Paddington (film) Paddington (film) Paddington is a 2014 live-action animated comedy film written and directed by Paul King from a story by King and Hamish McColl and produced by David Heyman. Based on the stories of the character Paddington Bear created by Michael Bond, the film stars Ben Whishaw as the voice of the title character, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, and Nicole Kidman in live-action roles. The film tells the story of the eponymous character Paddington, an anthropomorphic bear who migrates from the jungles of Peru to the streets of London, where he is adopted
The Brown Bear of Norway The Brown Bear of Norway The Brown Bear of Norway is an Irish fairy tale collected by Patrick Kennedy which appeared in his "Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts" (1866). It was later included by Andrew Lang in his anthology "The Lilac Fairy Book" (1910), though Lang misattributed his source as "West Highland Tales" (cf. The Brown Bear of the Green Glen). The tale is classed as Aarne–Thompson type 425A, the search for the lost husband. Others of this type include The Black Bull of Norroway, The King of Love, The Daughter of the Skies, East of the Sun and