The Man Who Invented Christmas

How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition.

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Dan Stevens

Charles Dickens

Christopher Plummer

Scrooge

Jonathan Pryce

Mr. John Dickens

Justin Edwards

John Forster / Ghost of Christmas Present

Morfydd Clark

Kate Dickens

Donald Sumpter

Haddock / Ghost of Marley

Miles Jupp

Thackeray

Simon Callow

Leech

Miriam Margolyes

Mrs. Fisk

Ian McNeice

Chapman

Bill Paterson

Mr. Grimsby

John Henshaw

Butcher / Mr. Fezziwig

Annette Badland

Butcher's Wife / Mrs. Fezziwig

Katie McGuinness

Fanny Dickens / Mrs. Cratchit

Pearse Kearney

Henry Jr. / Tiny Tim

Ger Ryan

Mrs. Dickens

Marcus Lamb

Rev. Henry Burnett / Mr. Cratchit

Cosimo Fusco

Signor Mazzini