12 Harry Potter Actors Who Were Replaced In The Sequels

8. Derek Deadman - Tom The Innkeeper

The Replacement: Jim Tavare

The instantly recognisable figure of Derek Deadman initially played the part of Tom the Innkeeper - the man behind the bar at The Leaky Cauldron who welcomes Harry to Diagon Alley in the first movie.

Quite why the actor - who died in 2014 - was replaced for The Prisoner Of Azkaban remains to be seen, but the character was entirely reinvented for the third film. When Jim Tavare took him on, he was a more comic figure, complete with a shorn head and hump back, who was clearly designed to inspire some disposable laughs while was briefly on screen.