Harry Woomwood

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Listen, you little wiseacre. I'm smart, you're dumb, I'm big, you're little, I'm right, you're wrong. And there's nothin' you can do about it.
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~ Harry insulting his daughter, Matilda.

Mr. Harold "Harry" Wormwood, also known as Mr. Wormwood, is the secondary antagonist in Roald Dahl's book Matilda and its popular 1996 film adaptation.
He is the owner of Wormwood Motors, the husband of Zinnia Wormwood, the ex-father of Matilda and the father of Michael Wormwood. Despite posing as an honest businessman, Harry is actually a crook and a con-artist who sells defective cars to people at unreasonable prices, as he believes that no one makes money being honest and is also unaware that the FBI are spying on him as he believes that the FBI are speedboat salesmen.
He was portrayed by Danny DeVito, who also directed the film and narrated it. DeVito also voices Mr. Swackhammer in Space Jam, and portrays The Penguin in Batman Returns and Bobby Ciaro in Hoffa.
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History
Although like Zinniah and Miss Trunchbull, his past is mostly unknown and unexplained but we do know that he did not go to college because he believed that they were filled with “hippies and cesspool salesmen”. And at some point in his life, he became corrupt and created his own business, Wormwood Moters.
Harry Wormwood is a rich man and a crook who makes dirty dealings like buying stolen car parts. He is the owner of Wormwood Motors. Harry doesn't care for Matilda and dislikes her a lot. He gets ticked off when he realize she is smarter than him, and he often abuses Matilda by sending her to her room as a cruel punishment for being a “smart aleck”. In revenge, Matilda sneaks into her parents bedroom and sabotages Harry’s hair stuff with chloroxine. In the morning, when Harry appears in the Kitchen, a shocked Michael and Zinniah discovered that Harry’s hair was bleached, and Harry screams in horror when he looks in the mirror at himself, much to Matilda’s amusement.
The next day, Harry takes his son, Michael, and Matilda to his business, Wormwood Motors, while two FBI agents were spying on Harry with his stolen car parts. At Wormwood Motors, as Harry talks to his son about becoming the next owner of Wormwood Motors, Matilda calls him a crook. Offended, Harry tells her off, calling her dumb, little and wrong while telling her that he's smart, big and right. Matilda then glues Harry’s hat with Super Super Glue. While Zinnah picks them up to take them to Cafe Le Ritz (when she won a new car from bingo), Harry unknowingly puts his hat on with glue. While attempting to take his hat off at the restaurant, Zinnah tries to pull Harry’s hat off, but with no avail, causing Harry to crash into a table of desserts, sending them flying.
Back at home, Harry rants about not being the figure if ridicule while Zinnah cuts some hair off of Harry to pull his hat off. Later at dinnertime, while he and his family were watching their favorite TV show, The Million Dollar Sticky, Harry asks Matilda if she was in this family, but ignores him. Fumed, Harry berates to her that dinnertime is family time and asks about the book she was reading. Matilda states that it’s Moby Dick, which Harry thinks it’s offensive and tears the book to pieces, and states that he’s fed up with her reading. Harry then forces Matilda to watch the TV show he and his family were watching. Suddenly, Matilda developed a magic mind power which destroyed the TV.
The next day, at his business, Harry makes a car deal with Agatha Trunchbull, and scams her into buying a bad car. While Trunchbull was driving to the Olympics, her car broke down, much to her fury. She calls Harry and threatens to sue him.
Later on, at the end of the film, due to his illegal dealings which attracted the attention of the FBI, Harry and his wife, Mrs. Zinnia Wormwood, and his son, Michael, are forced to go on a permanent vacation to Guam. After they agree to let Matilda be adopted by Miss Honey, the three drive away, never to be seen again. but he might escape from Guam to bring her back home to them
In the stage musical, he is shown to ultimately care about Matilda a bit in that he acknowledges her as his daughter and wants her to come away with the family; this does not occur in the film.
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