Doctor Who Vs. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Christian Coulson
as Tom Riddle

" Let us hope that Mr. Potter will

always be around to save the day."

ITV2's latest Harry Potter season continued

today with the second entry in the decade-

long film saga.

Richard Harris made his final appearance as

Dumbledore - the actor died just the week

before the film was released in late 2002.

Mark Williams, Jason Issacs, Kenneth

Branagh, Miriam Margolyes, Robert Hardy,

and Shirley Henderson were all introduced

here as Arthur Weasley, Lucius Malfoy,

Lockhart, Sprout, Fudge, and Moaning

Myrtle respectively.

Published in 1998, JK Rowling's second novel

was adapted by Warner Bros - it featured

David Bradley, and these twenty Doctor

 Who cast connections:

• Toby [Edward Heslewood] Jones (voice of Dobby here & The Deathly Hallows) was the Dream Lord in Amy's Choice, and voiced Kotris for Big Finish's Dark Eyes (2012)
• Jim Norton (Mason) voiced Major Thomas Kennet for Scream of the Shalka
• Williams played Brian Williams in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and The Power of Three, and voiced Maxwell Edison for The Eternal Summer (2009)
• Margolyes voiced Leaf Apple Glyn Slitheen Blathereen for The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, and the Meep in The Star Beast, then voiced Frau Tod for The Beast of Orlok (2009), and the Soothsayer for The Dying Breed (2025)
• Henderson was Ursula Blake in Love & Monsters 
• Coulson voiced Pelleas for The Bride of Peladon, and Robert McIntosh for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008)
• Heather Bleasdale (Mrs. Granger) voiced Cordelia for Blood on Santa's Claw, and President for I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day (both 2019), then was Wilma in The Halloween Apocalypse, and voiced Vesselina for The Lost Son (2024)
• Julian [Wyatt] Glover (voice of Aragog) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• Paul Bateman (Slytherin Professor here; Wizard in The Goblet of Fire; Parent in The Deathly Hallows) was Groundling in The Shakespeare Code
• Peter Roy (Wizard here, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, The Deathly Hallows) was a Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, Extra in The Highlanders (1), The Silurians (6), The Sun Makers (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks (1), Sergeant in The Faceless Ones (1), UNIT Bunker Soldier in The Invasion (1), Guard in The Seeds of Death (1), The Space Pirates (1), The Face of Evil (1), The Invasion of Time (1), The Androids of Tara (1) and The Armageddon Factor (1), Technic Obarl in The Hand of Fear (1), Policeman in Logopolis (1), Ambulance Man in Castrovalva (1), and Market Man in Snakedance (1)
• Jo Woodcock (Student) voiced Ziv for Starlight Robbery (2013), Susannah Nash for Static (2017), Marie for The Iron Maid (2018), and Kayla Worthington for The Day Before They Came (2021)
• David Bulbeck (Wizard here; Commuter in The Deathly Hallows) was Foamasi in The Leisure Hive (4), Man in Castrovalva, and Lazar in Terminus (1)
• Eddie Howards (Student here, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix & The Deathly Hallows) was a make-up artist on Rose, Partners in Crime and The Pilot, then SFX artist on Resolution and The Runaway
• Kevin Welch worked as stunt rigger/wire FX for 42 too
• for Warwick Davis, Sean Biggerstaff, Adrain Rawlins, Harry Melling, Leslie Phillips, and John Cleese see The Philosopher's Stone