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* In David Mamet's adaptation of the play ''[[The Winslow Boy]]'', Neil North plays the First Lord of the Admiralty. In the 1948 film of the same play, North had played the title character (a supporting role).

* The same year Mark Williams was cast as the technology-loving wizard Arthur Weasley in the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' movie series, he was also an enthusiastic presenter in ''Industrial Revelations'', a documentary series about the history of technology.

** In the epilogue, Draco Malfoy's wife Astoria was played by [[Tom Felton]]'s real life girlfriend.

* [[Miranda Richardson]] has been in so many roles that involve [[Off with His Head|beheading]]—Queen Elizabeth in ''[[Blackadder]] II'', the Queen of Hearts in 1999's ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' TV miniseries, Lady Van Tassel in ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]''—that it's hard to imagine her role as the chicken-killing Mrs. Tweedy in ''[[Chicken Run]]'' being anything other than an allusion to her past head-removing roles.