Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by the British writer Roald Dahl. It features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of an eccentric chocolati
First US edition
Costumes of Willy Wonka (from Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and the Hatter (from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) in London. A 2015 UK poll ranked them the top two children's books.
Golden Ticket from the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on display at a convention in Spain
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical playing at Drury Lane in the West End of London in 2013
Peter Ostrum
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Peter Gardner Ostrum is an American retired veterinarian and former child actor, whose only film role was as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Ostrum in November 2017
Ostrum (second from left) in 2011 with the Willy Wonka child cast
Ostrum in 2011
Ostrum was retired from the Countryside Veterinary Clinic in Lowville by September 2023.