Other Father

The Other Father is a character in the Laika film Coraline. He used to work for the Beldam in having Coraline to stay in the other world, but it revealed that he is actually on Coraline's side. He is voiced by John Hodgman, and his singing voiced by John Linnell.

Personality
The Other Father is more fun and attentive to her needs than her real father (according to Coraline).

It is hinted throughouht the film that he is terrified of the Other Mother, who wants him to hurt Coraline, which he does not want to do.

History
The Other Father made a song for Coraline, he plays a piano with his mechanical gloves and makes the garden. The mechanical gloves prevents the Other Father into informing Caroline about the Beldam's plans to keep Coraline in the Other World forever. Later, he gets turned into a pumpkin-like human and is barely capable of speaking. In the Fantastic Garden, when Coraline finds the Ghost Children's eyes, the Other Father is atop his mechanical preying mantis-like gardening machine and it threatens to attack Coraline. The machine had destroyed the bridge and falls through it into the water, the Other Father he frees his hand by breaking the controllive mechanical glove, and hands Coraline the first ghost eye, and the Other Father sinks to his death.