| Actor | Film/TV | Date |
| Tim Allen | The Santa Clause | 1994 |
| The Santa Clause 2 | 2002 |
| The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause | 2006 |
| Ed Asner | The Story of Santa Claus (voice) | 1996 |
| Elf | 2003 |
| Christmas on the Bayou | 2013 |
| Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (voice) | 2014 animated TV special |
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| Fred Astaire | The Man in the Santa Claus Suit | 1979 TV-Movie |
| Richard Attenborough | Miracle on 34th Street | 1994 |
| Steve Bacic | Deck the Halls | 2005 |
| Alec Baldwin (voice) | Rise of the Guardians | 2012 film |
| Don Beddoe | Bewitched, episode Humbug Not to Be Spoken Here | Season 4, 1967 |
| Michael Bell (voice) | The Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas | Direct-to-video, 2002 |
| Brian Blessed | The Amazing World of Gumball, episode Christmas (voice) | Season 2, 2012 |
| Sooty, episode Pranks and Presents | Season 2, 2013 |
| Danger Mouse, episode The Snowman Cometh (voice) | Season 1, 2015 |
| Lloyd Bridges | In the Nick of Time | 1991 |
| Beau Bridges | The Christmas Secret | 2009 TV-Movie |
| George Buza | A Christmas Horror Story | 2015 |
| Isaac Hayes | The Pullmans | 1993 |
| Jim Broadbent (voice) | Arthur Christmas | 2011 |
| Sebastian Cabot | Miracle on 34th Street | 1973 |
| John Call | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | 1964 film |
| Bruce Campbell |
The Librarians episode "And Santa's Midnight Run" |
2014 |
| Douglas Campbell | Once Upon a Christmas | 2000 |
| Art Carney | The Night They Saved Christmas | 1984 |
| Twilight Zone episode "Night of the Meek" | 1960 |
| Oliver Clark | Ernest Saves Christmas | 1988; he starts out as a local actor named Joe Carruthers, but ultimately becomes the new Santa Claus, replacing Douglas Seale's. |
| Tim Conway (voice) | Saving Santa | Direct-to-video, 2013 |
| James Cosmo | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 |
| The Santa Incident – 2010 |
| Bryan Cranston | The Santa Claus Brothers | 2001 |
| Hume Cronyn | Santa and Pete | 1999 TV-Movie |
| Peter Cullen (voice) | Christmas Comes to Pac-Land | 1982 |
| Andy Devine | Batman, episode The Duo is Slumming | season 2, 1966 |
| Charles Durning | Elmo Saves Christmas | 1996 |
| Mr. St. Nick | 2002 |
| James Earl Jones | Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street | 2001 |
| Stan Francis (voice) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
| Paul Frees (voice) | Rudolph's Shiny New Year | 1976 |
| Frosty the Snowman | 1969 |
| Paul Giamatti | Fred Claus |
| Bill Goldberg | Santa's Slay | 2005 |
| John Goodman | The Year Without a Santa Claus | 2006 |
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie | 1998 |
| Futurama | 1999 |
| It's a Spongebob Christmas! | 2012 |
| Keith Wickham | Thomas & Friends | eighteenth-season episode, Last Train For Christmas |
| A. Cameron Grant | I Love Lucy Christmas Show | 1956 |
| Richard Griffiths | A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa | 2008 |
| Michael Gross | Becoming Santa | 2015 TV-Movie |
| Steve Guttenberg plays Santa's son, Nick | Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus | 2004 who then takes over the job from his father on Meet the Santas, 2005 |
| Edmund Gwenn | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 film |
| Alan Hale, Jr. | Gilligan's Island, episode Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk | Season 1, 1964 |
| Tom Hanks (voice) | The Polar Express | 2004 |
| Nigel Hawthorne | Call Me Claus | 2001 |
| Bob Holt (voice) | The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas | 1973 |
| William Hootkins | Like Father, Like Santa | 1998 |
| David Huddleston | Santa Claus: The Movie | 1985 |
| Edward Ivory (voice) | The Nightmare Before Christmas, | 1993 |
| Peeter Jakobi | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | 2010 |
| Kevin James | Elmo's Christmas Countdown | 2007 Christmas television special |
| Bob Dorough | The Clarks | 1991 |
| Bob Joles (voice) | Uncle Grandpa episode Christmas Special | 2014 |
| Cecil Kellaway | Bewitched, Episode "A Vision of Sugar Plums" | Season 1, 1964 |
| Bill Lewis | Defending Christmas | television film, 1993 |
| Sal Lizard | The Box | 2009 |
| Dakin Matthews | The Big Bang Theory, episode "The Santa Simulation" | Season 6, 2012 |
| Chuck McCann | A Very Retail Christmas | 1990 |
| Bruce McGill (voice) | Family Guy, episode Road to the North Pole | Season 9, 2010 |
| Mark Mitchell | The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas | television film, 1996. |
| Jose Elias Moreno | Santa Claus | 1959 |
| Ferdinard Munier | Babes in Toyland | 1934 |
| Lake Placid Serenade | 1944 |
| Road to Utopia | 1946 |
| Leslie Nielsen | All I Want For Christmas and Santa Who? | 2000 |
| Mairtin O'Carrigan | Mistletoe Over Manhattan – | 2011 TV-Movie |
| Dick O'Neill | "Reality Bites" The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Season 5, 1994 |
| Austin Pendleton | Christmas with the Kranks | 2004 |
| Richard Riehle | The Hebrew Hammer | 2003 |
| The Search for Santa Paws | 2010 |
| A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | 2011 |
| Mickey Rooney (voice) | Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town | 1970 |
| The Year Without a Santa Claus | 1974 |
| A Miser Brothers' Christmas | 2008 |
| Jan Rubeš | One Magic Christmas | 1985 |
| Will Sasso | Finding Mrs. Claus | 2002 TV-Movie |
| Douglas Seale | "Santa '85" Amazing Stories | Season 1, 1985 |
| Ernest Saves Christmas | (1988); in the latter, his mortal name is "Seth Applegate". |
| William Shatner (voice) | Eek! The Cat, episode "It's a Very Merry Eek's Mas" | Season 2, 1993 |
| Gotta Catch Santa Claus | 2008 Christmas television special |
| Peter Shukoff | Epic Rap Battles of History, episode "Moses vs. Santa Claus" | Season 2, 2012 |
| Hal Smith (voice) | The Flintstones, episode Christmas Flintstone | Season 5, 1964 |
| A Flintstone Christmas | 1977 Christmas television special (live action) |
| The Brady Bunch | Season 1, 1969 |
| Santa and the Three Bears |
| Paul Sorvino | Santa Baby 2 | 2009 |
| Jim Staahl (voice) | Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer | 2001 |
| Fred Tatasciore (voice) | Scooby Doo! Haunted Holidays | Direct-to-DVD, 2012 |
| Ricky Tomlinson (voice) | Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire | 1999 |
| Dick Van Patten | The Santa Trap | television film, 2002 |
| Robert Wagner |
Northpole | 2014 TV-Movie |
| Phil Pierce | A Bad Moms Christmas | 2017 |
| Frank Welker (voice) | A Chipmunk Christmas | 1981 |
| George Wendt | Santa Baby | 2006 |
| George Wendt Santa Buddies (voice) | 2009 |
| John Wheeler | Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus | 2004 |
| Meet The Santas | 2005 |
| Step by Step episode "Too Many Santas" | season 7, 1997 |