Best Movie Santa Clauses

By Raymond Lockley

In honor of Christmas, here's my list of the best portrayals of Santa Claus (sometimes called Kris Kringle) in American movies:

  1. Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  2. Al Weber in Scrooged (1988)
  3. Richard Attenborough in Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
  4. Tim Allen in The Santa Clause (1994), The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs. Clause (2002), and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
  5. Ed Asner in Elf (2003)
  6. Ferdinand Mernier in Babes in Toyland (1934) and Road to Utopia (1946)

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