The term SCROOGE PORTRAYER can be summarized as a job description for an actor who portrays Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character in Charles Dickens' classic novel A Christmas Carol. The crossword solutions for this term are SIM, which is short for Simon. Simon was the first actor to portray Ebenezer Scrooge in the stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol in 1844. Since then, many other actors have taken on the role of Scrooge in various adaptations of the novel.