The actor who played Kazran Sardick, a cruel and miserly figure who hates Christmas because of a traumatic event from his past (hence the obvious Scrooge comparison), was played by the great British actor Michael Gambon.

Gambon is best known to North American audiences as the guy who stepped in to play Dumbledore in the final six "Harry Potter" films after the death of the role's originator, Sir Richard Harris.

That is, however, just one of the dozens of reasons you might recognize him. He also played King George V in the 2010 Oscar-winning "The King's Speech" and William McCordle in another Oscar winner (though this one was for best screenplay), the 2001 ensemble drama "Gosford Park."

TV viewers might know him as the particularly villainous (since everyone on the show was a little bit bad) gangster Michael on the short-lived HBO drama "Luck" in 2012.

He also played U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in the star-packed 2002 telefilm "Path to War," another HBO production, that also featured Alec Baldwin as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

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