Doctor Who Vs. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

"YOU'RE A WIZARD HARRY!"

ITV1's latest Harry Potter film season

began today. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert

Grint, and Emma Watson were cast as

the eponymous wizard, Ron Weasley,

and Hermione Granger.

Released by Warner Bros in 2001,

 the first entry in the eight part saga

starred a large emsemble British cast

led by Richard Harris (Dumbledore),

Alan Rickman (Snape), Maggie Smith (McGonagall), Robbie Coltrane

(Hagrid), Richard Griffiths, Fiona

Shaw (the Dursleys), Julie Walters

(Molly), James Phelps (Fred), Oliver

 Phelps (George), Matthew Lewis (Neville), Bonnie Wright (Ginny),

Chris Rankin (Percy), Tom Felton

(Draco), Alfred Enoch (Dean), and

Devon Murray (Seamus).

Based on Joanne Rowling's first

published work, the adventure

(marketed in America as The Sorcerer's Stone) also featured David

Bradley (Filch), John Hurt (Ollivander), Ian Hart (Quirrell),

Geraldine Somerville (Lily), and a total of twenty-six Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Harry [Edward] Melling (Dudley here, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Order of the Phoenix, The Deathly Hallows) voiced Harvey/Taker/Demi-Taker for Big Finish's The Whispering Forest (2010)
• Warwick [Ashley] Davis (Flitwick here, The Chamber of Secrets, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince, The Deathly Hallows, Hogwarts Mystery, HBO's Harry Potter) Wizard in The Prisoner of Azkaban; Griphook in The Deathly Hallows, Escape from Gringotts) was Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI (known as Porridge) in Nightmare in Silver
• Coltrane was offered the role of Takis in November 1984, but Trevor Cooper was cast in Revelation of the Daleks
• Derek Deadman (Tom) was Commander Stor in The Invasion of Time
• Sean Biggerstaff (Wood here, The Chamber of Secrets, The Deathly Hallows) voiced Chris Parsons for Shada (2002), Brother Tangent/ Snabb for The Skull of Sobek, the Ruhk for Time Reef (both 2008), Ross Nicholson for Masters of Earth (2014), Moros for Enemy Lines (2016), Callum Volta for Cold Vengeance (2017), Noah for Jenny 1 (2018), Jenny 2 (2021), Prism (2022) and Jenny 3 (2024), and David Campbell for After the Daleks
• Leslie [Samuel] Phillips (voice of the Sorting Hat here, The Chamber of Secrets, The Deathly Hallows) voiced Robert Knox for Medicinal Purposes (2004) and Assassin in the Limelight (2008)
• Richard Bremmer (Voldemort) voiced General Hemmings/Valcon/Taxi Driver for The Valley of Death (2011), and Old Beowulf for Black and White (2012)
• John [Marwood] Cleese (Nearly Headless Nick here, The Chamber of Secrets) was an Art Lover in (part 4 of) City of Death
• Simon Fisher-Becker (Fat Friar) was Doriam Maldovar in The Pandorica Opens, Brain Trafficking, A Good Man Goes to War, The Wedding of River Song, and reprised in fan film Tale of a Time Lord, then by Big Finish for The Light Keepers, Inside the Maldovarium (both 2018) and Genesis of the Humans (2024), and also voiced Kavil for Gallifrey 5 (2013)
• Terence Bayler (Bloody Baron) was Yendom in The Ark (3), and Major Barrington in The War Games (1)
• Zoe Wanamaker (Hooch here, Hogwarts Mystery) was Lady Cassandra in The End of the World and New Earth
• Elizabeth [Jean] Spriggs [born Williams] (Fat Lady) was Tabby in Paradise Towers
• Adrian Rawlins (James Potter here, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, The Deathly Hallows) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, and voiced Frederick Abbeline for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost (2023)
• Jimmy Vee (Goblin here, The Forbidden Journey, The Hogwarts Express, Escape from Gringotts) was the Moxx of Balhoon in The End of the World, Pig in Aliens of London, Bannakaffalatta in Voyage of the Damned, the Skovox Blitzer in The Caretaker, and the Graske in Attack of the Graske, Music of the Spheres, The Proms and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Rusty Goffe (Goblin here, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince, The Deathly Hallows) was Little John in Robot of Sherwood
• Ray Fearon (voice of Firenze) voiced Barlow Teveler for The Seeds of War (2013)
• Peter Burroughs (Goblin here & The Deathly Hallows) was the Jester in The King's Demons (1)
• Lisa Osmond and Jo Osmond (Goblins here; Supporters in The Goblet of Fire) were both Autons in Rose, and Aliens in The Long Game
• Paul Marc Davies (Ghost) was the Chieftain in Utopia, the Trickster in The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Corakinus in Class, then voiced Pepé Gonzalez for The Gift (2016), and General Trave for Time War 1 (2018)
• Kiran Shah (Goblin) was the Figure in Listen, and Emojibot in Smile
• Miles Richardson (Portrait) was Captain Douglas Cavendish in Reel- time Pictures' Downtime and Daemos Rising, Draconian in Mindgame, and Soldier in White Witch of Devil's End, then voiced Charles Darwin for Bloodtide, Irving Braxiatel for Gallifrey (2001 to 2013), Bernice Summerfield (2001 to 2018), Zagreus (2003), Dead and Buried (2010), Intervention Earth, Theatre of War (both 2015), Enemy Lines, Time War 1 (2018) and Time War 4 (2021), and Black Rod for The Gunpowder Plot
• Leila Hoffman [born Rothstein] (Augusta) was Elsie Rossiter in Night Terrors
• Paul Herbert was stuntman on The End of Time too
• Abbi Collins (stunt performer here; Pedestrian in The Half-Blood Prince) was the stunt co-ordinator on eleven stories (from Rise of the Cybermen to The Waters of Mars) and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• stunt co-ordinator Greg Powell was a Knight in The Time Monster (3)