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A character with this name calls his kids not sons but “three whiskered things” in a monologue in which he shouts “I deny you!” At the end of a film, a character with this name breaks the fourth wall after sneaking some chicken while pretending to be napping. That character with this name shares a disastrous wedding night with a hammy German played by Elsa Lanchester, the actor’s actual wife. For a 1953 biopic, (*) Charles Laughton reprised his role as a glutton with this name from a 1933 Alexander Korda film. A man with this name happily shouts “I hope we never die!” as his wife floats away on a barge in an adaptation of a James Goldman play set in court on Christmas. For 10 points, Peter O’Toole plays a king with what name in The Lion in Winter? ■END■
ANSWER: Henry [accept Henry II, Henry VIII, or The Private Lives of Henry VIII]
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