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The logo for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This is a list of characters in the 1964 Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, his 1972 sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the former's film adaptations, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017), and Wonka (2023).
Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegians Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Dahl's father, a wealthy shipbroker and self-made man , had emigrated to Britain from Sarpsborg , Norway and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s with his first wife, Frenchwoman ...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. [1] The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in ...
Back in the factory, Charlie's three bedridden grandparents George, Georgina, and Josephine refuse to budge. Wonka offers them rejuvenation pills called "Wonka-Vite", but they overdose resulting in George and Josephine becoming babies and Georgina vanishing, having become -2 years old. Charlie and Wonka ride the Elevator to "Minusland" to find ...
Through her mother, Dahl has three half-siblings. [4] As a child, Sophie frequently spent time at both her maternal and paternal grandparents' houses in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and East Preston, West Sussex, respectively. [6] [7] Dahl has noted that her childhood was "an odd one, but with such magic". [8]
Each of Dahl's iconic stories taught us about life, love, and finding ourselves in the unlikeliest of places. Here are some lessons we learned from five of his most famous stories and scripts. 1.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is bringing a giant dose of whimsy to Stratford-upon-Avon, announcing a new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The BFG” as its marquee family production. The big ...
The cost of moving the hut to the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden High Street was estimated at £500,000 by Dahl's granddaughter, Sophie Dahl who said that the hut was like an "ancient tomb" and that "there was something still quite sacred about it". The appeal was met with criticism due to the perceived wealth of the Dahl ...