, awaiting his execution.

With him on Mercury are: Helene deSilva, the attractive station commander with whom Jacob develops a relationship over the course of the book ; Fagin ; Pila Bubbacub, the library representative ; his assistant Culla ( a Pring ); Dr. Dwayne Kepler ( the head of the Sundiver expedition ); Dr. Mildred Martine ( a psychiatrist ); and the exuberant journalist Peter LaRoque.

He is a career criminal associated with Fagin, and an eventual murderer.

In 2009, he starred in Sunday in the Park with George at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle and most recently appeared as Fagin in " Oliver!

She gives Rose Maylie and Mr. Brownlow, Oliver's benefactor, information about Oliver's evil half-brother Monks, who is in league with Fagin.

A separate poster depicted Howard as a hypnotist with a watch on a chain, and the caption " I can spend the same money twice "; this was seen by some Conservatives as a depiction of either Shylock from the Merchant of Venice, or Fagin from Oliver Twist, and in either case therefore similarly anti-Semitic.

with Frankie Howerd ( 1969 ), Fagin in the 1962 dramatisation of Oliver Twist, and parts in The Baron, Adam Adamant Lives!

It played at the Albery Theatre ( the renamed New Theatre ; now the Noel Coward Theatre ), starring Roy Hudd as Fagin, which ran for over two years.

Ron Moody, the original Fagin, joined the cast at the end of the performance on June 14, 2010, in celebration of the show's 50th Anniversary.

In 1997 Humphries reprised the role of Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh's award winning revival at the London Palladium.

Abbot's theatre roles include Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady ( starring Amy Nuttall ) at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and on tour ; The Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show ; Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium and Fagin in Oliver!

Nancy was corrupted at a young age by Fagin, the receiver of stolen goods who persuades downtrodden youths to do his bidding.

But Fagin has sent a spy out after her, and when the spy reports on what he has heard and seen, Fagin, furious at what she has done, tells Sikes about her actions.

His earliest work in the film industry was designing the hair and make-up worn by Alec Guinness, while at Denham Studios as Fagin in Oliver Twist.

At the London Palladium Theatre alongside Jonathan Pryce's and George Layton's Fagin.

Lindsay won his third Olivier award after he took over the role of Fagin during 1997 in Cameron Mackintosh's London revival of Oliver!

Nancy is one of the members of Fagin's gang that few, if any, know about in London — something referred to by Sikes when he and Fagin, concerned that Oliver might inform on them, are trying to convince her to attend his impending trial after he is mistakenly arrested for pickpocketing (" No one around here knows anything about you ").

English sang the role of Hector, and the cast included John Parr as Paris, Sheila Parker as Helen, Terence Donovan as Priam, Sheryl Parker as Cassandra, Doc Neeson as Achilles, John Waters as Agamemnon, Philip Quast as Patroclus, Joe Fagin as Menelaus, as well as Demis Roussos, David Atkins and Barry Humphries, backed by the London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Choir.

* Ronald Fagin, Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses, Moshe Y. Vardi Reasoning About Knowledge, MIT Press, 1995, ISBN 0-262-06162-7

* July 30 – David Lean's Oliver Twist is finally shown in the United States, after 10 minutes of supposedly anti-Semitic references and closeups of Alec Guinness as Fagin are cut.

It is banned for 3 years in the U. S. because of alleged anti-Semitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.

* Oliver & Company: Oliver, Dodger, Tito, Francis, Fagin, Georgette, Jenny, Sykes, Rita, Einstein, and Rescoe and De Soto.

In 1982, he was cast as Fagin in the CBS made-for-TV adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist.

The new title was taken from the 1931 song " As Time Goes By ", which was used as the title music, recorded by Joe Fagin.

In Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, Clerkenwell Green is where Fagin and the Artful Dodger induct Oliver into pickpocketing amongst shoppers in the busy market once held there.

) Although Dickens ' novel has been called antisemitic in its portrayal of the Jew Fagin as evil, the production by Bart ( himself a Jew ) was more sympathetic and featured many Jewish actors in leading roles: Ron Moody ( Ronald Moodnik ), Georgia Brown ( Lilian Klot ), and Martin Horsey.

Fagin is a criminal, and he is in the business of teaching young boys to pick pockets.

Dodger runs in and tells Fagin about Oliver's capture and removal to the Brownlow household.

Fagin and Bill decide to kidnap Oliver to protect themselves.

Fagin and his boys leave their hideout in panic.

The mob disperse offstage in order to track down Fagin.

The original cast featured Ron Moody as Fagin, Georgia Brown as Nancy, and Barry Humphries in a small comic role as Mr. Sowerberry, an undertaker.

The cast featured child actor Bruce Prochnik in the title role alongside Georgia Brown, reprising her West End role as Nancy, and Clive Revill, replacing Ron Moody, as Fagin.

It featured Victor Stiles as Oliver, Robin Ramsay as Fagin, Maura K. Wedge as Nancy, Joey Baio as The Artful Dodger, Dominic Chianese as Mr. Sowerberry, Alan Crofoot as Mr. Bumble, Danny Sewell as Bill Sikes, Bram Nossen as Mr. Brownlow, and Dodi Protero as Mrs. Bedwin.