The Enid Blyton Society

Actually, I think David Suchet might make a damn good villain like Mr. Perton.

When Robbie Coltrane and Geraldine Somerville acted together in Cracker, I always thought of them as a grown-up Frederick Trotteville and Bets Hilton.




Or maybe James Corden and Ruth Jones could play Fatty and Eunice.

You know, I think if he grew his hair out a bit Marcus Harris would be a good Uncle Quentin.

Come to think of it, I think I would too. Unreasonable, illogical, no short term memory and bad tempered with anything, everything and everyone. Method acting, or what?

Amazing, carpediem - a simply perfect Fatty and Bets!

Or Timothy Spall would make an excellent Frederick Algernon Trotteville

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Let's start the ball rolling - they don't have to be British:

Mr Meddle: Patrick Troughton

George Kirrin: Ellen Hamilton Latzen (as she was in the movie Fatal Attraction)

Darrell Rivers: Lea Michele (when she was a child on Broadway not as she is now)

I've just finished watching Bleak House (TV mini-series, 2005) and kept thinking that Burn Gorman who plays Mr. Guppy ("of Kenge and Carboy's") would make a wonderful Mister Meddle.

Anyone, any decade, living or dead. Lets have at it, fans!

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Thank you for the merge. This thread was so old i'd forgotten that i'd posted in it already.

For me, the Famous Five are ideally played by the actors from the 1970s series, who all fit the Soper/ Maxey illustrations. I have difficulty visualizing Uncle Quentin, having bene confused by the widely different Soper and Maxey illustrations. The posisble settings for the televisations of the stories are quite intriguing, as the 1970s New Forest settings do not fit the books. I have theories of my own on where some of the stories should be set, which will appear in my own book, and I'd really like to see a new televisation created; after a 20 year gap it's time for this. Profit-wise, due to the high profile of the stories a film or TV company might be willing to do this ahead of the 2018 anniversary of Enid's death - or a series of one-hour Sunday evening dramatizations of the Find Outers series set in the 1950s?

Some suggestions for other actors playing Blyton roles:
Aunt Fanny: Virginia Mc Kenna.
Mr Penruthlan in 'Five Go Down To The Sea': Brian Blessed. He has already played one 'Cornish farmer with a secret' in a smuggling adventure, 'Boy Dominic' (a Regency era historical story) on ITV in the mid-1970s - though I only saw part of this and my memories of it are vague.
Rooky in 'Five Get Into Trouble' - Ross Kemp ( imagine 'Oi. Perton, you muppet!')
Mr Barling in 'Five Go To Smugglers Top' (but with a Sussex not Cockney acent) or the 'Guv'nor' of the Barnies in 'Five Go Down To The Sea' by George Cole, in his younger incarnation as 'Flash Harry' in the 1950s St Trinian's films.
Bill Smugs/ Cunningham by a younger Timothy West.

Mr Marvel in 'The Rub-a-Dub Mystery': Christopher Lee, vintage 1970s films as in 'The Man with the Golden Gun'. Great-Uncle Robert in 'Rilloby Fair Mystery' or Uncle Jocelyn in 'Island of Adventure' could be played by John Le Mesurier (Sergeant Wilson in 'Dad's Army').

Miss Grayling at Malory Towers: Judi Dench. Any of the more fussy and pedantic teachers at MT or St Clare's, who seem interchangeable, could be played by Patricia Routledge (aka ' Hyacinth Bucket'), and Angela Favorleigh's show-off aristocratic mother by Joanna Lumley. For the girls, a younger version of Courtenay Cox (Monica in 'Friends') as the bossy and domineering Moira at MT and any one of a number of 'fluffy blondes' from US films (eg Reese Witherspoon's character in 'Legally Blonde', but as genuinely dim not just superficially so) as Gwendolen.
The young Elizabeth Taylor (as in 1940s films eg the Lassie ones or 'National Velvet') as Lotta in the Circus series?

Karen Gillan as Darrell Rivers and Jenna Coleman as June Johns?