Doctor Who Vs. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"Haven't you wondered 
what was the reason for

the connection between

you and the Dark Lord?

Why he was unable to kill

you? Don't you want to

know the secret of your

scar?"

ITV2's latest Harry Potter film

season continued tonight with

the fifth entry in the decade-

long saga, which was released

in 2007. Imelda Staunton,

Helena Bonham Carter, Evanna Lynch, Natalia Tena, and George

Harris were all introduced here as Umbridge, Bellatrix, Luna, Tonks,

and Shacklebolt.

Published in 2003, JK Rowling's fifth novel was adapted by Warner

Bros - it featured David Bradley, and a total of twenty-four Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Staunton provided the Interface voice for The Girl Who Waited
• Jessica Hynes [born Stevenson] (voice of Mafalda) voiced Glory Bee for Big Finish's Invaders From Mars (2002), then played Joan Redfern in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then (that character's great-grand daughter) Verity Newman in the coda to The End of Time
• Peter Cartwright (Doge) was Arnold Underwood in The Power of Three
• Timothy [Dingwall] Bateson (voice of Kreacher) was Binro in The Ribos Operation
• Jim McManus (Barman) was an Opthalmologist in The Invisible Enemy
• John Atterbury (Phineas) made his acting debut as a White Robot in The Mind Robber, and was Alien Guard in The War Games (4)
• Richard Trinder (Death Eater here; Rookwood in The Deathly Hallows) was Captain Harcourt in A Good Man Goes to War
• Michael Wildman (Centaur) voiced Probos for Inside the Maldovarium, and Quinns/Lees for What Just Happened? (both 2021)
• Daisy Haggard (voice of Ministry lift here & The Deathly Hallows) was Sophie in The Lodger and Closing Time
• Miles Jupp (Weatherman) voiced Dominic for Power Play (2012), and Inquisitor Xavier for The Revolution (2014)
• Rusty Goffe (Goblin here, The Half-Blood Prince & The Deathly Hallows) was Little John in Robot of Sherwood
• Matthew Stirling was also a stuntman on The Angels Take Manhattan and The Name of the Doctor
• Paul Kulik was a stuntman on Rose too
• Sarah Franzl was also a stunt performer on The End of the World, The Idiot's Lantern and The End of Time
• Lucy Allen was stunt performer on The Zygon Inversion too
• James O'Donnell was also stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday
• Tina Maskell was also stunt performer on Boom Town and The Runaway Bride
• for Warwick Davis, Harry Melling, and Adrian Rawlins see The Philosopher's Stone
• for Mark Williams see The Chamber of Secrets
• for Michael Gambon see The Prisoner of Azkaban
• for Peter Roy and Kevin Hudson see The Goblet of Fire