Dr. James Harvey

Dr. James Harvey is the tritagonist of Casper and one of the two tritagonists (along with his daughter Kathleen "Kat" Harvey) in The Spooktacluar New Adventures of Casper.
He is portrayed by , who also portrayed President Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day and Captain Lone Star in Spaceballs.
In the animated series, he is voiced by , who is best known for voicing Homer Simpson in The Simpsons and The Genie in Disney's Aladdin franchise.
==History==
Dr. James Harvey is a parapsychologist who contacts spirits who have "unfinished business" and helps them overcome it so they can move on to the afterlife; he is also trying to find the spirit of his recently deceased wife, Amelia. He has a strained relationship with his daughter Kat, who has a hard time making friends because her father moves her around so much.
After being discovered on the news by Casper, Casper indirectly draws the News to Carrigan Crittenden, which gives her the idea to contact Dr. Harvey in efforts for him to get the ghosts out of Whipstaff Manor, so she can get a hold of the treasure contained inside the mansion.
Upon moving into Whipstaff, Kat and Dr. Harvey were unintentionally scared off by Casper who tried to befriend them, as his uncles: the Ghostly Trio, tried to scare the two off the property. James managed to get the upper hand, when he sucked them in a vacuum.
The next morning, he found Kat in the kitchen bonding with Casper. Harvey was confused by at first, but became calm seeing that Casper is a nice ghost, and serving them breakfast. As Kat and James were about to have breakfast, they were interrupted by the Trio who weren't please with their nephew serving them breakfast before his own relatives. 
After breakfast, the Trio were looking through James' property, and blowing them up with bullets coming out of their figures, except for a picture of Ameila in where the Trio caught an attraction to. They also revealed to have seen Amelia, much to James's surprise, and they offer to help James find her, as long as he gets Carrigan to leave them alone, which he agrees. Unfortunately it became a prank, when one of the Trio, Fatso was dressed in drag, and gives Dr. Harvey a fat kiss in the lips. 
The next morning, Kat woke her father up in the kitchen. She asked if she can use his Visa card to buy a costume for her school's Halloween party in the manor, but he couldn't unless Carrigan paid him.
He later decided to pack his things, much to the Trio's dismay, as they seem to be getting along with him, so they decided to take him out for a night on the town.
Later that night at the bar, a drunken James was singing some karaoke, to the Trio's amusement. After discussing how his life would end up leading into nothing but misery, the Trio have the idea to attempt to kill him to make them a quartet, but immediately have a change of heart when James, while still being drunk, stated that they aren't leaving, they can stay in their house as long as they want, after admittedly having a good time with them. Wanting to continue the night of hanging out with the Trio, James accidently fall to his death down at a manhole.
After returning home with the Trio, now as a spirit, James does not recognize Kat, until Kat pulled a pinky promise they made before moving in, which made realized that he has left his daughter behind. Casper stepped in and took him to a machine called the Lazarus, a machine Casper's father invented to bring the dead back to life, which Casper was originally going to use on himself, but feels that James deserved it more, so Kat wouldn't grow up as a complete orphan. The machine worked as James came out of the machine alive once again. Both he and Kat embraced, relieved to be together once more.
Later that night, as James watched his daughter dance with a blonde haired boy who happened to be Casper (who was rewarded by an angelic spirit of Amelia for his selfless actions in bring her husband back by being human until 10:00 p.m.), he finally saw Amelia appearing before him, who tells him to move on with his life and that she was so content with her family while alive that she has no unfinished business, and that she will be watching him and Kat, until they will be all together again.
Once the clock strike ten and Casper slowly transformed back into his ghost self, after kissing Kat, he gave out a boo, which scared away all of Kat's classmates, James continues the party with the Trio dressed as Little Richard while performing the Little Richard version of the Casper the Friendly Ghost theme song, as Casper, Kat and James were dancing to it.
==Trivia==
*Tom Hanks, Dennis Quaid, Kurt Russell, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, Tim Allen, the late John Ritter, the late Robin Williams, Michael Keaton, Billy Crystal, Rob Schneider, Richard Gere, Martin Short, Bill Murray, Rick Moranis, Chevy Chase and the late Phil Hartman were all considered for the role of Dr. James Harvey before Bill Pullman was cast.
*During Dr. Harvey's possession scene, Dr. Harvey morphs into three famous celebrities, Clint Eastwood, the late Rodney Dangerfield and Mel Gibson and morphs into the Crypt-Keeper doing a pose from Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream.
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