<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> 2005 Walden / Disney film: Jim Broadbent </Td> </Tr> <P> Professor Digory Kirke (1888 - 1949) is a fictional character from C.S. Lewis' fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia . He appears in three of the seven books: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle . </P> <P> In the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he is played as an adult by Jim Broadbent . </P> <P> In The Magician's Nephew, the sixth book to be published but the first in the chronology of Narnia, Digory is a young boy, who was born in UK in 1888 . He lives in London with his Uncle Andrew and Andrew's sister Aunt Letty, because his father is in India, and his mother is deathly ill . Andrew, an eccentric, alcoholic and manipulative old man, has made magic rings that allow whoever wears them to travel to other worlds by passing through the Wood between the Worlds, although he knows nothing of this place . Uncle Andrew first tricks Digory's friend Polly Plummer into trying one of the yellow rings . When she disappears, he then blackmails his nephew into following her with another ring in order to bring her back . Upon meeting Polly, the two agree to go back into the pool that will lead them home, but Digory persuades Polly to first try one of the many other pools, but Polly says that they should go to their pool and see if it works first and it is successful . </P>

Who plays the professor in the lion the witch and the wardrobe