Headmasters in Movies and TV

Michael Gambon in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Gwendoline Christie in Wednesday (2022)

Paul Gleason in The Breakfast Club (1985)

Joan Cusack in School of Rock (2003)

Jeffrey Jones in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Purva Bedi as Principal Gupta on Peacock's One of Us is Lying

William Daniels in Boy Meets World (1993)

Norman Lloyd in Dead Poets Society (1989)

Dennis Haskins in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Pam Ferris in Matilda (1996)

James Tolkan in Back to the Future (1985)

Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me (1989)

Linda Hunt in Kindergarten Cop (1990)

John Sylvester White in Welcome Back, Kotter (1975)

Michael Constantine in Room 222 (1969)

Wendie Malick in The Grand Chancellor and a Den of Sin (2021)

Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer, and Marcia Wallace in The Simpsons (1989)

Patrick Stewart in X-Men (2000)

Rachel Roberts in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Keegan-Michael Key in The Prom (2020)

Cress Williams in Black Lightning (2018)

Jemima Kirke in Episode 7 (2021)

Kerr Smith in Chapter Seventy-Six: Killing Mr. Honey (2020)

Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, and Paxton Whitehead in Frasier (1993)