 digory kirke is a fictional character from c. s. lewis' fantasy series the chronicles of narnia. he appears in three of the seven books: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, the magician's nephew, and the last battle, and is mentioned in the voyage of the dawn treader. in the 2005 film the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, he is played as an adult by jim broadbent. ==biography== ===the magician's nephew=== in the magician's nephew, the sixth book to be published but the first in the chronology of narnia, digory is a young boy. he lives in london with his uncle andrew and andrew's sister aunt letty, because his father is away in india, and his mother is deathly ill. andrew, an eccentric, alcoholic and manipulative old man, has made magic rings that allow whoever wears them to travel to other worlds by passing through the wood between the worlds, although he knows nothing of this place. uncle andrew first tricks digory's friend polly plummer into trying one of the yellow rings. when she disappears, he then blackmails his nephew into following her with another ring in order to bring her back. upon meeting polly, the two agree to go back into the pool that will lead them home; digory, however, persuades polly to first try one of the many other pools. they find themselves in a completely abandoned world called charn, over which a dying red sun hangs. in a great hall, they find a hall full of wax figures, and a golden bell with a little hammer and an inscription. although polly is vehemently opposed to it, digory rings the bell, thus breaking the enchantment that holds jadis, the future white witch, in an enchanted sleep. after finding out that she is a powerful sorceress who destroyed her entire world with one word, they try to escape her but instead find she follows them into the wood between the worlds by clutching onto both of them. upon arriving there, they realize she is severely weakened by the wood betwee
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