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Every 'Harry Potter' and 'Fantastic Beasts' movie, ranked Tracing Harry Potter's rise in pop culture
Lithgow plays Albus Dumbledore, the wise Hogwarts headmaster and founder of the Order of the Phoenix.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
John Lithgow, the 79-year-old Tony Award and Academy Award nominated actor, known for his roles in Terms of Endearment and Conclave will join the cast as Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and all-powerful wizard.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The Emmy winner was officially cast this week as the beloved Hogwarts headmaster in HBO‘s upcoming Harry Potter TV series, but some fans of the fantasy book series have raised an objection because Lithgow isn’t British.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 18 Apr. 2025
Thus far American actor John Lithgow has been cast as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
John Lithgow, the 79-year-old Tony Award and Academy Award nominated actor, known for his roles in Terms of Endearment and Conclave will join the cast as Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and all-powerful wizard.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The Emmy winner was officially cast this week as the beloved Hogwarts headmaster in HBO‘s upcoming Harry Potter TV series, but some fans of the fantasy book series have raised an objection because Lithgow isn’t British.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 18 Apr. 2025
Thus far American actor John Lithgow has been cast as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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The effort also aims to improve staff retention and recruitment at a time when hiring enough teachers can prove challenging — especially in an expensive city where the rising cost of having a family outpaces a teacher’s salary.—
Jenny Gold,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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The bus flipped over and caught fire; the children were trapped inside, and six died, along with one of their teachers.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2025
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English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.—
Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
26 Apr. 2025
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See Episode 5, where the killer frames a schoolmaster’s murder as suicide within a locked room, the laughably lazy explanation for which wouldn’t appear out of place in a pantomime.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
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My class—led by the church rector, Nigel Massey, a boyish-looking Brit who studied theology at Oxford—was focussed on the subjunctive as used to express uncertainty.—
Shauna Lyon,
New Yorker,
9 May 2025
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His leadership style was further shaped while serving as rector of the Colegio de San José in Buenos Aires from 1980 to 1986.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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As villainous headmistress Miss Trunchbull, Emma Thompson was tasked with hurling students, but no child actors were harmed during the tossing scenes, which were filmed with the help of a professional hammer thrower.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
7 May 2025
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Buy Now 12 of 15 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl Precocious bookworms everywhere found a kindred spirit in Matilda, a little girl with neglectful parents and a loving teacher who takes on a terrorizing headmistress with her special powers.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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On their episode, in particular, Jones plays a schoolteacher named Amanda who resorts to a high-tech brain system after a health scare nearly ends her life, while Ross plays the sales rep for the company, which infiltrates Amanda's life in unexpected ways.—
Stacy Lambe,
People.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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But the schoolteacher’s house on the corner that signaled the start of his neighborhood was leveled.—
Dan Woike,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2025
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Howard Fuller, an instructor for the Connecticut Rider Education Program at Tunxis Community College, said attitudes are different on the roads these days with distracted and disrespectful driving toward others.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
15 May 2025
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Expert instructors will teach you strategies to network successfully, revamp your resume and confidently transition into your dream career.—
Natalie Wu,
CNBC,
15 May 2025
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Before sports betting was legalized, Heather Eshleman, the prevention manager at the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling, got roughly three requests a year from educators requesting presentations on sports betting addiction.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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The McColl Center’s $40,000 grant was going toward its summer artist residency program for artists who are parents, caregivers or educators.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
13 May 2025
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Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.—
Patrick Frater,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2023
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“Headmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmaster. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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