Best fictional Dad.

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Following on from the mum thread who is the best fictional dad. I’m going for Atticus Finch from Mocking bird, and Bill Smugs from Enid Blyton Adventure Series.

Atticus Finch yes, good role model, there for his children.

Commander Walker from Swallows and Amazons - too absent imo

Mr Weasley - a fun Dad maybe, but seemed to leave the brunt of the parenting and money side to Mrs Weasley, he sat back too much from responsibility.

Guido Orefice In the film Life is Beautiful.

Homer Simpson

Coach Taylor

Mr Brown in Paddington, the one played by Hugh Bonneville

Oh god, I've just got this. Although I'd still like to hear Ingrid's view....

Phil Dunphy from Modern Family

Uncle Tom loved the book and the film

Outnumbered

Grandfather in Joanna Spyri's Heidi.

Martin Crane from Frasier - grumpy on the outside, marshmallow on the inside. Also hilarious!

Mr Tom in Goodnight Mr Tom.

Not Pa Ingalls. I totally identified with Laura, of course,but my mother read them for the first time when I did, and she said she couldn't understand how Caroline could bear it - every time they got settled and feeling part of a community, Pa made them go west again and live some subsistence starvation life of drudgery in the dirt.

Attics Finch though.

I am adding Phil Dunphy to my list!

Mr Brown from Paddington is just like my DH, so naturally I have added him to my Great Dad list, as DH is, too.

Not strictly a dad, but Joe Gargery in Great Expectations gets my vote.

I thought I was going mad that he was my first thought, so happy others have said this 😂 they both make me feel so inferior 😭

Atticus Finch
Moominpapa

oh, Big Bear (from can't you sleep little bear)

actually there aren't that many human fathers in fiction I would rate as Dads

Not strictly a dad, but Joe Gargery in Great Expectations gets my vote.

He was the nearest thing to a father that Pip had.

"Daddy, my Daddy!"

Silas Marner

But Atticus Finch gets my top spot.

Phil Dunphy in Modern Family; also have soft spot for Jay.

But best of all Eugene Levy as ‘Jim’s dad’ in American Pie films.

I love Modern Family and love Phil. He was a great dad in lots of ways but could be infuriatingly incompetent as a husband!

Atticus Finch.

TV wise, and 'adopted' , Sir Edward Pellew to Horiatio Hornblower.

I don't think Pa Ingalls has stood the test of time, sadly. Even the relatively restrained books are really hinting at the constant upheaval. Michael Landon as Pa though, yes.

Another vote for Mr Weasley

Simpsons s6 ep13 “And Maggie Makes Three” always gives me a lump in my throat at the end.