Ghost of Christmas Past - Appearance in Various Film Adaptations

Appearance in Various Film Adaptations

• In the 1938 Alan Hart version of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost is portrayed as a sweet-faced young woman looking somewhat like an angel.
• In the 1951 film A Christmas Carol, the Ghost is an elderly man. In this version, story is changed so that Fan is older than Ebenezer and the ghost shows him his sister’s death through childbirth. This echoes Scrooge's own birth, since his mother died during his childbirth, which was shown as the reason for his father's bitterness towards him.
• In the TV special Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, a 1962 animated version, the Ghost is portrayed as a young, slight, androgynous figure (voiced by a female voice actor) with a flame above his/her head, a sprig of holly and an orange glow.
• In the 1970 version titled Scrooge, the Ghost is portrayed as an elderly but elegant lady with a red dress and a black hat.
• In the 1971 animated version of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost is depicted as a small, white figure that resembles a young girl who shimmers in an effect similar to double-vision. Like in the original novella, Scrooge extinguishes this spirit with a giant candle snuffer.
• In a 1982 version of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past is a Cupid-like young man
• In Disney's 1983 animated adaptation titled Mickey's Christmas Carol, Jiminy Cricket (Eddie Carroll) plays the role of the Ghost.
• In the 1984 made-for-television version of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost is portrayed as a middle-aged woman with blonde hair and a white robe rather than a childlike, long white haired figure as described in the novel written in 1843.
• In the 1988 comedy film Scrooged, the Ghost of Christmas Past is portrayed (by David Johansen) as a New York cab driver with a Brooklyn accent.
• The 1992 film The Muppet Christmas Carol did not use a Muppet character to portray the spirit, but re-imagined it; this version appeared as a tiny, ghostly child of ambiguous gender, dressed in white and floating as if immersed in water; this effect was created by immersing a special puppet in a large water tank and then green-screened into the film. The voice was provided by Jessica Fox.
• In the 1995 made-for-television film Ebbie, the Ghost is portrayed as two spirits with but a single thought, played by Jennifer Clement and Nicole Parker.
• In the 1997 animated version of A Christmas Carol, the Spirit is portrayed as a mischievous young boy in a messenger boy's outfit.
• In the 1998 animated made-for-television film An All Dogs Christmas Carol, Itchy Itchiford becomes the ghost appearing to Carface Carruthers.
• In the 1999 made-for-television version of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost is portrayed as a being of indeterminate age, as described in the 1843 novel.
• In the 2000 made-for-television film A Diva's Christmas Carol, Kathy Griffin plays the Ghost.
• In the 2003 made-for-television film A Carol Christmas, Gary Coleman plays the Ghost.
• In the 2004 made-for-television film A Christmas Carol: The Musical, the Ghost first appears in the real world as a lamplighter, and then as a barefoot fairy-like creature in a white shift and garlands.
• In the 2006 CGI film A Christmas Carol, the Ghost is portrayed as an anthropomorphic stork.
• In Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, Granny and Tweety take on the role of the Ghost of Christmas Past (June Foray and Bob Bergen, respectively).
• In the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Ghost is parodied as the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future, a robot with a penchant of making houses run with elf blood and telling long-winded, incomprehensible stories about the origins of Christmas.
• In the Angry Video Game Nerd Christmas Carol he is portrayed by Stuttering Craig from ScrewAttack. He shows the titular character's past, revealing the first time the Nerd got angry.
• In the 2009 performance captured film Disney's A Christmas Carol, the voice and acting of the Ghost of Christmas Past is provided by actor Jim Carrey. Similar to the original novel, the spirit appears as a candle-like being with an occasionally flickering flame for his head. Scrooge extinguishes this spirit with its giant candle snuffer hat, but in a strange twist, this causes Scrooge to be rocketed thousands of feet into the air while clinging onto the snuffer, only to have it disappear, resulting in Scrooge falling down to earth, back into his bedroom for the next visitation.
• In the animated Internet series Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy segment "Ted Nugent is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past" singer Ted Nugent shoots and kills the Ghost of Christmas Past believing he was a robber, In the next scene Nugent is seen serving the ghost's cooked carcass to party guests and offering to make some Ghost Jerky.
• In the 2010 Christmas special of the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who, which was based loosely on A Christmas Carol, The Doctor uses his time machine to play the role of the Ghost of Christmas Past to Michael Gambon's Scrooge figure.
• In a 2010 episode of The Young and the Restless, "Victor's Christmas Carol," the Ghost of Christmas Past is portrayed by Hope Wilson (Signy Coleman), Victor Newman's wife who died of cancer. In this form, she has light wavy hair and a white dress.