Christmas is the day of gifts. But also a golden opportunity to test yourself on movie Santas with our quiz.
Iconic figure of pop culture, Santa Claus obviously has his place in the cinema, and we have lost count of the number of films that feature him, nor the actors who have embodied him. Whether it’s the real thing or a supermarket red man. Some big names have even tried their hand at it and we’ve rounded up ten of them. Can you recognize them?
Less than a month ago, David Harbor momentarily left the upside-down world of Stranger Things to play a badass Santa Claus in Violent Night, where his tour turned bloody during a stopover in of a family with very serious scores to settle.
The result was certainly bloody, but no less corrosive than in Le Père Noël est une junk, a cult piece from the Splendid that has become a film that is no less so, and in which Gérard Jugnot hides behind his beard to dynamite Christmas Eve. a gallery of silly and wicked characters.
If comedy and family films are Santa’s favorite fields in the cinema, he can also interfere in other genres, with the same grace as that which allows him to go through the chimney. Like the fantasy thriller 3615 Code Santa. Or the detective film The Assassination of Santa Claus, released in 1941.