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This was the start of Bond's series of books recounting the tales of Paddington Bear, a bear from "darkest Peru", whose Aunt Lucy sends him to the United Kingdom, carrying a jar of marmalade. In the first book the Brown family find the bear at Paddington Station , and adopt him, naming the bear after the station. [ 7 ]
Paddington Bear (though his name is just Paddington; the "Bear" simply serves to confirm his species) is a fictional character in British children's literature. He first appeared on 13 October 1958 in the children's book A Bear Called Paddington by British author Michael Bond .
Paddington was created using a combination of computer-generated imagery (by the British company Framestore) [33] and animatronics. The creator of the Paddington character, Michael Bond, also appeared in a cameo in the first film, playing the role of the Kindly Gentleman. [34]
Several stars of the "Harry Potter" films have died, including Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, and most recently, Maggie Smith, who played McGonagall. Remembering the 'Harry Potter' actors who have died
The two actors died on the exact same date — Sept. 27 — exactly one year apart, with Smith this year at age 89 and Gambon in 2023, at age 82. Smith played the no-nonsense Professor Minerva ...
Fortnum's best-known works are her illustrations of Michael Bond's character Paddington Bear. [5] In 1958 she illustrated Paddington's debut the first edition of A Bear Called Paddington [6] and her original illustrations were used by HarperCollins in its 1998 reissue of A Bear Called Paddington, which celebrated the character's 40th ...
Daniel Radcliffe, the lead star of the original “Harry Potter” film franchise, is remembering his late costar Michael Gambon after Gambon died of pneumonia this week at age 82.
Paddington 2 is a 2017 live-action animated comedy film directed by Paul King and written by King and Simon Farnaby.Based on the stories of Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond (to whom the film is also dedicated, Bond having died that year), it is the sequel to Paddington (2014), and is produced by Heyday Films and StudioCanal UK.