The Wonderful World of Roald Dahl (2005)

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'Roald Dahl' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Dahl, Roald Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Baa Baa Black Sheep

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Bang-lure

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Fantastic Mr. Fox

  2009, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Three Little Pigs

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Roald Dahl's Revolting Rule Book

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jackanory Junior

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen There's Something About... Dahl

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Premiere Bond: Opening Nights

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Bet

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Lamb to the Slaughter

  2002, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself, author of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
• Play in Full Screen Inside 'You Only Live Twice'

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Genesis and Catastrophe

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Inaudito

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Matilda

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen James and the Giant Peach

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Pisvingers!

  1995, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Idealnaya para

  1992, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Witches

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Shekare khamoosh

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Dirty Beasts

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'

  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Breaking Point

  1989, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World

  1989, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The BFG

  1989, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Night Digger

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The 41st Annual Academy Awards

  1969, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• Play in Full Screen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

  1968, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen You Only Live Twice

  1967, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Des Pfarrers Freude

  1966, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen 36 Hours

  1965, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen That Was the Week That Was

  1962, role: writer

Famous quotes by Roald Dahl:

"I do not like film directors very much. They lack humility and they are too damn sure that everything they do is right. The trouble is that it's mostly wrong. Oh, what a mess Mel Stewart made of Charlie."

"I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears - and actually, Corpse Bride is a beautiful and very comforting, joyous portrayal of what might be beyond life."

"Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well,"

"Some adults forget what it was like to be a kid,'' Burton says."

"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

"Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents."

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

"And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him."

"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."

"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"

"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."

"To shipbrokers, coal was black gold."

"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."

"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."

"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."

"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."

Roald Dahl

Born: 1916-09-13

Died: 1990-11-23