| Actor | Film/TV | Date |
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| Tim Allen | The Santa Clause | 1994 |
| The Santa Clause 2 | 2002 |
| The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause | 2006 |
| Ed Asner | The Story of Santa Claus | 1996 (voice) |
| Elf | 2003 |
| Christmas on the Bayou | 2013 |
| Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas | 2014 Animated TV-Movie (voice) |
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| Fred Astaire | The Man in the Santa Claus Suit | 1979 TV-Movie |
| Richard Attenborough | Miracle on 34th Street | 1994 |
| Steve Bacic | Deck the Halls | 2005 |
| Alec Baldwin (voice) | Rise of the Guardians | 2012 film |
| Leedham Bantock | Santa Claus | 1912 film |
| Don Beddoe | Bewitched , episode Humbug Not to Be Spoken Here | Season 4, 1967 |
| Michael Bell (voice) | The Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas | Direct-to-video, 2003 |
| Brian Blessed | The Amazing World of Gumball , episode Christmas (voice) | Season 2, 2012 |
| Sooty , episode Pranks and Presents | Season 2, 2013 |
| Danger Mouse , episode The Snowman Cometh (voice) | Season 1, 2015 |
| Beau Bridges | The Christmas Secret | 2009 TV-Movie |
| Lloyd Bridges | In the Nick of Time | 1991 |
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| Jim Broadbent | Arthur Christmas (voice) | 2011 |
| Get Santa | 2015 |
| Aldi Christmas Launch Advert | 2020 |
| George Buza | A Christmas Horror Story | 2015 |
| Sebastian Cabot | Miracle on 34th Street | 1973 TV-Movie |
| John Call | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | 1964 film |
| Bruce Campbell | The Librarians episode "And Santa's Midnight Run" | 2014 |
| Douglas Campbell | Once Upon a Christmas | 2000 |
| Art Carney | The Twilight Zone , episode "The Night of the Meek" | 1960 |
| The Great Santa Claus Switch | 1970 |
| The Night They Saved Christmas | 1984 |
| Jay Clark | Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny | 1972 |
| Oliver Clark | Ernest Saves Christmas | 1988; he starts out as a local actor named Joe Carruthers, but ultimately becomes the new Santa Claus, replacing Douglas Seale's. |
| Andy Clyde | The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse | 1954 |
| Studio 57 | 1955 |
| Tim Conway (voice) | Saving Santa | Direct-to-video, 2013 |
| James Cosmo | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 |
| The Santa Incident | 2010 |
| Bryan Cranston (voice) | The Santa Claus Brothers | 2001 |
| Hume Cronyn | Santa and Pete | 1999 TV-Movie |
| Peter Cullen (voice) | Christmas Comes to Pac-Land | 1982 |
| Andy Devine | Batman , episode The Duo is Slumming | Season 2, 1966 |
| Dileep | My Santa | 2019 |
| Bob Dorough | The Clarks | 1991 |
| Charles Durning | It Nearly Wasn't Christmas | 1989 |
| Mrs. Santa Claus | 1996 |
| Elmo Saves Christmas | 1996 |
| Mr. St. Nick | 2002 |
| A Boyfriend for Christmas | 2004 |
| James Earl Jones | Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street | 2001 |
| Kort Falkenberg | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! , episode Santa Claus Is Coming to Flatbush | 1989 |
| Robert Fliss | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episode, I'm Dreaming of a White Ranger | Season 3, 1995 |
| Stan Francis (voice) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | 1964 |
| Paul Frees (voice) | Frosty the Snowman | 1969 |
| The First Easter Rabbit | 1976 |
| Rudolph's Shiny New Year | 1976 |
| Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey | 1977 |
| Nick Frost | Doctor Who - "Last Christmas" | 2014 |
| Paul Giamatti | Fred Claus | 2007 |
| Mel Gibson | Fatman | 2020 |
| Bill Goldberg | Santa's Slay | 2005 |
| John Goodman (voice) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie | 1998 |
| Futurama | 1999 |
| The Year Without a Santa Claus | 2006 (live-action) |
| It's a Spongebob Christmas! | 2012 |
| A. Cameron Grant | I Love Lucy Christmas Show | 1956 |
| Richard Griffiths | A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa | 2008 |
| Michael Gross | Becoming Santa | 2015 TV-Movie |
| Steve Guttenberg plays Santa's son, Nick | Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus | 2004 who then takes over the job from his father on Meet the Santas , 2005 |
| Edmund Gwenn | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 film |
| Alan Hale, Jr. | Gilligan's Island , episode Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk | Season 1, 1964 |
| Tom Hanks (voice) | The Polar Express | 2004 |
| Nigel Hawthorne | Call Me Claus | 2001 |
| Isaac Hayes | The Pullmans | 1993 |
| Bob Holt (voice) | The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas | 1973 |
| William Hootkins | Like Father, Like Santa | 1998 |
| David Huddleston | Santa Claus: The Movie | 1985 |
| Edward Ivory (voice) | The Nightmare Before Christmas , | 1993 |
| Peeter Jakobi | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | 2010 |
| Kevin James | Elmo's Christmas Countdown | 2007 Christmas TV-Movie |
| Bob Joles (voice) | Uncle Grandpa , episode "Christmas Special" | 2014 |
| Cecil Kellaway | Bewitched , Episode "A Vision of Sugar Plums" | Season 1, 1964 |
| Anna Kendrick | Noelle | November 12, 2019 |
| Phil LaMarr | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends , episode “A Lost Claus” | 2005 |
| Bill Lewis | Defending Christmas | 1993 TV-Movie |
| Sal Lizard | The Box | 2009 |
| John Malkovich | Santabear's High Flying Adventure | 1987 |
| Dakin Matthews | The Big Bang Theory , episode "The Santa Simulation" | Season 6, 2012 |
| Paul Maxey | The Magical World of Disney , episode "Holiday Time at Disneyland" | 1962 |
| Chuck McCann | A Very Retail Christmas | 1990 |
| Bruce McGill (voice) | Family Guy , episode Road to the North Pole | Season 9, 2010 |
| Matt McKenna (voice) | American Dad! , Episodes:
For Whom The Sleigh Bell Tolls (S 6 Ep 8)
Minstreal Krampus (S 8 Ep 6)
Ninety North, Zero West (S 12 Ep 7)
Sant, Schmanta (S 13 Ep 1) | TV series (2010, 2012, 2016, 2017) |
| Mark Mitchell | The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas | 1996 TV-Movie |
| Thomas Mitchell | The Miracle on 34th Street | 1955 TV-Movie |
| Jose Elias Moreno | Santa Claus | 1959 |
| Robert Morse (voice) | Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans | 2019 Animated TV-Movie |
| Ferdinard Munier | Babes in Toyland | 1934 |
| Lake Placid Serenade | 1944 |
| Road to Utopia | 1946 |
| Richard Mulligan | The Twilight Zone , episode "Night of the Meek" | 1985 |
| Leslie Nielsen | All I Want For Christmas | 1991 |
| Santa Who? | 2000 |
| Dick O'Neill | "Reality Bites" The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Season 5, 1994 |
| Bert Parnaby | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 1988 |
| Austin Pendleton | Christmas with the Kranks | 2004 |
| Phil Pierce | A Bad Moms Christmas | 2017 |
| Richard Riehle | The Hebrew Hammer | 2003 |
| The Search for Santa Paws | 2010 |
| A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | 2011 |
| Mickey Rooney (voice) | Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town | 1970 |
| The Year Without a Santa Claus | 1974 |
| Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July | 1979 |
| The Happy Elf | 2005 |
| A Miser Brothers' Christmas | 2008 |
| Jan Rubeš | One Magic Christmas | 1985 |
| Kurt Russell | The Christmas Chronicles | 2018 |
| The Christmas Chronicles 2 | 2020 |
| Will Sasso | Finding Mrs. Claus | 2002 TV-Movie |
| Douglas Seale | "Santa '85" Amazing Stories | Season 1, 1985 |
| Ernest Saves Christmas | (1988); in the latter, his mortal name is "Seth Applegate". |
| William Shatner (voice) | Eek! The Cat , episode "It's a Very Merry Eek's Mas" | Season 2, 1993 |
| Gotta Catch Santa Claus | 2008 Christmas TV-Movie |
| Peter Shukoff | Epic Rap Battles of History , episode "Moses vs. Santa Claus" | Season 2, 2012 |
| Hal Smith (voice) | The Flintstones , episode Christmas Flintstone | Season 5, 1964 |
| The Brady Bunch | Season 1, 1969 (live-action) |
| Santa and the Three Bears | 1970 |
| A Christmas Story | 1972 |
| A Flintstone Christmas | 1977 TV-Movie (live action) |
| Casper's First Christmas | 1979 |
| Yogi's First Christmas | 1980 |
| Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone | 1990 |
| Bonkers | 1993 |
| The Town Santa Forgot | 1993 |
| Donavon Stinson | A Fairly Odd Christmas | 2012 |
| Santa Hunters | 2014 |
| Paul Sorvino | Santa Baby 2 | 2009 |
| Jim Staahl (voice) | Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer | 2001 |
| Fred Tatasciore (voice) | Scooby Doo! Haunted Holidays | Direct-to-DVD, 2012 |
| Ricky Tomlinson (voice) | Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire | 1999 |
| Dick Van Patten | A Mouse, a Mystery and Me | 1987 TV-Movie |
| The Santa Trap | 2002 TV-Movie |
| Robert Wagner | Northpole | 2014 TV-Movie |
| Frank Welker (voice) | A Chipmunk Christmas | 1981 |
| A Wish For Wings That Work | 1991 |
| George Wendt | Santa Baby | 2006 |
| Santa Buddies (voice) | 2009 |
| John Wheeler | Step by Step episode "Too Many Santas" | Season 7, 1997 |
| Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus | 2004 |
| Meet the Santas | 2005 |
| Keith Wickham | Thomas & Friends , episode "Last Train For Christmas" | 2014 |
| Jonathan Winters (voice) | Santa vs. the Snowman | 1997 |
| Ed Wynn | Miracle on 34th Street | 1959 TV-Movie |
| JK Simmons | Red One | 2024 |
| David Harbour | Violent Night | 2022 |
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