Attention, Harry Potter fans!

Have you seen the movie Gosford Park? The 2001 flick is an English manor mystery in the genre of the "cozy" mystery, Agatha Christie-style. The ensemble cast in this slow-moving and indulgent story is superb. Appearing in "Gosford Park" are three Harry Potter actors and one narrator.

If you saw the movie, perhaps you missed them: Michael Gambon (Albus Dumbledore), Maggie Smith (Minerva McGonagall), Geraldine Somerville (Lily Potter), and Stephen Fry (UK narrator). See Somerville's Wikipedia entry for a screenshot from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

Gambon plays arisocrat Sir William McCordle, who is hosting the weekend party at his home. Smith plays his hard-up sister, Constance, Countess of Trentham, Somerville plays Louisa Stockbridge, sister of McCordle's wife, and Fry is Inspector Thompson.

I saw the movie before I was charmed by Harry Potter, so there was no connection to make. A couple of weeks ago I was researching something and discovered the four in the same movie.

Pictured above is Michael Gambon; below are Maggie Smith, Geraldine Somervile (redhead on the left with Kristin Scott Thomas, who plays her sister), and Stephen Fry.