"A Christmas Carol" All-Star Team - Day 19

 

As we continue to put together our All-Star Team, we encounter the Ghost of Christmas Past!

This particular spirit is the one that varies the most from one adaptation to another, due to the hard-to-capture description in the book, which is hard to depict in illustrated form, let alone live-action!

One depiction to me captures the "like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium" pretty well, though - Joel Grey in the 1999 made-for-TV version starring Patrick Stewart:

I think Joel Grey has always had a child-like quality anyway and with his age at the time (67) and some special effects, he nails it!

Of course in my little world, the Oscar, Tony and Grammy winning Mr. Grey is best-known as the son of master song satirist Mickey Katz:

But that's a whole 'nother story!