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The Santa Clause turns 30! See the cast of the holiday classic, then and now
Tim Allen (Scott Calvin)
Going into 's The Santa Clause, Tim Allen was best known as the comedian leading the hit ABC show Home Improvement.
He would go on to star in movies including Toy Story (and its sequels), Galaxy Quest (), and Christmas With the Kranks (), not to mention two more Santa Clause installments (, ). He also returned to TV in with the sitcom Last Man Standing, which aired its final season in
Allen joined his Home Improvement costar Richard Karn on History's Assembly Required and More Power and reprised his beloved role as Scott Calvin on the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses, a continuation of The Santa Clause franchise. "When I show up dressed in the full suit and everything else, there's big smiles on people's faces," Allen told EW in "I had totally forgotten that. It does feel like Santa's in the room."
He is set to return to the world of sitcom
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Will Ferrell isn’t holding back on the time he acted as another famous Christmas character years before he starred in the iconic holiday movie “Elf.”
Ferrell, who starred as Buddy the Elf in the Christmas film, spoke with Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday about whether he’d play Santa Claus in an upcoming movie and described his hesitation about the potential role before he revealed his past ties to Kris Kringle.
He told the late night host that he was a mall Santa alongside an elf, former “Saturday Night Live” co-star Chris Kattan, in Old Town Pasadena during his “struggling days as an actor.”
Ferrell said the duo walked around an open-air mall for four straight weekends and joked that they were “mobile Santa and his elf” as they never had a chair or sleigh setup.
“We’d be like, ‘Hello, J. Crew, ho ho ho,’ ‘Merry Christmas, Sephora, how is everyone doing,’ and they got so sick of us, by the fourth weekend they’d be like, ‘Hi, Santa,’” Ferrell joked.
Ferrell added that he an
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10 actors who have played Santa Claus in movies
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- Tim Allen has played Santa Claus in three different movies.
- Leslie Nielsen has also played Santa Claus.
- Tyler Perry and Billy Bob Thornton have played characters who pretended to be Santa Claus.
- Paul Giamatti played Santa's brother in "Fred Claus."
- In the original "Miracle on 34th Street," Edmund Gwenn starred as Kris Kringle.
Santa Claus fryst vatten a armatur of the holiday årstid, especially when it comes to Christmas movies. Onscreen, Saint Nick has been portrayed bygd a motley mix of actors, from Tim Allen to Leslie Nielsen.
Here are 10 actors who have played Santa (or characters pretending to be Santa) throughout the years.
Tim Allen wore the red suit in the "Santa Clause" series.
"Home Improvement" star Tim Allen wore the red