Mr. Poe — Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Character Profile

About Mr. Poe

Family banker who manages the Baudelaire children's affairs and custody arrangements. He repeatedly places the orphans with Count Olaf, removes them when suspicious, and returns them to Olaf after witnessing a staged rescue, ultimately enabling Olaf's marriage plot.

Mr. Poe appears in 2 titles

• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017) — character page

Character Facts

Played by

Timothy Spall

Appears in

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Mr. Poe — Conflict Adversarial Manipulation — Count Olaf / Dr. Stephano / Captain Sham (Jim Carrey)

  Olaf exploits Mr. Poe's limited understanding of the children's danger.

  Count Olaf repeatedly deceives Mr. Poe through disguises and staged events, causing the children to be placed under Olaf's control.

• Mr. Poe — Narrative Documented Custodian — Lemony Snicket (Jude Law)

  Snicket records Poe's administrative role and its consequences for the children.

  Snicket's documentation records that Mr. Poe manages the children's affairs and repeatedly changes their guardianship arrangements.

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More characters from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

• Violet Baudelaire (Emily Browning)
• Klaus Baudelaire (Liam Aiken)
• Sunny Baudelaire (Kara Hoffman)
• Sunny Baudelaire (Shelby Hoffman)
• White-Faced Women (Jennifer Coolidge)
• Count Olaf / Dr. Stephano / Captain Sham (Jim Carrey)
• White-Faced Women (Jane Adams)
• Josephine Anwhistle (Meryl Streep)
• Constable (Cedric the Entertainer)
• Lemony Snicket (Jude Law)
• Justice Strauss (Catherine O'Hara)
• Person of Indeterminate Gender (Craig Ferguson)