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((Infobox character
| name               = Bob Cratchit
| series             = [[A Christmas Carol]]
| image              = tiny-tim-dickens.jpg
| image_size         = 250px
| caption            = Bob Cratchit and [[Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)|Tiny Tim]] as depicted in the 1870s by [[Fred Barnard]]
| first              = ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' 1843
| creator            = [[Charles Dickens]]
| nickname           = Bob
| occupation         = Money accountant (Clerk)

| spouse             = Mrs. Cratchit (named Emily in some adaptations)
| gender             = Male
| children           = Martha<br />Belinda<br />Peter<br /> [[Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)|Tiny Tim]]<br />an unnamed son (named Matthew in some adaptations)<br /> an unnamed daughter (named Lucy or Gillian in some adaptions)
|nationality = English 
))

'''Bob Cratchit''' is a fictional character in the [[Charles Dickens]] 1843 novel ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. The overworked, underpaid clerk of [[Ebenezer Scrooge]], Cratchit has come to symbolise the poor working conditions, especially long working hours and low pay, endured by many working-class people in the early [[Victorian era]].

==In the novel==
When Cratchit timidly asks Scrooge for Christmas Day off work so he can be with his family, he notes it only comes once a year. Scrooge reluctantly agrees on the condition that Cratchit comes to work early the day after Christmas.

Cratchit and his family live in poverty<ref name=MW>((cite book |date=1995 |title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature |location=Springfield, Massachusetts |publisher=[[Merriam-Webster]] |pages=280–281, 1117 |isbn=0-87779-042-6))</ref> because Scrooge is too miserly to pay him a decent wage. Cratchit's son, [[Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)|Tiny Tim]], is very ill.<ref name=MW/> According to the Ghost of Christmas Present, Tim will die because the family is too poor to give him the treatment he needs. While Scrooge is the "ogre" of the Cratchit family, with Cratchit's wife, calling him out for his stinginess, Bob mildly insists that they toast his health for Christmas Day.

After Scrooge decides to change his ways on Christmas Day, he anonymously sends a Christmas turkey to Cratchit for his family's dinner. The next day, Scrooge states that he will increase Cratchit's salary immediately and promises to help his struggling family.

==Family==
The Cratchit family has been described as "impoverished, hardworking, and warmhearted".<ref name=MW/>

Seven members are mentioned in the original story, five of whom are named:<ref name=MW/>
* '''Mrs. Cratchit''', Bob Cratchit's wife,<ref name=MW/> who is named '''Emily''' in some adaptations.
* '''Martha Cratchit''',<ref name=MW/> the eldest daughter, who works as an [[Apprenticeship|apprentice]] at a [[Hatmaking|milliner]]s.
* '''Belinda Cratchit''',<ref name=MW/> the second daughter.
* '''Peter Cratchit''',<ref name=MW/> the [[Inheritance|heir]], for whom his father is arranging employment at the weekly rate of five shillings and sixpence.
* '''Timothy "[[Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)|Tiny Tim]]" Cratchit'''. The youngest child, he is desperately ill and walks with a crutch.<ref name=MW/>

==Notable portrayals==
((more citations needed|section|date=December 2020))
Some adaptations have tried to depict Cratchit to have also been the clerk of [[Jacob Marley]], when he was alive.
* [[Edward Richard Wright]] in ''[[A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future]]'' (1844)
* [[John Lawrence Toole|J. L. Toole]] in ''[[A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future]]'' (1859)
* [[Charles Stanton Ogle|Charles S. Ogle]] in the 1910 film ''[[A Christmas Carol (1910 film)|A Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Donald Calthrop]] in the 1935 film ''[[Scrooge (1935 film)|Scrooge]]''. Calthrop bore a remarkable resemblance to Cratchit as illustrated in the original published edition of ''A Christmas Carol''.
* [[Gene Lockhart]] in the 1938 film ''[[A Christmas Carol (1938 film)|A Christmas Carol]]''
* Patrick Whyte in the 1949 [[television film]] ''[[The Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Mervyn Johns]] in the 1951 film ''[[Scrooge (1951 film)|Scrooge]]''
* [[Bob Sweeney (director)|Bob Sweeney]] in the 1954 [[television film]] ''[[A Christmas Carol (Shower of Stars)|A Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Martyn Green]] in the 1956 [[television film]] ''The Stingiest Man in Town''
* [[Daws Butler]] in the 1958 parody record "[[Green Chri$tma$]]"
* [[Jack Cassidy]] in the 1962 animated television movie ''[[Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol]]''
* [[David Collings]] in the 1970 film ''[[Scrooge (1970 film)|Scrooge]]''
* [[Melvyn Hayes]] in the 1971 animated short film ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV special)|A Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Clive Merrison]] in the 1977 [[television movie]] ''A Christmas Carol''
* [[Sonny Melendrez]] in the 1978 animated [[television movie]] ''[[The Stingiest Man in Town]]''
* [[Rich Little]] impersonating [[Paul Lynde]] as Cratchit in the 1978 [[television movie]] ''[[Rich Little's Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Mel Blanc]] (as [[Porky Pig]]) in the 1979 animated short film ''[[Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol]]''
* [[R.H. Thomson]] (as Thatcher) in the 1979 [[television film]] ''[[An American Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Wayne Allwine]] (as [[Mickey Mouse]]) in the 1983 animated film ''[[Mickey's Christmas Carol]]''
* [[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]] in the 1984 [[television movie]] ''[[A Christmas Carol (1984 film)|A Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Alfre Woodard]] (as Grace Cooley) in the 1988 film ''[[Scrooged]]''
* [[Steve Whitmire]] (as [[Kermit the Frog]]) in the 1992 film ''[[The Muppet Christmas Carol]]'' 
* [[Frank Welker]] (as [[Barney Rubble]]) in ''[[A Flintstones Christmas Carol]]'', 1994
* [[Wendy Crewson]] (as Roberta Cratchit) in the 1995 television film ''[[Ebbie]]''
* [[Michael York]] in the 1997 animated film ''[[A Christmas Carol (1997 film)|A Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Albert Schultz]] in the 1998 television movie ''[[Ebenezer (film)|Ebenezer]]''
* [[Richard E. Grant]] in the 1999 television movie ''[[A Christmas Carol (1999 film)|A Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Brian McNamara]] in the 2000 television movie ''[[A Diva's Christmas Carol]]''. Here Bob's character is merged with Scrooge's fiancée Belle.
* [[Rhys Ifans]] in the 2001 animated version '' [[Christmas Carol: The Movie]]''
* [[Phil Vischer]] (as Bob the Tomato) in ''[[An Easter Carol]]'', 2004
* [[Bob Bergen]] (as [[Porky Pig]] in a similar but not identical role) in the 2006 video ''[[Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas]]''
* [[Gary Oldman]] in the 2009 animated version '' [[A Christmas Carol (2009 film)|A Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Ashleigh Ball]] (as Rainbow Dash) in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode ''[[A Hearth's Warming Tail]]''.
* [[Jonathan Sayer]] (as Dennis Tyde) in [[Mischief Theatre]]'s ''A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong''.
* [[Kandyse McClure]] as Catherine Beadnell in ''[[Barbie in a Christmas Carol]]''
* [[Joe Alwyn]] in the 2019 miniseries ''[[A Christmas Carol (miniseries)|A Christmas Carol]]''
* In [[Nature Cat]]'s Christmas special ''[[A Nature Carol]]'', a mouse named Bob Scratchit is Cratchit's mouse counterpart.
* [[Joey Richter]] in [[StarKid Productions|Starkid Productions]]' A VHS Christmas Carol.
* [[Johnny Flynn]] (voice) in ''[[Scrooge: A Christmas Carol]]''.

== In popular culture ==
The character of Bob Cratchit has been featured in works based on ''A Christmas Carol''.

* ''Cratchit'' by Alexander Knott premiered at London's Park Theatre, with John Dagleish as Bob. The play "explores what might happen if Cratchit was visited by the Ghost of Christmas yet-to-come and shown a bleak vision of the future, where the gap between rich and poor has grown beyond measure."<ref>((Cite web |title=John Dagleish to play titular role in Cratchit at the Park Theatre |url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/john-dagleish-cratchit-park-theatre_55297.html |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=WhatsOnStage |date=10 November 2021 |language=en-GB))</ref><ref>((Cite web |last=Marcolina |first=Cindy |title=BWW Review: CRATCHIT, Park Theatre |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/BWW-Review-CRATCHIT-Park-Theatre-20211211 |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en))</ref>
* The character has been featured in the 2002 musical comedy ''[[Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge]].''

==References==
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((A Christmas Carol))

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