Television and Film
- Astoroth, the medieval wizard whose spells are central to the plot of the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
- Catweazle of the British TV series with the same name. A magician fleeing from the Normans to modern England.
- Sorcerers and sorcery are a staple of Chinese wu xia fiction and are dramatically featured in many martial arts movies.
- Max Russo, Alex Russo, and Justin Russo are all wizards in the Disney Channel Original Series Wizards of Waverly Place.
- Serinda Swan portrayed the magician Zatanna in the Smallville television series, episode Hex.
- Sabrina Spellman, her family and various others in the movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch and its later television adaptations. Interestingly, the term "witch" is used for both male and female spellcasters.
- Chris Halliwell, Wyatt Halliwell, Prue Halliwell, Piper Halliwell, Phoebe Halliwell, Paige Matthews, Patricia Halliwell, Penny Halliwell, Melinda Warren are witches in the television series Charmed.
- Samantha, the main character of the 60s and early 70s television series Bewitched.
- Ursula the Sea Witch in Disney's The Little Mermaid.
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Famous quotes containing the words television and/or film:
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)