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Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in Charles Dickens's 1838 novel Oliver Twist. [1] The Dodger is a pickpocket and his nickname refers to his skill and cunning in that occupation.
Jack Wild (30 September 1952 – 1 March 2006) was an English actor and singer. He is best known for his role as the Artful Dodger in the film Oliver! (1968), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16, becoming the fourth-youngest nominee in the category.
Oliver and the Artful Dodger is a 1972 American animated television film and a sequel to Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist. [1] It was broadcast as part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie and originally aired in two parts on October 21 and 28, 1972.
Bill Sikes by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke) The Artful Dodger by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke) In Oliver Twist, Dickens mixes grim realism with merciless satire to describe the effects of industrialism on 19th-century England and to criticise the harsh new Poor Laws. Oliver, an innocent child, is trapped in a world where his only options seem to be ...
Oliver fights with Noah Claypole, an older boy at the undertakers, because Noah mocked Oliver's dead mother. Oliver is then beaten for the offence, but he manages to escape and runs away to London . In London, Oliver meets Jack Dawkins, the Artful Dodger , who offers him a place to stay, where he meets up with Fagin and his band of young thieves.
Described as “an irreverent follow-up to Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist,'” the series follows Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger (played by The Maze Runner‘s Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and ...
Here's the first look at new movie Twist, a modern reworking of Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist starring Michael Caine as ageing master thief Fagin.
Oliver escapes to London where he meets a young pickpocket named Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger. Dodger brings Oliver to his gang led by Fagin. Oliver also earns the affections of Nancy, a former pupil of Fagin's and also meets her brutal lover, Bill Sikes. A few days later, Dodger takes Oliver to teach him how to pick pockets.