List of actors who played Santa Claus

Table columns:
Actor
Film/TV
Date

Table rows:
cells: Tim Allen
The Santa Clause
1994
cells: The Santa Clause 2
2002
cells: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
2006
cells: Ed Asner
The Story of Santa Claus (voice)
1996
cells: Elf
2003
cells: Christmas on the Bayou
2013
cells: Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (voice)
2014 animated TV special
cells: Fred Astaire
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
1979 TV-Movie
cells: Richard Attenborough
Miracle on 34th Street
1994
cells: Steve Bacic
Deck the Halls
2005
cells: Alec Baldwin (voice)
Rise of the Guardians
2012 film
cells: Don Beddoe
Bewitched, episode Humbug Not to Be Spoken Here
Season 4, 1967
cells: Michael Bell (voice)
The Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas
Direct-to-video, 2002
cells: Brian Blessed
The Amazing World of Gumball, episode Christmas (voice)
Season 2, 2012
cells: Sooty, episode Pranks and Presents
Season 2, 2013
cells: Danger Mouse, episode The Snowman Cometh (voice)
Season 1, 2015
cells: Lloyd Bridges
In the Nick of Time
1991
cells: Beau Bridges
The Christmas Secret
2009 TV-Movie
cells: George Buza
A Christmas Horror Story
2015
cells: Isaac Hayes
The Pullmans
1993
cells: Jim Broadbent (voice)
Arthur Christmas
2011
cells: Sebastian Cabot
Miracle on 34th Street
1973
cells: John Call
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
1964 film
cells: Douglas Campbell
Once Upon a Christmas
2000
cells: Art Carney
The Night They Saved Christmas
1984
cells: Twilight Zone episode "Night of the Meek"
1960
cells: Oliver Clark
Ernest Saves Christmas
1988; he starts out as a local actor named Joe Carruthers, but ultimately becomes the new Santa Claus, replacing Douglas Seale's.
cells: Tim Conway (voice)
Saving Santa
Direct-to-video, 2013
cells: James Cosmo
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
cells: The Santa Incident – 2010
cells: Bryan Cranston
The Santa Claus Brothers
2001
cells: Hume Cronyn
Santa and Pete
1999 TV-Movie
cells: Peter Cullen (voice)
Christmas Comes to Pac-Land
1982
cells: Andy Devine
Batman, episode The Duo is Slumming
season 2, 1966
cells: Charles Durning
Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
cells: Mr. St. Nick
2002
cells: James Earl Jones
Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street
2001
cells: Stan Francis (voice)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
cells: Paul Frees (voice)
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
1976
cells: Frosty the Snowman
1969
cells: Paul Giamatti
Fred Claus
cells: Bill Goldberg
Santa's Slay
2005
cells: John Goodman
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
cells: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998
cells: Futurama
1999
cells: It's a Spongebob Christmas!
2012
cells: Keith Wickham
Thomas & Friends
eighteenth-season episode, Last Train For Christmas
cells: A. Cameron Grant
I Love Lucy Christmas Show
1956
cells: Richard Griffiths
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008
cells: Michael Gross
Becoming Santa
2015 TV-Movie
cells: Steve Guttenberg plays Santa's son, Nick
Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus
2004 who then takes over the job from his father on Meet the Santas, 2005
cells: Edmund Gwenn
Miracle on 34th Street
1947 film
cells: Alan Hale, Jr.
Gilligan's Island, episode Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk
Season 1, 1964
cells: Tom Hanks (voice)
The Polar Express
2004
cells: Nigel Hawthorne
Call Me Claus
2001
cells: Bob Holt (voice)
The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
1973
cells: William Hootkins
Like Father, Like Santa
1998
cells: David Huddleston
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985
cells: Edward Ivory (voice)
The Nightmare Before Christmas,
1993
cells: Peeter Jakobi
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
2010
cells: Kevin James
Elmo's Christmas Countdown
2007 Christmas television special
cells: Bob Dorough
The Clarks
1991
cells: Bob Joles (voice)
Uncle Grandpa episode Christmas Special
2014
cells: Cecil Kellaway
Bewitched, Episode "A Vision of Sugar Plums"
Season 1, 1964
cells: Bill Lewis
Defending Christmas
television film, 1993
cells: Sal Lizard
The Box
2009
cells: Dakin Matthews
The Big Bang Theory, episode "The Santa Simulation"
Season 6, 2012
cells: Chuck McCann
A Very Retail Christmas
1990
cells: Bruce McGill (voice)
Family Guy, episode Road to the North Pole
Season 9, 2010
cells: Mark Mitchell
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
television film, 1996.
cells: Jose Elias Moreno
Santa Claus
1959
cells: Ferdinard Munier
Babes in Toyland
1934
cells: Road to Utopia
1946
cells: Leslie Nielsen
All I Want For Christmas and Santa Who?
2000
cells: Mairtin O'Carrigan
Mistletoe Over Manhattan –
2011 TV-Movie
cells: Dick O'Neill
"Reality Bites" The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Season 5, 1994
cells: Austin Pendleton
Christmas with the Kranks
2004
cells: Richard Riehle
The Hebrew Hammer
2003
cells: The Search for Santa Paws
2010
cells: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
2011
cells: Mickey Rooney (voice)
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
1970
cells: The Year Without a Santa Claus
1974
cells: A Miser Brothers' Christmas
2008
cells: Jan Rubeš
One Magic Christmas
1985
cells: Will Sasso
Finding Mrs. Claus
2002 TV-Movie
cells: Douglas Seale
"Santa '85" Amazing Stories
Season 1, 1985
cells: Ernest Saves Christmas
(1988); in the latter, his mortal name is "Seth Applegate".
cells: William Shatner (voice)
Eek! The Cat, episode "It's a Very Merry Eek's Mas"
Season 2, 1993
cells: Gotta Catch Santa Claus
2008 Christmas television special
cells: Peter Shukoff
Epic Rap Battles of History, episode "Moses vs. Santa Claus"
Season 2, 2012
cells: Hal Smith (voice)
The Flintstones, episode Christmas Flintstone
Season 5, 1964
cells: A Flintstone Christmas
1977 Christmas television special (live action)
cells: The Brady Bunch
Season 1, 1969
cells: Santa and the Three Bears
cells: Paul Sorvino
Santa Baby 2
2009
cells: Jim Staahl (voice)
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
2001
cells: Fred Tatasciore (voice)
Scooby Doo! Haunted Holidays
Direct-to-DVD, 2012
cells: Ricky Tomlinson (voice)
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
1999
cells: Dick Van Patten
The Santa Trap
television film, 2002
cells: Robert Wagner
Northpole
2014 TV-Movie
cells: Phil Pierce
A Bad Moms Christmas
2017
cells: Frank Welker (voice)
A Chipmunk Christmas
1981
cells: George Wendt
Santa Baby
2006
cells: George Wendt Santa Buddies (voice)
2009
cells: John Wheeler
Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus
2004
cells: Meet The Santas
2005
cells: Step by Step episode "Too Many Santas"
season 7, 1997

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