1.   As Kriss Kringle, with half-glasses and a snowy beard, Richard Attenborough is miraculously convincing.

2.   He feels guilty about his annual job, a case of ironic typecasting, thanks to his girth and his snowy beard.

3.   On a recent sunny afternoon at the Institute of Technology, an elderly man with a snowy white beard shuffled along the walkway.

4.   The one thing to recommend it is George C. Scott, who looks quite Hemingway-esque, with his puffed-up chest and snowy beard, as Thomas Hudson.

5.   With his magnificent snowy beard, great white mane and protuberant brow, Davies has a magisterial look as well.