Board Thread:Adaptation Adventures/@comment-3194273-20161028064117/@comment-4934571-20161028125607

It is not a mistake - if I put there the links, you would understand. I didn't want to do that because the whole template would be completely red. It is better to activate the links gradually. Anyways, back to the topic. There are indeed two characters named John Barry in the Sullivan live-action universe. The first one is Diana's father (named George in the books). You can hear his name in the first film multiple times:

Marilla: "Tied for first place? My Anne? Well, John Barry, it's certain that she didn't injure her tongue. Come on!"

Aunt Josephine: "Nancy, tell John I will have my tea with him in the palm room."

In the ending credits, he is credited only as Mr. Barry, but we know his full name from these quotes, that's why this name is in the template.

The things are a little bit tricky with the second John Barry who is (supposedly) Diana's son. John Barry is a character who appears in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, along with someone named Elsie Barry. I've never seen the whole film, only a couple scenes from it. I have a recording, but it is in Hungarian, so I don't understand a word. I remember watching one scene in English, however. Two adults, Elsie and John, live at Green Gables (their surname is not mentioned in the movie, I believe) and they find a bunch of letters for Anne hidden under their floor. According to the ending credits, they are the Barrys. The thing is that Anne and Gilbert let Diana and Fred live and take care of Green Gables in the previous film, Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story. Elsie and John are most likely Diana's children who stayed there. The surname Barry in the ending credits is probably a mistake or maybe a hint to the viewers so they could link those individuals to Diana. Diana herself is credited as Diana Barry, not Diana Wright like in the third film.

When I was creating the template, I thought that maybe John Barry could be Diana's son from the second and third film. However, her firstborn was credited as Diana's Baby (in the second film) and Fred Jr. (in the third film). The name of her daughter who appeared in the third film is unknown (I'm not really sure, but I don't think they mentioned her name in the film and she is definitely not included in the credits) and she could easily be Elsie Barry from the fourth film. That's why we can assume that Diana had three children: Fred Jr. (films 2 and 3), Elsie (films 3 and 4) and John (film 4).

When it comes to Essies, there is one in the first film (I don't really remember the character, to be honest) and one in the second film (I think she was Anne's student in Kingsport).

Davy's name is spelt Davey in Road to Avonlea as well as Miss Stacy's name is changed to Miss Stacey.

We had all the cast lists (for this universe) taken from the IMDb. Which is a very cool and useful website, but... it is actually not that hard to add there anything. Anyone can edit it and add information that may not be entirely correct. When I added the IMDb cast lists here on Wiki (ages ago) I didn't verify them. Only recently I found out that there are many differences between the movie ending credits and the IMDb cast lists. That's why I corrected the cast lists from the four Anne films according to the original ending credits. I haven't done that for the Road to Avonlea episodes yet as I've never seen them. But Milty Boulton is a name that appears in the IMDb cast list for the episode he appears in.

I hope I aswered all of your questions. :)