Leslie Nielsen
The 'Airplane!' star - who passed away in 2010 aged 84 - played Father Christmas for the first time in the 1991 movie ‘All I Want For Christmas’. It follows two children who ask Santa to bring their divorced parents back together for Christmas.
Nielsen portrayed the man in the red suit again in the 2000 made-for-TV movie ‘Santa Who?’, in which Father Christmas develops amnesia just before the celebrations.