The
following is an excerpt from Jay Robert Nash’s recent “Encyclopedia of Best
Films”
BEL AMI
Angela Lansbury, Karolyn Grimes and
George Sanders (as Bel Ami) in The
Private Affairs of Bel Ami, 1947.
of Tom Sawyer, 1938 (Ann Gillis); The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer, 1960 (TV series; Janina Faye); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
1980
(TV series;
Kelko Han voiceover); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
1986 (Jane
Harders voiceover); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry
Finn, 1982 (made-for-TV; Mariya Mironova); Back to
Hannibal:
The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, 1990
(made-for-TV;
Megan Follows); Huck and Tom, 1918 (Clara Horton); Huckleberry Finn, 1920
(Thelma Salter); Huckleberry Finn, 1931 (Mitzi Green); Huckleberry Finn and His
Friends, 1979-1980 (TV series; Holly Findlay); Les aventures de Tom Sawyer,
1968 (TV miniseries; Lucia Ocrain); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
1968-1969 (TV series; Lu Ann Haslam); Sawyer and Finn, 1983 (made-for-TV; P.J.
Soles); Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “Tom and Huck,’ 1960
episode: Ruthie Robinson); Tom and Huck, 1995 (Rachel Leigh
Cook); Tom
Sawyer, 1917 (Clara Horton); Tom Sawyer,
1930 (Mitzi Green); Tom Sawyer, 1973
(Jodie Foster); Tom Sawyer, 1973 (madefor-TV; Karen Pearson); Tom Sawyer, 2011
(Magali Greif); Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, 2015 (Katherine McNamara);
The United States Steel Hour, 1953-1963 (TV series; “Tom Sawyer,” 1956 episode:
Bennye Gatteys); Wishbone, 1995-1999 (TV series; “A Tail in Twain,” two 1995
episodes: Shea Fowler).
Bel Ami
(AKA: George Duroy; character created by Guy de Maupassant, an unscrupulous
rogue who exploits women to rise in 19th Century Parisian society): Bel Ami,
1939 (Willi Forst); Bel Ami, 1947 (Armando Calvo); Bel Ami, 1955 (Jean Danet);
Bel Ami, 1968 (made-for-TV; Helmut Griem); Bel Ami, 1971- (TV series; Robin
Ellis); Bel Ami, 1979(TV series; Corrado Pani); Bel Ami, 1983- (TV series;
Jacques Weber);
Bel Ami,
2005 (made-for-TV; Sagamore Stevenin); Bel Ami, 2012 (Robert Pattinson); Bel
Ami Der Frauenheld von Paris, 1955 (Johannes Heesters); The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, 1947 (George Sanders).
Beth March
(one of four teenage sisters who finds romance as she and her siblings mature
in a Massachusetts household during the American Civil War as profiled in
Louisa May Alcott’s timeless novel, Little
Women, 1868-1869): The Ford Theatre Hour, 1948-1951 (TV series; “Little
Women,” 1949 episode; Peggy Ann Garner; Patricia Kirkland); Good Wives, 1958
(TV series; Diana Day); Great Performances, 1971(TV series; “Little Women,”
2001 episode; Stacey Tappan); Little Women, 1917 (Muriel Meyers); Little Women,
1918 (Lillian Hall); Little Women,
1933 (Jean Parker); Little Women,
1949 (Margaret O’Brien); Little Women, 1950- (TV series; Norah Gorsen); Little
Women, 1958 (TV series; Diana Day); Little Women, 1958 (made-forTV; Margaret
O’Brien); Little Women, 1970 (TV miniseries; Sarah Craze); Little Women, 1978
(TV miniseries; Eve Plumb); Little Women,
1994 (Claire Danes); Matinee Theatre, 1955-1958 (TV series; “Little Women,”
1956 episode; Arianne Ulmer); NBC Special Treat, 1975-1986 (TV series; “Little
Women,” 1976 episode; Susan Pillarre); Studio One in Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV
series; “Little Women: Jo’s Story,” 1950 episode; June Dayton; “Little Women:
Meg’s Story,” 1950 episode; June Dayton).
Bill Sykes
(or “Sikes”; a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, a murderous criminal
operating in 19th Century London,
England):
The DuPont Show of the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “Oliver Twist,” 1959
episode; Tom Clancy); Oliver & Company, 1988 (Robert Loggia voiceover);
Oliver Twist, 1912 (Mortimer Martine);
Oliver
Twist, 1916 (Hobart Bosworth); Oliver Twist, 1919 (Gyula Szoreghy); Oliver Twist, 1922 (George Siegmann);
Oliver Twist, 1933
(William
“Stage” Boyd); Oliver Twist, 1951
(Robert Newton); Oliver
Twist, 1962
(TV miniseries; Peter Vaughan); Oliver!,
1968 (Oliver
Reed); Oliver
Twist, 1982 (made-for-TV; Tim Curry); Oliver Twist,
1985 (TV
miniseries; Michael Attwell); Oliver Twist, 1997 (made-for-
TV; David
O’Hara); Oliver Twist, 1999 (TV miniseries; Andy Serkis); Oliver Twist, 2005 (Jamie Foreman); Oliver Twist, 2007 (TV series;
Tom Hardy); Oliver Twist Jr., 1921 (G. Raymond Nye).
Blue Fairy
(a fairy who enables a wooden marionette to transform into a real boy, a
fictional character in the 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi): The
Adventures of Pinocchio, 1972 (TV miniseries; Gina Lollabrigida); Geppetto,
2000 (made-for-TV; Julia Louis-Dreyfus); Geppetto’s Secret, 2005 (Claudia
Christian); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, 1995-2000 (TV
series; “Pinocchio,” 1997 episode; Della Reese); The New Adventures of
Pinocchio, 1999 (Gemma Gregory); Pinocchio,
1940 (Evelyn Venable voiceover); Pinocchio, 1957 (made-for-TV; Fran Allison);
Pinocchio, 1965 (made-for-TV; Jodi Williams); Pinocchio, 1968 (madefor-TV;
Anita Gillette); Pinocchio, 1969 (Marianne Wunscher); Pinocchio, 1978 (Vittoria
Febbi voiceover); Pinocchio, 1978 (TV series; Rhoda Lewis); Pinocchio, 2002
(Nicoletta Braschi); Pinocchio, 2008 (made-for-TV; Violante Placido);
Pinocchio, 2012 (Lucrezia Marricchi voiceover); Pinocchio and the Emperor of
the Night, 1987 (Rickie Lee Jones voiceover); Welcome Back Pinocchio, 2007
(Emanuela Rossi).
Bob
Cratchit (meek-mannered clerk who slaves for miserly businessman Ebenezer
Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella, A
Christmas
Carol): The Alcoa Hour, 1955-1957 (TV
series; “The Stingiest Man in
Town,” 1956
episode; Martyn Green); A Christmas
Carol, 1938 (Gene
Lockhart);
A Chirstmas Carol, 1950 (made-for-TV; John Ruddock); A Christmas Carol, 1951 (Mervyn Johns); A Christmas Carol, 1977
(made-for-TV; Clive Merrison); A Christmas Carol, 1979 (musical; Don
Torcerson); A Christmas Carol, 1981 (made-for-TV; Mark Murphey);
A Christmas
Carol, 1982 (made-for-TV; J. Patrick Martin); A Christmas
Carol, 1984
(made-for-TV; David Warner); A Christmas Carol, 1999
(made-for-TV;
Richard E. Grant); A Chirstmas Carol, 2000 (made-forTV; Michael Maloney); A
Christmas Carol, 2009 (animated; Gary Oldman voiceover); A Christmas Carol,
2015 (Dave Hudson); A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre, 1979 (made-for-TV;
Geoff Garland); A Christmas Carol: The Concert, 2013 (made-for-TV; Scott
Coulter); A Christmas Carol: 50thAnniversary, 2015 (James Betteridge);
Christmas Carol: The Movie, 2001 (animated; Rhys Ifans voiceover); A Christmas
Carol:
The
Musical, 2004 (made-for-TV; Edward Gower); Dickensian, 2015-
(TV series;
Robert Wilfort); A Diva’s Christmas Carol, 2000 (made-for-
TV; Brian
McNamara); Ebenezer, 1998 (made-for-TV; Albert Schultz); Fireside Theatre,
1949-1955 (TV series; “A Christmas Carol,” 1951 episode; Norman Barrs); General
Electric Theater, 1953-1962 (TV series; “The Trail to Christmas,” 1957 episode;
Sam Edwards); The Gospel According to Scrooge, 1983 (made-for-TV; Robert
Whitesel); Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, 1962 (made-for-TV; Jack Cassidy); Mr. Scrooge,
1964 (made-for-TV; Alfie Bass); Mr. Scrooge to See You, 2013 (Ken T. Williams);
Ms. Scrooge, 1997 (made-for-TV; John Bourgeois); The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992 (Steve Whitmire voiceover as
Kermit the
Frog); The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, 19481956 (TV series; “A
Christmas Carol,” 1948 episode; James MacColl);
Ponds
Theatre, 1953- (TV series; “A Christmas Carol,” 1953 episode;
Harry
Townes); The Right to Be Happy, 1916 (John Cook); Scrooge,
1935
(Donald Calthrop); Scrooge, 1970
(David Collings); Scrooge,
1978
(made-for-TV; Ray Hunt); Shower of Stars, 1954-1958 (TV series; “A Christmas
Carol,” 1954 and 1956 episodes; Bob Sweeney); The Stingiest Man in Town, 1978
(animated made-for-TV; Sonny Melendrez voiceover).
Bors
(legendary knight in the King Arthur legend in 6th Century Britain, who quested
for the Holy Grail): The Adventures of Sir Galahad, 1949 (serial; Charles
King); King Arthur, 2004 (Ray
Winstone); The Legend of King Arthur, 1979 (TV series; Godfrey James); Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975
(Terry Gilliam); Morte d’Arthur, 1980 (made-forTV; Roy Jones).
Bulldog
Drummond (Hugh Drummond; ex-WWI British officer turned CAPTAIN NEMO
Chris Evans as Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger, 2011.
sleuth and
first appearing in H.C. McNeile’s Bulldog
Drummond, 1920): Alias Bulldog Drummond [AKA: Bulldog Jack], 1935 (Atholl
Fleming); Arrest Bulldog Drummond, 1939 (John Howard); Bulldog Drummond, 1923
(Carlyle Blackwell); Bulldog Drummond;, 1929 (Ronald Colman); Bulldog Drummond
at Bay, 1937 (John Lodge); Bulldog Drummond at Bay, 1947 (Ron Randell); Bulldog
Drummond Comes Back, 1937 (John Howard); Bulldog Drummond Escapes, 1937 (Ray
Milland); Bulldog Drummond in Africa, 1938 (John Howard); Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, 1934 (Ronald Colman); Bulldog
Drummond Strikes Back, 1947 (Ron Randell); Bulldog Drummond’s Bride, 1939 (John
Howard); Bulldog Drummond’s Peril, 1938 (John Howard); Bulldog Drummond’s
Revenge, 1937 (John Howard); Bulldog Drummond’s Secret Police, 1939 (John
Howard); Bulldog Drummond’s Third Round, 1925 (Jack Buchanan); Calling Bulldog
Drummond, 1951 (Walter Pidgeon); The Challenge, 1948 (Tom Conway); Deadlier
Than the Male, 1967 (Richard Johnson); The Return of Bulldog Drummond, 1934
(Ralph Richardson); Rheingold Theatre, 1953-1957 (TV series; “Bulldog Drummond
and the Ludlow Affair,” 1957 episode; Robert Beatty); Some Girls Do, 1969
(Richard Johnson); Temple Tower, 1930 (Kenneth MacKenna); 13 Lead Soldiers, 1948
(Tom Conway).
Buzz
Lightyear (animated spaceman toy character): Toy Story, 1995 (Tim Allen); Toy Story 3, 2010 (Tim Allen
voiceover); Toy Story 2, 1999 (Tim Allen voiceover).
Camille
(ill-starred beautiful courtesan portrayed in Alexander Dumas novel of 1848):
Armchair Theatre, 1956-1974 (TV series; “The Lady of Camellias,” 1958 episode;
Ann Todd); Camille, 1917 (Theda Bara); Camille, 1921 (Alla Nazimova); Camille,
1926 (Norma Talmadge); Camille, 1937
(Greta Garbo); Camille, 1984 (made-for-TV; Greta Scacchi); Festival, 1963-1964
(TV series; “The Lady of the Camellias,” 1964 episode; Billie Whitelaw); La
dama de las camelias, 1944 (Lina Montes); La dame aux camelias, 1935 (Yvonne
Printemps); La dame aux camelias, 1953 (Micheline Presle); La dame aux camelias,
1962 (made-for-TV; Yori Bertin); La dame aux camelias, 1972 (made-for-TV;
Ludmilla Tcherina); La dame aux camelias, 1998 (made-for-TV; Cristiania Reali);
La signora delle camelie, 2005 (made-for-TV; Francesca Neri); The Lady of the
Camellias, 1976- (TV series; Kate Nelligan); Lady of the Camelias, 1981 (Caria
Fracci); Marguerite Gautier, 1963 (made-for-TV; Andrea Domburg); The
Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, 1948-1956 (TV series; “Camille,” 1948
episode; Judith Eveyln).
Captain
America (AKA: Steve Rogers; fictional comic book superhero): The Adventures of
the Spirit, 1963 (TV miniseries; Bob Burns); Agent Carter, 2015 (TV series;
Walker Roach as radio actor Captain America);
The Avengers, 2012 (Chris Evans); Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2015 (Chris
Evans); Avengers Assemble!, 2010- (TV series; Kevin Spooner); The Avengers:
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, 2010-2012 (TV series; Brian Bloom); Captain America,
1944 (serial; Dick Purcell); Captain America, 1966 (TV series; Sandy Becker);
Captain America, 1979 (made-for-TV; Reb Brown); Captain America, 1990 (Matt
Salinger); Captain America: The First
Avenger, 2011 (Chris Evans); Captain
America: The Winter Soldier, 2014 (Chris Evans); Captain America II: Death
Too Soon, 1979 (made-for-TV; Reb Brown); Heroes Crossing, 2010 (Checc
Musolino); The Marvel Super Heroes, 1966 (TV series; Sandy Becker); Spider-Man,
1994-1998 (TV series; David Hayter); The Super Hero Squad Show, 2009-2011 (TV
series; Tom Kenny).
Captain
Marvel (fictional comic book superhero): Adventures of Captain Marvel, 1941
(serial; Tom Tyler); The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, 2010-2012 (TV
series; Roger Craig Smith); Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated
TV series; John DeVito voiceover); Heroes Crossing, 2010 (Jeremy Martin); The Kid
Super Power Hour with Shazam!, 1981-1982 (TV series; Barry Gordon); Legends of
the Superheroes, 1979 (TV series; Garret Craig); The Secrets of ISIS, 1975-
1976 (TV
series; John Davey); Shazam!, 1974-1977 (TV series; Jackson Bostwick, John
Davey); The Super Hero Squad Show, 2009-2011 (TV series; Ty Burrell); Young
Justice, 2010- (animated TV series; Chad Lowe voiceover).
Captain
Hook (fictional character created by Scottish playwright J. M. Barrie in his
1904 play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up): The Adventures of Peter
Pan, 1989 (TV series; Chikao Ohtsuka);
Finding Neverland, 2004 (Tim Potter); Hook, 1991 (Dustin Hoffman); Neverland,
2003 (Gary Kelley); Neverland, 2011 (TV series; Rhys Ifans); Once Upon a Time,
2011- (TV series; Colin O’Donoghue); Peter Pan, 1924 (Ernest Torrence); Peter Pan, 1953 (Hans Conreid
voiceover); Peter Pan, 1955 (Cyril Ritchard); Peter Pan, 1960 (madefor-TV; Cyril
Ritchard); Peter Pan, 1976 (made-for-TV; Danny Kaye); Peter Pan, 2000
(made-for-TV; Paul Schoeffler); Peter Pan, 2003 (Jason Isaacs); Peter Pan and
the Pirates, 1990-1991 (TV series; Tim Curry); Return to Never Land, 2002
(Corey Burton voiceover).
Captain
Nemo (AKA: Dakkar; the egotistical anti-war scientific genius created by Jules
Verne in his 1870 novel Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea): The Amazing Captain Nemo, 1978 (made-for-TV; Jose
Ferrer); Captain Nemo, 1975 (Vladislav Dvorzhetsky); Captain Nemo and the
Underwater City, 1970 (Robert Ryan); Das Phantom des grossen Zeltes, 1954
(Helmut von Hofe); JV: The Extraordinary Adventures of CARMEN
Dorothy Dandridge (as a modern-day
Carmen) and Harry Belafonte in Carmen
Jones, 1954.
Jules
Verne, 2013- (animated TV series; Hope Brown voiceover); The
League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003 (Naseeruddin Shah); The Mysterious Island, 1929
(Lionel Barrymore); Mysterious Island, 1951 (Leonard Penn); Mysterious Island, 1961 (Herbert Lom);
The Mysterious Island, 1974 (Omar Sharif); Mysterious Island, 1995 (TV series;
John Bach); Mysterious Island, 2005 (Patrick Stewart); Mysterious Island, 2012
(Mark Sheppard as young Nemo; William Morgan Sheppard as old Nemo); Nemo taucht
auf, 1965 (made-for-TV; Hubert Suschka); Tales of Tomorrow, 1951-1953 (TV
series; “Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the
Sea,” two 1952 episodes; Thomas Mitchell); 20,000 Leagues
Under the
Sea, 1916 (Allen Holubar); 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea,
1954 (James
Mason); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1997 (made-forTV; Ben Cross); 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea, 1997 (made-for-TV; Michael Caine); The Undersea
Adventures of Captain Nemo, 1974- (TV series; Len Carlson).
Carmen (seducing
femme fatale, who is killed by her lover, and depicted in the 1845 novella by
Prosper Merimee and in the 1875 opera by Georges Bizet): Carmen, 1915 (Theda
Bara); Carmen, 1915 (Geraldine Farrar); Carmen, 1918 (Pola Negri); Carmen, 1926
(Raquel Meller); Carmen, 1932 (Marguerite Namara); Carmen, 1946 (Vivianne
Romance); Carmen, 1969 (Grace Bumbry); Carmen, 1980 (made-for-TV; Teresa
Berganza); Carmen, 1983 (Laura del Sol); Carmen, 1984 (Julia Migenes); Carmen,
1987 (made-for-TV; Agnes Baltsa); Carmen, 1989
(made-for-TV;
Maria Ewing); Carmen, 1999 (made-for-TV; Charlotte Hellekant); Carmen, 2002
(Anne Sofie von Otter); Carmen, 2003 (Paz Vega); Carmen, 2003 (Olga
Filippovna); Carmen, 2003 (made-for-TV;
Marina
Domashenko); Carmen, 2004 (made-for-TV; Beatrice UriaMonzon); Carmen, Baby,
1967 (Uta Levka); Carmen de la Ronda [AKA: A Girl Against Napoleon], 1962 (Sara
Montiel); Carmen di Trastevere, 1962 (Giovanna Ralli); Carmen Jones, 1954 (modern-day version; Dorothy Dandridge); Carmen
on Ice, 1990 (made-for-TV; Katarina Witt); The Loves of Carmen, 1927 (Dolores
del Rio); The Loves of Carmen, 1948 (Rita Hayworth); Nights in Andalusia, 1938
(Imperio Argentina); Pride and Vengeance, 1967 (Tina Aumont); U-Carmen
eKhayelitsha, 2005 (Pauline Malefane).
Cat and the
Fiddle (Mother Goose character): Babes
in Toyland, 1934 (Pete Gordon).
Cat Woman
(fictional comic book character): Batman, 1966-1968 (TV series; Julie Newmar;
Eartha Kitt); The Batman, 2004-2008 (TV series; Gina Gershon voiceover); Batman Returns, 1992 (Michelle
Pfeiffer); Batman Revealed, 2012 (Kelly Weston); Batman: The Brave and the
Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV series; Nika Futterman voiceover); Batman: The
Movie, 1966 (Lee Meriwether); Batman: The Animated Series, 1992-1995 (TV
series; Adrienne Barbeau voiceover); Gotham Girls, 2000- (TV series; Adrienne
Barbeau); The New Batman Adventures, 1997-1999 (TV series; Adrienne Barbeau
voiceover).
Caterpillar
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; Wesley Mann); Alice, 2009 (TV
miniseries; Harry Dean Stanton); Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (Jimmy Rosen); Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (Ned Sparks);
Alice in Wonderland, 1951 (Richard
Haydn voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Noel Leslie); Alice
in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Michael Redgrave); Alice in Wonderland, 1976
(Roberto
Granados); Alice in Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV; Jason McLean); Alice in
Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Sammy Davis Jr.); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (TV
series; John Barron); Alice in Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV; four 30-minute
segments; Roy Macready); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Ben Kingsley);
Alice in
Wonderland, 2010 (Alan Rickman); Alice Through
the Looking Box, 1960 (made-for-TV; Donald Pleasence); Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, 1972 (Ralph Richardson); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 2011
(made-for-TV; Eric Underwood); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the
Looking Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV; Cameron Miller); Dreamchild, 1985 (Steve
Whitmire, Frank Middlemass); Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; Fritz
Weaver); Kraft Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1954
episode; Chandler Cowles); Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, 2013 (TV series;
Iggy Pop); Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland, 2007 (Stefan Schneider); The
Wednesday Play, 1964-1970 (TV series; “Alice,” 1965 episode; Keith
Campbell).
Catherine
Earnshaw (Cathy; beautiful star-crossed lover of Heathcliff, a poor boy who
becomes rich, but loses the woman of his heart when she tragically dies, her
ghost haunting him thereafter until they reunited at death as depicted in Emily
Bronte’s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights):
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Wuthering Heights,” 1953
episode; Yvonne Mitchell); Broadway Television Theatre, 1952-1954 (TV series;
“Wuthering Heights,” 1953 episode; Meg Mundy); The DuPont Show of the Month,
1957-1961 (TV series; “Wuthering Heights,” 1958 episode; Yvonne Furneaux; Patty
Duke as young Cathy); Heathcliff, 1997 (made-for-TV; Helen Hobson); Matinee
Theatre, 1955-1958 (TV series; “Wuthering Heights,” 1955 episode;
Peggy
Webber; Shelley Fabares as young Cathy; “Wuthering Heights,’ 1957 episode;
Barbara Rush; Reba Waters as young Cathy); Wuthering Heights, 1920 (Ann Trevor;
Colette Brettel; Baby Twinkles [Florence
Hunter] as
young Cathy); Wuthering Heights,
1939 (Merle Oberon; Sarita Wooten [Wooton] as young Cathy); Wuthering Heights,
1948
(made-for-TV;
Katharine Blake); Wuthering Heights, 1962 (made-forTV; Claire Bloom); Wuthering
Heights, 1967 (TV series; Angela
Scoular;
June Liversedge as young Cathy); Wuthering Heights, 1970 (Anna
Calder-Marshall); Wuthering Heights, 1978 (TV miniseries; Kay Adshead; Maria
Swailes; Francesca Gerrard); Wuthering Heights, 1983 (Irasema Dilian);
Wuthering Heights, 1992 (Juliette Binoche; Jessica Hennell as young Cathy);
Wuthering Heights, 1998 (made-for-TV; Orla Brady; Kadie Savage as young Cathy);
Wuthering Heights, 2009 (TV miniseries; Charlotte Riley; Rebecca Night;
Alexandra Pearson as young Cathy); Wuthering Heights, 2012 (Kaya Scodelario;
Shannon Beer as young Cathy).
Cesar
(owner of a Marseilles quayside bistro who befriends Fanny, a fish-seller
deserted by her seafaring lover): Cesar,
1936 (Raimu); Fanny, 1948 (Raimu); Fanny, 1961 (Charles Boyer); Fanny,
2008
(made-for-TV;
Gilles David); Fanny, 2014 (Daniel Auteuil); La trilogie Marseillaise: Cesar,
2000 (made-for-TV; Roger Hanin); La trilogie Marseillaise: Fanny, 2000
(made-for-TV; Roger Hanin); La trilogie Marseillaise: Marius, 2000
(made-for-TV; Roger Hanin); Marius,
1933 (Raimu); Marius, 2014 (Daniel Auteuil); Pagnol, 1977 (TV series; Ko van
Dijk); Port of Seven Seas, 1938 (Wallace Beery).
Charles
Darnay (one of the chief protagonists in the 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens): The DuPont Show of the
Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “A Tale of Two Cities,” 1958 episode; Denholm
Elliott); The Only Way, 1927 (Frederick Cooper); The Only Way, 1948
(made-for-TV; Hatton Duprez); The Plymouth Playhouse, 1953 (TV series; “A Tale
of Two Cities,” two 1953 episodes; Carleton Young); A Tale of Two Cities, 1917
(William Farnum); A Tale of Two Cities,
1935 (Donald Woods); A Tale of Two Cities, 1957 (TV miniseries; Edward de
Souza); A Tale of Two Cities, 1958 (Paul Guers); A Tale of Two Cities, 1958
(made-for-TV; Alexander Young); A Tale of Two Cities, 1965 (TV series; Nicholas
Pennell); A Tale of Two Cities, 1980 (TV miniseries; Paul Shelley); A Tale of
Two Cities, 1980 (made-for-TV; Chris Sarandon); A Tale of Two Cities, 1989 (TV
miniseries; Xavier Deluc).
Charles
Dreyfus (French police commissioner of the Paris Surete who is inadvertently
harassed, embarrassed and compromised by his bumbling subordinate, Inspector
Clouseau; see Inspector Clouseau, this CHINGACHGOOK
Keye Luke (as son Lee Chan) and
Warner Oland (as Charlie Chan) in Charlie
Chan at the Opera, 1936.
index): Curse
of the Pink Panther, 1983 (Herbert Lom); The Pink Panther, 2006 (Kevin Kline);
The Pink Panther 2, 2009 (John Cleese); The
Pink Panther Strikes Again, 1976 (Herbert Lom); The Return of the Pink Panther, 1975 (Herbert Lom); Revenge of the Pink Panther, 1978
(Herbert Lom); A Shot in the Dark,
1964 (Herbert Lom); Trail of the Pink Panther, 1982 (Herbert Lom).
Charlie
Chan (clever Chinese detective, the fictional creation of Earl Derr Biggers,
first appearing in the 1925 Saturday
Evening Post serial): The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, 1972 (animated TV
series; Key Luke voiceover); Behind That Curtain, 1929 (E.L. Park); The Black
Camel, 1931 (Warner Oland); Black Magic, 1944 (Sidney Toler); Castle in the
Desert, 1942 (Sidney Toler); Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen,
1981 (Peter Ustinov); Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo,
1937
(Warner Oland); Charlie Chan at the Circus, 1936 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan
at the Olympics, 1937 (Warner Oland); Charlie
Chan at the Opera, 1936 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan at the Race Track, 1936 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan
at the Wax Museum;, 1940 (Sidney
Toler);
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, 1939 (Sidney Toler); Charlie Chan Carries On, 1931 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan in Black
Magic, 1944 (Sidney Toler); Charlie Chan
in Egypt, 1935 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan in Honolulu, 1938 (Sidney
Toler); Charlie Chan in London, 1934 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan in Panama,
1940 (Sidney Toler); Charlie Chan in Paris, 1935 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan
in Reno, 1939 (Sidney Toler); Charlie Chan in Rio, 1941 (Sidney Toler); Charlie
Chan in Shanghai, 1935 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan in the City of Darkness,
1939 (Sidney Toler); Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, 1944 (Sidney Toler);
Charlie Chan on Broadway, 1937 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan’s Chance, 1932
(Warner Oland); Charlie Chan’s Courage, 1934 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan’s
Greatest Case, 1933 (Warner Oland); Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise, 1940 (Sidney
Toler); Charlie Chan’s Secret, 1936
(Warner Oland); The Chinese Cat, 1944 (Sidney Toler); The Chinese Parrot, 1927
(Sojin Kamiyama); The Chinese Ring, 1947 (Roland Winters); Dangerous Money,
1946 (Sidney Toler); Dark Alibi, 1946 (Sidney Toler); Dead Men Tell, 1941
(Sidney Toler); Docks of New Orleans, 1948 (Roland Winters); Eran trece
[Spanish version of Charlie Chan Carries On], 1931 (Manuel Arbo); The Feathered
Serpent; 1948 (Roland Winters); The Golden Eye, 1948 (Roland Winters); The
House Without a Key, 1926 (serial; George Kuwa); The Jade Mask, 1945 (Sidney
Toler); Murder Over New York, 1940 (Sidney Toler); The Mystery of the Golden
Eye, 1948 (Roland Winters); The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, 1957 (TV
series; J.
Carrol
Naish); The Red Dragon, 1946 (Sidney Toler); The Return of Charlie Chan, 1979
(made-for-TV; Ross Martin); The Scarlet Clue, 1945 (Sidney Toler); Shadows Over
Chinatown, 1946 (Sidney Toler); The Shanghai Chest, 1948 (Roland Winters); The
Shanghai Cobra, 1945 (Sidney Toler); Sky Dragon, 1949 (Roland Winters); The
Trap, 1947 (Sidney Toler).
Charon (or
Kharon; in Greek mythology; the skeletal ferryman who takes the souls of
recently deceased to the world of the dead): Atlantis, 2013-2015 (TV series;
“Pandora’s Box,” 2013 episode; Trevor Allan
Davies);
Dante 01, 2008 (Gerald Laroche); Dante’s Inferno, 2007
(Michael
Coleman); Hellhounds, 2009 (Theodore Danetti, Arthur Grosser); Hercules,
1998-1999 (animated TV series; John Kassir); Hercules in the Underworld, 1994
(made-for-TV; Michael Hurst); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, 1995-1999 (TV
series; Michael Hurst); Highway to Hell, 1992 (Kevin Peter Hall); Hulk and the
Agents of S.M.A.S.H., 2013 (TV series; “The Tale of Hercules,” 2013 episode;
Fred
Tatasciore); MythQuest, 2001 (TV series; 2001 episode; Richard
Strange);
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 2010
(Julian
Richings); A Storyteller: Greek Myths, 1990- (TV miniseries;
Trevor
Peacock); A TV Dante, 1989- (TV miniseries; Robert Eddison); Orpheus &
Eurydice, 2000 (Joseph Gatt); Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, 1996-2003 (TV series;
2001 episode; E. J. Callahan); Xena: Warrior Princess, 1995-2001 (TV series;
Michael Hurst); Young Hercules, 19981999 (TV series; Michael Hurst).
Cheshire
Cat (fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; Richard Kuhlman); Alice at the
Palace, 1982 (made-for-TV; Rodney Hudson); Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (Tom
Corless); Alice in Wonderland, 1933
(Richard Arlen); Alice in Wonderland, 1949 (Felix Aylmer voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1951 (Sterling Holloway
voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1976 (Ruben Fraga); Alice in Wonderland, 1982
(made-for-TV; Leslye Orr); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Telly
Savalas); Alice in Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV; four 30minute segments;
Michael Wisher); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (madefor-TV; Whoopi Goldberg); Alice in Wonderland, 2010 (Stephen
Fry); Alice in Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place
Like This?,
1966 (animated made-for-TV; Sammy Davis Jr.); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,
1972 (Roy Kinnear); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking
Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV; Morris Sweden); Great Performances, 1971- (TV series;
Geoffrey Holder); Kraft Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,”
1954 episode; Arthur Treacher); Miyuki-chan in Wonderland, 1995- (TV
miniseries; Ai Orikasa); Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland, 2007 (Pia Komsi,
Julia Rempe).
Chingachgook
(chief and last living survivor of the extinct Mohican InCINDERELLA
Robert Barrat (as Chingachgook),
Randolph Scott (Hawkeye) and Philip Reed (Uncus) in The Last of the Mohicans, 1936.
dian tribe,
a branch of the Delaware Indians, a character in James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales): The Deerslayer,
1978 (madefor-TV; Ned Romero); Fall of the Mohicans, 1965 (Jose Marco);
Hawkeye, 1994- (TV series; Rodney A. Grant); Hawkeye and the Last of the
Mohicans, 1957- (TV series; Lon Chaney Jr.); Hawkeye, the Pathfinder, 1973- (TV
miniseries; John Abineri); The Last of
the Mohicans, 1920 (Theodore Lorch); The Last of the Mohicans, 1932 (Hobart
Bosworth); The Last of the Mohicans,
1936 (Robert Barrat); The Last of the Mohicans, 1971 (TV miniseries; John
Abineri); The Last of the Mohicans, 1975 (animated made-for-TV; John Doucette
voiceover); Last of the Mohicans, 1977 (made-for-TV; Ned Romero); The Last of the Mohicans, 1992 (Russell
Means); The Leatherstocking Tales, 1984 (TV miniseries; Roger Hill);
Pathfinder, 1996 (made-for-TV; Graham Greene).
Cinderella
(folk character from the story The Little
Glass Slipper; also see Fairy Godmother, Prince Charming, this index):
Carry On Christmas, 1969 (made-for-TV; Barbara Windsor); Christmas at Walt
Disney World, 1978 (TV special; Danielle Spencer); Christmas Night of One
Hundred Stars, 1986 (TV special; Janet Dibley); Cinderella, 1914
(Mary
Pickford); Cinderella, 1947 (Yanina Zhejmo); Cinderella, 1947 (TV miniseries;
Julia Bretton); Cinderella, 1950
(Ilene Woods voiceover); Cinderella, 1950 (made-for-TV; Sally Ann Howes, Lois
Green); Cinderella, 1957 (made-for-TV; Julie Andrews); Cinderella,
1958
(made-for-TV; June Thorburn); Cinderella, 1965 (made-for-TV; Lesley Ann Warren);
Cinderella, 1966 (Rita-Maria Nowotny); Cinderella, 1969 (Antoinette Sibley);
Cinderella, 1977 (Cheryl Smith); Cinderella, 1986 (made-for-TV; Francoise
Joullie); Cinderella, 1989 (made-for-TV; Petra Vigna); Cinderella, 1997
(made-for-TV; Brandy Norwood); Cinderella, 2000 (made-for-TV; Marcella
Plunkett); Cinderella, 2000 (made-for-TV; Sam Janus [Samantha Womack]);
Cinderella, 2010 (made-for-TV; Emilia Schule); Cinderella, 2011 (made-for-TV;
Aylin Tezel); Cinderella, 2015 (Lily
James); Cinderella…Frozen in Time, 1994 (made-for-TV; Dorothy Hamill);
Cinderella; The Shoe Must Go On, 1986 (made-for-TV; Cheryl Baker); Cinderella:
Single Again, 2000 (Sarah Chalke); Cinderella 3D, 2012 (Alexandra Lamy
voiceover); Faerie Tale Theatre, 1982-1987 (TV series; “Cinderella,” 1985
episode; Jennifer Beals); The Glass Slipper, 1955 (Leslie Caron); Great
Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Cinderella,” 1985 episode; Evelyn Cisneros);
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, 1995-2000 (TV series;
“Cinderella,” 1995 episode; Daphne Zuniga); Hey Cinderella!, 1969 (made-for-TV;
Belinda Montgomery); A Kiss for Cinderella, 1925 (Betty Bronson); A Kiss for
Cinderella, 1959 (made-for-TV; Jeannie Carson); Once Upon a Brothers Grimm,
1977 (made-for-TV; Stephanie Steele); Once Upon a Time, 1973- (TV series;
Adrienne Posta); The Sleeping Princess, 1939 (made-for-TV; Elizabeth Miller);
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, 1962 (Pamela Baird); The Slipper and the Rose, 1976 (Gemma
Craven).
Circe
(goddess of magic, sorceress, witch, enchantress in Greek mythology; also see
Ulysses, this index): Atlantis, 2013- (TV series; Lucy Cohu); Biblioteca di
Studio Uno: Odissea, 1964 (made-for-TV; Elena Sedlak); Circe, the Enchantress,
1924 (Mae Murray); Gladiators of Rome, 2013 (Daniela Abbruzzese); Hercules,
1983 (Mirella D’Anelo); Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; “Hercules and the Song
of Circe,” 1998 episode; Idina Menzel voiceover); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of
the Legend, 1998- (TV series; “Ulysses and Circe,” 1998 episode; Torri Higginson);
Odissea, 1968 (TV miniseries; Juliette Mayniel); The Odyssey, 1997- (TV series;
Bernadette Peters); Olympus, 2015- (TV series; Brenda McDonald); Toast with the
Gods, 1995 (Tifani Bless); Ulysses,
1955 (Silvana Mangano); Vamping Venus, 1928 (Louise Fazenda).
Constance
Bonacieux (fictional character; ill-fated lover of French swordsman D’Artagnan
in the works of Alexander Dumas pere): Animated Three Musketeers, 1987 (TV
series; Noriko Hidaka); Biblioteca di Studio Uno: I tre moschettieri, 1964 (made-for-TV;
Jenny Luna); D’Artagnan, 1969 (TV miniseries; Paloma Matta); D’Artagnon, 1991
(made-for-TV;
Mona Heftre); D’Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires, 2005 (Diana Amft);
D’Artanyan i tri mushketyora, 1979 (TV series; Irina Alfyorova); De drie
Musketiers, 1968 (made-for-TV; Gerda Marchand); Die Drie Musketiere, 2013 (Anna
Starshenbaum); Family Classics: The Three Musketeers, 1960 (made-for-TV;
Felicia Farr); The Four Charlots Musketeers, 1974 (Josephine Chaplin); The Four
Musketeers, 1963 (Carla Marlier); The
Four Musketeers, 1975 (Raquel Welch); The Glorious Musketeers, 1974 (Anna
Gaylor voiceover); I tre moschettieri, 1991 (made-for-TV; Pamela Prati); The Iron Mask, 1929 (Marguerite De La
Motte); La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros, 1983 (Adriana Ozores); Les
quatre mousquetaires, 1934 (Mona Sem); Les trois mousquetaires ou L’escrime ne
paie pas, 1979 (made-for-TV; Nicole Jamet); Les trois mousquetaires: Premiere
epoque – Les ferrets de la reine, 1961 (Perrette Pradier); Milady and the Three
Musketeers, 2004 (made-for-TV; Julie Depardieu); The Musketeers, 2014 (TV
series; Tamla Kari); Os tres Mosqueteiros, 1957 (TV series; Maria Valeria);
Three and a Half Musketeers, 1957 (Rosa Arenas); The Three Musketeers, 1916
(Rhea Mitchell); The Three Musketeers,
1921 (Marguerite De La Motte); The Three Musketeers, 1932 (Blanche Montel); The
Three Musketeers, 1935 (Heather Angel); The
Three Musketeers, 1948 (June Allyson); The Three Musketeers, 1954
(TV series;
Clare Austin); The Three Musketeers, 1966 (TV miniseries;
Kathleen
Breck); The Three Musketeers, 1974
(Raquel Welch); The Three Musketeers,
1993 (Julie Delpy); The Three Musketeers, 2007
(Lene Maria
Christiansen voiceover); The Three Musketeers, 2011 (Gabriella Wilde); Tri
mushketera, 2013 (Anna Starshenbaum); Vengeance of the Three Musketeers, 1961
(Perrette Pradier).
The
Corsican Brothers (Lucien and Mario Franchi, fictional Siamese twins separated
at birth who live separate lives but who are emotionally and spiritually joined
and who later reunite to suppress a tyrant, first appearing in Alexander Dumas’
1845 novel): Bandits of Corsica [AKA: The Return of the Corsican Brothers],
1953 (Richard Greene in dual roles); Double Impact, 1991 (modern-day version;
Jean-Claude Van Damme in dual roles); The Corsican Brothers, 1917 (Henry Krauss
in dual roles); The Corsican Brothers, 1920 (Dustin Farnum in dual roles); The
Corsican Brothers, 1938 (Pierre Brasseur, Jacques Erwin); The Corsican Brothers, 1941 (Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in dual roles);
The Corsican Brothers, 1955 (Antonio Vilar in dual roles); The Corsican
Brothers, 1985 (made-for-TV; Trevor Eve); The Corsican Brothers, Lions of
Corsica, 1961 (Geoffrey Horne in dual roles).
Cosmo
Topper (meek-mannered banker who encounters two lively ghosts bent on liberating
him from his hen-pecking wife and humdrum lifestyle as created in Thorne
Smith’s enormously popular 1926 novel): Topper,
1937 (Roland Young); Topper, 1953-1955 (TV series; Leo G. Carroll); Topper,
1979 (made-for-TV; Jack Warden); Topper
Returns, 1941 (Roland Young); Topper
Takes a Trip, 1938 (Roland Young).
The
Cowardly Lion (a lion that is afraid of everything and becomes a devoted
companion to Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas transported to a strange world
in L. Frank Baum’s iconic 1900 novel, The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz): Journey Back to Oz, 1972 (animated; Milton Berle
voiceover); The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, 2005 (Eric Jacobson as Fozzie Bear
voiceover); The New Wizard of Oz, 1914 (Fred Woodward); Off to See the Wizard,
1967-1968 (animated TV series; Mel Blanc); The Wiz, 1978 (Ted Ross); The Wizard
of Oz, 1925 (Spencer Bell); The
Wizard of Oz, 1939 (Bert Lahr); The Wizard of Oz,
1982 (animated; Thick Wilson voiceover); The Wizard of Oz, 1990-1991 (animated
TV series; Charles Adler voiceover); The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come
True, 1995 (made-for-TV; Nathan Lane); The Wizard of Oz on Ice, 1996
(made-for-TV; Mark Richard Farrington); The Wizard of the D’ARTAGNAN
Jose Ferrer (as Cyrano) and Mala
Powers (as Roxane) in Cyrano de Bergerac,
1950.
Emerald
City, 1994 (Vyacheslav Nevinnyy).
Cupid
(Roman god of love; Eros in Greek mythology): The Illiac Passion, 1968 (Philip
Fagan); In Performance, 1978- (TV series; “Orpheus in the Underworld,” 1983
episode; Elizabeth Gale); Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld, 1997
(made-for-TV; Marie-Noelle de
Callatay);
Orphee aux enfers, 1997 (made-for-TV; Cassandre Berthon); Orpheus in der
Unterwelt, 1975 (Mona Boxberger); The Triumph of Venus, 1918 (Bonnie Marie).
Cyrano de
Bergerac (long-nosed, unlucky-at-love swordsman and poet created by playwright
Edmond Rostand in 1897; also see Roxane, this index): BBC Play of the Month,
1965-1983 (TV series; ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,” 1968 episode; Eric Porter); Cyrano
de Bergerac, 1923 (Pierre Magnier); ): Cyrano de Bergerac, 1946 (Claude
Dauphin); Cyrano de Bergerac, 1950
(Jose Ferrer); Cyrano de Bergerac, 1960
(made-for-TV;
Daniel Sorano); Cyrano de Bergerac, 1962 (made-forTV; Christopher Plummer);
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1975 (made-for-TV;
Guus Hermus);
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1978 (made-for-TV; Denis Ganio);
Cyrano de
Bergerac, 1985 (made-for-TV; Derek Jacobi); Cyrano de Bergerac, 1986
(made-for-TV; Josep Maria Flotats); Cyrano
de Bergerac, 1990 (Gerard Depardieu); Cyrano de Bergerac, 2000 (made-forTV;
Klaus Maria Brandauer); Cyrano de Bergerac, 2007 (made-for-TV; Michel
Vuillermoz); Cyrano de Bergerac, 2008 (Placido Domingo); Cyrano et d’Artagnan,
1964 (Jose Ferrer); Great Performances, 1971(TV series; “Cyrano de Bergerac,”
1974 episode; Peter Donat; “Cyrano de Bergerac,” 2008 episode; Kevin Kline);
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, 1948-1956 (TV series; “Cyrano de
Bergerac,” 1949 episode; Jose Ferrer); Producers’ Showcase, 1954-1957 (TV
series; “Cyrano de Bergerac,” 1955 episode; Jose Ferrer); Schlitz Playhouse,
1951-1959 (TV series; “The Sword,” 1957 episode; Fredd Wayne).
Daisy
Buchanan (spoiled wife of millionaire who dallies with former lover Jay Gatsby,
a romantic bootlegger of the 1920s, a character in the classic 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, by pantheon author F.
Scott Fitzgerald): The Great Gatsby,
1926 (Lois Wilson); The Great Gatsby,
1949 (Betty Field); The Great Gatsby,
1974 (Mia Farrow); The Great Gatsby, 2001 (made-for-TV; Mira Sorvino); The Great Gatsby, 2013 (Carey
Mulligan); Playhouse 90, 1956-1961 (TV series; “The Great Gatsby,” 1958
episode; Jeanne Crain); Robert Montgomery Presents, 1950-1957 (TV series; “The
Great Gatsby,” 1955 episode; Phyllis Kirk).
D’Artagnan
(great swordsman and character in the fictional works of Alexander Dumas pere):
Animated Three Musketeers, 1987 (TV series; Miguel Guilherme); At Sword’s
Point, 1952 (Cornel Wilde as D’Artagnan Jr.); Biblioteca di Studio Uno: I tre
moschettieri, 1964 (made-forTV; Alberto Lupo); Cyrano et d’Artagnan, 1964
(Jean-Pierre Cassel);
D’Artagnan,
1969 (TV miniseries; Dominque Paturel); D’Artagnon, 1991 (made-for-TV;
Christophe Malavoy); D’Artagnan amoureux, 1977 (TV miniseries; Nicolas
Silberg); D’Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires, 2005 (Vincent Elbaz);
D’Artanyan i tri mushketyora, 1979 (TV series; Mikhail Boyarskiy); De drie
Musketiers, 1968 (made-forTV; Senne Rouffaer); Die Drie Musketiere, 2013 (Rinal
Mukhametov); Family Classics: The Three Musketeers, 1960 (made-for-TV;
Maximilian Schell); The Four Charlots Musketeers, 1974 (Jean Valmont); The Four
Musketeers, 1963 (Georges Riviere); The
Four Musketeers, 1975 (Michael York); The Glorious Musketeers, 1974
(Francis Perrin voiceover); I tre moschettieri, 1991 (made-for-TV; Marco
Columbro); Il colpo segreto di d’Artagnan, 1963 (George Nader); The Iron Mask, 1929 (Douglas Fairbanks
Sr.); Knights of the Queen, 1958 (Jeff Stone); La loca historia de los tres
mosqueteros, 1983 (Jose Martinez Blanco voiceover); Lady in the Iron Mask, 1952
(Louis Hayward); Les quatre mouquetaires, 1934 (Rittche); Les 3 Mousquetaires,
1953 (Georges Marchal); Les trois mousquetaires, 1959 (made-for-TV; Jean-Paul
Belmondo); Les trois mousquetaires ou L’escrime ne paie pas, 1979 (madefor-TV;
Francis Perrin); Les trois mousquetaires: Premiere epoque – Les ferrets de la
reine, 1961 (Gerard Barry); The Magnavox Theater, 1950 (TV series; “The Three
Musketeers,” 1950 episode: Robert Clarke); The
Man in the Iron Mask, 1939 (Warren William); Mask of the Musketeers, 1963
(Tony Zamperla); Milady and the Three Musketeers, 2004 (made-for-TV; Florent
Pagny); The Musketeer, 2001 (Justin
Chambers; Max Dolbey as young D’Artagnan); The Musketeers, 2014 (TV series;
Luke Pasqualino); Os tres Mosqueteiros, 1957 (TV series; Jose Parisi); Three
and a Half Musketeers, 1957 (Tin Tan
[German
Valdes]); The Three Musketeers, 1916 (Orrin Johnson); The Three Musketeers, 1921 (Douglas Fairbanks Sr.); Three
Musketeers,
1932 (Aime
Simon-Girard); The Three Musketeers, 1935 (Walter Abel); The Three Musketeers,
1939 (Don Ameche); The Three Musketeers, 1945 (Armando Bo); The Three Musketeers, 1948 (Gene
Kelly); The Three Musketeers, 1954 (TV series; Laurence Payne); The
Three
Musketeers, 1966 (TV miniseries; Jeremy Brett); The Three Musketeers, 1974 (Michael York); The Three Musketeers,
1986 (made-for-TV; Ivar Kants voiceover); The
Three Musketeers, 1993 (Chris O’Donnell); The Three Musketeers, 2007
(Nicolaj Kopernikus voiceover); The Three Musketeers, 2011 (Logan Lerman);
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers, 1961 (Garard Barray); Vingt ans apre, 1922
(Jean Yonnel); Tri musketyri, 1983 (TV miniseries; Jan Censky); Tri mushketera,
2013 (Rinal Mukhametov); Young Blades, 2001 (Hugh Dancy).
DAVID BALFOUR
Walter Huston (as Scratch), Edward
Arnold (Webster) and James Craig in The
Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941.
David
Balfour (youth created by Robert Louis Stevenson in his 1886 novel, Kidnapped, and who becomes involved in many
adventures while attempting to secure his rightful inheritance): Kidnapped,
1917 (Raymond McKee); Kidnapped,
1938 (Freddie Bartholomew); Kidnapped, 1948 (Roddy McDowall); Kidnapped, 1952-
(TV series; John Fraser); Kidnapped, 1956- (TV series; Leo Maguire); Kidnapped,
1960 (James MacArthur); Kidnapped, 1963- (TV miniseries; Ian Cullen);
Kidnapped, 1970 (Werner Kanitz); Kidnapped,
1971 (Lawrence Douglas); Kidnapped, 1978- (TV miniseries; Ekkehardt Belle);
Kidnapped, 1986 (animated version; Matthew Fargher voiceover); Kidnapped, 1995
(made-for-TV; Brian McCardie); Kidnapped, 2005 (made-for-TV; James Anthony
Pearson).
David
Copperfield (youth who endures cruelty and kindness as he grows to manhood, one
of Charles Dickens’ best known fictional characters, albeit partly
autobiographical, and first appearing in the 1850 novel): Armchair Theatre,
1956-1974 (TV series; “Young David,” 1959 episode; Martin Stephens); David
Copperfield, 1913 (Reginald Sheffield as the boy; Kenneth Ware as the man);
David Copperfield, 1922 (Martin Herzberg as the boy; Gorm Schmidt as the man); David Copperfield, 1935 (Freddie
Bartholomew as the boy; Frank Lawton as the man); David Copperfield, 1958 (TV
series; Marcio Trunkl); David Copperfield, 1965 (TV miniseries; Giancarlo
Giannini); David Copperfield, 1966- (TV series; Ian McKellen); David
Copperfield, 1970 (made-forTV; Alistair Mackenzie as the boy; Robin Phillips as
the man); David Copperfield, 1974- (TV miniseries; Jonathan Kahn as the boy;
David Yelland as the man); David Copperfield, 1986- (TV miniseries; David
Dexter as the boy; Colin Hurley as the man); David Copperfield, 1993 (animated
made-for-TV; Julian Lennon); David Copperfield, 1999- (TV miniseries; Daniel
Radcliffe as the boy; Ciaran McMenamin as the man); David Copperfield, 2000
(made-for-TV; Max Dolbey as the boy; Hugh Dancy as the man); David Copperfield,
2009 (made-for-TV; Christian Frasacco as the boy; Giorgio Pasotti as the man);
Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens, 1958- (TV series; several 1958
episodes: Martin Stephens; several 1959 episodes: William Russell); Robert
Montgomery Presents, 1950-1957 (TV series; “David Copperfield,” 1954 episode;
David Cole).
Desdemona
(character in “Othello,” by William Shakespeare, c.1601, the wife of military
leader Othello, who is wrongly accused of adultery and murdered by her jealous husband): BBC Sunday-Night Theatre,
1950-1959 (TV series; “Othello,” 1950 episode; Joan Hopkins); A Double Life, 1947 (Signe Hasso
portraying an actress on stage as Desdemona); Encounter [General Motors
Presents], 1952-1961 (TV series; “Othello,” 1953 episode; Peggi Loder);
Masterpiece Playhouse, 1950(TV series; “Othello,” 1950 episode; Olive Deering);
Otello, 1948
(made-for-TV;
Licia Albanese); Otello, 1958 (Rosanna Carteri); Otello, 1959 (made-for-TV;
Gabriella Tucci); Otello, 1962 (made-for-TV; Renata Tebaldi); Otello, 1965
(made-for-TV; Sena Jurinac); Otello, 1974 (Mirella Freni); Otello, 1976
(made-for-TV; Mirella Freni); Otello,
1986 (Katia Ricciarelli); Otello, 2012 (Zvetelina Vassileva); Othello, 1914
(Cesira
Lenard); Othello, 1918 (Ellen Korth); Othello, 1923 (Ica von
Lenkeffy);
Othello, 1937 (made-for-TV; Diana Wynward); Othello [1952], 1955 (Suzanne Cloutier); Othello, 1955
(made-for-TV; Rosemary Harris); Othello, 1958 (made-for-TV; Carine Christian);
Othello [1955], 1960 (Irina Skobtseva); Othello, 1962 (made-for-TV; Francine
Berge);
Othello, 1965 (made-for-TV; Frances McDonald); Othello,
1965
(Maggie Smith); Othello, 1968 (made-for-TV; Heidelinde Weis); Othello, 1969
(made-for-TV; Chris Lomme); Othello, 1979 (made-for-
TV;
Patricia Lesieur); Othello, 1980 (Audrey Branker); Othello, 1981
(made-for-TV;
Penelope Wilton); Othello, 1989 (made-for-TV; Joanna Weinberg); Othello, 1995 (Irene Jacob); The Philco-Goodyear
Television Playhouse, 1948-1956 (TV series; “Othello,” 1953 episode; Olive
Deering).
Devil
(Lucifer; Nick; Old Nick; Satan; Scratch): The Acid Eaters, 1968
(Buck
Kartalian); Angel and the Devil, 1946 (Enzo Biliotti); Angel
Heart, 1987
(Robert De Niro); Angel on My Shoulder,
1946 (Claude Rains); Angels in the Infield, 2000 (made-for-TV; Colin Fox); Alias
Nick Beal, 1949 (Ray Milland); The Anti-Christ
[AKA: Tempter], 1978 (Carla Gravina); Army from Hell, 2014 (Richard Mason);
Back from Hell, 1993 (Don Reum); Bait, 1954 (Cedric Hardwicke); Band of
Drivers, 2011 (Robert Poirier); Beauty and the Devil, 1952 (Michel Simon);
Bedazzled, 1967 (Peter Cook); Bedazzled, 2000 (Elizabeth Hurley, Lex
Lang);
Beyond the Door [AKA: The Devil Within Her], 1975 (Juliet
Mills); The
Big Show-Off, 1945 (Paul Hurst); Blue Exorcist: The
Movie, 2012
(Hiroshi Kamiya); Boardwalk, 1979 (Roger Campo); The
Book of
Life, 1998 (Thomas J. Ryan); Boston Blackie and the Law, 1946 (Eugene Borden);
Brimstone and Treacle, 1982 (Sting); Cabin
in the Sky, 1943 (Rex Ingram as Lucifer Jr.); The Chosen One, 2007 (Tim
Curry); Cinderella, 1950 (June
Foray); The Company of Wolves, 1984 (Terence Stamp); Constantine, 2005 (Peter
Stormare); Crossroads, 1986 (Robert Judd); Damien: Omen II, 1978 (Jonathan
Scott-Taylor); Damn Yankees, 1958
(Ray Walston); Damned on Earth, 2014 (Mika Metz); Dante’s Inferno, 1935 (Noble Johnson, Ray Corrigan, Paul Schwegler,
Aloha
Porter); Dante’s Inferno, 2007 (Paul Zaloom); Deconstructing
Harry, 1997 (Dan Moran, Billy Crystal);
Deep Breath, 2001 (Damien
Odoul);
Demon, Demon (AKA: The Devil Within Her; made-for-TV), 1975 (Juliet Mills); The Devil and Daniel Webster (AKA: All
That Money Can Buy), 1941 (Walter Huston); The Devil and Max Devlin,
1981 (Bill
Cosby); The Devil and the Ten Commandments, 1963
(Claude
Rich); The Devil in Love, 1968 (Vittorio Gassman, Mickey Rooney); The Devil
Knows Why, 2003 (Oldrich Kaiser); The Devil May
Well Laugh,
1960 (Walter Morath); The Devil with Hitler, 1942 (Alan Mowbray); The Devil’s
Advocate, 1997 (Al Pacino); The Devil’s Carnival, 2012 (Terrance Zdunic); The
Devil’s Envoys, 1947 (Jules Berry); The Devil’s Eye, 1961 (Stig Jarrel); The
Devil’s Messenger, 1962 (Lon
Chaney,
Jr.); The Devil’s Partner, 1958 (Ed Nelson); The Devil’s Rain,
1975
(Ernest Borgnine); The Devil’s Three Golden Hairs, 1977 (Dieter
Franke);
The Devil’s Toy, 1916 (Edwin Stevens); The Devil’s Wedding
Night, 1973
(Sarah Bay); Dirty Work, 1998 (Adam Sandler); Do or Die,
1921 (J.P.
McGowan); Dr. Faustus, 1968 (Andreas Teuber); Dr. Faustus,
1983 (Bruce
Gray); Doctor Faustus, 2012 (Nigel Cooke, Arthur Darvill); Don Juan in Hell,
1960 (made-for-TV; George C. Scott); Don’t
Tempt
Me, 2001 (Gael Garcia Bernal); End of Days, 1999
(Gabriel Byrne);
Enter the
Devil, 1978 (Ivan Rassimov); The Entrance, 2006 (Frank
Cassini);
The Evil, 1978 (Victor Buono); The
Exorcist, 1973 (Linda Blair possessed by a demon; Mercedes McCambridge as
voiceover of demon); Exorcist: The Beginning, 2004 (Rupert Degas); The Exorcist
III, 1990 (Colleen Dewhurst as voiceover of demon); The Exorcist II:
The
Heretic, 1977 (Linda Blair possessed by a demon); Fatty Drives the
Bus, 1999
(Scot Robinson); Faust, 1926 (Emil Jannings); Faust, 1952
(Michael Langdon);
Faust, 1963 (Gustaf Gruendgens); Faust, 1964 (Roban Cody); Faust, 1967 (Jorj
Voicu); Faust, 1980 (Monica Buford); Faust, 1982 (made-for-TV; Peter Fitz);
Faust and the Devil, 1950 (Italo Tajo); Faustina, 1958 (Fernando Fernan Gomez);
Feel the Motion, 1985 (Kurt Raab); The First and Last, 1996 (David Anthony
Pizzuto); Flame and the Devil, 1952 (Aldo Silvani); Flesh and Fantasy, 1943 (Lane Chandler); The Gate of Fallen Angels,
2009 (Wolfgang Meyer); Ghost
Rider, 2007
(Peter Fonda); G-Men from Hell, 2000 (Robert Goulet); Goblins and Good Luck 2,
2001 (Karel Gott); Going to Glory…Come to Jesus, 1946 (John Watts); The Greatest Story Ever Told, 1965
(Donald Pleasence); Harry and Harriet, 1992 (Charles Gray); Hatchet County,
2012 (Christy Johnson, Gregg Frucci); The Haunted, 2015 (Tyler Lueck); Haxan:
Witchcraft Through the Ages, 1922 (Benjamin Christiansen); Heaven Can Wait, 1943 (Laird Cregar); Heaven Is Hell, 2014 (Jack
Schultz); The Heavenly Play, 1944 (Emil Fjellstrom); Holocaust
2000, 1978
(Simon Ward); House of Fallen, 2008 (Jeff Wincott); I Am Suzanne!, 1933 (Lionel
Belmore); I Dream of Dracula, 2003 (Paul DODO
BIRD
Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy in Dick Tracy, 1990.
Dougherty);
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, 2009 (Tom Waits); The Immortal Edward
Lumley, 2013 (Mike Burnell); Inquisition, 1978
(Paul
Naschy); Island of Swans, 1983 (Conny Hege); It is Hell with the Princess, 2009
(Martin Stransky); The Jersey Devil, 2014 (Jack Mulcahy); Journey of
Redemption, 2002 (Jules Willcox); The Joys of Jezebel, 1970 (Christopher
Stone); The Kid, 1921 (Jack Coogan
Sr.); The King of Kings, 1927 (Alan
Brooks); King of Kings, 1961 (Ted de
Corsia voiceover); The Knight of the Night, 1953 (Jean Servais); The Last
Temptation of Christ, 1988 (Leo Marks); Leaves from Satan’s Book
(AKA: Blade
of Satan’s Bog, silent), 1920 (Helge Nissen); Laugh Killer Laugh, 2015 (Jim
Fletcher); Legend, 1985 (Tim Curry); Les Visiteurs du Soir, 1947 (Jules Berry);
Letters from My Windmill, 1954 (Daxley); Little Nicky, 2000 (Harvey Keitel);
Macario, 1961 (Jose Galvez); Mad Max
Beyond Thunderdome, 1985 (Adam Willits); Marguerite of the
Night, 1956
(Yves Montand); Martyr, 2006 (Christopher Dane); The Master and Margaret, 1980
(Alain Cuny); Meet Mr. Lucifer, 1953 (Stanley Holloway); Men Cry Bullets, 1999
(Jon Simanton); Midstream, 1929 (Leslie Brigham); The Milky Way, 1970 (Pierre
Clementi); Mr. Frost, 1990 (Jeff Goldblum); The Night Before Christmas, 1961
(Gregori Millyar); Night Train to Terror, 1985 (Tony Giorgio); Oh, God! You
Devil, 1982 (George Burns); The Omen,
1976 (Harvey Stephens); Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, 2003 (Mike M. Burke); One
Day Like Rain,
2007 (Alec
Nemser); One Day with the Devil, 1945 (Andres Solar); One
Hell of a
Christmas, 2002 (Erik Holmey); One Hell of a Guy, 2000
(Michael
York); Original Sin, 2001 (Thomas Jane); The Passion of the Christ, 2004
(Rosalinda Celentano); Peer Gynt, 1981 (made-for-TV; Didier Sandre); Petey
Wheatstraw, 1977 (G. Tito Shaw); The
Phantom of the Opera, 1925 (Alexander Bevani); The Phantom of the Opera,
1983 (made-for-TV; Ferenc Beganyi); The Phantom of the Opera, 1989 (John
Ghavan); The Phantom of the Opera, 1998 (Tibor Nemes); The Photograph, 2003
(Marc Jeffreys); The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1916 (A.B. Imeson); The Private Lives
of Adam and Eve, 1960 (Mickey Rooney); The Prophecy, 1995 (Viggo Mortensen);
Ricky 6, 2000 (Gerald Wong); Ring of Darkness, 1979 (Ezio Miani); San Francisco, 1936 (Tudor Williams in
stage performance); Satan’s Touch, 1984 (Paul Davies); Scratch Harry, 1969 (Mio
Domani); Second Time Lucky, 1984 (Robert Helpmann); The Sentinel, 1977 (Burgess
Meredith); Shortcut to Happiness, 2004 (Jennifer Love Hewitt); Six Gun Savior,
2016 (Eric Roberts); A Smile in the Dark, 1991 (Helen Shaver); The Soldier’s
Tale, 1965 (Robert Helpmann); The Soldier’s Tale, 1984 (Max von Sydow); The
Soldier’s Tale, 2010 (made-for-TV; Matthew Hart); Sons of Perdition, 2007
(David Simon); The Sorrows of Satan (silent), 1926 (Adolphe Menjou); South
Park: Bigger, Larger & Uncut, 1998 (TV series; Frey Parker); Spawn, 1997
(Frank Welker); Spirits of the Dead,
1969 (Marina Yaru); The Story of Mankind, 1957 (Vincent Price); Suing the
Devil, 2011 (Malcolm McDowell); The Suitcase, 2009 (Riley); Switch, 1991 (Bruce
Martyn Payne); Tales from the Crypt,
1972 (Ralph Richardson); Tales from the Hood, 1995 (Clarence Williams III);
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, 2006 (Dave Grohl); Thank You Satan, 1989
(Annie Legrand); Three Sisters, 1974
(Harry Fielder); Time Bandits, 1981 (David Warner); Torture Garden, 1968
(Burgess Meredith); Touched by an Angel, 1994-2003 (TV series; “In the Name of
God,” 1995 episode; John Schneider; “Breaking Bread,” 1998 episode; Todd
Rulapaugh);
The Tragedy of Man, 2011 (Matyas Usztics); The Undead, 1957 (Richard Devon); Up
in Smoke, 1957 (Byron Foulger); Under the Sun of Satan, 1989 (Philippe Pallut);
Vengeance of the Zombies, 1973 (Paul Naschy); Wishful Thinking, 2010 (Amelie
Blanc); The Witches of Eastwick,
1987 (Jack Nicholson).
Diana
(Roman goddess of the hung; Artemis in Greek mythology): Hercules in New York,
1970 (Diane Goble); In Performance, 1978- (TV series; “Orpheus in the
Underworld,” 1983 episode; Isobel Buchanan); Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the
Underworld, 1997 (made-for-TV; Sonja Theodoridou); Night Life of the Gods, 1935
(Irene Ware); Orphee aux enfers, 1997 (made-for-TV; Virginie Pochon); Orpheus
in der Unterwelt, 1975 (Helga Piur); Orpheus in the Underworld, 1961
(madefor-TV; Suzanne Steele); Rome in a Day, 2008 (Diana Butler); The Temple of
Venus, 1923 (Helen Vigil); The Triumph of Venus, 1918 (Phyllis Beveridge).
Dick Tracy
(tough, intelligent police detective created by comic strip artist Chester
Gould in 1931): Dick Tracy, 1937 (serial; Ralph Byrd); Dick Tracy, 1945 (Morgan
Conway); Dick Tracy, 1950-1952 (TV series;
Morgan
Conway); Dick Tracy, 1990 (Warren
Beatty); Dick Tracy
Meets
Gruesome, 1947 (Morgan Conway); Dick Tracy Returns, 1938
(serial;
Ralph Byrd); The Dick Tracy Show, 1961- (animated TV series; Everett Sloane
voiceover); Dick Tracy Special, 20010 (made-for-TV;
Warren
Beatty); Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc., 1941 (serial; Ralph Byrd); Dick Tracy vs.
Cueball, 1946 (Morgan Conway); Dick Tracy’s Dilemma, 1947 (Morgan Conway); Dick
Tracy’s G-Men, 1939 (serial; Ralph Byrd); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo,
1964-1965 (TV series; “Mr. Magoo’s Dick Tracy and the Mob,” 1965 episode;
Everett Sloane).
Dodo Bird
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author
Lewis
Carroll): Alice in Wonderland, 1933
(Polly Moran); Alice in Wonderland,
1951 (Bill Thompson voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Finlay
Currie); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (madefor-TV; Shelley Winters); Alice in
Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV; four 30-minute segments; Ian Wallace); Alice in
Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Pat Bayliss); Alice in Wonderland, 2010 (Michael DOLLY LEVI
John Barrymore as the great lover,
Don Juan, in Don Juan, 1926.
Gough); Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (William Ellis).
Dolly Levi
(scheming, but affable matchmaker, this character created by Thornton Wilder in
his 1955 play, “The Matchmaker”): Hello,
Dolly!, 1969 (Barbra Streisand); The
Matchmaker, 1958 (Shirley Booth).
Don Juan
(fictional character, a notorious libertine and romancer of countless women,
invariably of noble birth, who first appears in a 14th Century play): Adventures of Don Juan, 1949 (Errol
Flynn); Amadeus, 1984 (Karel Fiala
while performing as Don Giovanni in
“Don
Giovanni”); Armchair Theatre, 1956-1974 (TV series; “Death of
Satan,’
1958 episode; Alan Badel); BBC Play of the Month, 1965-1983
(TV series;
“Don Juan in Hell,” 1971 episode; Christopher Plummer);
CBC Summer
Theatre, 1955- (TV series; “The Return of Don Juan,” 1955 episode; Patrick
Macnee); The Devil’s Eye, 1961 (Jarl
Kulle); Die chinesische Mauer, 1965 (made-for-TV; Heinz Baumann); Dom Juan,
2003 (Andrzej Seweryn); Dom Juan ou Le festin de Pierre, 1965 (madefor-TV;
Michel Piccoli); Don Giovanni, 1960 (made-for-TV; Mario Petri); Don Giovanni,
1961 (made-for-TV; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau); Don Giovanni, 1967 (made-for-TV;
Giorgio Albertazzi); Don Giovanni, 1970 (made-for-TV; Carmelo Bene); Don
Giovanni, 1974 (made-forTV; Ben Martin); Don Giovanni, 1977 (made-for-TV;
Sherrill Milnes); Don Giovanni, 1978 (made-for-TV; Benjamin Luxon); Don
Giovanni,
1979
(Ruggero Raimondi); Don Giovanni, 1982 (made-for-TV; Michael Devlin); Don
Giovanni, 1987 (Hakan Hagegard); Don Giovanni, 1987
(made-for-TV;
Samuel Ramey); Don Giovanni, 1987 (made-for-TV;
Thomas
Allen); Don Giovanni, 1990 (Eugene Perry); Don Giovanni,
1991
(Jeffrey Black); Don Giovanni, 1995 (made-for-TV; Gilles Cachemaille); Don
Giovanni, 1997 (made-for-TV; Simon Keenlyside); Don Giovanni, 1999 (made-for-TV;
Carlos Alvarez); Don Giovanni, 2000 (Bryn Terfel); Don Giovanni, 2001 (Rodney
Gilfry); Don Giovanni, 2003 (made-for-TV; Peter Mattei); Don Giovanni, 2007
(madefor-TV; Simon Keenlyside); Don Giovanni, 2008 (made-for-TV; Simon
Kennelyside); Don Giovanni, 2009 (made-for-TV; Christopher Maltman); Don
Giovanni, 2010 (Mariusz Kwiecien); Don Giovanni, 2010 (made-for-TV; Gerald
Finley); Don Giovanni, 2011 (Teddy Tahu Rhodes); Don Giovanni, 2011
(made-for-TV; Peter Mattei); Don Juan, 1922 (Hans Adalbert Schlettow); Don Juan, 1926 (John Barrymore); Don
Juan, 1946 (made-for-TV; David King-Wood); Don Juan [AKA: The Loves of Don
Juan], 1950 (Antonio Vilar); Don Juan, 1956 (Cesare
Danova;
Alfred Poell singing voice for Don Juan); Don Juan, 1956 (Erno Crisa); Don
Juan, 1965 (made-for-TV; Will Quadflieg); Donj
Juan, 1972
(made-for-TV; Horst Drinda); Don Juan, 1973 (made-forTV; Henning Moritzen); Don
Juan, 1978 (made-for-TV; Josep Maria Flotats); Don Juan, 1987 (made-for-TV;
Thorsten Flinck); Don Juan,
1997- (TV
miniseries; Jose Coronado); Don Juan, 1998 (Jacques Weber); Don Juan, 2011
(Nick Cordero); Don Juan in Hell, 1960 (madefor-TV; Hurd Hatfield); Don Juan in
Hell, 1991 (Fernando Guillen); Don Juan, My Dear Ghost (1990; Juan Luis
Galiardo); Don Juan (Or If Don Juan Were a Woman), 1976 (Brigitte Bardot); Don
Juan revient de guerre, 1968 (made-for-TV; Jean Rochefort); Don Juan Tenorio,
1922 (Fortunio Bonanova); Don Juan Tenorio, 1937 (Rene Cardona); Don Juan
Tenorio, 1952 (Enrique Diosdado); Don Juan tulee sodasta, 1967
(made-for-TV;
Helge Herala); The Errol Flynn Theatre, 1956 (TV series; “1000th Night of Don
Juan,” 1956 episode; Errol Flynn); Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Don
Giovanni Unmasked,” 2001 episode; Dmitri Hvorostovsky); I, Don Giovanni, 2009
(Borja Quiza); ITV Play of the Week, 1955-1974 (TV series; “Don Juan in Hell,”
1962 episode; Alan Badel); La dame fantome, 1968 (made-for-TV; Gamil Ratib); La
rebellion de los fantasmas, 1949 (Rudy del Moral); Loves of
Don Juan,
1942 (Adriano Rimoldi); Men Think Only of That, 1954 (Jean-Marie Amato); The
Metropolitan Opera Presents, 1977- (TV series; “Don Giovanni,” 1978 episode;
James Morris; “Don Giovanni,” 1990 episode; Samuel Ramey); Mozart’s Don
Giovanni, 1955 (Cesare Siepi); Nights and Loves of Don Juan, 1971 (Robert
Hoffmann); Omnibus, 1952-1961 (TV series; “The Last Night of Don Juan,” 1953
episode; Fredric March); The Private Life of Don Juan, 1934 (Douglas Fairbanks
Sr.); The Wednesday Play, 1964-1970 (TV series; “The Snow Ball,” 1966 episode; Patrick
Allen).
Don Quixote
(fictional character, a deluded self-appointed knight out to achieve impossible
deeds of valor who is profiled in Miguel de Cervantes’ 1605 novel, The Ingenuous Gentleman Don Quixote of La
Mancha): BBC Play of the Month, 1965-1983 (TV series; “The Adventures of
Don Quixote,” 1973 episode; Rex Harrison); CBS Television Workshop, 1952- (TV
series; “Don Quixote,” 1952 episode; Boris Karloff); Der Mann von La Mancha,
1994 (made-for-TV; Karl Merkatz); Don de la mancha, 1980 (TV miniseries; Kenji
Utsumi, Theodore Lehmann); Don Kikhot, 1961 (Nicolai Cherkassov); Don
Quichotte, 2000 (Samuel Ramey); Don Quichotte, 2010 (made-for-TV; Jose van
Dam); Don Quijote de la Mancha, 1949 (Rafael Rivelles); Don Quijote de la
Mancha, 1978 (TV series; Fernando Fernan Gomez); Don Quijote de la Mancha,
1991-1992
(TV series; Fernando Rey); Don Quijote von der Mancha, 1965 (TV miniseries;
Josef Meinrad); Don Quixote, 1915 (DeWolf Hopper Sr.); Don Quixote, 1923
(Jerrold Robertshaw); Don Quixote [AKA:
The Adventure of Don Quixote], 1934 (Feodor Chaliapin); Don
Quixote, 1973 (Robert Helpmann); Don
Quixote, 1992 (Francisco
Reiguera,
Pepe Mediavilla voiceover); Don Quixote, 2000 (made-forTV; John Lithgow); Don
Quixote, Knight Errant, 2002 (Juan Luis Galiardo); Don Quixote of La Mancha,
1987 (animated made-for-TV; Robert Helpmann voiceover); Don Quixote: The
Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, 2015 (Carmen Argenziano); The DuPont Show of
the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “I, Don Quixote,” 1959 episode; Lee J. Cobb);
Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Monsieur Quixote,” 1987 episode; Alec
Guinness); La rebellion de los fantasmas, 1949 (Luis G. Barreiro); Man of La
Mancha, 1972 (Peter O’Toole); Parade of Stars, 1983 (made-for-TV; Richard
Kiley).
Dorian Gray
(profligate and perverse handsome young British man of wealth whose ravages of
aging is transferred to his hidden portrait while he remains youthful as
depicted in the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde): Armchair Theatre, 195601974 (TV
series; “The Picture of Dorian Gray,”
1961
episode; Jeremy Brett); Az elet kiralya, 1918 (Norbert Dan); BBC
Play of the
Month, 1965-1983 (TV series; “The Picture of Dorian Gray,”
1976
episode; Peter Firth); Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, 1917 (Bernd Aldor); Dorian,
2004 (Ethan Erikson); Dorian Gray, 1970 (Helmut Berger); Dorian Gray, 2009 (Ben
Barnes); Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984 (Veruschka von
Lehndorff); El retrato de Dorian Gray, 1969- (TV series; Enrique Alvarez
Felix); Golden Showcase, 1961- (TV series; “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” 1961
episode; John Fraser); Gothica, 2013 (made-for-TV; Christopher Egan); Great
Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Feasting with Panthers,” 1974 episode; Richard
Kavanaugh); Le portrait de Dorian Gray, 1977 (Patrice Alexsandre); The League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003 (Stuart Townsend); Penny Dreadful, 2014 (TV
series; Reeve Carney); The Picture of
Dorian Gray, 1945 (Hurd Hatfield); The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1973
(made-for-TV; Shane Briant); The Picture of Dorian Gray, 2005 (Josh Duhamel);
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 2007 (David Gallagher); Portret Doriana Greya, 1968
(made-for-TV; Valeri Babyatinksy); The Sins of Dorian Gray, 1983 (Belinda
Bauer); Three Shadows, 2010 (Kevin Shayer).
Dormouse
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author
Lewis
Carroll): Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; John
Lovelady);
Alice, 2009 (TV miniseries; Nancy Robertson); Alice at the Palace, 1982
(made-for-TV; Michael Jeter); Alice in Wonderland, 1915 (Louis Merkle); Alice
in Wonderland, 1931 (Raymond Schultz); Alice
in Wonderland, 1933 (Jackie Searl); Alice in Wonderland, 1949 (Joyce DRACULA
Klaus Kinski (as Dracula) in Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979.
Grenfell
voiceover); Alice in Wonderland,
1951 (James MacDonald voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Alice
Pearce); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Wilfred Lawson); Alice in
Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV; Marin Osterberg); Alice in Wonderland, 1985
(made-for-TV; Arte Johnson); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (TV series; Royce
Mills); Alice in Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV; four 30-minute segments;
Elisabeth Sladen); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Nigel Plaskitt; Dave
Barclay); Alice in Wonderland, 2010
(Barbara Windsor); Alice in Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a
Place Like This?, 1966 (animated made-for-TV; Don Messick); Alice Through the
Looking Box, 1960 (made-for-TV; Ronnie Corbett); Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, 1972 (Dudley Moore); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 2011
(made-for-TV; James
Wilkie);
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 1948
(made-for-TV; Charles Wade); The Ford Theatre Hour,
1948-1951
(TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1950 episode; Tiny Schrimp); Kraft Theatre,
1947-1958 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1954 episode; Joe E. Marks); Unsuk
Chin: Alice in Wonderland, 2007 (Guy de Mey); The Wednesday Play, 1964-1970 (TV
series; “Alice,” 1965 episode; Peter Bartlett).
Dorothy
(Dorothy Gale; young girl from Kansas who is whisked by a tornado into a
strange world in L. Frank Baum’s iconic 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz): Journey Back to Oz, 1972 (animated;
Liza
Minnelli
voiceover); The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, 2005 (Ashanti); The New Wizard of Oz,
1914 (Violet MacMillan); Off to See the Wizard, 1967-1968 (animated TV series;
June Foray voiceover); 20th Century Oz, 1976 (Joy Dunstan); The Wiz, 1978
(Diana Ross); The Wizard of Oz, 1925 (Dorothy Dwan); The Wizard of Oz, 1939 (Judy Garland); The Wizard of Oz, 1982
(animated; Aileen Quinn voiceover); The Wizard of Oz, 1990-1991 (animated TV
series; Liz Georges voiceover); The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True,
1995 (made-for-TV;
Jewel
[Kilcher]); The Wizard of Oz on Ice, 1996 (made-for-TV; Oksana Baiul; Shanice
voiceover of Dorothy); The Wizard of the Emerald City, 1994 (Yekaterina
Mikhaylovskaya).
Dracula (fictional
character created by writer Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel Dracula; Also see Subject Index, Reincarnation): Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,
1948 (Bela Lugosi); The ABC Saturday Night Superstar Movie, 1972-1974 (TV
series; ‘The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters,” animated 1972 episode: Allen Swift
voiceover); About Adam, 2000 (Mark Smith); Ahkea Khots, 1961 (Yechoon Lee);
Andy Warhol’s Dracula (AKA: Blood for Dracula), 1974 (Udo Kier); Awake, 2007
(David Harbour); Batman Dracula, 1964 (Jack Smith); Batman Fights Dracula, 1967
(Dante Rivero); Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, 1966
(John
Carradine); Black Sunday, 1960 (Barbara Steele); Blacula, 1972 (Charles
Macaulay); Blood, 1974 (Hope Stansbury as Dracula’s daughter); Blood for
Dracula, 1974 (Udo Kier); Blood of Dracula’s Castle, 1969 (Alexander D’Arcy);
Bonnie & Clyde vs. Dracula, 2008 (Russell
Friend);
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1974 (made-for-TV; Jack Palance);
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (AKA: Dracula), 1992 (Gary Oldman);
The
Brides of
Dracula, 1960 (David Peel); Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1992 (Rutger Hauer);
Carry On Chistmas, 1969 (made-for-TV; Peter Butterworth); Count Dracula, 1973
(Christopher Lee); Count Dracula’s Great Love, 1974 (Paul Naschy); The Creeps,
1997 (Phil Fondacaro); The
Curse of
Dracula, 1979 (TV series; Michael Nouri); Dark Prince: The True Story of
Dracula, 2000 (Rudolf Martin); Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, 1977 (Hsi Chang); Die
Hard Dracula, 1998 (Ernest M. Garcia); Doctor Dracula, 1978 (John Carradine); Dr. Terror’s Gallery of Horrors, 1967
(Mitch Evans); Dracula, 1931 (Bela
Lugosi); Dracula, 1931
(Spanish
version of 1931 U.S. release; Carlos Villarias); Dracula, 1972 (made-for-TV;
Werner Vielhaber); Dracula, 1973 (made-for-TV; Norman Welsh); Dracula, 1979 (Frank Langella);
Dracula, 1980 (animated made-for-TV; Kenji Utsumi voiceover); Dracula, 2002
(made-for-TV; Patrick Bergin); Dracula, 2007 (made-for-TV; Marc Warren);
Dracula, 2013- (TV series; Jonathan Rhys Meyers); Dracula A.D. 1972, 1972
(Christopher Lee); Dracula and Son, 1979 (Christopher Lee); Dracula contra
Frankenstein, 1972 (Howard Vernon); Dracula:
Dead and Loving It, 1995 (Leslie Nielsen); Dracula in Istanbul, 1953 (Atif
Kaptan); Dracula in Pakistan, 1967 (Rehan); Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, 1969 (Christopher Lee); Dracula:
Pages from a Virgin’s Diary, 2003 (Wei-Qiang Zhang); Dracula: Prince of Darkness, 1966 (Christopher Lee); Dracula
Reborn, 2012 (Stuart Rigby); Dracula Rising, 1993 (Zahari Vatahov); The Dracula
Saga, 1973 (Narcisco Ibanez Menta); Dracula: The Dark Prince, 2013 (Luke
Roberts); Dracula (The Dirty Old Man), 1969 (Vince Kelley); Dracula: The
Series, 1990-1991 (TV series; Geordie Johnson); Dracula 3D, 2013 (Thomas
Kretschmann); Dracula II: Ascension, 2003 (Stephen Billinton); Dracula 2000,
2000 (Gerard Butler); Dracula 2012, 2013 (Sudheer Sukumaran); Dracula Untold,
2014 (Luke Evans as Vlad Tepes, role model for Dracula); Dracula vs.
Frankenstein (AKA: Blood of Frankenstein), 1971 (Zandor Vorkov); Dracula’s Daughter, 1936 (Gloria
Holden); Dracula’s Death,
1921 (Paul
Askonas); Dracula’s Dog (AKA: Zoltan: Hound of Dracula), 1978 (Michael Pataki);
Dracula’s Family Visit, 2006 (Harrie Huijs); Dracula’s Guest, 2008 (Andrew
Bryniarski); Drakula halala, 1921 (Paul Askonas); Embrace of the Vampire, 1995
(Martin Kemp); The Empire of Dracula, 1967 (Eric del Castillo); The Fearless
Vampire Killers, 1967 (Ferdy Mayne); Frankenstein and Me, 1997 (Conner
Vandeer); Frankenstein’s Aunt, 1987 (Ferdy Mayne); Freckled Max and Spook, 1987
(Ferdy Mayne); Ghost in the Water, 1982 (made-for-TV; Daniel D’Arcy); The Great
Bear Scare, 1983 (animated made-for-TV; Louis DUCHESS
Beaker, Bunsen Honeydew and Michael
Caine (as Ebenezer Scrooge) in The Muppet
Christmas Carol, 1992.
Nye
voiceover); Guess What Happened to Count Dracula?, 1970 (Des Roberts); Haunted,
1993 (David Markwart); The Hilarious House of Frankenstein, 1971 (TV series;
Billy Van); Hope, 2001 (made-for-TV; Dennis Meyer); Horror of Dracula (AKA: Dracula), 1958 (Christopher Lee); Hotel
Transylvania, 2012 (animated; Adam Sandler voiceover); House of Dracula, 1945 (John Carradine); House of Frankenstein, 1944 (John Carradine); House of the Wolf
Man, 2009
(Michael R.
Thomas); Hysterical, 1983 (Charlie Callas); Jonathan (AKA: Jonathan: Vampire
Sterben Nicht), 1970 (Paul Albert Krumm);
Killer Barbys
vs. Dracula, 2005 (Enrique Sarasola); La fille de Dracula
(AKA:
Dracula’s Daughter), 1972 (Howard Vernon); Ladies Night,
1983 (Henry
Flores); Lady Dracula, 1977 (Stephen Boyd); Lake of
Dracula,
1973 (Shin Kishida); The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires,
1979 (John
Forbes-Robertson); Love at First Bite, 1979 (George Hamilton); Mad Monster
Party?, 1967 (animated feature; Allen Swift voiceover); Mark of the Vampire,
1935 (Bela Lugosi); Matinee Theater, 1955-1958 (TV series; “Dracula,” two 1956
episodes: John Carradine);
Modern
Vampires, 1998 (made-for-TV; Robert Pastorelli); Monster Mash: The Movie, 1995
(Anthony Crivello); Monster Squad, 1976 (TV series: Henry Polic II); The
Monster Squad, 1987 (Duncan Regehr); Mystery and Imagination, 1966-1970 (TV
series; “Dracula,” 1968 episode: Denholm Elliott); Nadja, 1994 (Peter Fonda);
Never on a Sunday, 2006 (Axel Ricco); Night of the Vampire Hunter, 2000 (Nicole
Muller); Night People, 2006 (Alastair Bruce); Nocturna, 1979 (John Carradine); Nosferatu, 1922 (Max Schreck); Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979 (Klaus
Kinski); Old Dracula (AKA: Old Drac; Vampira), 1975 (David Niven); One More
Time, 1970 (Christopher Lee); Renfield the Undead, 2011 (John Stevens); The
Return of Dracula, 1958 (Francis Lederer); The Return of the Vampire, 1944
(Bela Lugosi); Saint Dracula 3D, 2012 (Mitch Powell); The Satanic Rites of
Dracula, 1978 (Christopher Lee); Scars of Dracula, 1970 (Christopher Lee);
Shadow of the Vampire, 2000 (William Dafoe); Son of Darkness: To Die For II,
1991 (Michael Praed); Son of Dracula,
1943 (Lon Chaney, Jr.); Son of Dracula, 1974 (Dan Meaden); Taste the Blood of
Dracula, 1970 (Christopher Lee); Terror of Dracula, 2012 (Anthony D.P. Mann);
To Die For, 1989 (Brendan Hughes); Vampire City, 2009 (Wolf Morrison); Vampires,
1998 (Thomas Ian Griffith); Van Helsing,
2004 (Richard Roxburgh); Vlad (AKA: The True Life of Dracula), 1982 (role model
for Dracula; Stefan Sileanu); Vlad, 2003 (role model for Dracula; Francesco
Quinn); Vlad Tepes, 1979 (role model for Dracula; Stefan Sileanu); Waxwork,
1988 (Miles O’Keeffe); Way of the Vampire, 2005 (Paul Logan); The Worst Crime
of Them All! (AKA: Mondo Keyhole), 1966 (Pluto Felix).
Duchess
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (Mabel Wright); Alice
in Wonderland, 1933 (Alison Skipworth); Alice in Wonderland, 1949
(Joyce
Grenfell voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Bobby Clark); Alice
in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Leo McKern); Alice in Wonderland, 1982
(made-for-TV; Gary Briggle); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Martha
Raye); Alice in Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV; four 30-minute segments; Claire
Davenport); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Elizabeth Spriggs); Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Peter Bull).
Duck
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Mark Allington); Alice in Wonderland,
1985 (made-for-TV; Charles Dougherty); Alice in Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV;
four 30-minute segments; Jill Goldstone; Crispin Letts); Alice in Wonderland,
1999 (made-for-TV; Ken Campbell); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Brian
Tripping).
Dulcinea
(fictional character, an idealized woman unseen in Miguel de Cervantes’ 1605
novel about the deluded knight Don Quioxte, The
Ingenuous Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha): BBC Play of the Month,
1965-1983 (TV series; “The Adventures of Don Quixote,” 1973 episode; Rosemary
Leach); CBS Television Workshop, 1952- (TV series; “Don Quixote,” 1952 episode;
Grace Kelly); Der Mann von La Mancha, 1994 (made-for-TV; Dagmar Hellberg); Don
de la mancha, 1980 (TV miniseries; Mami Koyama); Don Quichotte, 2000 (Carmen
Oprisanu); Don Quichotte, 2010 (made-for-TV; Silvia Tro Santafe); Don
Quijote von
der Mancha, 1965 (TV miniseries; Maria Saavedra); Don
Quixote,
1915 (Fay Tincher); Don Quixote, 1923 (Minna Leslie); Don Quixote [AKA: The Adventure of Don Quixote], 1934 (Renee
Valliers);
Don Quixote, 1973 (Lucette Aldous); Don Quixote,
2000 (made-for-
TV; Vanessa
Williams); Don Quixote, Knight Errant, 2002 (Marta
Etura); Don
Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, 2015
(Vera
Cherny); The DuPont Show of the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “I, Don Quixote,”
1959 episode; Colleen Dewhurst); Man of La Mancha, 1972 (Sophia Loren).
Duncan
Heyward (heroic British major who is in love with Alice Munro and sacrifices
his life to save hers in the 1826 novel The
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper): Fall of the Mohicans, 1965
(Jack Taylor); The Last of the Mohicans,
1920 (Henry Woodward); The Last of the Mohicans, 1932 (Walter Miller); The Last of the Mohicans, 1936 (Henry
Wilcoxon); The Last of the Mohicans, 1971 (TV miniseries; Tim
Goodman);
The Last of the Mohicans, 1975 (animated made-for-TV; Paul Hecht voiceover);
Last of the Mohicans, 1977 (made-for-TV; Andrew Prine); The Last of the Mohicans, 1992 (Steve Waddington).
Eaglet
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Nicholas Evans); Alice in Wonderland,
1985 (made-for-TV; Billy Braver); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV;
Heathcote Williams); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Ray Edwards).
Ebenezer
Scrooge (cold-hearted miser and wealthy British businessman who hates
Christmas, the central character in Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol): The Alcoa Hour,
1955-1957 (TV series; “The Stingiest Man in Town,” 1956 episode; Basil
Rathbone); A Carol for Another Christmas, 1964 (made-for-TV; Sterling Hayden);
Carry On Christmas, 1969 (made-for-TV; Sidney James); A Christmas Carol,
1938
(Reginald Owen); A Christmas Carol, 1943 (made-for-TV; William Podmore); A
Chirstmas Carol, 1947 (made-for-TV; John Carradine); A Chirstmas Carol, 1950
(made-for-TV; Bransby Williams); A
Christmas Carol, 1951 (Alastair Sim); A Christmas Carol, 1977 (madefor-TV;
Michael Hordern); A Christmas Carol, 1979 (musical; Jim Bullock); A Christmas
Carol, 1981 (made-for-TV; William Paterson); A Christmas Carol, 1982
(made-for-TV; Richard Hilger); A Christmas Carol, 1984 (made-for-TV; George C.
Scott); A Christmas Carol, 1999
(made-for-TV;
Patrick Stewart); A Chirstmas Carol, 2000 (made-forTV; Ross Kemp); A Christmas
Carol, 2009 (animated; Jim Carrey voiceover); A Christmas Carol, 2015 (Anthony
D.P. Mann); A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre, 1979 (made-for-TV; Ron
[Ronald] Bishop); A Christmas Carol: The Concert, 2013 (made-for-TV; Michael
Aaron Linder [Lindner]); A Christmas Carol: 50th Anniversary, 2015 (Tom
Killam); Christmas Carol: The Movie, 2001 (animated; Simon Callow voiceover); A
Christmas Carol: The Musical, 2004 (made-for-TV; Kelsey Grammer); Dickensian,
2015- (TV series; Ned Dennehy); A Diva’s Christmas Carol, 2000 (made-for-TV;
Vanessa Williams); Ebenezer, 1998 (made-for-TV; Jack Palance); Fireside
Theatre, 19491955 (TV series; “A Christmas Carol,” 1951 episode; Ralph
Richardson); General Electric Theater, 1953-1962 (TV series; “The Trail to
Christmas,” 1957 episode; John McIntire); The Gospel According to
Scrooge,
1983 (made-for-TV; Robert Buchanan); Kraft Theatre, 1947-
1958 (TV
series; “A Christmas Carol,” 1952 episode; Malcolm Keen); Mr. Magoo’s Christmas
Carol, 1962 (made-for-TV; Jim Backus); Mr.
Scrooge,
1964 (made-for-TV; Cyril Ritchard); Mr. Scrooge to See You, 2013 (David
Ruprecht); Ms. Scrooge, 1997 (made-for-TV; Cicely ESMERALDA
Telly Savalas as criminal mastermind
Ernst Stavro Blofeld in On Her Majesty’s
Secret Service, 1969.
Tyson); The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992
(Michael Caine); The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, 1948-1956 (TV
series; “A Christmas Carol,” 1948 episode; Dennis King); Ponds Theatre, 1953(TV
series; “A Christmas Carol,” 1953 episode; Noel Leslie); The Right to Be Happy,
1916 (Rupert Julian); Scrooge, 1935 (Seymour Hicks); Scrooge, 1970 (Albert Finney); Scrooge, 1978 (made-for-TV; Warren
Graves); Scrooged,
1988 (Buddy Hackett); Shower of Stars, 1954-1958 (TV series; “A Christmas
Carol,” 1954 and 1956 episodes; Fredric March); The Stingiest Man in Town, 1978
(animated made-for-TV; Walter Matthau voiceover).
Edmund
Dantes (wrongly imprisoned young man, who escapes to find riches that enable
him to take revenge against his enemies, created by Alexander Dumas [the elder]
in his adventure novel The Count of Monte
Cristo, 1844): The Count of Monte Cristo,
1913 (James O’Neill); The Count of Monte Cristo, 1917-1918 (Leon Mathot in
fifteen short episodes produced in France); The Count of Monte Cristo, 1934 (Robert Donat); The Count of Monte
Cristo, 1943 (Mexican production with Arturo de Cordova); The Count of Monte
Cristo, 1943 (French production with Pierre Richard-Willm); The Count of Monte
Cristo, 1953 (Jorge Mistral); The Count of Monte Cristo, 1954 (French
production with Jean Marais); The Count of Monte Cristo, 1956 (TV series with
George Dolenz); Count of Mont Cristo, 1964- (TV series; Alan Badel); The Count
of Monte Cristo, 1975 (made-for-TV movie with Richard
Chamberlain);
The Count of Monte Cristo, 1998 (TV mini-series with Guillaume Depardieu); The Count of Monte Cristo, 2002 (James
Caviezel); The DuPont Show of the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “The Count of
Monte Cristo,” 1958 episode; Hurd Hatfield); El Conde de Montecristo, 1954
(Argentine production with Jorge Mistral); Monte Cristo, 1922 (John Gilbert);
Monte Cristo, 1929 (French production with Jean Angelo); The Return of Monte
Cristo [AKA: Monte Cristo’s Revenge], 1946 (Louis Hayward); The Return of Monte
Cristo,1968 (Paul Barge); The Son of Monte Cristo, 1940 (Louis Hayward as
Edmund Dantes Jr.); The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo, 1961 (Louis
Jourdan); Sword of the Avenger, 1948 (loosely based on the Dumas story with
Ramon Del Gado playing a Dantes role model); Sword of Venus [AKA: Island of
Monte Cristo], 1953 (Robert Clarke); Treasure of Monte Cristo, 1949 (Glenn
Langan); The Wife of Monte Cristo, 1946 (Martin Kosleck).
Eliza
Doolittle (Cockney flower girl transformed into a grand lady, her character
created in George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play, Pygmalion):
BBC Play of the Month, 1965-1983 (TV series, “Pygmalion,” 1973 episode; Lynn
Redgrave); BBC Sunday-Night Theater, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Pygmalion,” 1956
episode; Pat Kirkwood); Celebrity Playhouse, 1981 (TV series, “Pygmalion,” 1981
episode; Twiggy); The Makeover, 2013 (made-for-TV; David Walton as Elliot
Doolittle in a gender switch); My Fair
Lady, 1964 (Audrey Hepburn); My Fair Lady; Minha Linda Senhora, 2004
(made-for-TV; Anabela); My Fair Zombie,
2013 (Sacha
Gabriel); National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage, 2013 (made-for-TV; Rosalie
Craig); Pygmalion, 1935 (Jenny Jugo); Pygmalion, 1937 (Lily Bouwmeester); Pygmalion, 1938 (Wendy Hiller);
Pygmalion, 1948 (made-for-TV; Margaret Lockwood); Pygmalion, 1954
(made-for-TV;
Kay Hammond); Pygmalion, 1956 (made-for-TV; Agnes
Fink);
Pygmalion, 1957 (made-for-TV; Margret Homeyer); Pygmalion, 1958 (made-for-TV;
Konstantsiya Royek); Pygmalion, 1963 (made-for-
TV; Julie
Harris); Pygmalion, 1968 (made-for-TV; Harriet Andersson); Pygmalion, 1976
(made-for-TV; Mary Dresselhuys); Pygmalion, 1983 (made-for-TV; Margot Kidder).
Emma Bovary
(ill-starred heroine of Gustav Flaubert’s debut novel of 1856, a beautiful,
selfish doctor’s wife who lives beyond her means and conducts many adulterous
affairs, her life ending in tragedy): Madame Bovary, 1934 (Valentine Tessier);
Madame Bovary, 1937 (Pola Negri); Madame Bovary, 1947 (Mecha Ortiz); Madame Bovary, 1949 (Jennifer Jones);
Madame Bovary, 1964- (TV series; Nyree Dawn Porter); Madame Bovary, 1968
(made-for-TV; Elfriede Irrall); Madame Bovary [AKA: Play the Game of Leave the
Bed], 1969 (Edwige Fenech); Madame Bovary, 1974 (made-for-TV; Nicole Courcel);
Madame Bovary, 1975- (TV miniseries; Francesca Annis); Madame Bovary, 1978(TV
miniseries; Carla Gravina); Madame Bovary, 1991 (Isabelle Huppert); Madame
Bovary, 2000 (made-for-TV; Frances O’Connor); Madame Bovary, 2014 (Mia
Wasikowska); Unholy Love, 1932 (Lila Lee).
Ernst
Stavro Blofeld (power-mad villain in Ian Fleming’s James Bond thrillers): Diamonds are Forever, 1971 (Charles
Gray); For Your Eyes Only, 1981
(John Hollis; Robert Rietty voiceover); From
Russia with Love, 1963 (Anthony Dawson; Eric Pohlmann voiceover); Never Say
Never Again, 1983 (Max Von Sydow); On
Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1969 (Telly Savalas); Spectre, 2015 (Christoph Waltz); Thunderball, 1965 (Anthony Dawson; Eric Pohlmann voiceover); You Only Live Twice, 1967 (Donald
Pleasence).
Esmeralda
(beautiful street waif and heroine in Victor Hugo’s classic 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame): The
Darling of Paris, 1917 (Theda Bara); The Hunchback, 1997 (made-for-TV; Salma
Hayek); The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
1923 (Patsy Ruth Miller); The Hunchback
of Notre Dame, 1939 (Maureen O’Hara); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1956
(Gina Lollobrigida); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, ESTELLA
Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron (as
Fanny) and Maurice Chevalier in Fanny, 1961.
1966 (TV
series; Gay Hamilton); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1977
(made-for-TV;
Michelle Newell); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1982 (made-for-TV; Lesley Anne
Down); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1986 (animated made-for-TV; Angela Punch
McGregor voiceover); The
Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1996 (animated; Demi Moore
voiceover);
The Magical
Adventures of Quasimodo, 1996- (animated TV series;
Eleanor
Noble voiceover); Notre-Dame de Paris, 1996 (made-for-TV;
Isabelle
Guerin); Notre-Dame de Paris, 1999 (made-for-TV; Helene
Segara);
Notre-Dame de Paris, 2002 (made-for-TV; Lola Ponce); Robert Montgomery
Presents, 1950-1957 (TV series; “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” two-part
episodes, 1954; Celia Lipton).
Estella
(the beautiful adopted daughter of eccentric Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’
1861 novel, Great Expectations, and
who is seemingly incapable of loving Pip, the young man who loves her): Great
Expectations, 1917 (Louise Huff); Great Expectations, 1934 (Jane Wyatt; Anne
Howard as young Estella); Great
Expectations, 1946 (Valerie Hobson;
Jean Simmons
as young Estella); Great Expectations, 1959- (TV series;
Helen
Lindsay; Sandra Michaels as young Estella); Great Expectations, 1967- (TV
series; Francesca Annis); Great Expectations, 1974 (madefor-TV; Sarah Miles);
Great Expectations, 1981- (TV miniseries; SarahJane Varley; Patsy Kensit as
young Estella); Great Expectations, 1989-
(TV
miniseries; Kim Thomson); Great Expectations, 1999 (made-forTV; Justine
Waddell; Gemma Gregory as young Estella); Great Expectations, 2011 (TV
miniseries; Vanessa Kirby; Izzy Meikle-Small as young Estella); Great
Expectations, 2012 (Holliday Grainger; Helena Barlow as young Estella); Great
Expectations, 2013 (Grace Rowe); Playdate, 1961-1964 (TV series; “Great
Expectations,” two episodes in 1962; Michael Learned; Wendy Wolff as young
Estella); Robert Montgomery Presents, 1950-1957 (TV series; “Great
Expectations,” two episodes in 1954; Nina Reader); Store forventninger, 1922
(Olga D’Org [Belajeff]; Esther Kjaer Jensen as young Estella).
Etienne
Javert (French police inspector who interminably hounds escaped convict Jean
Valjean in the 1862 novel Les Miserables by
Victor Hugo): Les Miserables, 1913 (Henri Etievant); Les Miserables, 1917
(Hardee Kirkland); Les Miserables,
1935 (Charles Laughton); Les Miserables, 1936 (Charles Vanel); Les Miserables,
1952 (Hans Hinrich); Les Miserables,
1952 (Robert Newton); Les Miserables, 1958 (Bernard Blier); Les Miserables, 1967-
(TV series; Anthony Bate); Les Miserables, 1972- (TV miniseries; Bernard
Fresson); Les Miserables, 1978 (madefor-TV; Anthony Perkins); Les Miserables,
1982 (Michel Bouquet); Les Miserables,
1995 (Philippe Khorsand); Les Miserables,
1998 (Geoffrey Rush); Les Miserables, 2000- (TV miniseries; John Malkovich);
Los miserables, 1943 (Antonio Bravo); Los miserables, 1973- (TV series; Antonio
Passy); Soul of Humanity, 1926 (Jean Toulout).
Fagin (a
fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist; a criminal Svengali who trains and operates a ring of
young boys as pickpockets in 19th Century London, England): The DuPont Show of
the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “Oliver Twist,” 1959 episode; Eric Portman);
Escape of the Artful Dodger, 2001- (TV series; Chris Baz);
The Further
Adventures of Oliver Twist, 1980- (TV series; David Swift);
Oliver
& Company, 1988 (Dom DeLuise voiceover); Oliver Twist, 1916
(Tully
Marshall); Oliver Twist, 1919 (Laszlo Z. Molnar); Oliver Twist, 1922 (Lon Chaney Sr.); Oliver Twist, 1933 (Irving
Pichel); Oliver Twist, 1951 (Alec
Guinness); Oliver Twist, 1960 (TV series; Jaime Barcellos); Oliver Twist, 1962
(TV miniseries; Max Adrian); Oliver!,
1968 (Ron Moody); Oliver Twist, 1974 (animated version; Les Tremayne
voiceover); Oliver Twist, 1982 (made-for-TV; George C. Scott); Oliver Twist,
1985 (TV miniseries; Eric Porter); Oliver Twist, 1997 (made-forTV; Richard
Dreyfuss); Oliver Twist, 1999 (TV miniseries; Robert Lindsay); Oliver Twist, 2005 (Ben Kingsley);
Oliver Twist, 2007 (TV series; Timothy Spall); Oliver Twist Jr., 1921 (Clarence
Wilson).
Fairy
Godmother (folk character from the story The
Little Glass Slipper): Hey Cinderella!, 1969 (made-for-TV; Frankie Howerd);
Cinderella, 1914 (Inez Ranous); Cinderella, 1947 (TV miniseries; Timara
Kirova); Cinderella, 1950 (Verna
Felton voiceover); Cinderella, 1950
(made-for-TV;
Brenda Ralston); Cinderella, 1957 (made-for-TV; Edie
Adams);
Cinderella, 1958 (made-for-TV; Mary Mackenzie); Cinderella,
1965
(made-for-TV; Celeste Holm); Cinderella, 1966 (Renee Stobrawa); Cinderella,
1969 (Georgina Parkinson); Cinderella, 1977 (Sy Richardson); Cinderella, 1986
(made-for-TV; Genevieve Raynaud); Cinderella, 1997 (made-for-TV; Whitney
Houston); Cinderella, 2000 (made-forTV; Julian Clary); Cinderella, 2015 (Helena Bonham Carter); Cinderella…Frozen in Time,
1994 (made-for-TV; Catherine Foulkes); Cinderella; The Shoe Must Go On, 1986
(made-for-TV; Faith Brown); Cinderella: Single Again, 2000 (Mary McDonald);
Faerie Tale Theatre, 1982-1987 (TV series; “Cinderella,” 1985 episode; Jean
Stapleton); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, 1995-2000 (TV
series; “Cinderella,” 1995 episode; Liz Torres); Hey Cinderella!, 1969
(madefor-TV; Joyce Gordon); A Kiss for Cinderella, 1925 (Esther Ralston); A Kiss
for Cinderella, 1959 (made-for-TV; Mary Jones); Once Upon a Brothers Grimm,
1977 (made-for-TV; Corinne Conley); The
Slipper and the Rose, 1976 (Annette Crosbie).
The Falcon
(Gay Stanhope Falcon; Gay Laurence; Gay Lawrence; Tom Lawrence; Michael Waring;
sophisticated private detective invariably involved in high society crimes,
created by Michael Arlen and first appearing in the pages of Town & Country, 1940): A Date with
the Falcon, 1941 (George Sanders); Appointment with Murder, 1948 (John
Calvert);
Devil’s
Cargo, 1948 (John Calvert); The Falcon
and the Co-Eds, 1943 (Tom Conway); The Falcon in Danger, 1943 (Tom Conway);
The Falcon in Hollywood, 1944 (Tom Conway); The Falcon in Mexico, 1944 (Tom Conway); The Falcon in San
Francisco, 1945 (Tom Conway); The Falcon Out West, 1944 (Tom Conway); The
Falcon Strikes Back, 1943 (Tom Conway); The
Falcon Takes Over, 1942 (George Sanders); The
Falcon’s
Adventure, 1946 (Tom Conway); The
Falcon’s Alibi, 1946 (Tom Conway); The
Falcon’s Brother, 1942 (George Sanders; Tom Conway); The Gay Falcon, 1941
(George Sanders); Search for Danger, 1949 (John Calvert).
Fanny
(young fish-seller in Marseilles, who loses her lover and marries an elderly
man so her unborn child will have a father, and who is later reunited with the
man she loves): Cesar, 1936 (Orane
Demazis); Fanny, 1948 (Orane
Demazis); Fanny, 1961 (Leslie
Caron); Fanny, 2008
(made-for-TV;
Marie-Sophie Ferdane); Fanny, 2014 (Victoire Belezy); La trilogie Marseillaise:
Cesar, 2000 (made-for-TV; Gaela Le Devehat);
La trilogie
Marseillaise: Fanny, 2000 (made-for-TV; Gaela Le Devehat); La trilogie
Marseillaise: Marius, 2000 (made-for-TV; Gaela Le Devehat); Marius, 1933 (Orane Demazis); Marius,
2014 (Victoire Belezy); Pagnol, 1977 (TV series; Ganci Geraedts); Port of Seven
Seas, 1938 (Maureen O’Sullivan).
Father
Brown (mild-mannered priest from Essex, England, created by G.K. Chesteron in
his 1911 short story, a gentle sleuth more interested in the redemption of
criminals than their arrest and conviction): Das schwarze Schaf, 1960 (Heinz
Ruhmann); The Detective, 1954 (Alec
Guinness); Detective, 1964-1969 (TV series; “The Quick One,” 1964 episode;
Mervyn Johns); Er kanns nicht lassen, 1962 (Heinz Ruhmann); Father Brown, 1974-
(TV series; Kenneth More); Father Brown, 2013(TV series; Mark Williams); Father
Brown, Detective, 1934 (Walter Connolly); G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of
Common Sense, 2000- (TV series; several episodes; Kevin O’Connor); I racconti
di Padre Brown, 1970- (TV series; Renato Rascel); Pater Brown, 1966-1972 (TV series;
Josef
Meinrad); Pfarrer Braun, 2003- (TV series; Ottfried Fischer); Sanctuary of
Fear, 1979 (made-for-TV; Bernard Hughes); Sei delitti per padre Brown, 1988-
(TV miniseries; Emrys James); Theater of the Word, Inc., 2009- (TV series; “The
Honor of Israel Gow,” 2009 episode; FRANKENSTEIN
Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll
(as Princess Flavia) in The Prisoner of
Zenda, 1937.
Kevin
O’Brien).
Faust (Georges
Faust; a learned scholar in German legend, refined by Goethe in 1808, who makes
a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and
pleasure, the character used under different names but with the same plotline
in more modern versions): Alias Nick
Beal, 1949 (Thomas Mitchell as a ruthlessly ambitious politician);
Beauty and
the Devil, 1953 (Gerard Philipe; Michel Simon as aging Faust); Bedazzled, 1967
(Dudley Moore as a young man seeking the perfect woman); Bedazzled, 2000
(Brendan Fraser as a young man seeking the perfect woman); Damn Yankees, 1958 (Tab Hunter as an ambitious baseball player);
The Damnation of Faust, 1986 (Curtis Rayam); The Damnation of Faust, 2011
(made-for-TV; Peter Hoare); The Devil
and Daniel Webster [AKA: All That Money Can Buy], 1941 (James Craig as a
greedy New England farmer); Doctor Faustus, 1961- (TV series; Alan Dobie);
Doctor Faustus, 1968 (Richard Burton); Faust, 1926 (Gosta Ekman); Faust, 1960
(Will Quadflieg); Faust, 1964 (Robert Towner); Faust, 1975 (made-for-TV;
Nicolai Gedda); Faust, 1980 (Brian
Abbott);
Faust, 1982 (Bernhard Minetti); Faust, 1985 (made-for-TV;
Francisco
Araiza); Faust, 1986 (made-for-TV; Alfredo Kraus); Faust, 1996 (made-for-TV;
Ulf Dohlsten); Faust, 1994-1997 (TV series; Heiner Lauterbach); Faust, 2000
(Mark Frost); Faust, 2004 (made-for-TV; Robert Alagna); Faust, 2009 (Matthew
Greene); Faust, 2010 (James
Warke
voiceover); Faust, 2013 (Johannes Zeiler); Faust and the Devil, 1950 (Gino
Mattera); The Fiery Angel, 1993 (made-for-TV; Sergei Alexashkin); La damnation
de Faust, 1999 (made-for-TV; Paul Groves); Lesson Faust, 1995 (Peter Cepek);
Marguerite of the Night, 1955 (Jean Francoise Calve); Mephisto, 1982 (Gyorgy
Banffy); Midstream, 1929 (Louis Alvarez); Mon Faust, 1970 (made-for-TV; Pierre
Fresnay); Original Sin, 2001 (James Have as stage Faust) The Phantom of the Opera, 1925 (Edward Cecil as stage Faust); The
Phantom of the Opera, 1983 (made-for-TV; Pal Kovacs).
Fay Cheyney
(attractive and clever jewel thief, a female character created by Frederick
Lonsdale in his 1926 play, “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney): Broadway Television
Theatre, 1952-1954 (TV series; “The
Last of
Mrs. Cheyney,” 1953 episode; Vicki Cummings); Frau Cheneys Ende, 1961 (Lilli
Palmer); ITV Play of the Week, 1955-1974 (TV series; “The Last of Mrs.
Cheyney,” 1956 episode; Margaret Lockwood); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, 1929
(Norma Shearer); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, 1937 (Joan Crawford); The Law and
the Lady, 1951 (Greer Garson); Mrs. Cheneys Ende, 1957 (made-for-TV; Sonja
Sutter); Mrs. Cheneys Ende, 1965 (made-for-TV; Johanna von Koczian).
Fish
Footman (fictional character in the 1865 novel by British author Lewis
Carroll): Alice in Wonderland, 1903 (8-minute short; Norman
Whitten);
Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Michael Enserro);
Alice in
Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV; Jerome Wallin); Alice in Wonderland, 1985
(made-for-TV; Scotch Byerly); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Hugh
Lloyd); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Peter O’Farrell).
Flavia (consort
to the king of mythical Ruritania and falls in love with a pretender to the
throne in Anthony Hope’s 1894 adventure novel, The Prisoner of Zenda): The Prisoner of Zenda, 1922 (Alice
Terry); The
Prisoner of Zenda, 1937 (Madeleine Carroll); The Prisoner of Zenda,
1952
(Deborah Kerr); The Prisoner of Zenda, 1979 (Lynne Frederick); The Prisoner of
Zenda, 1984- (TV miniseries; Victoria Wicks); Rupert of Hentzau, 1915 (Jane
Gail); Rupert of Hentzau, 1964- (TV series; Barbara Shelley).
Frankenstein
(household name of fictional mad scientist depicted in Mary Shelley’s 1818
novel, or his relatives or others, who continued his ghoulish labors to create
life from dead human tissue or other matter): The ABC Saturday Night Superstar
Movie, 1972-1974 (TV series; ‘The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters,” animated 1972
episode: Baron Henry von Frankenstein: Bob McFadden voiceover); Arabela, 1979
(TV series; Dr. Frankenstein: Vit Olmer); Blood, 1974 (Baron von Frankenstein:
Lawrence Seelars); The Bride of
Frankenstein, 1945 (Henry Frankenstein: Colin Clive); Casanova
Frankenstein, 1975 (Dr. Frankenstein: Gianrico Tedeschi); The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957 (Victor Frankenstein: Peter
Cushing); Dr. Frankenstein on Campus, 1970 (Viktor Frankenstein: Robin Ward);
Dracula vs. Frankenstein, 1971 (AKA: Blood of Frankenstein; Dr. Frankenstein:
J. Carroll Naish); The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, 1973 (Doctor Frankenstein:
Denis [Dennis]
Price); The
Evil of Frankenstein, 1964 (Ba ron Frankenstein: Peter
Cushing);
Flesh for Frankenstein, 1974 (Baron Frankenstein: Udo Kier); Frankenstein, 1931 (Henry Frankenstein:
Colin Clive); Frankenstein,
1984
(made-for-TV; Victor Frankenstein: Robert Powell); Frankenstein,
1987 (made-for-TV;
Victor Frankenstein: Carl Beck); Frankenstein, 1992 (made-for-TV; Dr. Victor
Frankenstein: Patrick Bergin); Frankenstein, 1994 (Victor Frankenstein: Kenneth
Branagh); Frankenstein, 2004 (TV miniseries; Victor Frankenstein: Alec Newman);
Frankenstein,
2007
(made-for-TV; Dr. Victoria Frankenstein: Helen McCrory); Frankenstein, 2011
(Victor Frankenstein: Lee Godwin); Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, 1974
(Victor Frankenstein: Peter Cushing); Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster, 2003
(made-for-TV; Victor Frankenstein: Ronan Vibert); Frankenstein Created Woman, 1967 (Baron Frankenstein: Peter
Cushing); Frankenstein: Day of the Beast, 2011 (Victor Frankenstein: Adam
Stephenson); Frankenstein General HospiFRANKENSTEIN
MONSTER
Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff (as
the Frankenstein Monster) in The Bride of
Frankenstein, 1935.
tal, 1988
(Dr. Bob Frankenstein: Mark Blankfield); Frankenstein Island, 1981 (Dr.
Frankenstein: John Carradine); Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, 1965
(Robert Reilly); Frankenstein Meets the
Wolf Man, 1943 (Elsa Frankenstein: Ilona Massey); Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, 1970 (Baron Frankenstein: Peter Cushing);
Frankenstein— 1970, 1958 (Victor Frankenstein: Boris Karloff); Frankenstein 90,
1984 (Victor Frankenstein: Jean Rochefort); Frankenstein Rising, 2010 (Victor
Frankenstein: Domiziano Arcangeli); Frankenstein: The College Years, 1991
(made-for-TV; Vincent Hammond); Frankenstein: The True Story, 1973
(made-for-TV; Leonard Whiting); Frankenstein Unbound, 1990 (Victor
Frankenstein: Raul Julia); Frankenstein’s Aunt, 1987 (TV series; Henry
Frankenstein: Bolek Polivka); Frankenstein’s Cat, 20072008 (TV series;
animated: Dr. Frankenstein: Keith Wickham voiceover); Frankenstein’s Daughter,
1958 (Sandra Knight); Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie, 1984 (Victor
Frankenstein; Donald Pleasence); Frankenstein’s Wedding, 2011 (made-for-TV;
Victor Frankenstein: Andrew Gower); Frankenweenie, 1984 (Victor Frankenstein:
Barret Oliver); Freckled Max and Spooks, 1987 (Henry Frankenstein: Bolek
Polivka); The Ghost Busters, 1975 (TV series; “Dr. Whatsisname,” 1975 episode:
Dr. Frankenstein: Bernie Kopell); The
Ghost of Frankenstein, 1942 (Henry Frankenstein: Colin Clive; Ludwig
Frankenstein: Cedric Hardwicke); The Horror of Frankenstein, 1971 (Victor
Frankenstein: Ralph Bates); The House of
Frankenstein, 1944 (Dr. Niemann: Boris Karloff); I, Frankenstein, 2014
(Victor Frankenstein: Aden Young); I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, 1957
(Professor Frankenstein: Whit Bissell); Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s
Daughter, 1966 (Dr. Rudolph Frankenstein: Steven Geray; Dr. Maria Frankenstein:
Narda Onyx); Lady Frankenstein, 1973 (Baron Frankenstein: Joseph Cotten); Mad
Monster Party?, 1967 (animated comedy; Baron Boris von Frankenstein: Boris
Karloff voiceover); Monster Mash: The Movie, 1995 (Dr. Victor Frankenstein:
Bobby Pickett); Once Upon a Time, 1973 (TV series; Victor Frankenstein: Geoffrey
Bayldon); One More Time, 1970 (Dr. Frankenstein: Peter Cushing); Pastel de
sangre, 1971 (Victor Frankenstein: Angel Carmona Ristol); The Revenge of
Frankenstein, 1958 (Dr. Victor Stein: Peter Cushing); Son of Dracula, 1974 (The
Baron: Freddie Jones); Son of
Frankenstein, 1939 (Wolf von Frankenstein: Basil Rathbone); Tales of
Tomorrow, 1951-1953 (TV series; “Frankenstein,” 1952 episode: Victor
Frankenstein: John Newland); Terror of Frankenstein, 1977 (Victor Frankenstein:
Leon Vitali); The Transformers, 1984-1987 (TV animated series; “Autobot Spike,”
1985 episode: Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Frank Welker voiceover); Van Helsing, 2004 (Dr. Victor
Frankenstein: Samuel West); Victor
Frankenstein, 2015 (James McAvoy as Victor Frankenstein); Waxworks II: Lost
in Time, 1992 (Baron von Frankenstein: Martin Kemp); The Wide World of Mystery,
1973-1978 (TV series; two 1973 episodes: Victor Frankenstein: Robert Foxworth);
Young Frankenstein, 1974 (Dr.
Frederick Frankenstein: Gene Wilder).
Frankenstein
Monster (fictional character in the 1818 novel by Mary
Shelley): Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,
1948 (Glenn Strange); The ABC Saturday Night Superstar Movie, 1972-1974 (TV
series; ‘The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters,” animated 1972 episode: Allen Swift
voiceover); Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, 1973 (Srdjan Zelenovic;
Miomir
Aleksic); Big Monster on Campus, 2000 (Matthew Lawrence); Billy Frankenstein,
1998 (Brian Carrillo); Blood: The Last Vampire,
2009 (Joey
Anaya; Khary Payton); The Bride, 1985 (Clancy Brown); The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935 (Boris Karloff); Carry On
Christmas,
1969
(made-for-TV; Bernard Bresslaw); Casanova Frankenstein, 1975
(Aldo
Maccione); Casino Royale, 1967
(David Prowse); The Creeps,
1997
(Thomas Wellington); The Curse of
Frankenstein, 1957
(Christopher
Lee); Dracula vs. Frankenstein, 1971 (AKA: Blood of
Frankenstein;
John Bloom); The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, 1973 (Fernando Bilbao); The Evil
of Frankenstein, 1964 (Kiwi Kingston); Flesh for Frankenstein, 1974 (Srdjan
Zelenovic); Frankenstein, 1931 (Boris
Karloff); Frankenstein, 1984 (made-for-TV; David Warner); Frankenstein, 1987
(made-for-TV; Chris Sarandon); Frankenstein, 1992 (made-for-TV; Randy Quaid);
Frankenstein, 2004 (made-for-TV; Vincent Perez); Frankenstein, 2004 (TV
miniseries; Luke Goss); Frankenstein, 2007 (made-for-TV; Julian Bleach);
Frankenstein, 2011 (Dean Gangle); Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, 1974
(David Prowse); Frankenstein and the Werewolf Reborn!, 2005 (Ethan Wilde);
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster, 2003 (made-for-TV; David Schofield);
Frankenstein Conquers the World, 1966 (Koji Furuhata; young Frankenstein: Sumio
Nakao); Frankenstein Created Woman,
1967 (Robert Morse); Frankenstein: Day of the Beast, 2011 (Tim Krueger);
Frankenstein General Hospital, 1988 (Irwin Keyes); Frankenstein Meets the Space
Monster, 1965 (Bruce Glover); Frankenstein
Meets the Wolf
Man, 1943 (Bela Lugosi); Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, 1970 (brain: George Pravda; body:
Freddie Jones); Frankenstein—1970, 1958 (Mike Lane); Frankenstein 90, 1984 (Eddy
Mitchell); Frankenstein Reborn!, 1998 (Eathan Wilde); Frankenstein Reborn!,
2005 (Joel Hebner); Frankenstein Rising, 2010 (Randal Malone); Frankenstein:
The True
Story, 1973
(made-for-TV; Michael Sarrazin); Frankenstein Unbound,
1990 (Nick
Brimble); Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove, 2005 (Lawrence
Furbish); Frankenstein’s Aunt, 1987 (TV series; Gerhard Karzel); Frankenstein’s
Daughter, 1958 (Harry Wilson); Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie, 1984 (Miguel
Angel Fuentes); Frankenstein’s Monster, 2013 (Matt Risoldi); Frankenstein’s
Planet of Monsters!, 1995 (Mike Brunelle); Frankenstein’s Wedding, 2011
(made-for-TV; David
Harewood);
Frankenweenie, 1984 (Sparky); The Ghost Busters, 1975 (TV series; “Dr.
Whatsisname,” 1975 episode: Bill [William] Engesser); The Ghost of Frankenstein, 1942 (Lon Chaney, Jr.); Gothic, 1987
(Kiran Shah); Haunted, 1993 (David Sanders); Hellzapoppin’, 1941 (Dale Van Sickel); The Horror of Frankenstein,
1971 (Dave [David]
Prowse); House of Dracula, 1945 (Glenn Strange);
The House of
Frankenstein, 1944 (Glenn Strange); House of
Frankenstein, 1997
(made-for-TV;
Peter Crombie); House of the Wolf Man, 2009 (Craig
Dabbs); I,
Frankenstein, 2014 (Aaron Eckhart); I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, 1957 (Gary
Conway); Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, 1966 (Cal Bolder); Lady
Frankenstein, 1973 (Peter Whiteman); Life Without Soul, 1915 (Percy Darrell
Standing); Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1994 (Robert De Niro); Mr. Stitch, 1995
(made-for-TV; Wil Wheaton); Monster Brawl, 2011 (Robert Maillet); Monster Mash:
The Movie, 1995 (Deron McBee); Monster Squad, 1976 (TV series:
Mike Lane);
Monstrosity, 1988 (Haal Borske); Munster, Go Home!, 1966 (Fred Gwynne); Necropolis,
1970 (Bruno Corazzari); The Prey, 1984 (Carel Struycken); The Revenge of
Frankenstein, 1958 (Michael Gwynn); The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975 (Peter
Hinwood); Son of Dracula, 1974 (Morris Bush); Son of Frankenstein, 1939 (Boris Karloff); Spider-Man and His
Amazing Friends, 1981-1986 (TV series; Walker Edmiston); Tales of Tomorrow,
1951-1953 (TV series; “Frankenstein,” 1952 episode: Lon Chaney Jr.); Terror of
Frankenstein, 1977 (Per Oscarsson); Van
Helsing, 2004 (Shuler Hensley); Victor
Frankenstein, 2015 (Charles Dance); Waxworks II: Lost in Time, 1992
(Stefanos Miltsakakis); The Wide World of Mystery, 1973-1978 (TV series; two
1973 episodes: Bo Svenson); Young
Frankenstein, 1974 (Peter Boyle).
Friar Tuck
(fictional character, a rotund, feisty priest and swordsman aligned with Robin
Hood): The Adventures of Robin Hood,
1938 (Eugene Pallette); The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1955-1960 (TV series;
Alexander Gauge); The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, 1946 (Edgar Buchanan); Beyond
Sherwood Forest, 2009 (made-for-TV; Bill Dow);
A Challenge
for Robin Hood, 1968 (James Hayter); Il Magnifico Robin Hood, 1970 (Jim Clay); Ivanhoe, 1952 (Sebastian Cabot);
Ivanhoe,
1970- (TV
miniseries; Barry Linehan); Ivanhoe, 1982 (made-for-TV;
Tony
Haygarth); Ivanhoe, 1997- (TV miniseries; Ron Donachie); The Legend of Robin
Hood, 1968- (TV series; Walter Slezak); The Legend of Robin Hood, 1975 (TV
miniseries; Tony Caunter); Long Live Robin Hood, 1971 (Mario Adorf); The Men of
Sherwood Forest, 1954 (RegiGAWAIN
Warner Oland as Fu Manchu in The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, 1929.
nald
Beckwith); NBC Children’s Theatre, 1963-1973 (TV series; “Robin Hood,” 1964
episode; Billy Rollo); The New Adventures of Robin
Hood,
1997-1999 (TV series; Martyn Ellis); Prince of Thieves, 1948 (Alan Mowbray);
The Revenge of Ivanhoe, 1965 (Renato Terra); Robin and Marian, 1976 (Ronnie Barker); Robin Hood, 1922 (Willard Louis); Robin Hood, 1953- (TV miniseries;
Wensley Pithey); Robin Hood, 1973
(Andy Devine voiceover); Robin Hood, 1984-1986 (TV series; Phil Rose); Robin
Hood, 1991 (Jeff Nuttall); Robin Hood, 20062009 (TV series; David Harewood);
Robin Hood en zijn schelmen, 1962 (Michel Odekerken); Robin Hood: Ghosts of
Sherwood 3D, 2012 (Kai
Borchardt);
Robin Hood: The Noble Robber, 1966 (Stanislav Ledinek); Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, 1991 (Michael McShane); Rogues of
Sherwood
Forest, 1950 (Billy House); The Story of
Robin Hood [AKA: The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men] 1952 (James
Hayter); Sword of Sherwood Forest, 1961 (Niall MacGinnis); Tales of Robin Hood,
1951 (Ben Welden); The Time Tunnel, 1966-1967 (TV series; “The Revenge of Robin
Hood,” 1966 episode; Ronald Long); Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood, 1973
(Kenneth Gilbert); Young Robin Hood, 1991-1992 (animated TV series; Harry
Standjofski voiceover).
Frog
Footman (fictional character in the 1865 novel by British author Lewis
Carroll): Alice in Wonderland, 1903 (8-minute short; Cecil M.
Hepworth);
Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Gilbert Mack); Alice in Wonderland,
1982 (made-for-TV; Stephen Polk); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV;
Robert Axelrod); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Ian Trigger); Alice in
Wonderland, 1999 (made-forTV; Peter Eyre); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,
1972 (Michael Reardon).
Fu Manchu
(criminal mastermind created in 1912 by British author Sax Rohmer, appeared in
more than two dozen shorts in the 1920s and enacted by H. Agar Lyons before the
character appeared in feature films): The Adventures of Fu Manchu, 1956- (TV
series; Glen Gordon); The Blood of Fu Manchu, 1968 (Christopher Lee); The
Brides of Fu Manchu, 1966 (Christopher Lee); The Castle of Fu Manchu, 1972
(Christopher Lee); Comedy Playhouse, 1961- (TV series; “Elementary My Dear
Watson,” 1973 episode; Larry Martyn); The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, 1980
(Peter Sellers); Daughter of the Dragon, 1931
(Warner
Oland); Drums of Fu Manchu, 1940 (serial; Henry Brandon); The Face of Fu
Manchu, 1965 (Christopher Lee); The Mask
of Fu Manchu, 1932 (Boris Karloff); The
Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, 1929 (Warner Oland); Paramount on Parade, 1930
(Warner Orland in cameo appearance as Fu Manchu); The Return of Fu Manchu, 1930
(Warner Oland); The Seven Vampires, 1986 (Wilson Grey); The Vengeance of Fu
Manchu, 1968 (Christopher Lee).
Gabriel
(Archangel): The Becoming, 2012 (Jonathan Windt); Bedtime Fairy Tales for
Crocodiles, 2003 (Baltimore Beltran); The Bible, 2013(TV miniseries; Eddie
Elks); Celestial Hunt, 2013 (Harvey Malkin voiceover); The Discovery of Heaven,
2003 (Jeroen Krabbe); Dominion, 2014- (TV series; Carl Beukes); Faust, 1960
(Christian Rode); Folio, 1955-1959 (TV series; ‘The Nativity,” 1956 episode;
William Needles); Gabriel, 2007 (Andy Whitfield); Gabriel Over the White House (1933); The Green Pastures, 1936 (Oscar Polk); The Green Pastures,
1957
(made-for-TV; Terry Carter); Halleluja!, 2005-2008 (TV series;
Gregory
Caers); The Hill, 1960 (made-for-TV; Henry Comor); Joyful Hour, 1960
(made-for-TV; Basil Tellou); Laudes Evangelii, 1961 (madefor-TV; Gerard Ohn);
Liliom, 1930 (Harvey Clark); The Littlest Angel, 1969 (made-for-TV; Cab
Callaway); Lucifer, 1966 (Guido de Moor); Lucifer, 1981 (Ton Lutz); Mary and
Joseph: A Story of Faith, 1979
(made-for-TV;
Peter Dykstra); Mary, Mother of Jesus, 1999 (made-forTV; John Light); The
Nativity Story, 2006 (Alexander Siddig); The Nativity, 2010 (TV miniseries;
John Lynch); Nostradamus, 1994 (Daniel Dresner); The Nun’s Story, 1959 (Colleen Dewhurst in a sanatorium);
On Earth as
It Is in Heaven, 1995 (Enrique San Francisco); The Prophecy II, 1998
(Christopher Walken); Raging Angels, 1995 (Deron McBee); The Second Greatest
Story Ever Told, 1994 (made-for-TV; Malcolm McDowell); The Three Wise Men, 1976
(Jorge Sanchez Fogarty voiceover); Wandering, 2011 (Aram Sukiasyan); Wingless,
2009 (Karel Zima).
Galahad
(legendary knight in the legend of King Arthur in 6th Century Britain, who
quested for the Holy Grail): The Adventures of Sir Galahad, 1949 (serial;
George Reeves); A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur’s Court, 1949 (Richard Webb); King Arthur, 2004 (Hugh Dancy); Merlin, 1998 (TV miniseries; Justin
Girdler); Monty Python and the Holy
Grail, 1975 (Michael Palin); Prince
Valiant, 1954 (Richard Webb); Prince Valiant, 1997 (Peri Callimanopulos); A
Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1996 (Paul Hopkins).
Gawain
(legendary knight in King Arthur’s Round Table in 6th Century Britain): The
Adventures of Sir Galahad, 1949 (serial; Rick Vallin); The Adventures of Sir
Lancelot, 1956-1957 (TV series; Andrew Crawford); Arthur the King, 1985
(made-for-TV; Patrick Ryecart); Camelot, 2011
(TV
miniseries; Clive Standen); Excalibur,
1981 (Liam Neeson); First Knight,
1995 (Robert Gwyn Davin); Gawain and the Green Knight, 1973 (Murray Head);
Gawain and the Green Knight, 1991 (made-forTV; Jason Durr); Guinevere, 1994
(made-for-TV; Martin East); King Arthur,
2004 (Joel Edgerton); Knights of the
Round Table, 1953 GEPPETTO
Martin Landau as the puppet-maker
Geppetto in The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996.
(Robert
Urquhart); Lancelot of the Lake, 1974 (Humbert Balsan); The Legend of King
Arthur, 1979 (TV series; Geoffrey Bateman); The Legend of Prince Valiant,
1991-1994 (TV series; Tim Curry); Merlin, 1998 (TV miniseries; Sebastian
Roche); Merlin: The Return, 2000 (Anthony Bishop); The Mists of Avalon, 2001
(made-for-TV; Noah Huntley); Morte d’Arthur, 1980 (made-for-TV; Roland
Alexander); Perceval, 1978 (Andre Dussollier); Prince Valiant, 1954 (Sterling Hayden); Prince
Valiant,
1997 (Anthony Hickox); Sword of Lancelot, 1963 (George
Baker);
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight,
1984 (Miles O’Keefe; voiceover by Peter Firth); Unidentified Flying Oddball,
1979 (John Le Mesurier).
Geppetto (a
woodcarver who creates a marionette that transform into a real boy, a fictional
character in the 1883 children’s novel The
Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi): The Adventures of
Pinocchio, 1947 (Augusto Contardi); The Adventures of Pinocchio,
1972 (TV
miniseries; Nino Manfredi); The
Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996 (Martin Landau); Geppetto, 2000 (made-for-TV;
Drew Carey); Geppetto’s Secret, 2005 (Tom Bosley); The New Adventures of
Pinocchio, 1960-1961 (TV series; Stan Francis); The New Adventures of
Pinocchio, 1999 (Martin Landau); Once Upon a Time, 2011 (TV series; Tony
Amendola); Pinocchio, 1940
(Christian Rub voiceover); Pinocchio, 1957 (made-for-TV; Walter Slezak);
Pinocchio, 1968 (made-forTV; Burl Ives); Pinocchio, 1976 (made-for-TV; Danny
Kaye); Pinocchio, 1978 (Roberto Bertea voiceover); Pinocchio, 1978 (TV series;
Derek Smith voiceover); Pinocchio, 2002 (Carlo Giuffre); Pinocchio, 2008
(made-for-TV; Bob Hoskins); Pinocchio, 2012 (Mino Caprio voiceover); Pinocchio,
2013 (TV miniseries; Mario Adorf); Pinocchio and His Magic Show, 1976 (John H.
Fields voiceover); Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, 1987 (Tom Bosley
voiceover); Pinocchio 3000, 2004 (Howard Ryshpan); Pinocchio’s Christmas, 1980
(made-forTV; George S. Irving); Shrek,
2001 (Chris Miller voiceover); Shrek
Forever After, 2010 (Chris Miller voiceover).
Gervaise
(tragic heroine in Emile Zola’s 1877 novel, L’Assommoir,
a destitute young laundress, the mother of Nana who struggles to survive
poverty and who takes to drink after her alcoholic husband goes insane in the
slums of mid-19th Century Paris, to which she finally and tragically succumbs):
Drink, 1917 (Irene Brown; Joan Morgan as young Gervaise); L’Assommoir, 1921
(Louise Storza; Jean Jabely as young Gervaise); L’Assommoir, 1933 (Line Noro);
Gervaise, 1957 (Maria Schell).
Gideon (a
devious cat that inveigles a wooden marionette into trouble before that puppet
transform into a real boy, a fictional character in the 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian
author
Carlo
Collodi): The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1972 (TV miniseries;
Franco
Franchi); The New Adventures of Pinocchio, 1999 (Sarah Alexander); Pinocchio, 1940 (Mel Blanc voiceover);
Pinocchio, 2002 (Max Cavallari); Pinocchio, 2008 (made-for-TV; Rupert Degas).
Gigi
(attractive young Parisian girl groomed to be a mistress for a wealthy man, who
comes to love her and eventually marries her, a character created in the 1944
novella by French author Colette): Gigi, 1950 (Daniele Delorme); Gigi, 1958 (Leslie Caron; Betty Wand
singing voice for Gigi); Gigi, 1987 (made-for-TV; Anne Jacquemin); Mademoiselle
Gigi, 2006 (made-for-TV; Juliette Lamboley).
Glinda
(Good witch of the North who helps Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas transported
to a strange world in L. Frank Baum’s iconic 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz): Journey Back to Oz, 1972 (animated;
Rise Stevens voiceover); The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, 2005 (Eric Jacobson as Miss
Piggy voiceover); Oz the Great and
Powerful, 2013
(Michelle
Williams); 20th Century Oz, 1976 (Robin
Ramsay); The Wiz, 1978 (Lena Horne); The
Wizard of Oz, 1939 (Billie Burke); The Wizard of Oz, 1982 (animated; Wendy
Thatcher voiceover); The Wizard of Oz, 1990-1991 (animated TV series; B.J. Ward
voiceover); The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, 1995 (made-for-TV;
Natalie Cole).
God (The
Almighty; Supreme Being): Animated Stories from the Bible, 1987-2005 (TV
series; Daniel A. Keeler voiceover); The Ark, 2007 (Ron von Paulus); Army from
Hell, 2014 (Joe Estevez); The Bible: In the Beginning, 1966 (John Huston
voiceover); A Box of Faith, 2015 (Savanah McMahon); Bruce Almighty, 2003
(Morgan Freeman); Death’s Weaing High Heels, 2009 (Lorena Sanchez); Evan
Almighty, 2007 (Morgan Freeman); Exodus:
Gods and Kings, 2014 (Isaac Andrews, an elevenyear-old boy, who is God’s
messenger and/or speaks for God to Moses); Faust, 2010 (Jules Hartley
voiceover); Futurama, 1999-2013 (TV series; Billy West); Good Show, 1993 (TV
series; Marcos Mundstock); The Green Pastures,
1936 (Rex Ingram); Half Past Original, 2012- (TV series; Carl-Mar Moller);
Joey, 1982 (made-for-TV; David Fox); Let There Be Light, 1998 (Pierre Arditi
voiceover); Macario, 1961 (Jose Luis Jimenez); Oh, God!, 1977 (George Burns); Oh, God!: Book II, 1980 (George
Burns); Oh, God! You Devil, 1982 (George Burns); On Earth as It Is in Heaven,
1995 (Fernando Fernan Gomez); The Phantom Wagon, 1940 (Rene Genin); The Prince of Egypt, 1998 (Val Kilmer
voiceover); Robot Chicken, 2005- (animated TV series; Seth Green voiceover);
The Sandman, 2011 (Rick Kerrigan); A Soul for Sale, 1915 (Austin Camp); Strange Cargo, 1940 (Ian Hunter);
Switch, 1991
(Richard
Prevost, Linda Gary); Tattooed, 2008 (Ricky Warwick); The Ten Commandments, 1956 (Donald Hayne voiceover); Touched by an
Angel, 2015 (Jerry Lynch); The Young Ones, 1982-1984 (TV series; two 1984
episodes with Alan Freeman as God).
Goldilocks
(fairytale character from the story of Goldilocks
and the
Three Bears): Christmas Night of One Hundred
Stars, 1986 (TV special; Sarah Payne); Dora the Explorer, 2000- (TV series;
“What Happened
Next,” 2004
episode; Kailani Coba); Faerie Tale Theatre, 1982-1987 (TV series; “Goldilocks
and the Three Bears,” 1984 episode; Tatum O’Neal); Happily N’Ever After, 2009
(Kate Higgins voiceover); Jack and the Beanstalk, 1998 (Morwenna Banks).
Green Arrow
(fictional comic book superhero): The Batman, 2004-2008 (TV series; Chris
Hardwick voiceover); Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV
series; James Arnold Taylor voiceover); Justice League, 2001-2006 (TV series;
Kin Shriner voiceover).
Green
Knight (legendary foe of King Arthur in 6th Century Britain): Gawain and the
Green Knight, 1991 (made-for-TV; Malcolm Storry); Knights of the Round Table, 1953 (Niall MacGinnis); Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975
(Terry Gilliam); Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight, 1984 (Sean Connery).
Green
Lantern (fictional comic book superhero): The All-New Super Friends Hour,
1977-1978 (animated TV series; Michael Rye voiceover); Justice League,
2001-2006 (TV series; Dermot Mulroney voiceover); Challenge of the Super
Friends, 1978- (animated TV series; Michael Rye voiceover); Justice League,
2001-2006 (TV series; Phil LeMarr voiceover); Legends of the Superheroes, 1979
(TV series; Howard Murphy); The Lego
Movie, 2014 (Jonah Hill voiceover); The Super Powers Team: Galactic
Guardians, 1985- (animated TV series; Michael Rye voiceover); Superman,
1996-2000 (TV series; Michael P. Greco voiceover); The Superman/Aquaman Hour of
Adventure, 1967-1968 (TV series; Gerald Mohr).
Gryphon
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (Charles Silvern); Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (William Austin); Alice in Wonderland,
1955 HAMLET
Keira Knightley as Guinevere in King Arthur, 2004.
(made-for-TV;
J. Pat O’Malley); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-forTV; Malcolm Muggeridge);
Alice in Wonderland, 1976 (Paulino Andrada); Alice in Wonderland, 1985
(made-for-TV; Sid Caesar); Alice in Wonderland, 1985- (TV series; Windsor
Davies); Alice in Wonderland,
1986
(made-for-TV; four 30-minute segments; Brian Miller); Alice in Wonderland, 1999
(made-for-TV; Donald Sinden; Adrian Getley; Robert Tygner; Dave Barclay);
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Spike
Milligan);
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 1948
(made-for-TV; Dennis Bowen); Alicja, 1982 (Dominic Guard); Dreamchild, 1985
(Ron Mueck); Great Performances, 1971(TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,’ 1983
episode; Swen Swenson); The Wednesday Play, 1964-1970 (TV series; “Alice,” 1965
episode; Frank Shelley).
Guinevere
(legendary queen of King Arthur in 6th Century Britain): The Adventures of Sir
Galahad, 1949 (serial; Marjorie Stapp); The Adventures of Sir Lancelot,
1956-1957 (TV series; Jane Hylton); Arthur the King, 1985 (made-for-TV; Rosalyn
Landor); The Black Knight, 1954
(Jean
Lodge); Camelot, 1967 (Vanessa
Redgrave); Camelot, 1982 (made-for-TV; Meg Bussert); Camelot, 2011 (TV
miniseries; Tamsin Egerton); Carry On Laughing!, 1975 (TV series; Joan Sims); A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1989 (made-for-TV: Emma Samms); Excalibur, 1981 (Cherie Lunghi); First Knight, 1995 (Julia Ormond);
Gawain and the Green Knight, 1991 (made-for-TV; Marie
Francis);
Guinevere, 1994 (made-for-TV; Sheryl Lee); King
Arthur, 2004 (Keira Knightley); A Knight in Camelot, 1998 (made-for-TV;
Amanda Donohoe); Knights of the Round
Table, 1953 (Ava Gardner); Lancelot of the Lake, 1970 (made-for-TV;
Marie-Christine Barrault); Lancelot of the Lake, 1974 (Laura Duke Condominas);
The Legend of King Arthur, 1979 (TV series; Felicity Dean); The Legend of
Prince Valiant, 1991-1994 (TV series; Samantha Egger); Merlin, 1998 (TV
miniseries; Lena Headey); Merlin: The Return, 2000 (Julie Hartley); Morte
d’Arthur, 1980 (made-for-TV; Barbara Kellerman); Perceval, 1978
(Marie-Christine Barrault); Prince
Valiant, 1954 (Jarma Lewis); Sword of Lancelot, 1963 (Jean Wallace); The
Time Tunnel, 1966-1967 (TV series; “Merlin the Magician,” 1967 episode; Lisa
Jak); A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1996 (Lisa
Flores).
Gustave
Flambeau (an arch criminal and nemesis of Father Brown in G.K. Chesterton’s
stories; see Father Brown, this index): Das schwarze Schaf, 1960 (Siegfried
Lowitz); The Detective, 1954 (Peter
Finch); Father Brown, 1974- (TV series; Dennis Burgess); Father Brown, 2013(TV
series; John Light); Father Brown, Detective, 1934 (Paul Lukas); I racconti di
Padre Brown, 1970- (TV series; Arnoldo Foa); Pater Brown, 1966-1972 (TV series;
Ingold Platzer); Theater of the Word, Inc., 2009(TV series; “The Honor of
Israel Gow,” 2009 episode; Julian Ahlquist).
Gypo Nolan
(towering, dim-witted Irish thug who betrays his best friend to the British
during the Irish Civil War and is hunted by the IRA in Dublin as depicted in
Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, The
Informer): The Informer, 1929 (Lars Hansen); The Informer, 1935 (Victor McLaglen); Uptight, 1968 (Julian
Mayfield).
Hades (in
Greek mythology; god of the underworld or, in modern perception, hell; Pluto in
Roman mythology): Clash of the Titans,
2010 (Ralph Fiennes); Hercules, 1997
(James Woods voiceover); Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; James Woods
voiceover); Hercules in the Underworld, 1994 (made-for-TV; Mark Ferguson);
Hercules: The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Bryan Kreutz); The Illiac Passion, 1968
(Carlos Anduze); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series;
Norm Spencer); Myths, 2009- (TV series; Christopher Hughes); Percy
Jackson
& the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 2010 (Steve Coogan); Persephone, 1952
(made-for-TV; Lewis Stringer); Wrath of the Titans, 2012 (Ralph Fiennes); Young
Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; Erik Thomson).
Hamlet
(Prince of Denmark, the tragic son of a murdered king who sets out to avenge his
father’s death, the best known and most popular character of the brilliant
plays by William Shakespeare): The DuPont Show of the Month, 1957-1961 (TV
series; “Hamlet,” 1959 episode; John Neville); An Englishman Abroad, 1984
(made-for-TV; Mark Wing-
Davey);
Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Hamlet,” 1990 episode; Kevin Kline);
Hamlet, 1913 (Johnston Forbes-Robertson); Hamlet, 1917 (Ruggero Ruggeri);
Hamlet, 1921 (Asta Nielsen); Hamlet, 1947 (madefor-TV; John Byron); Hamlet, 1948 (Laurence Olivier); Hamlet,
1954 (made-for-TV; Maurice Evans); Hamlet, 1955 (made-for-TV; Bengt Ekerot);
Hamlet, 1959 (made-for-TV; William Job); Hamlet, 1960 (made-for-TV; Maximilian
Schell); Hamlet, 1961 (TV series; Barry Foster); Hamlet, 1964 (made-for-TV;
Alfredo Alcon); Hamlet at Elsinore, 1964 (made-for-TV; Christopher Plummer);
Hamlet, 1964 (Richard Burton); Hamlet, 1966 (Innokenti Smoktunovski); Hamlet, 1969 (Nicol Williamson);
Hamlet, 1970 (Ian McKellen); Hamlet, 1973 (Rick
McKenna);
Hamlet, 1976 (Anthony Meyer; David Meyer); Hamlet,
1979
(made-for-TV; Michel Hermon); Hamlet, 1983 (made-for-TV; Laszlo Galffi);
Hamlet, 1985 (made-for-TV; Tero Jartti); Hamlet, 1990
(made-for-TV;
Gerard Desarthe); Hamlet, 1990 (Mel
Gibson); Hamlet, 1992 (made-for-TV; Heikki Kinnunen); Hamlet, 1994
(made-for-TV; Michael Schenk); Hamlet,
1996 (Kenneth Branagh); Hamlet, 2000
(Thomas
Hampson); Hamlet, 2000 (Ethan Hawke); Hamlet, 2000
(made-for-TV;
Campbell Scott); Hamlet, 2004 (made-for-TV; Michal
Czernecki);
Hamlet, 2005 (Stephen Cavanagh); Hamlet, 2007 (Wilson [William] Belchambers);
Hamlet, 2009 (David Melville); Hamlet, 2009 HANK MARTIN
Clint Eastwood as “Dirty Harry”
Callahan in Magnum Force, 1973.
(made-for-TV;
David Tennant); Hamlet, 2014 (Bruce Ramsay); Hamlet,
2015
(Travis Wilker); Hamlet, 2015 (Maxine Peake); Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1980
(made-for-TV; Derek Jacobi); Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1997 (Gary Paul
Wright); Hamlet: The Series, 2014 (TV series; Kitty Mortland); ITV Play of the
Week, 1955-1974 (TV series; “Hamlet,” 1956 episode; Paul Scofield); ITV
Saturday Night Theatre, 1969(TV series; “Hamlet,” 1970 episode; Richard
Chamberlain); Khoon Ka Khoon, 1935 (Sohrab Modi); Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern Are Dead, 1991 (Iain Glen).
Hank Martin
(fictional character in Mark Twain’s 1889 fantasy novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court): A Connecitcut Yankee, 1931 (Will Rogers); A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur’s Court, 1921 (Harry Myers); A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1949 (Bing Crosby); Once Upon a
Classic, 1976-1979 (TV series: “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,”
1978 episode, Paul Rudd); Studio One in Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series: “A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” 1952 episode, Thomas Mitchell).
Harry
Callahan (rugged SFPD inspector who doggedly tracks downs crimiminals
irrespective of police policies and regulations, all played by Clint Eastwood):
The Dead Pool, 1988; Dirty Harry, 1971; The Enforcer, 1976; Magnum
Force, 1973; Sudden Impact,
1983.
Harry
Faversham (British officer who sets put to prove his courage after he is
accused of cowardice by his friends and lover in A.E.W. Mason’s 1902 adventure
novel, The Four Feathers): Four
Feathers, 1915 (Howard Estabrook; Ogden Child Jr. as young Harry); The Four
Feathers, 1921 (Harry Ham; Roger Livesey as young Harry); The Four Feathers,
1929 (Richard Arlen; Philippe De Lacy as young Harry); The Four Feathers, 1939 (John Clements; Clive Baxter as young
Harry); Storm Over the Nile, 1955 (Anthony Steel; Paul Streather as young
Harry); The Four Feathers, 1978 (made-for-TV; Beau Bridges; Alexander Bird and
Jonathan Scott-Taylor in separate ages as young Harry); The Four Feathers, 2002
(Heath Ledger).
Harry
Morgan (tough hero in Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 novel, To Have and Have Not): The
Breaking Point, 1950 (John Garfield); The Gun Runners, 1958 (Audie Murphy
as Sam Martin, role model of Harry Morgan); Lux Video Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV
series; “To Have and Have Not,” 1957 episode; Edmond O’Brien); To Have and Have Not, 1944 (Humphrey
Bogart).
Harry
Palmer (unenthusiastic British agent who manages to triumph in spite of
himself, a character created by spy writer Len Deighton’s 1962 novel, The Ipcress File): Billion Dollar Brain,
1967 (Michael Caine); Bullet to Beijing, 1998 (made-for-TV; Michael Caine); Funeral in
Berlin, 1966 (Michael Caine); The Ipcress File, 1965 (Michael Caine);
Midnight in St. Petersburg, 1998 (made-for-TV; Michael Caine); Spy Story, 1976
(Michael Petrovitch).
Harry
Potter (youth wizard who, along with friends, attends the Hogswart School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry and who battles an evil professor bent on world
domination, as portrayed by British author J.K. Rowling): Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002 (Daniel Radcliffe); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,
2010
(Daniel Radcliffe); Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hollows Part 2,
2011 (Daniel Radcliffe); Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005
(Daniel Radcliffe); Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood Prince, 2009
(Daniel Radcliffe);
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2007
(Daniel Radcliffe); Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004 (Daniel Radcliffe); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2001 (Daniel Radcliffe).
Hawkeye
(Nathaniel “Natty” Bumppo; indefatigable pioneer, scout and Indian-fighter who
was raised by the Mohican tribe, a wilderness hero created by author James
Fenimore Cooper in his pentalogy of novels entitled the Leatherstocking Tales; this character most likely based on
real-life pioneer Daniel Boone): The Deerslayer, 1978 (made-for-TV; Steve
Forrest); Fall of the Mohicans, 1965 (Luis Induni); Hawkeye,
1994- (TV
series; Lee Horsley); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, 1957- (TV series;
John Hart); Hawkeye, the Pathfinder, 1973- (TV miniseries; Paul Massie); The
Iroquois Trail, 1950 (Robert Montgomery); The
Last of the Mohicans, 1920 (Harry Lorraine); The Last of the Mohicans, 1932
(Harry Carey); The Last of the Mohicans,
1936 (Randolph Scott); The Last of the Mohicans, 1971 (TV miniseries; Kenneth
Ives); The Last of the Mohicans, 1975 (animated made-for-TV; Mike Road
voiceover); Last of the Mohicans, 1977 (made-for-TV; Steve Forrest); The Last
of the Mohicans, 1987 (animated made-for-TV; John
Waters
voiceover); The Last of the Mohicans,
1992 (Daniel DayLewis); Last of the Redmen, 1947 (Michael O’Shea); The
Leatherstocking Tales, 1984 (TV miniseries; Cliff De Young); The Pathfinder,
1996 (made-for-TV; Kevin Dillon).
Heathcliff
(Brooding anti-hero and star-crossed lover of Catherine Earnshaw in Emily
Bronte’s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights):
BBC SundayNight Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Wuthering Heights,” 1953
episode; Richard Todd); Broadway Television Theatre, 1952-1954 (TV series;
“Wuthering Heights,” 1953 episode; William Prince); The DuPont Show of the
Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “Wuthering
Heights,”
1958 episode; Richard Burton); Heathcliff, 1997 (made-forTV; Cliff Richard);
Matinee Theatre, 1955-1958 (TV series; “Wuthering Heights,” 1955 episode;
Richard Boone; Sammy Ogg as young Heathcliff; “Wuthering Heights,’ 1957
episode; Tom Tryon; Johnny Crawford as young Heathcliff); Wuthering Heights,
1920 (Milton Rosmer; Albert Brantford as young Heathcliff); Wuthering Heights, 1939 (Laurence
Olivier; Rex Downing as young Heathcliff); Wuthering Heights, 1948
(made-for-TV; Kieron Moore); Wuthering Heights, 1962 (made-for-TV;
Keith
Michell); Wuthering Heights, 1967 (TV series; Ian McShane; Dennis Golding as
young Heathcliff); Wuthering Heights, 1970 (Timothy Dalton); Wuthering Heights,
1978 (TV miniseries; Ken Hutchison; Dale Tarry and Robin Glynn as young
Heathcliff); Wuthering Heights,
1983 (Jorge
Mistral); Wuthering Heights, 1992 (Ralph Fiennes; Jon Howard as young
Heathcliff); Wuthering Heights, 1998 (made-for-TV;
Robert
Cavanah; Terry Clynes as young Heathcliff); Wuthering Heights, 2009 (TV
miniseries; Tom Hardy; Declan Wheeldon as young Heathcliff); Wuthering Heights,
2012 (James Howson; Solomon Glave as young Heathcliff).
Hebe (Greek
goddess of youth; daughter of Zeus and Hera; Juventus in Roman mythology):
Hercules: The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Elizabeth
Renee);
Night Life of the Gods, 1935 (Geneva Mitchell); Rome in a Day, 2008 (Cathy
Bennett); The Triumph of Venus, 1918 (Ruth Bradley).
Hector
(Trojan prince in Greek mythology and greatest fighter in the
Trojan
War): BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Troilus and Cressida,”
1954 episode; William Squire); Der trojanisch krieg findet nicht statt, 1957
(made-for-TV; Jurgen Goslar); Der trojanisch krieg findet nicht statt, 1964
(made-for-TV; Rolf Boysen); The Face of Love, 1954 (made-for-TV; Hugh
Sinclair); Fury of Achilles, 1962 (Jacques Bergerac); Hector the Mighty, 1972
(Frank Latimore voiceover); Helen of Troy, 1924 (Carl de Vogt); Helen of Troy,
1951 (Stig Jarrel); Helen of Troy, 1956 (Harry Andrews); Helen of Troy, 2003
(TV miniseries; Daniel Lapaine); ITV Play of the Week, 1955-1974 (TV series;
“Tiger at the Gates,” 1960 episode; Keith Mitchell); King Priam, 1985
(made-for-TV; Omar Ebrahim); Le guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu, 1967
(made-for-TV; Daniel Ivernel); The Odyssey, 1997- (TV series; Derek Lea); Play
of the Week, 1959-1961 (TV series; “Tiger at the Gate,” 1960 episode: Donald
Davis); The Private Life of Helen of Troy, HENRY
JEKYLL
Louis Wolheim and John Barrymore (as
Henry Jekyll) in Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1920.
1927
(George Kotsonaros); Troilus & Cressida, 1981 (made-for-TV; John Shrapnel);
Troilus und Cressida, 1964 (made-for-TV; Hans Hackermann); Troilus und
Cressida, 1969 (made-for-TV; Kurt Heintel); Troy, 2004 (Eric Bana).
Heidi
(young and effervescent orphan girl who lives in the Swiss Alps under the care
of her gentle grandfather, first appearing in the 1881 novel by Swiss author
Johanna Spyri, one of the most widely read children’s books ever written):
Courage Mountain, 1990 (Juliette Caton); A Gift for Heidi, 1958 (Sandy
Descher); Heidi, 1937 (Shirley
Temple); Heidi, 1954 (Elsbeth Sigmund); Heidi, 1956 (TV series; Verinha Darci);
Heidi, 1959 (TV series; Sara O’Connor); Heidi, 1968 (Eva Maria Singhammer);
Heidi, 1968 (made-for-TV; Jennifer Edwards); Heidi, 1974 (TV miniseries; Emma
Blake); Heidi, 1978- (TV series; Katia Polletin); Heidi, 1993 (Noley Thornton);
Heidi, 2001 (Cornelia Groschel); Heidi,
2005 (Emma
Bolger); Heidi, 2015 (Anuk Steffen); Heidi: A Girl of the
Alps, 1974-
(animated made-for-TV; Kazuko Sugiyama voiceover); Heidi Grows Up, 1954 (TV
miniseries; Julia Lockwood; Ann Summers); Heidi and Peter, 1955 (Elsbeth
Sigmund); Heidi’s Song, 1982 (animated musical; Margery Gray voiceover); The
New Adventures of Heidi, 1978 (made-for-TV; Katy Kurtzman).
Helen of
Troy (in Greek mythology; abducted by Paris of Troy, creating the Greek-Trojan
War): The Awful Truth, 1937 (Betty
Douglas); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Troilus and
Cressida,” 1954 episode; Helen Shingler); Der trojanisch krieg findet nicht
statt, 1957 (made-for-TV; Margit Saad); Der trojanisch krieg findet nicht
statt, 1964 (made-for-TV; Ruth-Maria Kubitschek); Doctor Faustus, 1968
(Elizabeth
Taylor); Eneide, 1971 (TV series: Annabella Incontrera); The Face of Love, 1954
(made-for-TV; Joan Miller); Helen of Troy, 1924
(Edy
Darclea); Helen of Troy, 1951 (Eva Dahlbeck); Helen of Troy, 1956 (Rossana
Podesta); Helen of Troy, 2003 (made-for-TV: Sienna Guillory); Helen, Yes…Helen
of Troy, 1974 (Christa Linder); Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series: Jodi Benson
voiceover); Hercules: The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Kinesha Holt); Ich log die
Wahrheit, 1971 (madefor-TV; Inken Sommer); ITV Play of the Week, 1955-1974 (TV
series; “Tiger at the Gates,” 1960 episode; Carole Lesley); King Priam, 1985
(made-for-TV; Anne Mason); La Belle Helene, 1996 (Vesselina Kasarova); La Belle
Helene, 2000 (Felicity Lott); Las troyanas, 1963 (Erna Martha Bauman); Le
guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu, 1967 (madefor-TV; Caroline Cellier); The Lion
of Thebes, 1964 (Yvonne Furneaux); Loves of Three Queens, 1954 (Hedy Lamarr);
Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series; “Ulysses and the
Trojan Horse,” 1999 episode; Kristina Nicoll voiceover); The Pharaoh Project,
2001 (Suzanne Turner); Play of the Week, 1959-1961 (TV series; “Tiger at the
Gate,” 1960 episode: Patricia Cutts); The Private Life of Helen of Troy, 1927
(Maria Corda); The Story of Mankind, 1957 (Dani Crayne); Tantalus: Behind the
Mask, 2001 (Annalee Jefferies); The Time Tunnel, 1966-1967 (TV series; “Revenge
of the Gods,” 1966 episode: Dee Hartford); Toto all’inferno, 1955 (Mara
Werlen); Troilus & Cressida, 1981 (made-for-TV; Ann Pennington); Troilus
und Cressida, 1964 (made-for-TV; Marlies Hoffmann); Troilus und Cressida, 1966
(made-for-TV; Mary Payne); Troilus und Cressida, 1969 (madefor-TV; Margot
Trooger); The Trojan Horse, 1962 (Hedy Vessel); The Trojan Women, 1971 (Irene
Papas); The Trojan Women, 2004 (Shelley Delayne); Troy, 2004 (Diane Kruger).
Henry
Higgins (Professor Henry Higgins; chauvenistic educator of dialects who
transforms an uncouth Cockney flower girl into a grand lady, his character
created in George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play, Pygmalion):
BBC Play of the Month, 1965-1983 (TV series, “Pygmalion,” 1973 episode; James
Villiers); BBC Sunday-Night Theater, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Pygmalion,” 1956
episode; Keith Michell); Celebrity Playhouse, 1981 (TV series, “Pygmalion,”
1981 episode; Robert Powell); The Makeover, 2013 (made-for-TV; Julia Stiles as
Hannah Higgins in a gender switch); My
Fair Lady, 1964 (Rex Harrison); My Fair Lady; Minha Linda Senhora, 2004
(made-for-TV; Carlos Quintas); My Fair Zombie, 2013 (Lawrence Evenchick);
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage, 2013 (made-for-TV; Alex Jennings);
Pygmalion, 1935 (Gustaf Grundgens); Pygmalion, 1937 (Johan De Meester); Pygmalion, 1938 (Leslie Howard);
Pygmalion, 1948 (made-for-TV; Ralph Michael); Pygmalion,
1954
(made-for-TV; John Clements); Pygmalion, 1956 (made-for-TV;
Axel von
Ambesser); Pygmalion, 1957 (made-for-TV; Heinz Hinze);
Pygmalion,
1958 (made-for-TV; Mikhail Tsaryov); Pygmalion, 1963
(made-for-TV;
James Donald); Pygmalion, 1968 (made-for-TV; Gunnar Bjornstrand); Pygmalion,
1976 (made-for-TV; Coen Flink); Pygmalion, 1983 (made-for-TV; Peter O’Toole).
Henry
Jekyll (Dr. Henry Jekyll, fictional character who transforms from a good
persona into an evil one called Edward Hyde, as portrayed in the 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by
Robert Louis Stevenson): Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
1953 (Boris
Karloff); The ABC Saturday Night Superstar Movie, 19721974 (TV series; ‘The
Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters,” animated 1972 episode: Allen Swift voiceover);
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, 1957 (Gloria Talbot); Der Januskopf [AKA: Janus-Faced],
1920 (role model for Conrad Veidt); Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1920 (John Barrymore); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931 (Fredric March); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
1941
(Spencer Tracy); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1956 (TV series; Dennis Price); Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1973 (made-for-TV; Kirk Douglas); HEPHAESTUS
Peter Ustinov (as Agatha Christie’s
sleuth Hercule Poirot) in Death on the
Nile, 1978.
Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde, 1980 (made-for-TV; David Hemmings); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1986
(made-for-TV; Max Meldrum voiceover); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 2000 (Adam Baldwin);
Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, 2003
(made-for-TV; John Hannah); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
2008
(made-for-TV; Dougray Scott); Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, 1971 (Dr. Jekyll:
Ralph Bates; Sister Hyde: Martine Beswick); Dr. Jekyll’s Dungeon of Death, 1979
(James Mathers); Edge of Sanity, 1989 (Tony Perkins); Experiment in Evil, 1959
(role model for Jean-Louis Barrault);
I, Monster,
1971 (role model for Christopher Lee); Jekyll, 2007 (Matt
Keeslar);
Jekyll and Hyde, 1990 (made-for-TV; Michael Caine); Jekyll & Hyde, 2015 (TV
series; Tom Bateman); Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical, 2001 (David Hasselhoff);
Jekyll and Hyde…Together Again, 1982 (Mark Blankfield); The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003 (Jason Flemyng); The Man with Two Faces, 2008
(James Ian Mair); Mary Reilly, 1996 (John Malkovich); Matinee Theatre,
1955-1958 (TV series; “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” 1957 episode; Douglass
Montgomery); Mr. Black, Mr. Hyde, 1976 (Bernie
Casey); Nightmare Classics, 1989- (TV series; “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,”
1989 episode; Anthony Andrews); The
Nutty Professor, 1963 (role model for Jerry Lewis); The Nutty Professor, 1996 (role model for Eddie Murphy); The
Pagemaster, 1994 (Leonard Nimoy voiceover); The Son of Dr. Jekyll, 1951 (Louis
Hayward); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, 1950
(made-for-TV; Dr. Jekyll: Alan Judd; Mr. Hyde: Desmond Llewelyn); The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1968 (madefor-TV; Jack Palance); The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 2006 (Tony Todd); Suspense, 1949-1954 (TV
series; “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” 1949 episode; Ralph Bell; “Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde,” 1951 episode; Basil Rathbone); The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, 1961
(Paul Massie); Van Helsing, 2004
(Henry Jekyll: Stephen H. Fisher; Edward Hyde: Robbie Coltrane); Waxworks II:
Lost in Time, 1992 (Michael Viela).
Hephaestus
(Greek god of fire, volcanoes and forging of iron; Vulcan in Roman mythology):
Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; Kevin Michael Richardson voiceover); Percy
Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 2010 (Conrad Coates); Young
Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; Jason Hoyte).
Hera (Greek
goddess of women, one of three sisters to Zeus and also the wife of Zeus; Juno
in Roman mythology): The Adventures of Hercules II, 1985 (Maria Rosario
Omaggio): Clash of the Titans, 1981
(Claire Bloom); Clash of the Titans,
2010 (Nina Young); Goddess of Love, 1988 (made-for-TV; Betsy Palmer); Hercules,
1983 (Rosanna Podesta); Hercules,
1997 (Samantha Eggar voiceover); Hercules, 19981999 (TV series; Samantha Eggar
voiceover); Hercules: The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Camille Marolf); Hercules:
The Legendary Journeys – Hercules and the Circle of Fire, 1994 (made-for-TV;
Joy Watson voiceover); Jason and the
Argonauts, 1963 (Honor Blackman); Jason and the Argonauts, 2000 (TV
miniseries; Olivia Williams); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998-
(TV series; Janet-Laine Green); Myths, 2009- (TV series; Scarlett Sabet); Percy
Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 2010 (Erica Cerra); The
Private Life of Helen of Troy, 1927 (Virginia Thomas); Young Hercules,
1998-1999 (TV series; Elizabeth Hawthorne).
Hercule
Poirot (incisive and meticulous Belgium detective created by Agatha Christie
who appears in more than forty of her novels and dozens of short stories):
Alibi, 1931 (Austin Trevor); The Alphabet Murders, 1965 (Tony Randall); Agatha
Christie: Poirot, 1989-2013 (TV series; David Suchet); Appointment with Death,
1988 (Peter Ustinov); Black
Coffee,
1931 (Austin Trevor); Black Coffee, 1973 (made-for-TV; Horst Bollmann); Dead
Man’s Folly, 1986 (made-for-TV; Peter Ustinov); Death on the Nile, 1978 (Peter Ustinov); Evil Under the Sun, 1982
(Peter Ustinov); General Electric Theater, 1953-1962 (TV series; “Hercule
Poirot,” 1962 episode; Martin Gabel); Lord Edgware Dies, 1934 (Austin Trevor);
Murder by the Book, 1986 (made-for-TV; Ian Holm); Murder in Three Acts, 1986
(made-for-TV; Peter Ustinov); Murder on
the Orient Express, 1974 (Albert Finney); Murder on the Orient Express,
2001 (made-for-TV; Alfred Molina); Revenge
of the Pink Panther, 1978 (Andrew Sachs); The Strange Case of the End of
Civilization as We Know It, 1977 (Dudley Jones); Thirteen at Dinner, 1985
(madefor-TV; Peter Ustinov).
Hercules
(AKA: Heracles, son of God Zeus in Greek mythology possessing great strength):
The Adventures of Hercules II, 1985 (Lou Ferrigno); The Conqueror of Atlantis,
1965 (Kirk Morris); Conquest of Mycene, 1963 (Gordon Scott); The Fury of
Hercules, 1963 (Brad Harris); Greek Gods and Goddesses: Jason and the
Argonauts, 2004 (madefor-TV; Nick Brimble); Helen of Troy, 1951 (Ake
Soderblom); Herakles, 1966 (made-for-TV; Martti Kuisma); Hercules, 1959 (Steeve
Reeves); Hercules, 1983 (Lou Ferrigno); Hercules,
1997 (Tate Donovan voiceover); Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; Tate Donovan
voiceover); Hercules, 2005- (TV miniseries; Paul Telfer; Jamie Croft as young
Hercules); Hercules, 2014 (Dwayne Johnson); Hercules Against the Barbarians,
1964 (Mark Forest); Hercules Against Rome, 1964 (Sergio Ciani); Hercules
Against the Moon Men, 1964 (Sergio Ciani); Hercules Against the Sons of the
Sun, 1964 (Mark Forest); Hercules and the Amazon Women, 1994 (made-for-TV;
Kevin Sorbo; Peter Malloch as young Hercules); Hercules and the Captive Women,
1963 (Reg Park); Hercules and the Haunted World, 1964 (Reg Park); Hercules and
the Princess of Troy, 1965 (made-for-TV; Gordon Scott); Hercules and the
Tyrants of
Babylon,
1964 (Peter Lupus); Hercules and the Valley of Woe, 1961 (Frank Gordon);
Hercules in New York, 1970 (Arnold Schwarzenegger);
Hercules in
the Maze of the Minotaur, 1994 (made-for-TV; Kevin
Sorbo);
Hercules in the Underworld, 1994 (made-for-TV; Kevin Sorbo); Hercules Reborn,
2014 (John Hennigan); Hercules Returns, 1993 (Des Mangan); Hercules’ Revenge,
1960 (Mark Forest); Hercules, Samson
&
Ulysses, 1965 (Kirk Morris); Hercules the Avenger, 1965 (Reg Park);
Hercules:
The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Eric Ober as adult Hercules); Hercules the
Invincible, 1964 (Dan Vadis); Hercules: The Legendary
Journeys –
Hercules and the Circle of Fire, 1994 (made-for-TV; Kevin Sorbo); Hercules: The
Legendary Journeys – Hercules and the Lost
Kingdom,
1994 (made-for-TV; Kevin Sorbo); Hercules Unchained,
1960 (Steve
Reeves); Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors, 1964 (Dan Vadis); Jason and the Argonauts, 1963 (Nigel
Green); Jason and the Argonauts, 2000- (TV series; Brian Thompson); Jason and
the Heroes of Mount Olympus, 2001- (TV series; Pat Fraley); The Legend of
Hercules, 2014 (Kellan Lutz); The Loves of Hercules, 1960 (Mickey Hargitay);
The Magnificent Gladiator, 1964 (Mark Forest); The Mighty Hercules, 1963-1966
(TV series; Jimmy Tapp voiceover); Miciste il vendicatore dei Maya, 1964 (Kirk
Morris); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series; Lawrence
Bayne); Samson and the Mighty Challenge, 1964 (Sergio Ciani); Space Sentinels,
1977 (TV series; George DiCenzo); The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, 1962 (Samson
Burke); The Thracian Horses, 1946 (made-for-TV; Andrew Cruickshank); Ulysses
Against Hercules, 1962 (Mike Lane); Vamping Venus, 1928 (Joe Bonomo); Xena:
Warrior Princess, 1995-2001 (TV series; Kevin Sorbo); Young Hercules, 1998-1999
(TV series; Ryan Gosling).
Hermes
(Greek god, son of Zeus and messenger of the gods; Mercury in Roman mythology):
Clash of the Titans, 2010 (Alexander
Siddig); Hercules, 1997 (Paul
Shaffer voiceover); Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; Paul Shaffer voiceover);
Hercules: The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Jeremy Jex); Jason and the Argonauts, 1963 (Michael Gwynn); Mythic Warriors:
Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series; Richard Clarkin, Stephen Bogaert);
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 2010 (Dylan Neal);
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, 2013 (Nathan Fillion); Persephone, 1952
(made-for-TV; Peter Symcox).
IAGO
Tommy Kelly (Tom Sawyer) and Jackie Moran
(Huckleberry Finn) in The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, 1938.
Huckleberry
Finn (character in the books of Mark Twain): The Adventures of Huck Finn, 1993
(Elijah Wood); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1955 (made-for-TV; Charles
Taylor); The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, 1960 Eddie Hodges); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1973 (Roman
Madyanov); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1981 (made-for-TV; Kurt Ida);
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1984 (made-for-TV; Simon Hinton voiceover);
The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1944
(Gene Holland); The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1985 (Gary Krug voiceover); The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1960 (TV series; Mark Strotheide); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1938
(Jackie Moran); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1980 (TV series;
Kazuyo Aoki
voiceover); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1986 (Scott Higgins voiceover); The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn, 1982
(made-for-TV; Vladislav Galkin [as Vladik Sukhachyov]);
Aventures
de Tom Sawyer, 1953 (TV series; Joao Manuel); Back to
Hannibal:
The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, 1990 (made-for-TV; Mitchell
Anderson); Climax!, 1954-1958 (TV seris; “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” 1955
episode: Charles Taylor); Excursion, 1953 (TV series; “The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn,” 1953 episode: Clifford Tatum Jr.); Fantasy Island, 1977-1984
(TV series; “The Angel’s Triangle/Natchez Bound,” 1982 episode: Adam Rich);
Huck and the King of Hearts, 1994 (Chauncey Leopardi); Huck and Tom, 1918
(Robert Gordon); Huckleberry Finn, 1920 (Lewis Sargent); Huckleberry Finn, 1931
(Junior Durkin); Huckleberry Finn [AKA:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn], 1939 (Mickey Rooney); Huckleberry Finn,
1967 (made-for-TV; Martin Lartigue); Huckleberry Finn, 1974 (Jeff East);
Huckleberry Finn, 1975 (made-for-TV; Ron Howard); Huckleberry Finn and His
Friends, 1979-1980 (TV series; Ian Tracey); Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter,
1979 (made-for-TV; Steve Stark); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
1968-1969 (TV series; Michael Shea); The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and
Huck Finn, 1982 (made-for-TV; Anthony Michael Hall); Sawyer and Finn, 1983
(madefor-TV; Michael Dudikoff); Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV
series; “Tom and Huck,’ 1960 episode: Teddy Rooney); Tom and Huck, 1995 (Brad
Renfro); Tom Sawyer, 1917 (Robert Gordon); Tom
Sawyer, 1930 (Junior Durkin); Tom Sawyer, 1973 (Jeff East); Tom
Sawyer, 1973 (made-for-TV; Jeff Tyler); Tom Sawyer, 2011 (Leon Seidel); Tom
Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, 2015 (Jake T. Austin); Tom Sawyer, Detective,
1938 (Donald O’Connor); The United States Steel
Hour,
1953-1963 (TV series; “Tom Sawyer,” 1956 episode: Jimmy Boyd; “The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn,” 1957 episode: Jimmy Boyd); Wishbone, 1995-1999 (TV
series; “A Tail in Twain,” two 1995 episodes: Christopher Reagan Ammons [as
Reagan Ammons]).
Humpty-Dumpty
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll): Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (W.C.
Fields); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Karl Swenson); Alice in
Wonderland, 1976 (Bruno Llacer); Alice in Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV; George
Muschamp); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Jonathan Winters); Alice in
Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You
Doing in a
Place Like This?, 1966 (animated made-for-TV; Allan
Melvin);
Alice Through the Looking Box, 1960 (made-for-TV; Harry
Secombe);
Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1966 (made-for-TV; Jimmy Durante); Alice
Through the Looking Glass, 1973 (made-forTV; Freddie Jones); Alice Through the
Looking Glass, 1987 (made-for-
TV; George
Gobel voiceover); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1998
(made-for-TV;
Desmond Barrit); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking
Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV; Jack Howarth); Geppetto’s Secret, 2005 (Bill Ratner);
Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; Richard Woods); Happily Ever After: Fairy
Tales for Every Child, 1995-2000 (TV series; Denzel Washington); Happily N’Ever
After,
2009 (Kelly
Brewster voiceover); Mother Goose: A Rappin’ ‘n’ Rhymin’
Special,
1997 (made-for-TV; Denzel Washington); Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, 1990
(made-for-TV; Howie Mandel); Miyuki-chan in Wonderland, 1995- (TV miniseries;
Masako Katsuki); Puss in Boots, 2011 (Zach Galifianakis); Theatre Parade,
1936-1938 (TV series; 1937 episode; Esme Percy).
Iago
(character in “Othello,” by William Shakespeare, c.1601, an insidious aide to
Othello who hates his master and plants suspicion in his master’s mind that another
aide is having an affair with Othello’s wife): BBC Sunday-Night Theatre,
1950-1959 (TV series; “Othello,” 1950 episode; Stephen Murray); Encounter
[General Motors Presents], 19521961 (TV series; “Othello,” 1953 episode; Joseph
Furst); Masterpiece
Playhouse,
1950- (TV series; “Othello,” 1950 episode; Alfred Ryder);
Otello,
1948 (made-for-TV; Leonard Warren); Otello, 1958 (Renato
Capecchi);
Otello, 1959 (made-for-TV; Tito Gobbi); Otello, 1962
(made-for-TV;
William Dooley); Otello, 1965 (made-for-TV; Norman
Mittelmann);
Otello, 1974 (Peter Glossop); Otello, 1976 (made-for-TV;
Piero
Cappuccilli); Otello, 1986 (Justino Diaz);
Otello, 2012 (Marco Vratogna); Othello, 1914 (Riccardo Tolentino); Othello,
1923 (Werner Krauss); Othello, 1937 (made-for-TV; Henry Oscar); Othello [1952], 1955 (Micheal
MacLiammoir); Othello, 1955 (made-for-TV; Paul
Rogers);
Othello, 1958 (made-for-TV; Howard Vernon); Othello [1955], 1960 (Andrei
Popov); Othello, 1962 (made-for-TV; Jean Topart); Othello, 1965 (made-for-TV;
Keith Lee); Othello, 1965 (Frank
Finlay); Othello, 1968 (made-for-TV; Stefan Wigger); Othello, 1969 (made-forTV;
Senne Rouffaer); Othello, 1979 (made-for-TV; Michel Duchaussoy); Othello, 1980
(Richard Dixon); Othello, 1981 (made-for-TV; Bob Hoskins); Othello, 1989
(made-for-TV; Richard Haddon Haines); OthICARUS
Pierce Brosnan (as James Bond) and
Joe Don Baker in GoldenEye, 1995.
ello, 1995 (Kenneth Branagh); The
Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, 1948-1956 (TV series; “Othello,” 1953
episode; Walter Matthau).
Icarus (in
Greek mythology who vainly flew to high on man-made wings and fell to his
death): Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; French Stewart voiceover); The Illiac
Passion, 1968 (Wayne Weber).
Injun Joe
(fictional character in the books of Mark Twain): The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, 1955 (made-for-TV; Sol Gorss); The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1938 (Victor Jory); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
1960 (TV series; John Bennett); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1986 (Michael
Pate voiceover); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, 1982
(made-for-TV; Talgat Nigmatulin); Climax!, 1954-1958 (TV seris; “Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn,” 1955 episode: Sol Gorss); Huck and Tom, 1918 (Frank
Lanning); Huckleberry Finn and His Friends, 1979-1980 (TV series; Alex Diakun);
Les aventures de Tom Sawyer, 1968 (TV miniseries; Jacques Bilodeau); The New
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1968-1969 (TV series; Ted Cassidy);
Shirley
Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “Tom and Huck,’ 1960 episode: Paul
Stevens); Tom Sawyer, 1930 (Charles
Stevens); Tom Sawyer, 1973 (Henry
O’Brien); Tom Sawyer, 1973 (made-for-TV;
Vic
Morrow); Tom Sawyer, 2011 (Benno Furmann); Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn,
2015 (Kaloian Vodenicharov); The United States Steel Hour, 1953-1963 (TV
series; “Tom Sawyer,” 1956 episode: Matt Mattox).
Inspector
Clouseau (Jacque Clouseau; bumbling French detective with the Paris Surete, who
falls afoul of every object and structure in his pursuit of criminals, so
mangling and botching his investigations that he drives his superior, Charles
Dreyfus, to the brink of insanity; see Charles Dreyfus, this index): Curse of
the Pink Panther, 1983 (Roger Moore); Inspector Clouseau, 1968 (Alan Arkin); The Pink Panther, 1964 (Peter Sellers);
The Pink Panther, 2006 (Steve Martin); The Pink Panther 2, 2009 (Steve Martin);
The Pink Panther Strikes Again, 1976
(Peter Sellers); The Return of the Pink
Panther, 1975 (Peter Sellers); Revenge
of the Pink Panther, 1978 (Peter Sellers); A Shot in the Dark, 1964 (Peter Sellers); Trail of the Pink
Panther, 1982 (Peter Sellers).
Ivanhoe
(fictional Saxon knight in the service of Richard I of England; also see
Richard I in Historical Persons index): The Ballad of the Valiant Knight
Ivanhoe, 1983 (Peteris Gaudins); Dark Knight, 2000- (TV series; Ben Pullen); Ivanhoe, 1952 (Robert Taylor); Ivanhoe,
1958- (TV series; Roger Moore); Ivanhoe, 1970- (TV miniseries; Eric Flynn);
Ivanhoe, 1982 (made-for-TV; Anthony Andrews); Ivanhoe, 1986 (made-for-TV; Lewis
Fitz-Gerald voiceover); Ivanhoe, 1997- (TV miniseries; Steven Waddington); The
Revenge of Ivanhoe, 1965 (Clyde Rogers [Rik Van Nutter]; Rainer Brandt
voiceover).
Invisible
Man (fictional character first appearing in H.G. Wells’ 1897 novella, The Invisible Man): Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948 (Vincent Price,
voiceover); Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, 1951 (Arthur Franz);
The ABC Saturday Night Superstar Movie, 1972-1974 (TV series; ‘The Mad, Mad,
Mad Monsters,” animated 1972 episode: Allen Swift voiceover); Attack of the 60
Foot Centerfold, 1995 (Tony Clay); Dragon Ball, 1995-2003 (animated TV series;
two 2002 episodes; Chuck Huber); H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, 1958-1960 (TV
series; Tim Turner, Johnny Scripps); Hotel
Transylvania, 2012 (David Spade voiceover); Hotel Transylvania 2, 2015 (David Spade voiceover); Invisible
Agent, 1942 (Jon Hall); The Invisible
Man, 1933 (Claude Rains); The Invisible Man, 1975-1976 (TV series; David
McCalum); The Invisible Man, 1984 (TV miniseries; Pip Donhagy); The
Invisible
Man, 1998 (made-for-TV; Kyle MacLachlan); The Invisible Man, 2000-2002 (TV
series; Vincent Ventresca); The Invisible Man, 2014 (TV miniseries; John
Hightower); The Invisible Man Returns,
1940
(Vincent Price); The Invisible Man’s Revenge, 1944 (Jon Hall); Lois &
Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 1993-1997 (TV series; “I’m Looking
Through You,” 1993 episode; Leslie Jordan, Bob McCracken); The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003 (Tony Curran); Mad Monster Party, 1967 (Allen
Swift voiceover); Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992 (Chevy Chase).
J.
Worthington Foulfellow (AKA: “Honest John”; a sly fox who inveigles a wooden
marionette into trouble before that puppet transforms into a real boy, a
fictional character in the 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi): The
Adventures of Pinocchio, 1972 (TV miniseries; Ciccio Ingrassia); The New
Adventures of Pinocchio, 1999 (Simon Schatzberger); Pinocchio, 1940 (Walter Catlett voiceover); Pinocchio, 2002 (Bruno
Arena); Pinocchio, 2008 (made-for-TV; Toni Bertorelli; Jimmy Hibbert
voiceover).
Jabberwocky
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Tom
McLoughlin);
Alice in Wonderland, 2010
(Christopher Lee); Alice
Through the
Looking Glass, 1966 (made-for-TV; Jack Palance); Alice Through the Looking
Glass, 1987 (made-for-TV; Mr. T. voiceover); The Alphabet Conspiracy, 1959
(Dolores Starr); The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland, 1987 (Keith Hampshire
voiceover); Jabberwocky, 1977 (Peter Salmon voiceover); Once Upon a Time in
Wonderland, 2013(TV series; Peta Sergeant).
Jack in the
Box (Mother Goose character): Babes in
Toyland, 1934 (Charles Bimbo; Buster Brodie); Babes in Toyland, 1986
(made-for-TV; Pipo Sosman); The Magic Land of Mother Goose, 1967 (Ebenezer
Lifting); The Mouse and His Child, 1977 (Robert Ridgely voiceover).
James Bond
(heroic British MI5 espionage agent with code name 007, a secret service
character created by novelist Ian Fleming): The Amazing Dr. G., 1968 (George
Hilton); Casino Royale, 1967 (David Niven); Casino Royale, 2006 (Daniel Craig); Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, 1977
(Alexander
Grand); Diamonds are Forever, 1971
(Sean Connery); Die Another Day,
2002 (Pierce Brosnan); Dr. No, 1962
(Sean Connery); For Your Eyes Only,
1981 (Roger Moore); From Russia with
Love,
1963 (Sean
Connery); Goldeneye, 1989 (made-for-TV; Reg Gadney); GoldenEye, 1995 (Pierce Brosnan); Goldfinger, 1964 (Sean Connery); License to Kill, 1989 (Timothy Dalton); Live and Let Die, 1973
(Roger
Moore); The
Living Daylights, 1987 (Timothy Dalton); Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond
Street, 1984 (Jean Mersant); The Man with the
Golden Gun,
1974 (Roger Moore); Moonraker, 1979
(Roger Moore); Never Say Never Again, 1983 (Sean Connery); Octopussy, 1983
(Roger Moore); On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service, 1969 (George Lazenby); Quantum of Solace, 2008 (Daniel Craig); Skyfall, 2012 (Daniel Craig);
Spectre, 2015 (Daniel Craig); The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977 (Roger
Moore);
That Woman, 1966 (Hans-Joachim Ketzlin); Thunderball,
1965 (Sean
Connery); Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997 (Pierce Brosnan); A View to Kill, 1985
(Roger Moore); You Only Live Twice,
1967 (Sean Connery).
James
Moriarty (Professor James Moriarty; fictional character and criminal
mastermind, as well as nemesis of Sherlock Holmes in the stories by Arthur
Conan Doyle; also see John H. Watson, Sebastian Moran and Sherlock Holmes, this
index): The Adventure of Sherlock
Holmes’ Smarter Brother, 1975 (Leo McKern); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1939 (George Zucco); The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1984-1985 (TV series; Eric Porter); The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, 1980 (TV series; Viktor
Yevgrafov); Elementary, 2012(TV series;
Natalie Dormer as Jamie Moriarty); Hands of a Murderer,
1990
(Anthony Andrews); The Hound of London, 1994 (made-for-TV;
Jack
Macreath); Mr. Holmes, 2015 (John
Sessions); The Return of
Sherlock
Holmes, 1929 (Harry T. Morey); The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1986-1988 (TV
series; Eric Porter); The Seven-Per-Cent
SoJEAN VALJEAN
Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine (as
Jane Eyre) in Jane Eyre, 1944.
lution, 1976 (Laurence Olivier); Sherlock,
2002 (made-for-TV; Vincent D’Onofrio); Sherlock Holmes, 1916 (Ernest Maupain); Sherlock Holmes, 1922 (Gustav von
Seyffertitz); Sherlock Holmes, 1932 (Ernest Torrence); Sherlock Holmes, 2011
(Daniel Rios); Sherlock Holmes: A Game
of Shadows, 2011 (Jared Harris); Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace,
1962 (Hans Sohnker); Sherlock Holmes and
the Secret Weapon, 1942 (Lionel Atwill); Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour, 1931
(Norman McKinnel); Sherlock Holmes in New York, 1976 (made-for-
TV; John
Huston); Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, 1999-2001 (TV series; Richard
Newman); Silver Blaze (AKA: Murder at the Baskervilles), 1937 (Lyn Harding);
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes, 1935 (Lyn Harding); The Valley of Fear, 1916
(Booth Conway); Without a Clue, 1988
(Paul Freeman); The Woman in Green,
1945 (Henry Daniell).
Jane Eyre (heroine
in Chalotte Bronte’s 1847 novel): Jane Eyre, 1921
(Mabel
Ballin); Jane Eyre, 1934 (Virginia Bruce; Jean Darling as young Jane); Jane Eyre, 1944 (Joan Fontaine; Peggy
Ann Garner as young Jane); Jane Eyre, 1956 (TV series; Daphne Slater); Jane
Eyre, 1957 (TV miniseries; Ilaria Occhini); Jane Eyre, 1958 (made-for-TV; Mia
Goossen); Jane Eyre, 1961 (made-for-TV; Sally Ann Howes); Jane Eyre, 1963 (TV
series; Ann Bell); Jane Eyre, 1968 (Hristina Sylva); Jane Eyre,
1970
(made-for-TV; Susannah York; Sara Gibson as young Jane); Jane
Eyre, 1973-
(TV miniseries; Sorcha Cusack; Juliet Waley as young Jane); Jane Eyre, 1996
(Charlotte Gainsbourg; Anna Paquin as young Jane); Jane Eyre, 1997
(made-for-TV; Samantha Morton; Laura Harling as young Jane); Jane Eyre, 2006-
(TV miniseries; Ruth Wilson; Georgie Henley as young Jane); Jane Eyre, 2011 (Mia Wasikowska; Amelia
Clarkson as young Jane); Dead Ringers, 2002-2007 (TV series; 2004 episode;
India Fisher); Guiding Light, 1952-2009 (TV series; 1981 episode; Lisa Brown);
Kraft Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; ‘Jane Eyre,” 1951 episode; Kathleen
Crowley); Matinee Theatre, 1955-1958 (TV series; “Jane Eyre,” 1957 episode;
Joan Elan); Monodrama Theater, 1952- (TV series; “Jane Eyre,” 1953 episode; Jan
Sherwood); Orphan of Lowood, 1926 (Evelyn Holt); Studio One in Hollywood,
1948-1958 (TV series; “Jane Eyre,” 1949 episode; Mary Sinclair; “Jane Eyre,”
1952 episode; Katharine Bard); Woman and Wife, 1918 (Alice Brady).
Jason (in
Greek mythology, a hero who led the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece): Jason and the Argonauts, 1963 (Todd
Armstrong; Tim Tuner voiceover); Jason and the Argonauts, 2000 (TV miniseries;
Jason London); Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus, 2001- (animated TV
series; Miles Marsico voiceover); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend,
1998- (TV series; David Orth, Kevin Duhaney as young Jason); Young Hercules,
1998-1999 (TV series; Chris Conrad).
Jay Gatsby
(romantic, wealthy gangster-bootlegger of the 1920s who loves a married woman
from afar, meeting a tragic and ironic death, a character created by pantheon
author F. Scott Fitzgerald in his classic 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby): The Great
Gatsby, 1926 (Warner Baxter); The
Great Gatsby, 1949 (Alan Ladd); The
Great Gatsby, 1974 (Robert Redford); The Great Gatsby, 2001 (made-for-TV;
Toby
Stephens); The Great Gatsby, 2013 (Leonardo
DiCaprio); Playhouse
90,
1956-1961 (TV series; “The Great Gatsby,” 1958 episode; Robert Ryan); Robert
Montgomery Presents, 1950-1957 (TV series; “The Great Gatsby,” 1955 episode;
Robert Montgomery).
Jean
Passepartout (loyal, bumbling servant to Phileas Fogg, a British gentleman who
makes an impossible wager that he can go around the world in eighty days, first
depicted in the 1873 adventure novel, Around
the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne): Around the World in Eighty Days,
1919 (Eugen Rex); Around the World in 80
Days, 1956 (Cantinflas); Around the World in Eighty Days, 1972-1973 (TV
series; Ross Higgins); Around the World in 80 Days, 1989 (TV miniseries; Eric
Idle); Around the World in 80 Days, 2004 (Jackie Chan); De reis om de wereld in
80 dagen, 1957- (TV series; Cyriel Van Gent); Die Reise um die Erde in 80
Tagen, 1963 (made-for-TV; Uwe-Detlev Jessen); Le Tour du monde en 80 jours,
1975 (TV miniseries; Pierre Trabaud); Le tour du monde en 80 jours, 1979
(made-for-TV; Roger Pierre); Le tour du monde en 80 jours, 1980 (TV series;
Charles Caunant); The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, 2000 (TV series; Michel
Courtemanche).
Jean
Valjean (French peasant who steals a loaf of bread and endures living hell in
prison until escaping, but who is doggedly tracked by police inspector Javert
in the 1862 novel Les Miserables by
Victor Hugo): Les Miserables, 1913 (Henry Krauss); Les Miserables, 1917
(William
Farnum); Les Miserables, 1935 (Fredric March);
Les Miserables, 1936
(Harry
Baur); Les Miserables, 1952 (Gino Cervi); Les
Miserables, 1952 (Michael Rennie); Les Miserables, 1958 (Jean Gabin); Les
Miserables, 1967- (TV series; Frank Finlay); Les Miserables, 1972- (TV
miniseries; Georges Geret); Les Miserables, 1978 (made-for-TV; Richard Jordan);
Les Miserables, 1982 (Lino Ventura); Les
Miserables, 1995 (Jean-Paul Belmondo); Les
Miserables, 1998 (Liam Neeson); Les Miserables, 2000- (TV miniseries;
Gerard Depardieu); Los miserables, 1943 (Domingo Soler); Los miserables, 1973-
(TV series; Sergio Bustamante); Medallion Theatre, 1953-1954 (TV series; “The
Bishop’s
Candlesticks,” 1953 episode; Victor Jory); Novela, 1963-1978
(TV series;
“Los miserable,” eighteen episodes in 1971; Jose Calvo); Soul of Humanity, 1926
(Gabriel Gabrio); Your Show Time, 1949- (TV series; “The Bishop’s Experiment,”
1949 episode; Leif Erickson).
JIM
Winona Ryder (as Jo March) in Little Women, 1994.
Jim (black
slave and character in the books of Mark Twain): The Adventures of Huck Finn,
1993 (Courtney B. Vance); The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn, 1960 Archie Moore); The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, 1973 (Feliks Imokuede); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1981
(made-for-TV; Brock Peters); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1984
(made-for-TV; Alistair Duncan voiceover); The
Adventures of Mark Twain, 1944 (Frederick Spencer); The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer, 1980 (TV series; Ikuo Nishikawa voiceover); The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, 1982 (made-for-TV; Behailu Mengesha); Back to
Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry
Finn, 1990 (made-for-TV; Paul Winfield); Excursion, 1953 (TV series; “The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” 1953 episode: Sugar Ray Robinson); Huckleberry
Finn, 1920 (George Reed); Huckleberry Finn, 1931 (Clarence Muse); Huckleberry Finn, 1939 (AKA: The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Rex Ingram); Huckleberry Finn, 1974 (Paul
Winfield); Huckleberry Finn, 1975 (made-for-TV; Antonio Fargas); Huckleberry
Finn and His Friends, 1979-1980 (TV series; Blu Makuma); Les aventures de Tom
Sawyer, 1968 (TV miniseries; Serge Nubret); Sawyer and Finn, 1983 (made-for-TV;
Stack Pierce); Tom Sawyer, 2011 (Jaymes Butler as John the Slave).
Jim Hawkins
(British youth working in his mother’s seaside inn who discoves a treasure map
that leads to a great adventure in Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel, Treasure Island): The Adventures of Ben
Gunn,
1958- (TV
series; John H. Watson); The Adventures of Long John Silver,
1955- (TV;
Kit Taylor); The DuPont Show of the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; ‘Treasure
Island,” Richard O’Sullivan); The Legends of Treasure Island, 1993-1995 (TV
series; John Hasler); Long John Silver, 1954 (Kit Taylor); Muppet Treasure
Island, 1996 (Kevin Bishop); National Theatre Live: Treasure Island, 2015
(Patsy Ferran); Pirates of Treasure Island, 2006 (Tom Nagel); Return to
Treasure Island, 1986 (TV miniseries; Christopher Guard); Return to Treasure
Island, 1988 (animated; Valery Bessarab voiceover); Return to Treasure Island,
1996 (made-for-TV; Dean O’Gorman); Schatteneiland, 1957- (TV series; Alex
Wilequet); Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “The Return of
Long John Silver,” 1961 episode; Tim O’Connor); Studio One in Hollywood,
1948-1958 (TV series; “Treasure Island,” 1952 episode; Peter Avarmo); Treasure
Island, 1918 (Francis Carpenter); Treasure Island, 1920 (Shirley Mason); Treasure Island, 1934 (Jackie Cooper); Treasure Island, 1950 (Bobby Driscoll);
Treasure Island, 1951- (TV series; John Quayle); Treasure Island, 1957- (TV
series; Richard Palmer); Treasure Island, 1968- (TV series; Michael Newport);
Treasure Island, 1972 (Kim Burfield); Treasure Island, 1973 (animated; Davy
Jones voiceover); Treasure Island, 1977 (TV miniseries; Ashley Knight);
Treasure Island, 1978 (animated TV series; Mari Shimizu voiceover); Treasure
Island, 1982 (made-for-TV; Piers Eady); Treasure Island, 1990 (made-for-TV;
Christian Bale); Treasure Island, 1995 (made-for-TV; Gregory Hall); Treasure
Island, 2001 (Kevin Zegers); Treasure Island, 2007 (Francois Goeske); Treasure
Island, 2012 (Toby Regbo); Treasure Island in Outer Space, 1987 (TV miniseries;
Itaco Nardulli).
Jiminy
Cricket (a talking cricket who becomes the friend and conscience of a marionette
that transform into a real boy, a fictional character in the 1883 children’s
novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by
Italian author Carlo Collodi): The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1947 (Cristina
Pagliarini); The Adventures of Pinocchio,
1996 (David Doyle voiceover); A Disney Channel Christmas, 1983 (made-for-TV;
Eddie Carroll); DTV “Doggone” Valentine, 1987 (made-for-TV; Eddie Carroll); DTV
Valentine, 1986 (made-for-TV; Eddie Carroll); Fun and Fancy Free, 1947 (Cliff
Edwards); The Mickey Mouse Club, 1955-1958 (TV series; Cliff Edwards); Once
Upon a Time, 2011 (TV series; Raphael Sbarge);
Pinocchio, 1940 (Cliff Edwards voiceover);
Pinocchio, 2002 (Peppe Barra); Pinocchio, 2008 (made-for-TV; Luciana
Littizzetto); Pinocchio, 2013 (TV miniseries; Anke Engelke); Walt Disney’s
Wonderful World of Color, 1959-1992 (TV series; Cliff Edwards, Eddie
Carroll).
Jo March
(one of four teenage sisters who finds romance as she and her siblings mature
in a Massachusetts household during the American Civil War as profiled in
Louisa May Alcott’s timeless novel, Little
Women, 1868-1869): The Ford Theatre Hour, 1948-1951 (TV series; “Little
Women,”
1949 episode; ); Good Wives, 1958 (TV series; Annabelle Lee); Great
Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Little Women,” 2001 episode; Stephanie
Novacek); Jo’s Boys, 1959 (TV series; Annabelle Lee); Little Women, 1917 (Ruby
Miller); Little Women, 1918 (Dorothy Bernard); Little Women, 1933 (Katharine Hepburn); Little Women, 1949 (June Allyson); Little Women, 1950- (TV series;
Jane Hardie); Little Women, 1958 (TV series; Andree Melly); Little Women, 1958
(made-for-TV; Jeannie Carson); Little Women, 1970 (TV miniseries; Angela Down);
Little Women, 1978 (TV miniseries; Susan Dey); Little Women, 1994 (Winona Ryder); Matinee Theatre, 1955-1958 (TV
series; “Little Women,” 1956 episode; Judith Braun); NBC Special Treat,
19751986 (TV series; “Little Women,” 1976 episode; Susan Hendl); Studio One in
Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series; “Little Women: Jo’s Story,” 1950 episode; Mary
Sinclair; Nancy Marchand; “Little Women: Meg’s Story,” 1950 episode; Nancy
Marchand).
John Henry
(U.S. folklore hero, legendary steel driver): Tall Tale: The
Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill, 1995 (Roger Aaron Brown); Tall Tales
and Legends, 1985-1988 (TV series; “John Henry,” 1986 episode; Danny Glover).
John H.
Watson (Dr. Watson, close companion to Sherlock Holmes; fictional character
appearing in the four novels and fifty-six short stories about super detective
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; also see James Moriarty, Sebastian
Moran, and Sherlock Holmes, this index): The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1939 (Nigel Bruce); The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes, 1984-1985 (TV series; David Burke); The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes and Dr. Watson, 1980 (TV series; Vitali
Solomin);
The Baker Street Boys, 1983 (TV series; Hubert Rees); The
Case of
Marcel Duchamp, 1984 (Raymond Francis); The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire,
2002 (made-for-TV; Kenneth Welsh); The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, 1991-1993
(TV series; Edward Hardwicke); Crazy House, 1943 (Nigel Bruce); The Crucifer of
Blood, 1991 (madefor-TV; Richard Johnson); Der Hund von Baskerville, 1929
(George Seroff); Dressed to Kill,
1946 (Nigel Bruce); Elementary, 2012- (TV series; Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson);
Hands of a Murderer, 1990 (John Hillerman); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1915
(Alwin Neuss); The
Hound of
the Baskervilles, 1932 (Frederick Lloyd); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1937
(Fritz Odemar); The Hound of the Baskervilles,
1939 (Nigel Bruce); The Hound of the
Baskervilles, 1959 (Andre Morell); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1972
(made-for-TV; Bernard Fox); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1980 (Dudley Moore);
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1981 (made-for-TV; Vitali Solomin); The Hound of
the Baskervilles, 1982 (TV miniseries; Terence Rigby); The Hound of the
Baskervilles, 1983 (made-for-TV; Donald Churchill); The Hound of the
Baskervilles, 1988 (made-for-TV; Edward Hardwicke); The Hound of the
Baskervilles, 2000 (made-for-TV; Kenneth Welsh); The Hound of the Baskervilles,
2003 (made-for-TV; Ian Hart); The Hound of London, 1994 (made-for-TV; John
Scott-Paget); The House of Fear,
1945 (Nigel Bruce); Incident at Victoria Falls, 1992 (made-for-TV; Patrick
Macnee);
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, 1937 (AKA: Two Merry Adventurers; Heinz
Ruhmann impersonating Dr. Watson); The
Memoirs of
Sherlock Holmes, 1994 (TV series; Edward Hardwicke); Mr. Holmes, 2015 (Colin
Starkey); Murder by Decree, 1979
(James
Mason); The Pearl of Death,
1944 (Nigel Bruce); The Private Life of
Sherlock Holmes, 1970 (Colin Blakely); Pursuit to Algiers, 1945
(Nigel
Bruce); The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1929 (H. Reeves-
Smith); The
Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1987 (made-for-TV; Margaret
Colin as
Jane Watson); The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1986-1988 (TV JULES MAIGRET
Nigel Bruce (as Dr. John H. Watson)
and Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) in Sherlock
Holmes Faces Death, 1943.
series; Edward
Hardwicke); The Royal Scandal, 2001 (made-for-TV; Kenneth Welsh); The Scarlet Claw, 1944 (Nigel Bruce); The Seven-
Per-Cent Solution, 1976 (Robert Duvall); Sherlock,
2002 (made-forTV; Roger Morlidge); Sherlock Holmes, 1916 (Edward Fielding);
Sherlock Holmes, 1922 (Roland Young); Sherlock
Holmes, 1932 (Reginald Owen); Sherlock Holmes, 1951 (TV miniseries; Raymond
Francis); Sherlock Holmes, 1954-1955 (TV series; Howard MarionCrawford);
Sherlock Holmes, 1964-1968 (TV series; Nigel Stock); Sherlock Holmes, 1967-1968
(TV series; Paul Edwin Roth); Sherlock
Holmes, 2009 (Jude Law); Sherlock Holmes, 2011 (Charles Simon); Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,
2011 (Jude Law); Sherlock
Holmes and
a Study in Scarlet, 1983 (Earle Cross voiceover); Sherlock
Holmes and
Dr. Watson: The Bloody Inscription, 1979 (made-for-TV; Vitali Solomin);
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, 2007 (made-for-TV; Bill
Paterson); Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse, 1983 (Earle Cross
voiceover); Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, 2004
(made-for-TV; Ian Hart); Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, 1962 (Thorley
Walters); Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady, 1991 (made-for-TV; Patrick
Macnee); Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death, 1984 (made-for-TV; John
Mills); Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Rembrandt, 1932 (Ian Fleming); Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon,
1942 (Nigel Bruce); Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow Watchers, 2011 (Terry Wade);
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four, 1983 (Earle Cross voiceover); Sherlock
Holmes and the Valley of Fear, 1983 (Earle Cross voiceover); Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror,
1942 (Nigel Bruce); Sherlock Holmes
Faces Death, 1943 (Nigel Bruce); Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour, 1931 (Ian
Fleming); ); Sherlock Holmes in China, 1994 (Zhongquan Xu); Sherlock Holmes in
New York, 1976 (made-for-TV; Patrick Macnee); Sherlock Holmes in Washington, 1943 (Nigel Bruce); Sherlock Holmes
in the 22nd Century, 1999-2001 (TV series; John Payne); The Sign of Four:
Sherlock Holmes’ Greatest Case, 1932 (Ian Hunter); The Sign of Four, 1983
(made-for-TV; David Healy); The Sign of Four, 1988 (made-forTV; Edward
Hardwicke); The Sign of Four, 2001 (made-for-TV; Kenneth Welsh); Silver Blaze
(AKA: Murder at the Baskervilles), 1937 (Ian Fleming); The Speckled Band, 1931 (Athole Stewart); The Spider Woman, 1944 (Nigel Bruce); The Strange Case of the End
of Civilization as We Know It, 1977 (Arthur Lowe); A Study in Scarlet, 1933
(Warburton Gamble); A Study in Terror,
1966 (Donald Houston); Terror by Night,
1946 (Nigel Bruce); The Three Garridebs, 1937 (made-forTV; William Podmore);
Touha Sherlocka Holmese, 1971 (Vaclav Voska); The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes,
1935 (Ian Fleming);The Valley of Fear, 1916 (Arthur M. Cullin); Without a Clue, 1988 (Ben Kingsley); The Woman in Green, 1945 (Nigel Bruce);
The Xango from Baker Street, 2002 (Anthony O’Donnell); Young Sherlock Holmes, 1985 (Alan Cox; older Watson in voiceover:
Michael Hordern).
The Joker
(fictional evil character in the Batman series): Batman, 1966-
1968 (TV
series; Cesar Romero); Batman, 1989
(Jack Nicholson); The
Batman,
2004-2008 (TV series; Kevin Michael Richardson voiceover);
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, 1993 (Mark Hamill voiceover); The
Batman/Superman Hour, 1968-1969 (animated TV series; Larry Storch voiceover);
Batman: The Animated Series, 1992-1995 (TV series; Mark Hamill voiceover);
Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV series; Jeff Bennett
voiceover); The Batman Superman Movie: World’s Finest, 1997 (made-for-TV; Mark Hamill
voiceover); The New Batman Adventures, 1997-1999 (TV series; Mark Hamill
voiceover); Superman, 1996-2000 (TV series; Mark Hamill voiceover).
Judah
Ben-Hur (Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus Christ, a
fictional protagonist in the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace entitled: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ): Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 1925
(Raymond Novarro); Ben-Hur, 1959
(Charlton Heston); Ben Hur, 2010 (TV miniseries; Joseph Morgan).
Jules
Maigret (pensive, pipe-smoking Paris detective created by French author Georges
Simenon in 1931 and who appeared in dozens of short stories and novels): Afera
Saint-Fiacre, 1963 (made-for-TV; Ljuba Tadic); BBC Play of the Month, 1965-1983
(TV series; “Maigret at Bay,” 1969 episode; Rupert Davies); BBC Sunday-Night
Theatre, 19501959 (TV series; “Maigret and the Lost Life,” 1959 episode; Basil
Sydney); Cecile is Dead, 1944 (Albert Prejean); Enter Inspector Maigret, 1966
(Heinz Ruhmann); Full House, 1952 (Michel Simon); Inspector Maigret, 1958 (Jean
Gabin); La tete d’un homme, 1933 (Harry Baur);
Le
inchieste del commissario Maigret, 1964- (TV series; Gino Cervi);
Les
enquetes du commissaire Maigret, 1967-1990 (TV series; Jean
Richard);
Liberty Bar, 1960 (made-for-TV; Louis Arbessier); Maigret, 1959-1963 (TV
series; Rupert Davies); Maigret, 1964-1968 (TV series;
Jan
Teulings); Maigret, 1988 (made-for-TV; Richard Harris); Maigret, 1991 (TV
series; Bruno Cremer); Maigret, 1992- (TV series; Michael Gambon); Maigret a
Pigalle, 1966 (Gino Cervi); Maigret and the Old
Lady, 1974
(Boris Tenin); Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case, 1959 (Jean Gabin); Maigret: De
kruideniers, 1964 (made-for-TV; Kees Brusse); Maigret dirige l’enquete, 1955
(Maurice Manson); Maigret: La trappola, 2004 (made-for-TV; Sergio Castellitto);
Maigret: L’ombra cinese, 2004
(made-for-TV;
Sergio Castellitto); Maigret Sets a Trap, 2016 (made-for-
TV; Rowan
Atkinson); Maigret voit rouge, 1963 (Jean Gabin); Maigret’s Dead Man, 2016
(made-for-TV; Rowan Atkinson); Majestic Hotel Cellars, 1945 (Albert Prejean); The Man on the Eiffel Tower, 1949
(Charles Laughton); Night at the Crossroads, 1932 (Pierre Renoir); PicJULIET
Claire Danes (as Juliet) in Romeo + Juliet, 1996.
pus, 1943 (Albert
Prejean); Signe Furax, 1981 (Jean Richard); Suspense, 1949-1954 (TV series;
“The Old Lady of Bayeux,” 1952 episode; Luis Van Rooten); The Trap, 1950- (TV
series; “Stan, the Killer,” 1950 episode; Herbert Berghof); The Yellow Dog,
1932 (Abel Tarride).
Juliet
(fictional character and star-crossed lover of Romeo in William Shakespeare’s
1597 play “Romeo and Juliet”; see Romeo, this index):
BBC Play of
the Month, 1965-1983 (TV series; “Romeo and Juliet,”
1967
episode; Kika Markham); BBC Sunday Night Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Romeo
and Juliet,” 1955 episode; Virginia McKenna); The
Hollywood
Review of 1929, 1929 (Norman Shearer); Kraft Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series;
“Romeo and Juliet,” 1954 episode; Susan Strasberg); The Philco-Goodyear
Television Playhouse, 1948-1956 (TV series; “Romeo and Juliet,” 1949 episode;
Patricia Breslin); Producers’ Showcase, 1954-1957 (TV series; “Romeo and
Juliet,” 1957 episode; Claire Bloom); Romeo and Juliet, 1916 (Beverly Bayne);
Romeo and Juliet, 1916 (Theda Bara); Romeo
and Juliet, 1936 (Norma Shearer); Romeo and Juliet, 1947 (made-for-TV;
Rosalie Crutchley); Romeo and Juliet,
1954 (Susan Shentall); Romeo and Juliet, 1956 (Galina Ulanova); Romeo and
Juliet, 1962 (TV series; Jane Asher); Romeo and Juliet, 1965 (Angela Scoular);
Romeo and Juliet, 1966 (ballet; Margot Fonteyn); Romeo and Juliet, 1968 (Olivia Hussey); Romeo and Juliet,
1976
(made-for-TV; Ann Hasson); Romeo and Juliet, 1978 (made-forTV; Rebecca Saire);
Romeo & Juliet, 1982 (ballet; Carla Fracci); Romeo and Juliet, 1984
(British Royal Ballet at Covent Garden; Alessandra Ferri); Romeo & Juliet,
1993 (Megan Follows); Romeo & Juliet, 1994 (Geraldine Somerville); Romeo
and Juliet on Ice, 1983 (made-for-TV;
Dorothy
Hamill); Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss, 2006 (animated animal version;
Tricia Trippett voiceover); Romeo +
Juliet, 1996 (Claire Danes); Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, 1992-1994 (TV
miniseries; “Romeo and Juliet,” 1992 episode; Clare Holman voiceover).
Juno (Roman
goddess of women, wife of Jupiter; Hera in Greek mythology): Hercules in New
York, 1970 (Tanny McDonald); In Performance, 1978- (TV series; “Orpheus in the
Underworld,” 1983 episode; Honor Blackman); Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the
Underworld, 1997 (made-for-TV; Jacqueline van Quaille); Orphee aux enfers, 1997
(madefor-TV; Lydie Pruvot); Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 1975 (Lisa Macheiner);
Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 2007 (made-for-TV; Inge Meysel); Platee, 1977
(made-for-TV; Suzanne Sarrocca); Platee, 2000 (made-for-TV; Doris Lamprecht);
Rome in a Day, 2008 (Nina Gorden); The Temple of Venus, 1923 (Marilyn Boyd);
The Triumph of Venus, 1918 (Beatrice Armstrong); Vamping Venus, 1928 (Janet
MacLeod); Vulcan, Son of Giove, 1962 (Yvonne Sire).
Jupiter (or
Jove; Roman god; father of the gods; Zeus in Greek mythology): Amphitryon, 1935
(Willy Fritsch); Amphitryon, 1961 (made-forTV; Peter Pasetti); Amphitryon, 1978
(made-for-TV; Hartmut Puls); Amphitryon, 1981 (made-for-TV; Christian Rode);
Amphitryon, 2003
(made-for-TV;
Jean-Pierre Michael); Amphitryon 38, 1963 (made-forTV; Hermann Lenschau); In
Performance, 1978- (TV series; “Orpheus in the Underworld,” 1983 episode; Denis
Quilley); Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld, 1997 (made-for-TV; Dale
Duesing); Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus, 2001- (animated TV series; Tom
Bosley voiceover); Orphee aux enfers, 1997 (made-for-TV; Laurent Naouri);
Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 1975 (Rolf Hoppe); Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 2007
(made-for-TV; Toni Blankenheim); Orpheus in the Underworld, 1961 (made-for-TV;
Eric Shilling); Platee, 1977 (made-forTV; Roger Soyer); Platee, 2000
(made-for-TV; Vincent Le Texier);
Rome in a
Day, 2008 (Andrew Russell Stewart); The Triumph of Venus, 1918 (John Fedris);
Vamping Venus, 1928 (Gustav von Seyffertitz); Vulcan, Son of Giove, 1962 (Furio
Meniconi).
Katharina
(tempestuous man-eating beauty who is tamed and married by Petruchio in William
Shakespeare’s 1594 play, “The Taming of the Shrew”): BBC Sundayh-Night Theatre,
1950-1959 (TV series; “The Taming of the Shrew,” 1952 episode; Margaret
Johnston); Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Kiss Me Kate,” 2003 episode;
Rachel York); Kate: The Taming of the Shrew, 2004 (Daniela Cavallini);
Katharine and Petruchio, 1939 (made-for-TV; Margaretta Scott); Kiss Me Kate, 1953 (Kathryn Grayson);
Kiss Me Kate, 1968 (made-for-TV; Carol Lawrence); La bisbetica domata, 1942
(Lilia Silvi); La fierecilla domada, 1956 (Carmen Sevilla); Shakespeare: The
Animated Tales, 1993-1994 (TV series; “The Taming of the Shrew,” 1994 episode;
Amanda
Root); Studio One in Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series; “The Taming of the
Shrew,” 1950 episode; Lisa Kirk); The Taming of the Shrew, 1929 (Mary
Pickford); The Taming of the Shrew, 1956 (madefor-TV; Lilli Palmer); The Taming
of the Shrew, 1962 (made-for-TV; Brigid Lenihan); The Taming of the Shrew, 1967 (Elizabeth Taylor);
The Taming
of the Shrew, 1973 (made-for-TV; Carol MacReady); The Taming of the Shrew, 1976
(made-for-TV; Fredi Olster); The Taming of the Shrew, 1980 (made-for-TV; Sarah
Badel); The Taming of the Shrew, 1982 (made-for-TV; Sharry Flett); The Taming
of the Shrew, 1988 (made-for-TV; Goldie Semple).
Kay (legendary
knight and foster brother of King Arthur in 6th Century
Britain):
The Adventures of Sir Galahad, 1949 (serial; Jim Diehl); The
Adventures
of Sir Lancelot, 1956-1957 (TV series; David Morrell/Brian
Worth);
Camelot, 2011 (TV miniseries; Peter Mooney); A Connecticut Yankee, 1955
(made-for-TV; John Conte); A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1949 (George Cathrey); Excalibur, 1981 (Niall O’Brien); First Knight, 1995 (Christopher Villiers); The Legend of Prince
Valiant, 1991-1994 (TV series; Jameson Parker); The Mists of
Avalon,
2001 (made-for-TV; Honza Klima); Prince
Valiant, 1954 (Tom Conway); Prince Valiant, 1997 (Zach Galligan); The Sword and the Stone, 1963 (Norman
Alden voiceover); Sword of Lancelot, 1963 (Joseph Tomelty).
Kim
(Kimball O’Hara; Irish-born orphan boy who becomes a secret agent for the
British in India during the days of Victorial colonialism, a character created
by Rudyard Kipling in his 1901 novel, Kim):
Kim, 1950 (Dean Stockwell); Kim,
1955 (TV series; David Jose); Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series;
“Kim,” 1960 episode; Tony Haig); Kim, 1984 (made-for-TV; Ravi Sheth).
King of
Hearts (fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author
Lewis Carroll):
Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (N. R. Cregan); Alice
in Wonderland, 1933 (Alec B. Francis); Alice in Wonderland, 1949 (David
Reed voiceover); Alice in Wonderland,
1951 (Dink Trout voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Hiram
Sherman); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Peter Sellers); Alice in
Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV; Oliver Osterberg); Alice in Wonderland, 1985
(made-for-TV; Robert Morley); Alice in Wonderland, 1986 (madefor-TV; four
30-minute segments; Brian Oulton); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV;
Simon Russell Beale); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Dennis
Price).
Knave of
Hearts (fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis
Carroll): Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (Patrick Glasgow); Alice in Wonderland,
1955 (made-for-TV; Tom Bosley); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Peter
Eyre); Alice in Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-
TV; Michael
De Leon); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; James Joseph Galante); Alice
in Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV; four
30-minute
segments; Mark Bassenger); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Jason
Flemyng); Alice in Wonderland, 2010
(Crispin Glover); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Rodney Bewes).
Lady de
Winter (Charater in the fictional works of Alexander Dumas pere): Animated
Three Musketeers, 1987 (TV series; Fumi Hirano); BibLANCELOT
Rebecca De Mornay (as Lady de Winter)
in The Three Musketeers, 1993.
lioteca di
Studio Uno: I tre moschettieri, 1964 (made-for-TV; Lucia Mannucci); D’Artagnan,
1969 (TV miniseries; D’Artagnon, 1991 (made-for-TV; Valerie Zarrouk); Antonella
Lualdi); D’Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires, 2005 (Emmanuelle Beart);
D’Artanyan i tri mushketyora, 1979 (TV series; Margarita Terekhova); De drie
Musketiers, 1968 (made-for-TV; Chris Lomme); Die Drie Musketiere, 2013
(Ekaterina Vilkova); Family Classics: The Three Musketeers, 1960
(made-for-TV;
Patricia Cutts); The Four Charlots Musketeers, 1974 (Karin Petersen); The Four
Musketeers, 1963 (Lisa Gastoni); The Four
Musketeers, 1975 (Faye Dunaway); The Glorious Musketeers, 1974 (Perrette
Pradier voiceover); I tre moschettieri, 1991 (made-for-TV; Marina Morgan); The Iron Mask, 1929 (Dorothy Revier);
La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros, 1983 (Nadiuska); Les 3 Mousquetaires,
1953 (Yvonne Sanson); Les trois mousquetaires, 1959 (made-for-TV; Gaby Sylvia);
Les trois mousquetaires ou L’escrime ne paie pas, 1979 (madefor-TV; Maria
Laborit); Les trois mousquetaires: Premiere epoque – Les ferrets de la reine,
1961 (Mylene Demongeot); The Magnavox Theater, 1950 (TV series; “The Three
Musketeers,” 1950 episode: Kristine
Miller);
Milady and the Three Musketeers, 2004 (made-for-TV; Arielle Dombasle); The
Musketeers, 2014 (TV series; Maimie McCoy); Os tres Mosqueteiros, 1957 (TV
series; Vida Alves); Three and a Half Musketeers, 1957 (Martha Valdes); The Three Musketeers, 1921 (Barbara La
Marr); Three Musketeers, 1932 (Edith Mera); The Three Musketeers,
1939
(Binnie Barnes); The Three Musketeers,
1948 (Lana Turner); The Three Musketeers, 1954 (TV series; Adrienne Corri); The
Three Musketeers, 1966 (TV miniseries; Mary Peach); The Three Musketeers, 1974 (Faye Dunaway); The Three Musketeers,
1986 (made-forTV; Kate Fitzpatrick voiceover); The Three Musketeers, 1993 (Rebecca De Mornay); The Three
Musketeers, 2007 (Maria Stokholm voiceover); The Three Musketeers, 2011 (Milla
Jovovich); Tri mushketera, 2013 (Ekaterina Vilkova); Vengeance of the Three
Musketeers, 1961 (Mylene Demongeot); Vingt ans apre, 1922 (Pierrette Madd); Tri
musketyri, 1983 (TV miniseries; Hana Maciuchova).
Lady
Macbeth (power-crazed wife of a Scottish nobleman who drives him to murder in
order to acquire the throne, a character appearing in William Shakespeare’s
1606 play): BBC Play of the Month, 1965-1983 (TV series; “Macbeth,” 1975
episode; Janet Suzman); Crimson Curtain, 1952 (Monelle Valentin); Folio,
1955-1959 (TV series; “Macbeth,” 1955 episode; Katharine Blake); Great
Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Macbeth,” 2010 episode; Kate Fleetwood); Kraft
Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; “Macbeth,” 1950 episode; Uta Hagen); Macbeth,
1913 (Violet Vanbrugh); Macbeth, 1915 (Georgette Leblanc); Macbeth, 1916
(Constance Collier); Macbeth, 1946 (Jain Wilimorsky); Macbeth, 1948 (Jeanette Nolan); Macbeth, 1949 (made-for-TV; Ruth
Lodge); Macbeth, 1954 (made-for-TV; Judith Anderson); Macbeth, 1959
(made-for-TV; Maria Casares); Macbeth, 1961 (made-for-TV; Zoe Caldwell);
Macbeth,
1965
(made-for-TV; Terri Aldred); Macbeth, 1966 (made-for-TV; Ruth Meyers); Macbeth,
1968 (made-for-TV; Lois Nettleton); Macbeth, 1970
(TV series;
Barbara Leigh-Hunt); Macbeth, 1971
(Francesca Annis);
Macbeth,
1972 (made-for-TV; Josephine Barstow); Macbeth, 1974
(made-for-TV;
Veronika Bayer); Macbeth, 1975 (made-for-TV; Valeria
Moriconi);
Macbeth, 1976 (made-for-TV; Shirley Verrett); Macbeth, 1978 (made-for-TV;
Violeta Gindeva); Macbeth, 1982 (made-for-TV; Maureen Anderman); Macbeth, 1983
(made-for-TV; Jane Lapotaire); Macbeth, 1987 (made-for-TV; Mara Zampieri);
Macbeth, 1987 (Verdi opera version; Shirley Verrett); Macbeth, 1993
(made-for-TV; Cynthia Makris); Macbeth, 1997 (Helen Baxendale); Macbeth, 1998
(Dawn
Winarski);
Macbeth, 1998 (made-for-TV; Greta Scacchi); Macbeth, 2001 (made-for-TV; Harriet
Walter); Macbeth, 2002 (made-for-TV; Paoletta Marrocu); Macbeth, 2004 (Pam
Bradley); Macbeth, 2006 (madefor-TV; Sylvie Valayre); Macbeth, 2009
(made-for-TV; Violeta Urmana); Macbeth, 2011 (Liudmyla Monastyrska); Macbeth,
2013 (Shannon Michelle Parsons); Macbeth, 2014 (Samantha Spiro); Macbeth, 2015 (Marion Cotillard);
Macbeth the Movie, 2009 (Kat Olsson); A Performance of Macbeth, 1979
(made-for-TV; Judi Dench); The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, 1948-1956
(TV series; “Macbeth,” 1949 episode; Joyce Redman); Studio One in Hollywood,
19481958 (TV series; “Macbeth,” 1951 episode; Judith Evelyn).
Lady of the
Lake (legendary spirit inhabiting a magical lake in the King Arthur legend of
6th Century Britain): The Adventures of Sir Galahad,
1949
(serial; Lois Hall); Excalibur, 1981
(Hilary Joyalie); Gargoyles,
1994- (TV
series; “Pendragon,” 1996 episode; B.J. Ward); Kaamelott, 2004 (TV series;
Audrey Fleurot); Merlin, 1998- (TV miniseries; Miranda Richardson); Merlin,
2008-2012 (TV series; Georgia Moffett); Merlin’s Apprentice, 2006- (TV
miniseries; Miranda Richardson); Prince Valiant, 1997 (Jodie Kidd); Throg, 2004
(Lori Power).
Lampwick
(an errant boy who turns into a donkey while accompanying a wooden marionette
that transform into a real boy, a fictional character in the 1883 children’s
novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by
Italian author Carlo Collodi): The
Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996 (Corey Carrier); The New Adventures of
Pinocchio, 1999 (Ben Ridgeway); Pinocchio,
1940 (Frankie Darro voiceover); Pinocchio, 2013 (TV miniseries; Arved Friese).
Lancelot
(legendary knight of King Arthur’s Round Table in 6th Century England): The
Adventures of Sir Galahad, 1949 (serial; Hugh Prosser); The Adventures of Sir
Lancelot, 1956-1957 (TV series; William RusLEAR
Janet Leigh and Paul Newman (as Lew
Harper) in Harper, 1966.
sell);
Arthur the King, 1985 (made-for-TV; Rupert Everett); Camelot, 1967 (Franco Nero); Camelot, 1982 (made-for-TV; Richard
Muenz); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1921 (Wilfred McDonald);
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court, 1949 (Henry
Wilcoxon); Excalibur, 1981 (Nicholas Clay); First Knight, 1995 (Richard Gere as
adult Lancelot, Ryan Todd as young Lancelot); Ginevra, 1992 (Serge Maggiani);
Guinevere, 1994 (made-for-TV; Noah Wyle); King
Arthur, 2004 (Ioan Gruffudd; Elliot Henderson-Boyle as young Lancelot); A
Knight in Camelot, 1998 (made-for-TV; James Coombes); Knights of the Round Table, 1953 (Robert Taylor); Lancelot of the
Lake, 1970 (made-for-TV; Gerard Falconetti); Lancelot of the Lake, 1974 (Luc
Simon); The Legend of King Arthur, 1979 (TV series; David Robb); Merlin, 1998
(TV miniseries; Jeremy Sheffield); Merlin: The Return, 2000 (Adrian Paul); The
Mists of Avalon, 2001 (made-for-TV; Michael Vartan); Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975 (John Cheese); Morte
d’Arthur, 1980 (made-for-TV; David Robb); Prince
Valiant, 1954 (Don Megowan); Sword of Lancelot, 1963 (Cornel Wilde); A
Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1996 (Ian Falconer).
Lear (King
Lear; aging British monarch wanting to ends his days in peace, but who is
hounded into madness through the machinations of his three daughters as
depicted in William Shakespeare’s “King Lear”): An Angel Comes to Brooklyn,
1945 (Frank Pharr); BBC Play of the
Month,
1965-1983 (TV series; ‘King Lear,” 1975 episode; Michael Hordern); Great
Performances, 1971- (TV series; “King Lear,” 1974 episode; James Earl Jones;
“King Lear,’ 2008 episode; Ian McKellen); King Lear, 1916 (Frederick Warde);
King Lear, 1948 (made-for-TV; William Devlin); King Lear, 1971 (Paul Scofield); King Lear, 1974 (TV series;
Patrick Magee); King Lear, 1975 (Juri Jarvet); King Lear,
1982
(made-for-TV; Michael Hordern); King Lear, 1983 (made-for-TV; Laurence
Olivier); King Lear, 1999 (Brian Blessed); King Lear, 2008 (Ian McKellen);
Omnibus, 1951-1962 (TV series; “King Lear,” 1953 episode; Orson Welles).
Laertes
(Father of Ulysses [Odysseus] and king of Ithaca in Greek mythology): The
Giants of Thessaly, 1963 (Paolo Gozlino); Hercules, Samson & Ulysses, 1965
(Andrea Fantasia); Hercules Unchained, 1960 (Andrea Fantasia); Jason and the
Argonauts, 2000- (TV miniseries; Charles Cartmell); Odissea [AKA: The
Adventures of Ulysses], 1968 (TV miniseries; Branko Kovacic); Odysseus, 2013-
(TV series; Carlo Brandt); Ulysses, 1955
(Gualtiero Tumiati).
Lemon Drop
Kid (a racetrack tipster created by Damon Runyon, who must raise $10,000 to pay
off mobsters or face the consequences by Christmastime): The Lemmon Drop Kid, 1934 (Lee Tracy); The Lemmon Drop Kid, 1951 (Bob Hope).
Lew Harper
(Lew Archer; private detective created by mystery writer Ross Macdonald): The Drowning Pool, 1975 (Paul Newman); Harper [AKA: The Moving Target], 1966
(Paul Newman).
Lex Luthor
(fictional evil character in the Superman series): Atom Man vs. Superman, 1950
(serial; Lyle Talbot); The Batman/Superman Hour, 1968-1969 (animated TV series;
Jackson Beck voiceover); Challenge of the Super Friends, 1978- (animated TV
series; Stan Jones voiceover); Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, 1987 (Gene
Hackman); The Batman Superman Movie: World’s Finest, 1997 (made-for-TV; Clancy
Brown voiceover); Justice League, 2001-2006 (TV series; Clancy Brown, Kenji
Nomura voiceovers); Smallville, 2001-2011 (TV series; Michael Rosenbaum); Super
Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, 1984- (animated TV series; Stan Jones
voiceover); Superman, 1978 (Gene
Hackman); Superman, 1988 (Animated TV series; Michael Bell voiceover);
Superman, 1996-2000 (TV series; Clancy Brown voiceover); Superman II, 1981 (Gene Hackman); Young Justice, 2010(animated TV
series; Mark Rolston voiceover).
Little Bo
Peep (Mother Goose character): Babes in
Toyland, 1934
(Charlotte
Henry); Babes in Toyland, 1961 (Ann Jillian); The Bride
Goes Wild,
1948 (Jean Dean); Champagne for Caesar,
1950 (Rose Plummer); Dante’s Inferno,
1935 (Gale Goodson); Fairy Tales, 1978
(Angela
Aames); Halloween with the New Addams Family, 1977 (made-for-TV; Patrick
Campbell); Happily N’Ever After, 2009 (Gina K. Bowes voiceover); Madam Satan,
1930 (Mary Carlisle); The Magic
Land of Mother
Goose, 1967 (Linda Lee); Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, 1990 (made-for-TV;
Shelley Duvall); The Pied Piper of Astroworld, 1968 (made-for-TV; Lesley Gore);
Toy Story, 1995 (Annie Potts
voiceover); Toy Story 2, 1999 (Annie
Potts voiceover).
Little Boy Blue
(Mother Goose character): Babes in
Toyland, 1934 (Johnny Downs); Babes in Toyland, 1961 (Kevin Corcoran); Puss
in Boots, 2011 (Latifa Ouaou voiceover).
Little Jack
Horner (Mother Goose character): Babes
in Toyland, 1934 (Sumner Getchell).
Little John
(fictional character and erstwhile companion of Robin Hood): The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938
(Alan Hale); The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1955-1960 (TV series; Archie Duncan;
Rufus Cruikshank); The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, 1946 (Ray Teal); Beyond
Sherwood Forest, 2009 (made-for-TV; Mark Gibbon); A Challenge for
Robin Hood,
1968 (Leon Greene); Il Magnifico Robin Hood, 1970 (Chris Huerta); Il trionfo di
Robin Hood, 1962 (Samson Burke); Ivanhoe, 1997- (TV miniseries; David
Nicholls); The Legend of Robin Hood, 1968- (TV series; Bruce Yarnell); The
Legend of Robin Hood,
1975 (TV
miniseries; Conrad Asquith); Long Live Robin Hood, 1971 (Nello Pazzafini); The
Men of Sherwood Forest, 1954 (Leslie Linder); NBC Children’s Theatre, 1963-1973
(TV series; “Robin Hood,” 1964 episode; Jack Hollander); The New Adventures of
Robin Hood, 19971999 (TV series; Richard Ashton); Prince of Thieves, 1948
(Walter Sande); Robin and Marian,
1976 (Nicol Williamson); Robin Hood,
1922 (Alan Hale); Robin Hood, 1953- (TV miniseries; Kenneth MacKintosh); Robin Hood, 1973 (Phil Harris
voiceover); Robin Hood, 19841986 (TV series; Clive Mantle); Robin Hood, 1991
(David Morrissey);
Robin Hood,
2006-2009 (TV series; Gordon Kennedy); Robin
Hood,
2010 (Kevin
Durand); Robin Hood: Ghosts of Sherwood 3D, 2012
(Kane
Hodder); Robin Hood: Men in Tights,
1993 (Eric Allan
Kramer); Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, 1991
(Nick Brimble);
Rogues of
Sherwood Forest, 1950 (Alan Hale); Son of Robin Hood, 1959 (George Woodbridge);
The Story of Robin Hood [AKA: The Story
of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men] 1952 (James Robertson Justice); Sword of
Sherwood Forest, 1961 (Nigel Green); Tales of Robin Hood, 1951 (Wade Crosby);
The Time Tunnel, 1966-1967 (TV series; “The Revenge of Robin Hood,” 1966
episode; John Alderson); Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood, 1973 (Dan
Meaden); Young Robin Hood, 1991-1992 (animated TV series; Terrence Scammell
voiceover).
Little Miss
Muffett (Mother Goose character): Babes
in Toyland, 1934 (Alice Dahl); Happily Ever After: Fair Tales for Every
Child, 1995-2000 (TV series; Lauren Tom).
Lone Ranger
(fictional character of the Old West first appearing in a 1933 radio broadcast
by Detroit’s WXYZ): The Legend of the Lone Ranger, 1952 (Clayton Moore); The
Legend of the Lone Ranger, 1981
(Klinton Spilsbury);
The Lone Ranger, 1938 (serial; Lee Powell); The
Lone
Ranger, 1949-1957 (TV series; Clayton Moore); The Lone Ranger, 1956 (Clayton Moore); The Lone Ranger, 1966-1969
(TV series; Michael Rye); The Lone Ranger, 2003 (made-for-TV; Chad Michael
Murray); The Lone Ranger, 2013
(Armie Hammer); The Lone MACBETH
Orson Welles (as Macbeth) in Macbeth, 1948.
Ranger
Rides Again, 1939 (serial; Robert Livingston).
Lois Lane (fictional
character in the Superman series): Adventures of Superman, 1952-1958 (TV
series; Noel Neill; Phyllis Coates); Atom Man vs. Superman, 1950 (serial; Noel
Neill); The Batman, 2004-2008 (TV series; Dana Delany voiceover); The Batman
Superman Movie: World’s Finest, 1997 (made-for-TV; Dana Delany voiceover);
Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV series; Sirena Irwin
voiceover); Justice League, 2001-2006 (TV series; Dana Delany voiceover); Lois
& Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 19931997 (TV series; Teri
Hatcher); Smallville, 2001-2011 (TV series; Erica Durance); Superman, 1948
(serial; Noel Neill); Superman, 1978
(Margot Kidder); Superman, 1988 (Animated TV series; Ginny McSwain voiceover);
Superman, 1996-2000 (TV series; Dana Delany voiceover); Superman and the
Mole-Men, 1951 (Phyllis Coates); Superman IV: The
Quest for
Peace, 1987 (Margot Kidder); Superman
III, 1983 (Margot Kidder); Superman
II, 1981 (Margot Kidder); The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, 1967-1968
(TV series; Julie Bennett, Joan Alexander).
Long John
Silver (one-legged pirate on crutches and with a parrot on his shoulder
screeching “pieces of eight!” as depicted in the classic 1883 adventure novel, Treasure Island, by Robert Louis
Stevenson): The Adventures of Ben Gunn, 1958- (TV series; Peter Wyngarde); The
Adventures of Long John Silver, 1955- (TV; Robert Newton); The DuPont Show of
the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; ‘Treasure Island,” Hugh Griffith); The Legends
of Treasure Island, 1993-1995 (TV series;
Richard E.
Grant); Long John Silver, 1954 (Robert Newton); Muppet Treasure Island, 1996
(Tim Curry); National Theatre Live: Treasure Island, 2015 (Arthur Darvill);
Pirates of Treasure Island, 2006 (Lance Henriksen); Return to Treasure Island,
1986 (TV miniseries; Brian Blessed); Return to Treasure Island, 1988 (animated;
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan voiceover); Return to Treasure Island, 1996 (made-for-TV;
Stig Eldred); Schatteneiland, 1957- (TV series; Dries Wieme); Shirley Temple’s
Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “The Return of Long John Silver,” 1961
episode; James Westerfield); Studio One in Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series;
“Treasure Island,” 1952 episode; Francis L. Sullivan); Treasure Island, 1918
(Violet Radcliffe); Treasure Island, 1920 (Charles Ogle); Treasure Island, 1934 (Wallace Beery); Treasure Island, 1950 (Robert Newton); Treasure Island, 1951- (TV
series; Bernard Miles); Treasure Island, 1957- (TV series; Bernard Miles);
Treasure Island, 1968- (TV series; Peter Vaughan); Treasure Island, 1972 (Orson
Welles); Treasure Island, 1973 (animated; Richard Dawson voiceover); Treasure
Island, 1977 (TV miniseries; Alfred Burke); Treasure Island, 1978 (animated TV
series; Genzo Wakayama voiceover); Treasure Island, 1982 (made-for-TV; Bernard
Miles); Treasure Island, 1990 (madefor-TV; Charlton Heston); Treasure Island,
1995 (made-for-TV; Hetty Baynes as Long Jane Silver); Treasure Island, 2001
(Jack Palance);
Treasure
Island, 2007 (Tobias Moretti); Treasure Island, 2012 (Eddie Izzard); Treasure
Island in Outer Space, 1987 (TV miniseries; Anthony Quinn).
Lorna Doone
(kidnapped daughter of a Scottish nobleman who is raised by an outlaw clan, the
heroine of British author Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s 1869 novel): Lorna
Doone, 1920 (Bertie Gordon); Lorna
Doone, 1922
(Madge Bellamy); Lorna Doone, 1934 (Victoria Hopper; Alexis France as young
Lorna); Lorna Doone, 1951 (Barbara Hale; Gloria Petroff as young Lorna); Lorna
Doone, 1963 (TV miniseries; Jane Merrow); Lorna Doone, 1976 (TV miniseries;
Emily Richard); Lorna
Doone, 1990
(made-for-TV; Polly Walker; Claire Madden as young
Lorna);
Lorna Doone, 2000 (made-for-TV; Amelia Warner; Katie PittsDrake as young
Lorna); Once Upon a Classic, 1976-1979 (TV series; “Lorna Doone,” 1976; Emily
Richard).
Macbeth
(ambitious Scottish nobleman who commits murder to become king, his lethal
deeds encouraged by his power-mad wife, Lady Macbeth, characters appearing in
William Shakespeare’s 1606 play): BBC Play of the Month, 1965-1983 (TV series;
“Macbeth,” 1975 episode; Eric Porter); Crimson Curtain, 1952 (Pierre Brasseur);
Folio, 1955-1959 (TV series; “Macbeth,” 1955 episode; Barry Morse); Great
Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Macbeth,” 2010 episode; Patrick Stewart);
Kraft Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; “Macbeth,” 1950 episode; E.G. Marshall);
Macbeth, 1913 (Michael Bourchier); Macbeth, 1915 (Severin-Mars); Macbeth, 1916
(Herbert Beerbohm Tree); Macbeth, 1946 (David Bradley); Macbeth, 1948 (Orson Welles); Macbeth, 1949 (made-for-TV; Stephen
Murray); Macbeth, 1954 (made-for-TV; Maurice Evans); Macbeth, 1959
(made-for-TV; Daniel Sorano); Macbeth, 1961 (made-for-TV; Sean Connery);
Macbeth, 1965 (made-for-TV; Wyn
Roberts);
Macbeth, 1966 (made-for-TV; Andrew Keir); Macbeth, 1968 (made-for-TV; Earle
Hyman); Macbeth, 1970 (TV series; Michael
Jayston); Macbeth, 1971 (Jon Finch); Macbeth,
1972 (made-for-TV; Kostas Paskalis); Macbeth, 1974 (made-for-TV; Hans Schulze);
Macbeth, 1975 (made-for-TV; Glauco Mauri); Macbeth, 1976 (made-forTV; Piero
Cappuccilli); Macbeth, 1978 (made-for-TV; Lyubomir Kiselichki); Macbeth, 1982
(made-for-TV; Philip Anglim); Macbeth,
1983
(made-for-TV; Nicol Williamson); Macbeth, 1987 (made-for-TV; Renato Bruson);
Macbeth, 1987 (Verdi opera version; Leo Nucci); Macbeth, 1993 (made-for-TV;
Jorma Hynninen); Macbeth, 1997 (Jason Connery); Macbeth, 1998 (Stephen J.
Lewis); Macbeth, 1998 (made-for-TV; Sean Pertwee); Macbeth, 2001 (made-for-TV;
Antony Sher); Macbeth, 2002 (made-for-TV; Thomas Hampson); Macbeth, 2004 (Gary THE MAD HATTER
Olivia de Havilland (as Maid Marian)
and Errol Flynn (as Robin Hood) in The
Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938.
Saderup);
Macbeth, 2006 (made-for-TV; Leo Nucci); Macbeth, 2009
(made-for-TV;
Dimitris Tiliakos); Macbeth, 2011 (Simon Keenlyside);
Macbeth,
2013 (Evan William Miller); Macbeth, 2014 (Joseph Millson); Macbeth, 2015 (Michael Fassbender);
Macbeth the Movie, 2009 (Chris Canfield); A Performance of Macbeth, 1979
(made-for-TV; Ian McKellen); The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse,
1948-1956 (TV series; “Macbeth,” 1949 episode; Walter Hampden); Studio One in
Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series; “Macbeth,” 1951 episode; Charlton
Heston).
The Mad
Hatter (fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis
Carroll): Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; John Hoffman); Alice,
2009 (TV miniseries; Andrew Lee Potts); Alice at the Palace, 1982 (made-for-TV;
Richard Cox); Alice in Wonderland, 1915 (William Tilden); Alice in Wonderland,
1931 (Leslie T. King); Alice in
Wonderland, 1933 (Edward Everett Horton); Alice in Wonderland, 1949
(Raymond Bussieres voiceover); Alice in
Wonderland, 1951 (Ed Wynn voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955
(made-for-TV; Mort Marshall); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Peter
Cook);
Alice in
Wonderland, 1976 (Nano Gruberg); Alice in Wonderland, 1982
(made-for-TV;
Carl Beck); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV;
Anthony
Newley); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (TV series; Eric Sykes);
Alice in Wonderland,
1986 (made-for-TV; four 30-minute segments; Pip Donaghy); Alice in Wonderland,
1999 (made-for-TV; Martin Short); Alice
in Wonderland, 2010 (Johnny Depp); Alice in Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid
Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, 1966 (animated made-for-TV; Harvey
Korman); Alice Through the Looking Box, 1960 (made-for-TV; Ron Moody); Alice
Through the Looking Glass, 1973 (TV series; Jonathan Cecil); Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland, 1956 (made-for-TV; Patrick Cargill); Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, 1972 (Robert Helpmann); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 2011
(made-for-TV; Steven McRae); Dreamchild, 1985 (Michael Walter, Tony Haygarth);
The Ford Theatre Hour, 1948-1951 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1950
episode; Richard Waring); Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Alice in
Wonderland,” 1983 episode; Andre Gregory); Kraft Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series;
“Alice in Wonderland,” 1954 episode; Art Carney); Miyuki-chan in Wonderland,
1995- (TV miniseries; Emi Shinohara); Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland, 2007
(Dietrich Henschel); The Wednesday Play, 1964-1970 (TV series; “Alice,” 1965
episode; John Bailey).
Madame
Therese Defarge (ruthless French revolutionary who schemes to send persons to
the guillotine, a character in the 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens): The DuPont Show of the
Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “A Tale of Two Cities,” 1958 episode; Agnes
Moorehead); History of the World: Part I, 1981 (Cloris Leachman); The
Only Way,
1927 (Jean Jay); The Only Way, 1948 (made-for-TV; Roger
Snowden);
The Plymouth Playhouse, 1953 (TV series; “A Tale of Two Cities,” two 1953
episodes; Judith Evelyn); A Tale of Two Cities, 1917 (Rosita Marstini); A Tale of Two Cities, 1935 (Blanche
Yurka); A Tale of Two Cities, 1957 (TV miniseries; Margaretta Scott); A Tale of
Two Cities, 1958 (Rosalie Crutchley); A Tale of Two Cities, 1958 (made-forTV;
Amy Stuart); A Tale of Two Cities, 1965 (TV series; Rosalie Crutchley); A Tale
of Two Cities, 1980 (TV miniseries; Judy Parfitt); A Tale of Two Cities, 1980
(made-for-TV; Billie Whitelaw); A Tale of Two Cities, 1989 (TV miniseries;
Kathy Kriegel).
Madame X
(tragic mother and wife who loses her family and sinks to degradation and is later
defended in a murder charge by her own son, who does not know she is his
mother, as depicted in Alexandre Brisson’s melodramatic 1910 play): Madame X,
1916 (Dorothy Donnelly); Madame X, 1920 (Pauline Frederick); Madame X, 1929
(Ruth Chatterton); Madame X, 1937 (Gladys George); Madame X, 1966 (Lana Turner); Madame X, 1981 (made-for-TV; Tuesday
Weld).
Magua
(villainous and blood-thirsty chief of the Huron Indian tribe who creates
wholesale massacres of British colonists and troops in the 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans by James
Fenimore Cooper): Fall of the Mohicans, 1965 (Jose Manuel Martin); The Last of the Mohicans, 1920 (Wallace
Beery); The Last of the Mohicans, 1932 (Bob Kortman); The Last of the Mohicans, 1936 (Bruce Cabot); The Last of the Mohicans,
1971 (TV miniseries; Philip Madoc); The Last of the Mohicans, 1975 (animated
made-for-TV; Frank Welker voiceover); Last of the Mohicans, 1977 (made-for-TV;
Robert Tessier); The Last of the
Mohicans, 1992 (Wes Studi); Last of the Redmen, 1947 (Buster Crabbe).
Maid Marian
(fictional character; woman loved by folklore outlaw hero Robin Hood): The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938
(Olivia de Havilland); The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1955-1960 (TV series;
Bernadette O’Farrell; Patricia Driscoll); The Adventures of Robin Hood,
1985
(made-for-TV; Helen Morse voiceover); Beyond Sherwood Forest,
2009
(made-for-TV; Erica Durance); A Challenge for Robin Hood, 1968 (Gay Hamilton);
Il Magnifico Robin Hood, 1970 (Antonella Murgia); Il trionfo di Robin Hood,
1962 (Gia Scala); Into the Labyrinth, 19811982 (TV series; “Robin,” 1981
episode; Patricia Driscoll); The Legend of Robin Hood, 1975 (TV miniseries;
Diane Keen); Long Live Robin Hood, 1971 (Silvia Dionisio); The Men of Sherwood
Forest, 1954
(Eileen
Moore); NBC Children’s Theatre, 1963-1973 (TV series; “Robin
Hood,” 1964
episode; Lynda Day George); The New Adventures of
Robin Hood,
1997-1999 (TV series; Barbara Griffin); Prince of Thieves, 1948 (Patricia
Morison); Robin and Marian, 1976
(Audrey Hepburn);
Robin Hood, 1922 (Enid Bennett); Robin Hood,
1953- (TV miniseries; Josee Richard); Robin
Hood, 1973 (Monica Evans voiceover); Robin Hood, 1984-1986 (TV series; Judi
Trott); Robin Hood, 1991 (Uma Thurman); Robin Hood, 2006-2009 (TV series; Lucy
Griffiths); Robin Hood, 2010 (Cate
Blanchett); Robin Hood en zijn schelmen, 1962 (Phia Bours); Robin Hood: Ghosts
of Sherwood 3D, 2012 (Ramona Kuen); Robin
Hood: Men in Tights, 1993 (Amy Yasbeck); Robin Hood:
Prince of Thieves, 1991 (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio);
Rogues of Sherwood Forest, 1950 (Diana Lynn); The Story of Robin Hood [AKA: The Story of Robin Hood and His
Merrie Men] 1952 (Joan Rice); Sword of Sherwood Forest, 1961 (Sarah Branch);
Tales of Robin
Hood, 1951
(Mary Hatcher); Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood, 1973 (Ciaran Madden);
Young Robin Hood, 1991-1992 (animated TV series; Anik Matern voiceover, Liz
MacRae voiceover); The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood, 1984 (made-for-TV; Morgan
Fairchild).
March Hare
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; Reece Holland); Alice at the
Palace, 1982 (made-for-TV; Mark LinnBaker); Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (Meyer
Berensen); Alice in Wonderland, 1933
(Charles Ruggles); Alice in Wonderland,
1951 (Jerry Colonna voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Robert
Casper);
Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Michael Gough); Alice in Wonderland,
1976 (Sally Cutting); Alice in Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV; Tom Dunn); Alice
in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV;
Roddy
McDowall); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (TV series; Michael Bentine); Alice in
Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV; four 30-minute segments; Neil Fitzwilliam);
Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Francis Wright; Adrian Getley; Robert
Tygner); Alice in Wonderland, 2010
(Paul Whitehouse); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Peter Sellers);
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 1948
(made-for-TV; Anthony Oliver); Alice in Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like
You Doing in a Place Like This?, 1966 (animated made-for-TV; Daws Butler);
Alice Through the Looking Box, 1960 (made-for-TV; Bernard Bresslaw); Alice
Through the Looking Glass, 1973 (made-for-TV; Stephen Moore); Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, 2011 (made-for-TV; Ricardo Cervera); Great
Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1983 episode; Zeliko
Ivanek); MERCURY
Natalia Vodianova (as Medusa) in Clash of the Titans, 2010.
Kraft Theatre,
1947-1958 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1954 episode; Fredd Wayne); Unsuk
Chin: Alice in Wonderland, 2007 (Andrew Watts); The Wednesday Play, 1964-1970
(TV series; “Alice,” 1965 episode; John Saunders).
Marius
(adventurous French sailor from Marseilles who deserts his lover Fanny but is
later reunited with her and their child): Cesar,
1936 (Pierre Fresnay); Fanny, 1948
(Pierre Fresnay); Fanny, 1961 (Horst
Buchholz); Fanny, 2008 (made-for-TV; Stephane Varupenne); Fanny, 2014 (Raphael
Personnaz); La trilogie Marseillaise: Cesar, 2000 (made-for-
TV; Eric
Poulain); La trilogie Marseillaise: Fanny, 2000 (made-for-TV;
Eric
Poulain); La trilogie Marseillaise: Marius, 2000 (made-for-TV; Eric Poulain); Marius, 1933 (Pierre Fresnay); Marius,
2014 (Raphael Personnaz); Pagnol, 1977 (TV series; Peter Romer); Port of Seven
Seas, 1938 (John Beal).
Mars (Roman
god of war; Ares in Greek mythology): Castor et Pollux, 1991 (made-for-TV;
Bernard Deletre); In Performance, 1978- (TV series; “Orpheus in the Underworld,”
1983 episode; John Fryatt); Mars: God of War, 1962 (Roger Browne); Orpheus in
der Unterwelt, 1975
(Werner
Senftleben); Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 2007 (made-for-TV; Franz Grundheber);
Rome in a Day, 2008 (Luke Butler); The Triumph of Venus, 1918 (Karl Dane);
Vamping Venus, 1928 (Guinn “Big Boy” Williams); Vulcan, Son of Giove, 1962
(Roger Browne).
Mary Quite
Contrary (Mother Goose character): Babes
in Toyland,
1934 (Marie
Wilson); Babes in Toyland, 1961 (Annette Funicello); Babes in Toyland, 1986
(made-for-TV; Jill Schoelen); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, 1995-1999 (TV
series; Elizabeth Hawthorne); Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, 1990 (made-for-TV;
Katey Sagal).
Medea (in
Greek mythology, a sorceress and niece of Circe, later a wife to Jason): Jason and the Argonauts, 1963 (Nancy
Kovack; Eve Haddon voiceover); Jason and the Argonauts, 2000 (TV miniseries;
Jolene Blalock); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series;
Sally Cahill).
Medusa (in
Greek mythology a gorgon or monster, half woman, half snake with a headful of
hair as snakes and with the power to kill those who looked upon her
hideousness): Clash of the Titans,
2010 (Natalia Vodianova); Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; Jennifer Love Hewitt
voiceover); Hercules: The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Julie Graue); Mythic
Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series; Jennifer Dale); Percy
Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 2010 (Uma Thurman); Persee,
2004 (made-for-TV; Olivier Laquerre); The Storyteller: Greek Myths, 1990- (TV
miniseries; “Perseus and the Gorgon,” 19991 episode; Frances Barber).
Meg March
(one of four teenage sisters who finds romance as she and her siblings mature
in a Massachusetts household during the American Civil War as profiled in
Louisa May Alcott’s timeless novel, Little
Women, 1868-1869): The Ford Theatre Hour,
1948-1951 (TV series; “Little Women,” 1949 episode; Meg Mundy); Good Wives,
1958 (TV series; Kate Cameron); Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Little
Women,” 2001 episode; Joyce DiDonato); Jo’s Boys, 1959 (TV series; Kate
Cameron); Little Women, 1917 (Mary Lincoln); Little Women, 1918 (Isabel Lamon);
Little Women, 1933 (Frances Dee); Little
Women, 1949 (Janet Leigh); Little Women,
1950- (TV series; Sheila
Shand
Gibbs); Little Women, 1958 (TV series; Kate Cameron); Little Women, 1958
(made-for-TV; Florence Henderson); Little Women, 1970 (TV miniseries; Jo
Rowbottom); Little Women, 1978 (TV miniseries; Meredith Baxter); Little Women, 1994 (Trini Alvarado);
Matinee Theatre, 1955-1958 (TV series; “Little Women,” 1956 episode; Diane
Jergens); NBC Special Treat, 1975-1986 (TV series; “Little Women,” 1976
episode; Anna Arago); Studio One in Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series; “Little
Women: Jo’s Story,” 1950 episode; Peg Hellias; “Little Women: Meg’s Story,”
1950 episode; Mary Sinclair).
Menelaus
(King of Sparta in Greek mythology and husband of Helen of Troy, who was one of
the Greek leaders in the Trojan War): Adam and Eve, 1949 (Enzo Biliotti); BBC
Sunday-Night Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Troilus and Cressida,” 1954
episode; John Vere); Helen of Troy, 1924 (Friedrich Ulmer); Helen of Troy, 1951
(Max Hansen); Helen of Troy, 1956 (Niall MacGinnis); Helen, Yes…Helen of Troy,
1974 (Pupo
De Luca); La Belle Helene, 1996 (Volker Vogel); La Belle Helene, 2000 (Michel
Senechal); Las troyanas, 1963 (Antonio
Medellin);
The Lion of Thebes, 1964 (Alberto Lupo); Loves of Three Queens, 1954 (Robert
Beatty); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series; “Ulysses
and the Trojan Horse,” 1999 episode; Colin Fox); The Odyssey, 1997- (TV series;
Nicholas Clay); The Private
Life of
Helen of Troy, 1927 (Lewis Stone); Sacrifice to the Wind, 1954
(made-for-TV;
Douglas Wilmer); Troilus & Cressida, 1981 (made-forTV; Bernard Brown);
Troilus und Cressida, 1964 (made-for-TV; Hans Gunther Muller); Troilus und
Cressida, 1969 (made-for-TV; Joseph
Saxinger);
The Trojan Horse, 1962 (Nando Tamberlani); The Trojan Women, 1971 (Patrick
Magee); Troy, 2004 (Brendan
Gleeson); Xena: Warrior Princess, 1995-2001 (TV series; Ken Blackburn).
Mercury
(Roman god and messenger of the gods; Hermes in Greek mythology): Amphitryon,
1978 (made-for-TV; Gunter Ringe); Amphitryon, 1981 (made-for-TV; Klaus Hohne);
Amphitryon, 2003 (made-forMERLIN
Margaret Rutherford (as sleuth Miss
Marple) in Murder Ahoy, 1964.
TV; Jerome
Pouly); Biblioteca di Studio Uno: Odissea, 1964 (made-forTV; Giustino Durano);
Goddess of Love, 1988 (made-for-TV; Benjamin Schick); Hercules Returns, 1993
(Frank Thring); Hercules in New York, 1970 (Dan Hamilton); In Performance,
1978- (TV series; “Orpheus in the Underworld,” 1983 episode; Christopher
Gable); Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld, 1997 (made-for-TV; Franck
Cassard); Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus, 2001- (animated TV series; S.
Scott Bullock voiceover); L’odissea, 1991 (made-for-TV; Gigi Sammarchi); Night
Life of the Gods, 1935 (Paul Kaye); Orphee aux enfers, 1997 (made-for-TV;
Ethienne Lescroart); Orpheus in der Unterwelt,
1975 (Fred
Delmare); Persee, 2004 (made-for-TV; Colin Ainsworth);
Platee,
2000 (made-for-TV; Yann Beuron); The Triumph of Venus, 1918
(A.
Freeland); Vamping Venus, 1928 (Spec O’Donnell); Vulcan, Son of Giove, 1962
(Isarco Ravaioli).
Merlin
(legendary magician in the court of King Arthur in 6th Century Britain): The
Adventures of Sir Galahad, 1949 (serial; William Fawcett); The Adventures of
Sir Lancelot, 1956-1957 (TV series; Cyril Smith); Arthur the King, 1985
(made-for-TV; Edward Woodward); Arthur’s Quest, 1999 (made-for-TV; Arye Gross);
Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV series; David McCallum
voiceover);
Camelot, 1967 (Laurence Naismith); Camelot,
1982 (made-for-TV;
James
Valentine); Camelot, 2011 (TV miniseries; Joseph Fiennes); Carry On Laughing!,
1975 (TV series; Peter Butterworth); A
Connecitcut Yankee, 1931 (Brandon Hurst); A Connecticut Yankee, 1955
(madefor-TV; Leonard Elliott); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,
1921 (William V. Mong); A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1949 (Murvyn Vye); A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur’s Court, 1989 (made-for-TV: Rene Auberjonois); Crystal Cave, 1996
(made-for-TV;
Robert Guillaume); Excalibur, 1981
(Nicol Williamson); Guinevere, 1994 (made-for-TV; Donald Pleasence); Guinevere
Jones, 2002 (TV series; Ted Hamilton); A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, 1995 (Ron
Moody); King Arthur, 2004 (Stephen
Dillane); King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, 1992-1993 (TV series; Jim
Byrnes voiceover); A Knight in Camelot, 1998 (made-for-TV; Ian Richardson); Knights of the Round Table, 1953 (Felix
Aylmer); Lancelot of the Lake, 1970 (made-for-TV; Claude Santelli); The Last Legion, 2007 (Ben Kingsley);
The Legend of King Arthur, 1979 (TV series; Robert Eddison); The Legend of
Prince Valiant, 1991-1994 (TV series; Alan Oppenheimer); The Magic Land of
Mother Goose, 1967 (Roy Huston); Merlin, 1993 (Rodney Wood); Merlin, 1998 (TV
miniseries; Sam Neill as adult Merlin; Daniel Brocklebank as young Merlin);
Merlin, 20082012 (TV series); Merlin: The Return, 2000 (Rik Mayall); Mr.
Merlin, 1981-1982 (TV series; Bernard Hughes); The Mists of Avalon, 2001
(made-for-TV;
Michael Byrne); Once Upon a Classic, 1976-1979 (TV series: “A Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur’s Court,” 1978 episode, Roscoe Lee Browne); Quest for Camelot,
1998 (John Gielgud); 7 Faces of Dr. Lao,
1964 (Tony Randall); Siege of the Saxons, 1963 (John Laurie); Studio One in
Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series: “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,”
1952 episode, Salem Ludwig); The Sword
and the Stone, 1963 (Karl Swenson voiceover); Sword of Lancelot, 1963 (Mark
Dignam); The Time Tunnel, 1966-1967 (TV series; “Merlin the Magician,” 1967
episode; Christopher Cary as adult Merlin, Dennis Christopher as young Merlin);
Unidentified Flying Oddball, 1979 (Ron Moody); A Young Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur’s Court, 1996 (Michael York).
Messala
(Roman soldier, official and chariot-racer in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus
Christ, a fictional character in the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace entitled: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ): Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 1925
(Francis X. Bushman); Ben-Hur, 1959
(Stephen Boyd); Ben Hur, 2010 (TV miniseries; Stephen Campbell Moore).
Michael
(Archangel): The Becoming, 2012 (Nicholas Alexander); Bedtime Fairy Tales for
Crocodiles, 2003 (Arturo Rios); Celestial Hunt, 2013 (John Donahue); Celestial
Run, 2012 (John Donahue); Centurian A.D., 2015 (Kevin Caliber); The Curse of El
Charro, 2005 (James Intfeld); Dominion, 2014- (TV series; Tom Wisdom); Faust,
1960 (KarlHeinz von Hassel); Good Satan, 2012 (Ari Zagaris); In Media Res, 2011
(Mark Edward Lewis); Joan of Arc, 2003 (made-for-TV; Marcel Jakubovie);
Lucifer, 1966 (Kees Coolen); Lucifer, 1981 (Alexander Van
Heteren); Michael, 1996 (John Travolta); Mostly
Dead, 2014 (Dean
Puleo); On
Angel’s Wings, 2014 (Robert Michael Szot); The Prophecy II, 1998 (Eric
Roberts); Supernatural, 2005- (TV series; Richard Speight Jr.); Valeri Fox,
2014- (TV series; Steven D. Moyer); Wandering, 2011 (Kami Libaridyan); Xena:
Warrior Princess, 1995-2001 (TV series; Charles Mesure).
Mike Hammer
(hard-boiled private detective created by author Mickey
Spillane in
his 1947 novel, I, the Jury): The
Girl Hunters, 1963 (Mickey Spillane); Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane’s
Mike Hammer Mystery, 1994 (made-for-TV; Robert Estes); I, the Jury, 1953 (Biff
Elliot); I, the Jury, 1982 (Armand Assante); Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 (Ralph Meeker); Margin for Murder, 1981
(made-for-TV; Kevin Dobson); Mike Hammer, 1958-1959 (TV series; Darren
McGavin); Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All, 1989 (made-for-TV; Stacy Keach); Mike
Hammer,
Private
Eye, 1997-1999 (TV series; Stacy Keach); More Than Murder,
1984
(made-for-TV; Stacy Keach); Murder Me, Murder You, 1983 (made-for-TV; Stacy
Keach); My Gun is Quick, 1957 (Robert Bray); The New Mike Hammer, 1984-1989 (TV
series; Stacy Keach); The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, 1986
(made-for-TV; Stacy Keach).
Miles
Herndon (character in the children’s novel, The
Prince and the
Pauper, 1881, by Mark Twain, a
soldier-of-fortune who rescues Edward VI of England after he exchanges
identities with his lookalike, a fictional urchin boy named Tom Canty): The
Adventures of the Prince and the Pauper, 1969 (Gene Bua); Crossed Swords, 1978
(Oliver Reed); The DuPont Show of the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “The Prince
and the Pauper,” 1957 episode: Christopher Plummer); The Prince and the Pauper,
1915 (William Sorelle); The Prince and the Pauper, 1920 (Franz Everth); The Prince and the Pauper, 1937 (Errol
Flynn); The Prince and the Pauper, 1976 (TV series; Barry Stokes); The Prince
and the Pauper, 1977 (Oliver Reed); The Prince and the Pauper, 1996 (TV series;
six episodes: James Purefoy); The Prince and the Pauper, 2000 (madefor-TV;
Aidan Quinn); Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1960 (TV series; “The Prince and
the Pauper,” 1960 episode: Gig Young); Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color,
1954-1992 (TV series; “The Prince and the Pauper: The Pauper King,” 1962
episode: Guy Williams; “The Prince and the Pauper: The Merciful Law of the
King,” 1962 episode:
Guy
Williams; “The Prince and the Pauper: Long Live the Rightful King,” 1962
episode: Guy Williams).
Minerva
(Roman goddess of the arts and patron of Roman heroes;
Athena in
Greek mythology): Castor et Pollux, 1991 (made-for-TV;
Claire
Brua); Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld, 1997 (made-for-TV;
Laurence Misonne); L’odissea, 1991 (made-for-TV; Sylva Koscina); Orphee aux
enfers, 1997 (made-for-TV; Alketa Cela); Rome in a Day, 2008 (Cathy Bennett).
Miss
Havisham (wealthy, embittered and aging spinster who constantly wears the
fading wedding dress she wore long earlier when jilted at the altar and who
lives in a ruined mansion as portrayed in Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel, Great Expectations): Great Expectations,
1917 (Grace Barton); Great Expectations, 1934 (Florence Reed); Great Expectations, 1946 (Martita
Hunt); Great Expectations, 1959- (TV series; Marjory Hawtrey); Great
Expectations, 1967- (TV series; Maxine Audley); Great Expectations, 1974
(made-for-TV; Margaret Leighton); Great Expectations, 1981- (TV miniseries;
Joan Hickson); Great Expectations, 1989(TV miniseries; Jean Simmons); Great
Expectations, 1999 (made-forMORGAN LE
FAY
Dick Baldwin, Peter Lorre (as Mr.
Moto) and Keye Luke in Mr.
Moto’s Gamble, 1938.
TV;
Charlotte Rampling); Great Expectations, 2011 (TV miniseries;
Gillian
Anderson); Great Expectations, 2012 (Helena Bonham Carter); Great Expectations,
2013 (Paula Wilcox); Playdate, 1961-1964 (TV series; “Great Expectations,” two
episodes in 1962; Cathleen Nesbitt); Robert Montgomery Presents, 1950-1957 (TV
series; “Great Expectations,” two episodes in 1954; Estelle Winwood); Store
forventninger, 1922 (Marie Dinesen).
Miss Jane
Marple (clever spinster sleuth created by mystery writer Agatha Christie and
who first appeared in her short story, “The Tuesday Night Club,” published in The Royal Magazine, December 1927):
Agatha
Christie’s Miss Marple, 1984- (TV miniseries; Joan Hickson); The Alphabet
Murders, 1965 (Margaret Rutherford); A Caribbean Mystery, 1983 (made-for-TV;
Helen Hayes); Goodyear Playhouse, 19511957 (TV series; “A Murder is Announced,’
1956 episode; Gracie Fields); Masterpiece Theatre, 1980- (TV series; several episodes;
Joan Hickson); The Mirror Crack’d,
1980 (Angela Lansbury); Mord im Pfarrhaus, 1970 (made-for-TV; Inge Langen); Murder Ahoy, 1964 (Margaret
Rutherford); Murder at the Gallop,
1963 (Margaret Rutherford); Murder by
Death, 1976 (spoof of great detectives; Elsa Lancaster as Miss Jessica
Marbles); Murder Most Foul, 1964
(Margaret Rutherford); Murder with Mirrors, 1985 (made-for-TV; Helen Hayes); Murder She Said, 1961 (Margaret
Rutherford).
Mr. Moto
(wily Japanese detective and secret agent created by U.S. author John P.
Marquand in his 1935 novel, Your Turn,
Mr. Moto; the character lost all popularity in America after Japan attacked
the U.S. military installations at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1945; Peter
Lorre, who played the character in most of the films, hated playing the role as
he repeatedly told this author): Mr.
Moto in Danger Island, 1939 (Peter Lorre); Mr. Moto Takes a Chance, 1938 (Peter
Lorre); Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation, 1939 (Peter Lorre); Mr.
Moto’s Gamble, 1938 (Peter Lorre); Mr.
Moto’s Last Warning, 1939 (Peter Lorre); The Mysterious Mr. Moto, 1938 (Peter Lorre); The Return of Mr.
Moto, 1965 (Henry Silva). Thank You, Mr. Moto, 1938 (Peter Lorre); Think Fast, Mr. Moto, 1937 (Peter
Lorre).
Mock Turtle
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (Gus Alexander); Alice
in Wonderland, 1933 (Cary Grant); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (madefor-TV;
Burr Tillstrom); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; John Gielgud); Alice
in Wonderland, 1976 (Marta Larreina); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV;
Ringo Starr); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (TV series; Bernard Cribbins); Alice in
Wonderland, 1986 (made-forTV; four 30-minute segments; Roy Skelton); Alice in
Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Gene Wilder); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,
1972
(Michael
Hordern); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 1948
(made-for-TV; Gordon Bell); Dreamchild, 1985 (Steve Whitmire, Alan Bennett);
Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1983 episode;
Donald O’Connor); Kraft Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,”
1954 episode; James Barton); The Wednesday Play, 1964-1970 (TV series; “Alice,”
1965 episode; Norman Scace).
Mordred (or
Modred; legendary evil knight, supposedly illegitimate son of King Arthur in
6th Century Britain): The Adventures of Sir Galahad, 1949 (serial; Leonard
Penn); Arthur the King, 1985 (made-for-TV; Joseph Blatchley); Camelot, 1967 (David Hemmings);
Camelot, 1982 (made-for-TV; Richard Backus); Excalibur, 1981 (Robert Addie as adult Mordred; Charley Boorman as
young Mordred); Into the Labyrinth, 1981-1982 (TV series: “Excaliber,” 1982
episode, Pavel Douglas); Knights of the
Round Table, 1953 (Stanley Baker); Lancelot of the Lake, 1974 (Patrick
Bernard); The Legend of King Arthur, 1979 (TV series; Steve Hodson); Merlin,
1998 (TV miniseries; Jason Done); Merlin: The Return, 2000 (Craig Sheffer); The
Mists of Avalon, 2001 (made-for-TV; Hans Matheson; Elias Zerael Bauer as the
young Mordred); Morte d’Arthur, 1980 (made-for-TV; Nickolas Grace); Sword of
Lancelot, 1963 (Michael Meacham); Unidentified Flying Oddball, 1979 (Jim Dale).
Morgan le
Fay (or Morgana; legendary evil sorceress in the court of
King Arthur
in 6th Century Britain): The Adventures of Sir Galahad, 1949 (serial; Pat
Barton); Arthur the King, 1985 (made-for-TV; Candice
Bergen);
Arthur’s Quest, 1999 (made-for-TV; Catherine Oxenberg);
Camelot,
2011 (TV miniseries; Eva Green); A
Connecitcut Yankee,
1931 (Myrna
Loy); A Connecticut Yankee, 1955 (made-for-TV; Gale Sherwood); A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1921 (Rosemary Theby); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1949 (Virginia Field);
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1989 (made-for-TV: Jean Marsh); Excalibur, 1981 (Helen Mirren as adult
Morgana;
Barbara Byrne as young Morgana; Kay McLaren as aged Morgana); Guinevere, 1994
(made-for-TV; Brid Brennan); Knights of
the Round Table, 1953 (Anne Crawford); The Legend of King Arthur, 1979 (TV
series; Maureen O’Brien); The Legend of Prince Valiant, 1991-1994 (TV series;
Patty Duke/Diana Muldaur); Merlin, 1998 (TV miniseries; Helena Bonham Carter as
adult Morgana; Alice Hamilton as young Morgana); Merlin: The Return, 2000
(Grethe Fox); The Mists of Avalon, 2001 (made-for-TV; Julianna Margulies/Tamsin
Egerton as the young Morgana); Prince Valiant, 1997 (Joanna Lumley); Sword of
the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 1984 MOTHER GOOSE
Boris Karloff (as the Mummy) and Zita
Johann in The Mummy, 1932.
(Emma
Sutton); A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1996 (Theresa
Russell).
Mother
Goose (Mother Goose character): Babes in
Toyland, 1934 (Virginia Karns); Babes in Toyland, 1961 (Mary McCarty);
Barny & Friends, 1992-2009 (TV series; Sandy Walper, Barbara Lowin); The
Bride Goes Wild, 1948 (Estelle Etterre); Christmas Night of One Hundred Stars,
1986 (TV special; Christopher Biggins); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for
Every Child, 1995-2000 (animated TV series; Whoopi
Goldberg);
Higglety Pigglety Pop!, 1985 (Deborah Rees); The Magic Land of Mother Goose,
1967 (Judith Snow); A Modern Mother Goose, 1917 (Rachel James); Mother Goose,
1959 (Frankie Howerd); Mother
Goose, 1965
(made-for-TV; Terry Scott); Mother Goose and Friends,
2005- (TV
series; Jolene Patrick); Mother Goose and Grimm, 19911993 (TV series; Mitzi
McCall); Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, 1990 (made-for-TV; Jean Stapleton); The
New Adventures of Mother Goose,
1995
(made-for-TV; Sally Struthers); Off to See the Wizard, 1967-1968 (TV series;
Maureen O’Hara); The Rake’s Progress, 1994 (Linda Ormiston); The Rake’s
Progress, A Fable, 1979 (made-for-TV; Nuala Willis); Shirley Temple’s
Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “Mother Goose,”
1958
episode; Elsa Lanchester); Super Why!, 2007- (TV series; Marsha Mason); The
Wacky World of Mother Goose, 1967 (Margaret Rutherford).
Mother
Hubbard (Mother Goose character): Babes
in Toyland, 1934 (Alice Cooke); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every
Child, 19952000 (animated TV series; Marla Gibbs); Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme,
1990 (made-for-TV; Elayne Boosler).
Mouse
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll): Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (Raymond
Hatton); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Alan Bennett); Alice in
Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Sherman Hemsley); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (TV
series; Mary Miller); Alice in Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV; four 30minute
segments; Ysanne Churchman); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Ken Dodd);
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Davy Kaye); Great Performances, 1971-
(TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1983 episode; Nathan Lane).
Mr. Bumble
(arrogant and self-important master of the workhouse in Charles Dickens’ 1837
novel, Oliver Twist): The ABC
Saturday Superstar Movie, 1972-1974 (TV series; “Oliver and the Artful Dodger,”
two 1927 episodes; Ronald Long); The DuPont Show of the Month, 19571961 (TV
series; “Oliver Twist,” 1959 episode; Robert Morley); The Further Adventures of
Oliver Twist, 1980- (TV series; Harold Innocent); Oliver!, 1968 (Harry Secombe); Oliver Twist, 1916 (Harry L.
Rattenberry); Oliver Twist, 1922
(James Marcus); Oliver Twist, 1933 (Lionel Belmore); Oliver Twist, 1951 (Francis L. Sullivan); Oliver Twist, 1962(TV
miniseries; Willoughby Goddard); Oliver Twist, 1982 (made-for-
TV; Timothy
West); Oliver Twist, 1985- (TV miniseries; Godfrey
James);
Oliver Twist, 1999- (TV miniseries; David Ross); Oliver Twist, 2002- (TV
miniseries; Michael Segerstrom); Oliver
Twist, 2005 (Jeremy Swift); Oliver Twist, 2007- (TV miniseries; Gregor
Fisher).
The Mummy
(character in horror films; an ancient Egyptian priest most usually named
Imhotep or Kharis, who is resurrected to bring havoc and death to the living):
The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, 1964 (Dickie Owen); Day of the Mummy, 2014
(Brandon deSpain as Neferu, the Mummy); Monster Force, 1994 (TV series; Robert
Bockstael as Imhotep); The Mummy,
1932 (Boris Karloff as Imhotep and the
Mummy); The
Mummy, 1959 (Christopher Lee as Kharis and the
Mummy); The Mummy, 1999 (Arnold Vosloo as
Imhotep); The Mummy Returns, 2001
(Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep); The Mummy: Secrets of the Medjai, 2001- (animated
TV series; Jim Cummings voiceover as Imhotep); The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 2008 (Jet Li as Emperor Han
who has been transformed into a mummy); The Mummy’s Curse, 1944 (Lon Chaney Jr.
as Kharis); The Mummy’s Ghost, 1944 (Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis); The Mummy’s Hand, 1940 (Tom Tyler as
Kharis); The Mummy’s Kiss, 2003 (Sasha Peralto); The Mummy’s Tomb, 1942 (Lon
Chaney Jr. as Kharis); Saturday the 14th Strikes Back, 1988 (Joseph Ruskin as
Kharis; Michael Berryman as the Mummy).
Mycroft
Holmes (fictional charcter; the older brother of Sherlock Holmes in the stories
of Arthur Conan Doyle): The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1984-1985 (TV
series; Charles Gray); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, 1980
(TV series; Boris Klyuev);
Hands of a
Murderer, 1990 (Peter Jeffrey); Incident at Victoria Falls, 1992 (made-for-TV;
Jerome Willis); The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,
1994 (TV
series; Charles Gray); The Private Life
of Sherlock Holmes, 1970 (Christopher Lee); The Return of Sherlock Holmes,
1986-1988 (TV series; Charles Gray); The Royal Scandal, 2001 (made-for-TV; R.
H. Thomson); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,
1976 (Charles Gray); Sherlock Holmes, 1967-1968 (TV series; Hans Crossy); Sherlock,
2002 (made-for-TV; Richard E. Grant); Sherlock
Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 2011 (Stephen Fry); Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
Watson: The Bloody Inscription, 1979 (made-for-TV; Boris Klyuev); Sherlock
Holmes and the Leading Lady, 1991 (made-for-TV; Jerome Willis); A Study in Terror, 1966 (Robert
Morley).
Nana (the
alluring prostitute daughter of Gervaise in Emile Zola’s 1880 novel): Nana,
1926 (Catherine Hessling); Nana, 1934 (Anna Sten); Nana, 1944 (Lupe Velez);
Nana, 1955 (Martine Carol); Nana, 1968 (TV miniseries; Katherine Schofield);
Nana, 1981 (TV miniseries; Veronique Genest); Nana, 1985 (Irma Serrano); Nana,
1999 (made-for-TV; Francesca Dellera); Nana, 2001 (made-for-TV; Lou Doillon).
Neptune
(Roman god of the seas; Poseidon in Greek mythology): Goddess of Love, 1988
(made-for-TV; Kay E. Kuter); L’odissea, 1991 (made-for-TV; Sergio Vastano);
Night Life of the Gods, 1935 (Robert Warwick); The Temple of Venus, 1923
(Robert Klein); Vulcan, Son of Giove, 1962 (Omero Gargano).
Nick Adams
(character appearing in the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, loosely based
upon the author’s early life): Adventures
of a Young Man, 1962 (Richard Beymer); The
Killers, 1946 (Phil Brown).
Nick
Charles (suave, heavy-drinking detective in the stories by Dashiell Hammett;
William Powell in all): After the Thin
Man, 1936; Another
Thin Man, 1939; Shadow of the Thin Man, 1941; Song
of the Thin Man, 1947; The Thin Man,
1934; The Thin Man Goes Home, 1945.
Ninotchka
(attractive female Soviet enoy to Paris who falls in love with wealthy
American): Ninotchka, 1939 (Greta
Garbo); Ninotchka, 1960 (made-for-TV; Maria Schell); Ninotchka, 1965
(made-for-TV; Ruth Leuwerik); Ninotschka sucht Fruhling, 1973 (made-for-TV;
Catrin Hennig); Silk Stockings, 1957
(Cyd Charisse).
Nora
Charles (character, wife of Nick Charles, in the stories by Dashiell Hammett;
Myrna Loy in all): After the Thin Man,
1936; Another Thin Man, 1939; Shadow of the Thin Man, 1941; Song of the Thin Man, 1947; The Thin Man, 1934; The Thin Man Goes Home, 1945.
Old Woman
Who Lives in the Shoe (fairy tale character): Happily N’Ever After, 2009
(Jennie Fahn voiceover); Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, 1990 (made-for-TV;
Deborah Harry); The 7D, 2014 (TV series; Tress MacNeille).
Old King
Cole (Mother Goose character): Babes in
Toyland, 1934 (Kewpie Morgan); Birthday Party, 1947-1949 (TV series; Ted
Brown); PARIS
William Powell (as Nick Charles),
Myrna Loy (as Nora Charles) and Asta in The
Thin Man, 1934.
Fairy
Tales, 1978 (Bob Leslie); Happily N’Ever After, 2009 (Kelly
Brewster
voiceover); The Magic Land of Mother Goose, 1967 (David
Hammond);
Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, 1990 (made-for-TV; Little Richard).
Oliver
Twist (a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver
Twist, an orphaned boy who falls in with a
gang of pickpockets in 19th Century London, England): The ABC Saturday
Superstar Movie, 19721974 (animated TV series; “Oliver and the Artful Dodger,”
two 1972 episodes; Gary Marsh); The DuPont Show of the Month, 1957-1961 (TV
series; “Oliver Twist,” 1959 episode; Richard Thomas); Escape of the Artful
Dodger, 2001- (TV series; Rowan Witt); The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist,
1980- (TV series; Daniel Murray); Oliver & Company, 1988 (Joey Lawrence
voiceover); Oliver Twist, 1916 (Marie Doro); Oliver Twist, 1919 (Tibor
Lubinszky); Oliver Twist, 1922
(Jackie
Coogan); Oliver Twist, 1933 (Dickie Moore); Oliver Twist,
1951 (John
Howard Davies); Oliver Twist, 1955 (TV series; Adriano
Stuart); Oliver
Twist, 1960 (TV series; Osmar Prado); Oliver Twist,
1962 (TV
miniseries; Bruce Prochnik); Oliver!,
1968 (Mark Lester);
Oliver
Twist, 1974 (animated version; Josh Albee voiceover; Billy
Simpson singing
voice); Oliver Twist, 1982 (made-for-TV; Richard Charles); Oliver Twist, 1985
(TV miniseries; Ben Rodska); Oliver Twist, 1997 (made-for-TV; Alex Trench);
Oliver Twist, 1999 (TV miniseries; Sam Smith); Oliver Twist, 2005 (Barney Clark); Oliver Twist, 2007 (TV series;
William Miller); Oliver Twist Jr., 1921 (Harold Goodwin).
Orpheus
(legendary Greek poet and musician): The Illiac Passion, 1968 (Jack Smith); In
Performance, 1978- (TV series; “Orpheus in the Underworld,” 1983 episode;
Alexander Oliver); Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld, 1997
(made-for-TV; Alexandru Badea); Jason and the Argonauts, 2000 (TV miniseries;
Adrian Lester); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series;
Tony Rosato); Myths, 2009- (TV series; Charles Mnene); Orphee aux enfers, 1997
(made-forTV; Yann Beuron); Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 1975 (Wolfgang Greese);
Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 2007 (made-for-TV; Kurt Marschner); Orpheus in the
Underworld, 1961 (made-for-TV; Kevin Miller); Rome in a Day, 2008 (Luke Butler);
Young Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series; Kieren Hutchison).
Othello
(character in “Othello,” by William Shakespeare, c.1601, a noble Moor who is
consumed by murderous rage that his wife, Desdemona, is carrying on an affair with another, a
falsehood spread by Othello’s traitorous aide, Iago, causing Othello to murder
his innocent wife, and, when discovering his error, commits suicide): BBC
Sunday-Night Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Othello,” 1950 episode; Andre
Morell); A Double Life, 1947 (Ronald
Colman portraying an actor on stage as Othello); Encounter [General Motors
Presents], 1952-1961 (TV series;
“Othello,”
1953 episode; Lorne Green); Masterpiece Playhouse, 1950-
(TV series;
“Othello,” 1950 episode; Torin Thatcher); Otello, 1948 (made-for-TV; Ramon
Vinay); Otello, 1958 (Mario Del Monaco); Otello, 1959 (made-for-TV; Mario Del
Monaco); Otello, 1962 (madefor-TV; Hans Beirer); Otello, 1965 (made-for-TV;
Wolfgang Windgassen); Otello, 1974 (Jon Vickers); Otello, 1976 (made-for-TV;
Placido Domingo); Otello, 1986
(Placido Domingo); Otello, 2012 (Johan Botha); Othello, 1914 (Paolo Colaci);
Othello, 1918 (Beni Montano); Othello, 1923 (Emil Jannings); Othello, 1937
(made-for-TV; Ralph Richardson); Othello
[1952], 1955 (Orson Welles); Othello, 1955
(made-for-TV;
Gordon Heath); Othello, 1958 (made-for-TV; Peter
Pasetti);
Othello [1955], 1960 (Sergei Bondarchuk); Othello, 1962
(made-for-TV;
Daniel Sorano); Othello, 1965 (made-for-TV; Raymond
Westwell); Othello, 1965 (Laurence Olivier);
Othello, 1968 (made-forTV; Wolfgang Reichmann); Othello, 1969 (made-for-TV;
Bert Struys);
Othello,
1979 (made-for-TV; Roger Hanin); Othello, 1980 (Yaphet Kotto); Othello, 1981
(made-for-TV; Anthony Hopkins); Othello, 1989
(made-for-TV;
John Kani); Othello, 1995 (Laurence
Fishburne); The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, 1948-1956 (TV series;
“Othello,” 1953 episode; Torin Thatcher).
Panisse
(good-hearted widower and elderly sailmaker who marries Fanny, a fish-seller in
Marseilles who is deserted by her sailor lover):
Cesar, 1936 (Fernand Charpin); Fanny, 1948 (Fernand Charpin);
Fanny, 1961 (Maurice Chevalier); Fanny,
2008 (made-for-TV; Andrzej Seweryn); Fanny, 2014 (Jean-Pierre Darroussin); La
trilogie Marseillaise: Cesar, 2000 (made-for-TV; Henri Tisot); La trilogie
Marseillaise: Fanny, 2000 (made-for-TV; Henri Tisot); La trilogie Marseillaise:
Marius, 2000 (made-for-TV; Henri Tisot); Marius,
1933 (Fernand Charpin); Marius, 2014 (Jean-Pierre Darroussin); Pagnol, 1977 (TV
series; Jan Teulings); Port of Seven Seas, 1938 (Frank Morgan).
Paris
(Trojan prince in Greek mythology who stole Helen and precipated the Trojan
War): The Affairs of Aphrodite, 1970 (Robi Courtney); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre,
1950-1959 (TV series; “Troilus and Cressida,” 1954 episode; Simon Lack);
Dertrojanisch krieg findet nicht statt, 1964
(made-for-TV;
Karl Walter Diess); The Face of Love, 1954 (made-for-
TV; Brian
Worth); Fury of Achilles, 1962 (Roberto Risso); Helen of
Troy, 1924
(Vladimir Gajdarov); Helen of Troy, 1951 (Per Grunden); Helen of Troy, 1956 (Jacques
Sernas); ITV Play of the Week, 1955-1974 (TV series; “Tiger at the Gates,” 1960
episode; John Bonney); King
Priam, 1985
(made-for-TV; Howard Haskin); La Belle Helene, 1996 (Deon van der Walt); La
Belle Helene, 2000 (Yann Beuron); Le guerre PAUL BUNYAN
Kirk Douglas (as Ulysses) and Silvana
Mangano (as Penelope) in Ulysses, 1955.
de Troie
n’aura pas lieu, 1967 (made-for-TV; Yves Lefebvre); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of
the Legend, 1998- (TV series; “Ulysses and the
Trojan
Horse,” 1999 episode; John Ralston); Myths, 2009- (TV series;
Tommy
Knight); Play of the Week, 1959-1961 (TV series; “Tiger at the Gate,” 1960
episode: Patrick Horgan); The Private Life of Helen of Troy, 1927 (Ricardo
Cortez); The Time Tunnel, 1966-1967 (TV series; “Revenge of the Gods,’ 1966
episode: Paul Carr); Troilus & Cressida, 1981 (made-for-TV; David Firth);
Troilus und Cressida, 1964 (made-for-TV; Norbert Hansing); Troilus und
Cressida, 1969 (made-for-TV; Wolfgang Schwarz); The Trojan Horse, 1962 (Warner
Bentivegna); Troy, 2004 (Orlando
Bloom).
Paul Bunyan
(U.S. folklore hero; a mythical gigantic lumberjack): Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill, 1995 (Oliver
Platt).
Pecos Bill
(U.S. folklore hero, a cowboy of the Old West capable of incredible feats): The
Mysterious Rider, 1938 (Douglas Dumbrille); On the High Card, 1921 (Charles E.
Graham); Tall Tale: The Unbelievable
Adventures of Pecos Bill, 1995 (Patrick Swayze); Tall Tales & Legends,
1985-1988 (TV series; “Pecos Bill,” 1986 episode; Steve Guttenberg); Walt
Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, 1954-1992 (TV series; “The Golden Horseshoe
Revue,” 1962 episode; Wally Boag as a performing Pecos Bill).
Pegasus (in
Greek mythology, a divine white winged stallion able to fly anywhere): Clash of the Titans, 1981; Hercules,
1998-1999 (TV series; Frank Welker voiceover).
Penelope
(Loyal wife of Greek warrior Ulysses [Odysseus] in Greek mythology): Biblioteca
di Studio Uno: Odissea, 1964 (made-for-TV; Lucia Mannucci); Dante’s Inferno,
2007 (Tami Sagher); Hercules Unchained, 1960 (Patrizia Della Rovere); Il
ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, 1980 (Trudeliese Schmidt); Odissea, 1968 (TV
miniseries; Irene Pappas); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, 1995-1999 (TV
series; Jacqueline Collen, Tammy Barker); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the
Legend, 1998- (TV series; four episodes; Julie Lemieux); Odysseus, 2013 (TV
series; eight episodes: Caterina Murino); Odysseus: Voyage to the Underworld,
2008 (Leah Gibson); The Odyssey, 1997- (TV series; Greta Scacchi); Penelope,
2009 (Natalie Finderle); Penelope oder Die Lorbeemaske, 1959 (made-for-TV;
Susanne von Almassy); The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland, 1973 (made-for-TV;
Janet Baker); Ulysses, 1955 (Silvana
Mangano).
The Penguin
(AKA: Oswald Cobblepot; fictional evil character in the Batman series): Batman,
1966-1968 (TV series; Burgess Meredith); The Batman, 2004-2008 (TV series; Tom
Kenny voiceover); Batman Returns,
1992 (Danny DeVito); Batman Revealed, 2012 (Chris Clark); Batman: The Brave and
the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV series; Stephen Root voiceover); The New
Batman Adventures, 1997-1999 (TV series; Paul Williams voiceover); Superman,
1996-2000 (TV series; Paul Williams voiceover).
Pepe le
Moko (infamous Parisian jewel thief hiding out in The Casbah, a citadel for
criminals in Algiers, Algeria, but who dooms himself when leaving his sanctuary
for the love of a woman): Algiers,
1938 (Charles Boyer); Casbah, 1948
(Tony Martin); Pepe le Moko [1937],
1941 (Jean Gabin); Toto le Moko, 1948 (Carlo Ninchi).
Percival
(or Perceval; legendary knight of King Arthur’s Round Table in 6th Century
Britain, who quested for the Holy Grail): Excalibur,
1981 (Paul Geoffrey); Guinevere, 1994 (made-for-TV; Andrius Bobrovas); Knights of the Round Table, 1953
(Gabriel Woolf); Perceval, 1978 (Fabrice Luchini).
Percy
Blakeney (AKA: The Scarlet Pimpernel; heroic character and protagonist in the
novels and stories by Baroness Emma Orczy, beginning with her first 1792 novel,
The Scarlet Pimpernel): BBC Night
Theater, 1950-1959 (TV series; “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” 1951 episode: James
Carney); The DuPont Show of the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “The Scarlet
Pimpernel,” 1960 episode: Michael Rennie); The Elusive Pimpernel, 1919 (Cecil
Humphreys); The Elusive Pimpernel, 1969 (TV miniseries; Anton Rodgers); The
Fighting Pimpernel, 1953 (David Niven); The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel,
1938 (Barry K. Barnes); The Scarlet Daredevil, 1929 (Matheson Lang); The
Scarlet Pimpernel, 1917 (Dustin Farnum); The
Scarlet Pimpernel, 1934 (Leslie Howard); The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1956 (TV
series; Marius Goring); The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1982 (made-for-TV; Anthony
Andrews); The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1999-2000 (TV series; Richard E. Grant).
Persephone
(in Greek mythology a goddess and the daughter of Zeus): The Illiac Passion,
1968 (Beverly Grant); Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,
2010 (Rosario Dawson).
Perseus
(mythical great Greek hero and son of the god Zeus, who, in his adventures, overwhelmed
monsters, rescuing Andromeda and marrying her): Clash of the Titans, 1981 (Harry Hamlin); Clash of the Titans, 2010 (Sam Worthington, Otto Farrant as young
Perseus); Hercules: The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Jordan Lambay); Mythic
Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series; Robin Dunne, Noah Reid as
young Perseus); Night Life of the Gods, 1935 (Pat DiCicco); Persee, 2004
(made-for-TV; Cyril Auvity); Perseus Against the Monsters, 1963 (Richard
Harrison); The Storyteller: Greek Myths, 1990- (TV miniseries; “Perseus and the
Gorgon,” 19991 episode; Jeremy Gilley, Oscar Webb as a young Perseus); Wrath of
the Titans, 2012 (Sam Worthington).
Peter Pan
(fictional character created by Scottish playwright J. M. Barrie, 1860-1937,
who first appears as only one character in a chapter in Barrie’s 1902 novel for
adults, The Little White Bird, 1902, and as the leading character in his 1904
play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up): The Adventures of Peter Pan,
1989 (TV series; Noriko Hidaka); Fairy Tale: A True Story, 1997 (Anna
Chancellor); Finding Neverland, 2004
(Kelly Macdonald); Happy Birthday, Peter Pan, 2005 (TV special; Rupert Grint
voiceover; Jeremy Sumpter); Hook,
1991 (Robin Williams as an adult; and Ryan Francis, Jewell Newlander Hubbard,
Max Hoffman and Matthew Van Ginkel as Peter in various stages as a boy); The
New Adventures of Peter Pan, 2012 (TV series; Mehani Taric); Neverland, 2003
(Rick Sparks); Neverland, 2011 (TV series; Charlie Rowe); Once Upon a Time,
2011- (TV series; Robbie Kay); One Hour in Wonderland, 1950 (made-for-TV; Bobby
Driscoll); Peter Pan, 1924 (Betty Bronson); Peter Pan, 1953 (Bobby Driscoll voiceover);
Peter Pan,
1955 (Mary Martin); Peter Pan, 1960 (made-for-TV; Mary Martin); Peter Pan, 1962
(made-for-TV; Michael Ande); Peter Pan, 1976 (made-for-TV; Mia Farrow); Peter
Pan, 2000 (made-for-TV; Cathy
Rigby);
Peter Pan, 2003 (Jeremy Sumpter); Peter Pan and the Pirates, 1990-1991 (TV
series; Jason Marsden); Return to Never Land, 2002 (Blayne Weaver voiceover); Shrek, 2001 (Michael Galasso
voiceover); Too Many Kisses, 1925 (Harpo Marx, as the Village Peter Pan); The
Walt Disney Christmas Show, 1951 (made-for-TV; Bobby Driscoll).
Peter Piper
(British fictional character in tongue-twisting nursery rhyme): Mother Goose
Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, 1990 (made-for-TV; Harry Anderson).
Petruchio
(clever lover who tames and marries the tempestuous, maneating Katharina in
William Shakespeare’s 1594 play, “The Taming of the Shrew”): BBC Sundayh-Night
Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “The Taming of the Shrew,” 1952 episode; Stanley
Baker); Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Kiss Me Kate,” 2003 episode;
Brent Barrett); Kate: The Taming of the Shrew, 2004 (Neri Marcore); Katharine
and PIED PIPER
Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart
(as Philip Marlowe) in The Big Sleep, 1946.
Petruchio,
1939 (made-for-TV; Austin Trevor); Kiss
Me Kate, 1953 (Howard Keel); Kiss Me Kate, 1968 (made-for-TV; Robert
Goulet); La bisbetica domata, 1942 (Amedeo Nazzari); La fierecilla domada, 1956
(Alberto Closas); Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, 1993-1994 (TV series; “The
Taming of the Shrew,” 1994 episode; Nigel Le Vaillant); Studio One in
Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series; “The Taming of the Shrew,” 1950 episode;
Charlton Heston); The Taming of the Shrew, 1929 (Douglas Fairbanks Sr.); The
Taming of the Shrew, 1956 (madefor-TV; Maurice Evans); The Taming of the Shrew,
1962 (made-for-TV; Ron Haddrick); The
Taming of the Shrew, 1967 (Richard Burton); The Taming of the Shrew, 1973
(made-for-TV; John Bell); The Taming of the Shrew, 1976 (made-for-TV; Mark
Singer); The Taming of the Shrew, 1980 (made-for-TV; John Cleese); The Taming
of the Shrew, 1982 (made-for-TV; Len Cariou); The Taming of the Shrew, 1988 (made-forTV;
Colm Feore).
Phantom of
the Opera (disfigured and demented musician who haunts the underground caves
beneath the Paris Opera and aids a beautiful, young prima donna, as depicted in
Gaston Leroux’s 1911 novel): Das Phantom der Oper, 1916 (Nils Olaf Crisander); The Phantom of the Opera, 1925 (Lon
Chaney Sr.); Phantom of the Opera,
1943 (Claude Rains); The Phantom of the
Opera, 1962 (Herbert Lom); The Phantom of the Opera, 1983 (made-for-TV;
Maximilian Schell); The Phantom of the Opera, 1988 (made-for-TV; Aiden
Grennell); The Phantom of the Opera, 1989 (Robert Englund); The Phantom of the
Opera, 1990 (madefor-TV; Charles Dance); The Phantom of the Opera, 1998 (Julian
Sands); The Phantom of the Opera,
2004 (Gerard Butler); Phantom of the Paradise, 1974 (William Finlay).
Phileas
Fogg (indefatigable Englishman who wagers £20,000 with fellow members of the
elitist Reform Club in London that he can go around the world in eighty days
and, despite all obstacles, and, with the help of his loyal servant, Jean Passepartout,
achieves his near-impossible goal and wins the bet; first depicted in the 1873
adventure novel, Around the World in
Eighty Days, by Jules Verne): Around the World in Eighty Days, 1919 (Conrad
Veidt); Around the World in 80 Days,
1956 (David Niven); Around the World in Eighty Days, 1972-
1973 (TV
series; Alistair Duncan); Around the World in 80 Days, 1989 (TV miniseries;
Pierce Brosnan); Around the World in 80 Days, 2004 (Steve Coogan); De reis om
de wereld in 80 dagen, 1957- (TV series; Senne Rouffaer); Die Reise um die Erde
in 80 Tagen, 1963 (made-forTV; Alfred Muller); Le Tour du monde en 80 jours,
1975 (TV miniseries; Jean Le Poulain); Le tour du monde en 80 jours, 1979
(made-for-TV; Daniel Ceccaldi); Le tour du monde en 80 jours, 1980 (TV series;
Jean Pellotier); The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, 2000 (TV series; Michael
Praed).
Philip
Marlowe (hard-boiled private detective created by author Raymond Chandler in
his 1939 novel, The Big Sleep): The Big Sleep, 1946 (Humphrey Bogart);
The Big Sleep, 1978 (Robert Mitchum); The Brasher Doubloom, 1947 (George
Montgomery); Climax!, 1954-1958
(TV series;
“The Long Goodbye,’ 1954 episode; Dick Powell); Farewell, My Lovely, 1975 (Robert Mitchum); Lady in the Lake, 1947 (Robert Montgomery); The Long Goodbye, 1973 (Elliott Gould); Marlowe, 1969 (James Garner); Marlowe, 1983 (made-for-TV; Jose
Jorge Duarte); Marlowe, 2007 (made-for-TV; Jason O’Mara); Murder, My Sweet, 1944 (Dick Powell); Omnibus, 1967-2003 (TV
series; “Raymond Chandler: Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go,’ 1969
episode; Edward Judd); Philip Marlowe, 1959-1960 (TV series; Philip Carey);
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye, 1983-1986 (TV series; Powers Boothe); Poodle
Springs, 1998 (made-for-TV; James Caan); Robert Montgomery Presents, 1950-1957
(TV series; “The Big Sleep,” 1950 episode; Zachary Scott).
Philo Vance
(suave private detective created by S.S. Van Dine in his 1926 novel, The Benson Murder Case): The Benson
Murder Case, 1930
(William
Powell); The Bishop Murder Case, 1930 (William Powell); Calling Philo Vance,
1940 (James Stephenson); The Canary
Murder Case, 1929 (William Powell); The Casino Murder Case, 1935 (Paul
Lukas); The
Dragon Murder Case, 1934 (Warren William); The Garden Murder Case, 1936 (Edmund
Lowe); Gracie Allen Murder Case, 1939 (Warren William); The Greene Murder Case, 1929 (William Powell); The Kennel Murder Case, 1933 (William Powell); Night of Mystery,
1937 (Grant Richards); Paramount on Parade, 1930 (William Powell); Philo Vance,
1974- (TV miniseries; Giorgio Albertazzi); Philo Vance Returns, 1947 (William
Wright); Philo Vance’s Gamble, 1947 (Alan
Curtis);
Philo Vance’s Secret Mission, 1947 (Alan Curtis); The Scarab Murder Case, 1937
(Wilfrid Hyde White); Vyvrazdeni rodiny Greenu, 2002 (made-for-TV; Jiri
Dvorak).
Pied Piper
(fairy tale character in German legends, who lures rats away from towns with
his magic pipe or flute, and also lures children with him after townsfolk
refuse to pay him for his services; as early as 1300 in Hamelin, Germany): Ever
After High-Legacy Day: A Tale of Two Tales, 2013 (made-for-TV; Cam Clarke
voiceover); Happily N’Ever After, 2009 (Doug Erholtz voiceover); The Pied
Piper, 1972 (Donovan voiceover); The Pied Piper of Astroworld, 1968
(made-for-TV; Soupy Sales); The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1918 (Paul Wegener); The
Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1926 (Edward Sorley); The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1957
(made-for-TV; Van Johnson).
PINK PANTHER
Pinocchio (Jonathan Taylor Thomas
voiceover) in The Adventures of
Pinocchio, 1996.
Pink Panther
(fictional animated cartoon character shown in the credits of comedy films and
in the TV series featuring the bumbling French detective Inspector Clouseau,
the character also appearing in its own series of animated shorts): Curse of
the Pink Panther, 1983 (Roger Moore as Inspector Clouseau); Inspector Clouseau,
1968 (Alan Arkin as Inspector
Clouseau); The Pink Panther, 1964 (Peter Sellers
as Inspector Clouseau); The Pink Panther, 1993-1996 (TV series); The Pink
Panther, 2006 (Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau); The Pink Panther Show,
1969-1976 (animated TV series); The Pink Panther 2, 2009 (Steve Martin as
Inspector Clouseau); The Pink Panther
Strikes Again, 1976 (Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau); The Return of the Pink Panther, 1975
(Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau); Revenge
of the Pink Panther, 1978 (Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau); A Shot in the Dark, 1964 (Peter Sellers
as Inspector Clouseau); Son of the Pink Panther, 1993; and Trail of the Pink
Panther, 1982 (Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau).
Pinocchio
(a wooden marionette that transform into a real boy, a fictional character in
the 1883 children’s novel The Adventures
of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi): Abbacadabra, 1983
(made-for-TV; Nico Haak); The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1947 (Alessandro Tomei);
The
Adventures of Pinocchio, 1972 (TV miniseries; Andrea Balestri); The Adventures
of Pinocchio, 1988 (Danielle Romeo); The
Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996 (Jonathan Taylor Thomas voiceover); Disney’s
House of Mouse, 2001-2003 (animated TV series; Michael Welch); Geppetto’s
Secret, 2005 (Nika Futterman); Geppotto’s Workshop, 1980(TV series; Stephanie
Silver); Geppetto, 2000 (made-for-TV; Seth Adkins); Happily Ever After: Fairy
Tales for Every Child, 1995-2000 (TV series; “Pinocchio,” 1997 episode; Will
Smith); The New Adventures of Pinocchio, 1960-1961 (TV series; Joan Fowler);
The New Adventures of Pinocchio, 1999 (Gabriel Thomson); Once Upon a Time, 2011
(TV series; Eion Bailey); Pinocchio,
1940 (Dickie Jones voiceover); Pinocchio, 1957 (made-for-TV; Mickey Rooney);
Pinocchio, 1965 (made-forTV; John Joy); Pinocchio, 1968 (made-for-TV; Peter
Noone); Pinocchio, 1969 (Uwe Thielisch); Pinocchio, 1976 (made-for-TV; Sandy
Duncan); Pinocchio, 1978 (Roberta Paladini voiceover); Pinocchio, 1978 (TV
series; Rosemary Miller voiceover); Pinocchio, 2002 (Roberto Benigni);
Pinocchio, 2008 (made-for-TV; Robbie Kay); Pinocchio, 2012 (Gabriele Caprio
voiceover); Pinocchio, 2013 (TV miniseries; Moritz Russ, Aaron Kissiov);
Pinocchio and His Magic Show, 1976 (Ellen Prince voiceover); Pinocchio and the
Emperor of the Night, 1987 (Scott Grimes voiceover); Pinocchio in Outer Space,
1965 (Peter Lazar); Pinocchio 3000, 2004 (Sonja Ball); Pinocchio’s Christmas,
1980 (made-for-TV; Todd Porter); Shrek,
2001 (Cody Cameron voiceover); Shrek
Forever
After, 2010 (Cody Cameron voiceover);
Shrek 4-D, 2009 (Cody Cameron voiceover); Shrek
the Third, 2007 (Cody Cameron voiceover); Shrek 2, 2004 (Cody Cameron voiceover); Welcome Back Pinocchio,
2007 (Federico Bebi); Who Framed Roger
Rabbit, 1988 (Peter Westy voiceover).
Pip (Philip
Pirrip; an orphan and apprentice blacksmith who becomes a refined gentleman
through the aid of a secret benefactor in Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel, Great Expectations): Great Expectations,
1917 (Jack Pickford); Great Expectations, 1934 (Phillips Holmes; George P.
Breakston as young Pip); Great
Expectations, 1946 (John Mills; Anthony Wager as young Pip); Great
Expectations, 1959- (TV series; Dinsdale Landen; Colin Spaull as young Pip);
Great Expectations, 1967- (TV series; Gary Bond; Christopher Guard and and
Douglas Mann as young Pitt); Great Expectations, 1974 (made-for-TV; Michael
York; Simon
Gipps-Kent
as young Pip); Great Expectations, 1981- (TV miniseries; Gerry Sundquist; Paul
Davies Prowles and Graham McGrath as young
Pip); Great
Expectations, 1989- (TV miniseries; Anthony Calf; Martin
Harvey as
young Pip); Great Expectations, 1999 (made-for-TV; Ioan Gruffudd; Gabriel
Thomson as young Pip); Great Expectations, 2011 (TV miniseries; Douglas Booth;
Oscar Kennedy as young Pip); Great Expectations, 2012 (Jeremy Irvine; Toby
Irvine as young Pip); Great
Expectations,
2013 (Paul Nivison; Taylor Jay-Davies as young Pip);
Playdate,
1961-1964 (TV series; “Great Expectations,” two episodes in 1962; Douglas Rain;
Rex Hagon as young Pip); Robert Montgomery Presents, 1950-1957 (TV series;
“Great Expectations,” two episodes in 1954; Roddy McDowall; Rex Thompson as
young Pip); Store forventninger, 1922 (Harry Komdrup; Budd Martin [Martin
Herzberg] as young Pip).
Pluto (in
Roman mythology; god of the underworld or, in modern perception, hell; Hades in
Greek mythology): Hercules in New York, 1970 (Michael Lipton); In Performance,
1978- (TV series; “Orpheus in the
Underworld,”
1983 episode; Emile Belcourt); Orpheus in der Unterwelt,
1975 (Kurt
Marschner; Achim Wichert); Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 2007 (made-for-TV; William
Workman); Orpheus in the Underworld, 1961 (made-for-TV; Jon Weaving).
Popeye
Doyle (Jimmy Doyle; tough and uncompromising NYPD detective): The French Connection, 1971 (Gene
Hackman); French Connection II, 1975
(Gen Hackman); Popeye Doyle, 1986 (made-forTV; Ed O’Neill).
Popeye
(Popeye the Sailor Man; spinach-eating muscular cartoon character since the
1930s, chiefly appearing in cartoon shorts): The AllNew Popeye Hour, 1978-1979
(animated TV series; Jack Mercer voiceover); Popeye, 1980 (Robin Williams; Jack
Mercer voiceover in animated prologue); Popeye and Son, 1987 (animated TV
series; Maurice LaMarche voiceover).
Porfiri
Petrovich (wily Russian detective who plays cat-and-mouse with a killer to
await his expected confession in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic 1866 novel, Crime and Punishment): Crime and
Punishment, 1917 (Robert Cummings); Crime
and Punishment, 1935 (Harry
Baur); Crime and Punishment, 1935 (Edward
Arnold); Crime and Punishment, 1948 (Sigurd Wallen); Crime and Punishment, 1951
(Carlos Lopez Moctezuma); Crime and Punishment, 1956 (Jean Gabin); Crime and
Punishment, 1970 (Innokenty Smoktunovsky); Crime and
Punishment,
1971 (made-for-TV; Jean Topart); Crime and Punishment,
1979 (TV
miniseries; Timothy West); Crime and Punishment, 1998 (made-for-TV; Ben
Kingsley); Crime and Punishment, 2002 (madefor-TV; Ian McDiarmid); Crime and
Punishment, 2002 (John Hurt); Crime and Punishment, USA, 1959 (Frank Silvera);
Crime et chatiment, 1955 (made-for-TV; Pierre Mondy); Pickpocket, 1959 (Jean
Pelegri); Raskolnikoff, 1959 (Paul Verhoeven); Raskolnikow, 1953 (made-for-TV;
Hans Stiebener [Stiebner]); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World, 1988 (TV miniseries;
“Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment,’” Timothy Spall).
Porthos
(Character in the fictional works of Alexander Dumas pere):
At Sword’s
Point, 1952 (Moroni Olsen; Alan Hale Jr. as Porthos Jr.); Biblioteca di Studio
Uno: I tre moschettieri, 1964 (made-for-TV; Felice
Chiusano);
D’Artagnan, 1969 (TV miniseries; Rolf Arndt); D’Artagnon, 1991 (made-for-TV;
Denis Brandon); D’Artagnan amoureux, 1977 (TV miniseries; Jacques Le
Carpentier); D’Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires, 2005 (Gregory Gadebois);
D’Artanyan i tri mushketyora, 1979 (TV series; Valentin Smirnitskiy); De drie
Musketiers, 1968 (made-for-TV; Herman Bruggen); Die Drie Musketiere, 2013
(Aleksey Makarov); Family Classics: The Three Musketeers,
1960
(made-for-TV; John Colicos); The Four Charlots Musketeers, 1974 (Gib Grossac);
The Four Musketeers, 1963 (Andrea Aureli); The
Four Musketeers, 1975 (Frank Finlay); The Glorious
Musketeers,
1974 (Claude
Bertrand voiceover); I tre moschettieri, 1991 (made-for-
TV; Gerry
Scotti); Il colpo segreto di d’Artagnan, 1963 (Mario Petri); The Iron Mask, 1929 (Tiny Sandford);
Knights of the Queen, 1958 PRINCE
CHARMING
Oliver Pratt (as Porthos) in The Three Musketeers, 1993.
(Sebastian
Cabot); La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros, 1983 (Fernando Conde); Lady
in the Iron Mask, 1952 (Alan Hale Jr.); Les 3 Mousquetaires, 1953 (Gino Cervi);
Les trois mousquetaires, 1959 (made-for-TV; Daniel Sorano); Les trois
mousquetaires ou L’escrime ne paie pas, 1979 (made-for-TV; Remy Kirch); The
Magnavox Theater, 1950 (TV series; “The Three Musketeers,” 1950 episode: Mel
Archer); The Man in the Iron Mask, 1939
(Alan Hale); Mask of the Musketeers, 1963 (Livio Lorenzon); Milady and the
Three Musketeers, 2004 (made-for-TV; Frederic Longbois); The Musketeer, 2001 (Steve Speirs); The Musketeers, 2014 (TV
series; Howard Charles); Os tres Mosqueteiros, 1957 (TV series; Fernando
Baleroni); Three and a Half
Musketeers,
1957 (Marcelo [Chavez]); The Three Musketeers, 1916
(Edward
Kenny); The Three Musketeers, 1921
(George Siegmann);
Three
Musketeers, 1932 (Thomy Bourdelle); The Three Musketeers,
1935
(Moroni Olsen); The Three Musketeers, 1939 (Russell Hicks);
The Three
Musketeers, 1945 (Francisco Pablo Donadio); The Three Musketeers, 1948 (Gig Young); The Three Musketeers, 1954
(TV series; Paul Whitsun-Jones); The Three Musketeers, 1966 (TV miniseries;
Brian Blessed); The Three Musketeers,
1974 (Frank Finlay); The Three
Musketeers, 1993 (Oliver Platt); The Three Musketeers, 2007 (Lars Hjortshoj
voiceover); The Three Musketeers, 2011 (Ray Stevenson); Vengeance of the Three
Musketeers, 1961 (Bernard Woringer); Vingt ans apre, 1922 (Charles Martinelli);
Tri musketyri, 1983 (TV miniseries; Jiri Krampol); Tri mushketera, 2013
(Aleksey Makarov); Young Blades, 2001 (Anthony Strachan).
Poseidon
(Greek god of the seas, creator of earthquakes; Neptune in Roman mythology):
The Adventures of Hercules II, 1985 (Ferdinando Poggi): Clash of the Titans, 1981 (Jack Gwillim); Clash of the Titans, 2010 (Danny Huston); Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV
series; Jason Alexander voiceover); Hercules: The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Joe
McGettigan); The Illiac Passion, 1968 (Andy Warhol); Immortals, 2011 (Kellan
Lutz); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series; Frank
Diakowsky); Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 2010 (Kevin
McKidd); Wrath of the Titans, 2012 (Danny Huston).
Priam (King
of Troy in Greek mythology): Der trojanisch krieg findet nicht statt, 1964
(made-for-TV; Albrecht Schoenhals); Fury of Achilles, 1962 (Fosco Giachetti);
Helen of Troy, 1956 (Sir Cedric Hardwicke); ITV Play of the Week, 1955-1974 (TV
series; “Tiger at the Gates,” 1960 episode; Robert Eddison); King Priam, 1985
(made-for-TV; Rodney Macann); Le guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu, 1967
(made-for-TV; Henri Nassiet); Troilus & Cressida, 1981 (made-for-TV; Esmond
Knight); Troilus und Cressida, 1964 (made-for-TV; Franz Gesien); Troilus und
Cressida, 1969 (made-for-TV; Rudolf Kalvius); The Trojan Horse, 1962 (Carlo
Tamberlani); Troy, 2004 (Peter
O’Toole).
Prince
Charming (folk character from the story The
Little Glass Slipper): American Playhouse, 1981- (TV series; “Into the
Woods,” 1991 episode; Robert Westenberg); Cinderella, 1914 (Owen Moore);
Cinderella, 1947 (Aleksey Konsovksy); Cinderella, 1947 (TV miniseries; Jean
Kent); Cinderella, 1950 (Mike
Douglas voiceover); Cinderella, 1950 (made-for-TV; Joy Nichols); Cinderella,
1957 (made-for-TV; Jon Cypher); Cinderella, 1958 (made-for-TV; John Fabian);
Cinderella, 1965 (made-for-TV; Stuart Damon); Cinderella, 1966 (Rudiger
Lichti); Cinderella, 1969 (Anthony Dowell); Cinderella, 1977 (Brett Smiley);
Cinderella, 1986 (made-for-TV; Stephane Vessier); Cinderella, 1989
(made-for-TV; Stephan Meyer-Kohlhoff); Cinderella, 1997 (made-forTV; Paolo
Montalban); Cinderella, 2000 (made-for-TV; Gideon Turner); Cinderella, 2000
(made-for-TV; Alexander Armstrong); Cinderella, 2010 (made-for-TV; Max Felder);
Cinderella, 2011 (made-forTV; Florian Bartholomai); Cinderella, 2015 (Richard Madden);
Cinderella…Frozen
in Time, 1994 (made-for-TV; Andrew Naylor);
Cinderella;
The Shoe Must Go On, 1986 (made-for-TV; Michael Howe); Cinderella 3D, 2012
(Antoine de Caunes voiceover); Faerie Tale Theatre, 1982-1987 (TV series;
“Cinderella,” 1985 episode; Matthew Broderick); The Glass Slipper, 1955
(Michael Wilding); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, 1995-2000
(TV series; “Cinderella,” 1995 episode; Jimmy Smits); Hey Cinderella!, 1969
(made-for-TV;
Robin Ward); Once Upon a Brothers Grimm, 1977
(made-for-TV;
John McCook); Once Upon a Time, 1973- (TV series; Rula Lenska); The Sleeping
Princess, 1939 (made-for-TV; Robert Helpmann); The Slipper and the Rose, 1976 (Richard Chamberlain).
Prince
Charming (fairy tale character in the story about Sleeping Beauty created by the
Brothers Grimm, who brings to life a beautiful princess in a comatose sleep by
kissing her): Dornroschen, 1917 (Harry Liedtke); Faerie Tale Theatre, 1982-1987
(TV series; “Sleeping
Beauty,”
1983 episode; Christopher Reeve); Great Performances, 1971-
(TV series;
“The Sleeping Beauty,” 1995 episode; Zoltan Solymosi);
Once Upon a
Brothers Grimm, 1977 (made-for-TV; John Clifford);
Producer’s
Showcase, 1954-1957 (TV series; “The Sleeping Beauty,”
1955
episode; Michael Somes); Sleeping Beauty,
1959 (Bill Shirley); Sleeping Beauty, 1965 (Gert Reinholm); Sleeping Beauty,
1971 (Burkhard Mann); Sleeping Beauty, 1987 (Nicholas Clay); The Sleeping
Beauty, 1987 (made-for-TV; Robin Cousins); The Sleeping Beauty, 2003
(made-for-TV; Gael Lambiotte); The Sleeping Beauty, 2007 (made-for-TV;
Frederico Bonelli); Sleeping Beauty, 2008 (made-forTV; Moritz Schulze); The
Sleeping Princess, 1939 (made-for-TV; Robert Helpmann).
PRINCE CHARMING
Quasimodo (Tom Hulce voiceover) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1996.
Prince
Charming (fairytale character from Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs by the Brothers Grimm, 1812): American
Playhouse, 1981- (TV series; “Into the Woods,” 1991 episode; ); Happily Ever
After, 1993 (Michael Horton); Mirror Mirror, 2012 (Armie Hammer);
Schneewittchen, 2009 (made-for-TV; Nicolas Artajo); The Seven Dwarfs to the
Rescue, 1951 (Roberto Risso); Snow White, 1916 (Creighton Hale);
Snow White,
1961 (Wolf-Dieter Panse); Snow White, 1989 (James Ian Wright); Snow White, 2009
(Sergio Diaz); Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, 1937 (Harry Stockwell voiceover); Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs,
1955 (Niels Clausnitzer); Snow White and the Three Stooges, 1961 (Edson
Stroll); Snow White Live, 1980 (made-for-TV; Richard Bowne).
Prince
Charming (fairy tale character in the Rapunzel tales as told by the Brothers
Grimm as early as 1812): American Playhouse, 1981- (TV series; “Into the
Woods,” 1991 episode; Chuck Wagner); Faerie Tale Theatre, 1982-1987 (TV series;
“Rapunzel,” 1983 episode; Jeff
Bridges);
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, 1995-2000
(TV series;
“Rapunzel,” 1995 episode; Duane Martin); Into the Woods, 2014 (Billy
Magnussen); Rapunzel, 2009 (made-for-TV; Jaime Ferkic);
Rapunzel or
the Magic of Tears, 1988 (made-for-TV; Dirk Schoedon); Shirley Temple’s
Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “Rapunzel,” 1958 episode; Don Dubbins);
Tangled, 2010 (Zachary Levi).
Prince Karl
(AKA: Prince Karl Heinrich or Karl Heinz; fictional royal hero of the 1924
operetta by Sigmund Romberg): Alt Heidelberg, 1923 (Paul Hartmann); Alt
Heidelberg, 1959 (Christian Wolff); Alt Heidelberg, 1959 (made-for-TV; Gotz von
Langheim); Old Heidelberg, 1915 (Wallace Reid); The Student Prince, 1954 (Edmund Purdom; Mario Lanza singing
voice); The Student Prince in Old
Heidelberg, 1927 (Ramon Novarro).
Prince
Valiant (fictional character in comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937, who
is involved in adventures during the time of King Arthur in 6th Century
Britain): The Legend of Prince Valiant, 1991-1994 (TV series; Robby Benson); Prince Valiant, 1954 (Robert Wagner);
Prince Valiant, 1997 (Stephen Moyer).
Professor
Challenger (George Edward Challenger; fictional explorerscientist in Arthur
Conan Doyle’s Lost World, 1912): King
of the Lost World, 2005 (Bruce Boxleitner); The Lost World, 1925 (Wallace Beery); The Lost World, 1960 (Claude
Rains); The Lost World, 1992 (John Rhys-Davies); The Lost World, 1998
(made-for-TV; Armin Shimerman); The Lost World, 1998 (Patrick Bergin); The Lost
World, 1999 (made-for-TV; Patrick McCauley); The Lost World, 2001 (madefor-TV;
Bob Hoskins); The Lost World, 1999-2002 (TV series; Peter McCauley).
Prometheus
(a Titan in Greek mythology, a deity that stole fire from Olympus and gave it
to mankind): Hercules: The Legendary Journeys – Hercules and the Circle of
Fire, 1994 (made-for-TV; Mark Ferguson); The Illiac Passion, 1968 (Richard
Beauvais).
Quasimodo
(pathetically deformed and horric-looking protagonist in Victor Hugo’s classic
1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame):
The Darling of Paris, 1917 (Glen White); Hotel
Transylvania, 2012 (Jon
Lovitz);
The Hunchback, 1997 (made-for-TV; Mandy Patinkin); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1923 (Lon Chaney Sr.); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939
(Charles Laughton); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1956 (Anthony Quinn); The
Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1966
(TV series;
Peter Woodthorpe); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1977
(made-for-TV;
Warren Clarke); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1982
(made-for-TV;
Anthony Hopkins); The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1986 (animated made-for-TV; Tom
Burlinson voiceover); The Hunchback of
Notre Dame, 1996 (animated; Tom Hulce voiceover); The Magical Adventures of
Quasimodo, 1996- (animated TV series; Daniel Brochu voiceover); Notre-Dame de
Paris, 1996 (made-for-TV; Nicolas
Le Riche);
Notre-Dame de Paris, 1999 (made-for-TV; Garou); NotreDame de Paris, 2002
(made-for-TV; Gio Di Tonno); Robert Montgomery Presents, 1950-1957 (TV series;
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” two-part episodes, 1954; Robert Ellenstein).
Queen of
Hearts (fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis
Carroll): Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (Vie Quinn); Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (May Robson); Alice in Wonderland, 1949
(Pamela Brown voiceover); Alice in
Wonderland, 1951 (Verna Felton voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955
(made-for-TV; Ronald Long); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Alison
Leggatt); Alice in Wonderland, 1976 (Marta Serrano); Alice in Wonderland, 1982
(madefor-TV; Julee Cruise); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Jayne
Meadows); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (TV series; Joan Sanderson); Alice in
Wonderland, 1986 (made-for-TV; four 30-minute segments;
Janet
Henfrey); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Miranda Richardson); Alice in
Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, 1966
(animated made-for-TV; Zsa Zsa Gabor); Alice Through the Looking Box, 1960
(made-for-TV; Adele Leigh);
Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, 1956 (made-for-TV; Violet Gould); Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland, 1972 (Flora Robson); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 2011
(made-for-TV; Zenaida Yanowksky); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through
the Looking Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV; Sybil Arundale); Great Performances,
1971- (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1983 episode; Eve Arden); Kraft
Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1954 episode; Blanche
Yurka); Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland, 2007 (Gwyneth Jones).
Raphael
(Archangel): Faust, 1960 (Konrad Krauss); The Fish and the
Angel, 1953
(made-for-TV; Joseph O’Conor); Gabriel, 2007 (Jack
Campbell);
Good Satan, 2012 (Jake Wesley Stewart); Jacob’s Ladder,
2003-2004
(TV series; Billy Engel); Joseph Haydn: The Creation, 1990
(made-for-TV;
Michael George); The Littlest Angel, 1969 (made-for-
TV; Cris
Alexander); Lucifer, 1966 (Julien Schoenaerts); Lucifer, 1981
(Sigrid
Koetse); The Prophecy II, 1998 (William Prael); Supernatural, 2005- (TV series;
Demore Barnes); Tobias and the Angel, 1938 (madefor-TV; Tyrone Guthrie); Tobias
and the Angel, 1939 (made-for-TV; Robert Eddison); Xena: Warrior Princess,
1995-2001 (TV series; Tamati Rice).
Rapunzel
(German fairytale character, part of the Grimm Brothers collections as early as
1812): American Playhouse, 1981- (TV series; “Into the Woods,” 1991 episode;
Pamela Winslow); Faerie Tale Theatre, 19821987 (TV series; “Rapunzel,” 1983
episode; Shelley Duvall); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child,
1995-2000 (TV series; “Rapunzel,” 1995 episode; Tisha Campbell-Martin); Into
the Woods, 2011 (Alice Fearn); Into the Woods, 2014 (Mackenzie Mauzy); Once
Upon a
Time, 2011-
(TV series; Alexandra Metz); Our Most Beautiful Love Stories, 2012- (Christine
Gwillim); Rapunzel, 2009 (made-for-TV; Luis Wietzorek); Rapunzel or the Magic
of Tears, 1988 (made-for-TV; Sylvia
Wolff);
Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “Rapunzel,”
1958
episode; Carol Lynley); Shrek the Third,
2007 (Maya Rudolph); Tangled, 2010 (Mandy Moore); Timeless Tales from Hallmark,
1990(TV series; “Rapunzel,” 1990 episode; Linda Purl).
Red King
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Don Somers);
Alice in
Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Patrick Culliton); Alice Through the Looking
Glass, 1966 (made-for-TV; Robert Coote); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1998
(made-for-TV; Michael Medwin).
Red Queen
(sometimes a separate character in films or the same charROBIN HOOD
Russell Crowe (as Robin Hood) in Robin Hood, 2010.
acter as the
Queen of Hearts; fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author
Lewis Carroll): Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; Armelia
McQueen); Alice at the Palace, 1982 (made-for-
TV; Debbie
Allen); Alice in Wonderland, 1933
(Edna Mae Oliver);
Alice in
Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Elsa Lanchester); Alice in
Wonderland,
1985 (made-for-TV; Ann Jillian); Alice
in Wonderland,
2010
(Helena Bonham Carter); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1966
(made-for-TV;
Agnes Moorehead); Alice Through the Looking Glass,
1973
(made-for-TV; Judy Parfitt); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1987
(made-for-TV; Janet Waldo voiceover); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1998
(made-for-TV; Sian Phillips); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the
Looking Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV; Louise Hampton); Once Upon a Time in
Wonderland, 2013 (TV series; Emma Rigby).
Richard
Hannay (Canadian businessman who is wrongly accused of murder and who is
ensnared in a lethal spy ring as he attempts to vindicate himself as depicted
in the 1915 novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps,
by John Buchan): Hannay, 1988-1989 (TV series; Robert Powell); The 39
Steps, 1935 (Robert Donat); The 39 Steps,
1960 (Kenneth More); The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1978 (Robert Powell); The 39 Steps,
2008 (madefor-TV; Rupert Penry-Jones); The Three Hostages, 1952- (TV series;
Patrick Barr); The Three Hostages, 1977 (Barry Foster).
The Riddler
(fictional evil character in the Batman series): Batman, 1966-1968 (TV series;
Frank Gorshin); The Batman, 2004-2008 (TV series; Robert Englund voiceover); Batman Forever, 1995 (Jim Carrey);
Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV series; John Michael
Higgins voiceover); Challenge of the Super Friends, 1978(animated TV series;
Michael Bell voiceover); Legends of the Superheroes, 1979 (TV series; Frank
Gorshin).
Robin (AKA:
Dick Grayson; fictional comic book character and sidekick to Batman): The
All-New Super Friends Hour, 1977-1978 (animated TV series; Casey Kasem
voiceover); Batman, 1943 (serial; Douglas Croft); Batman, 1966-1968 (TV series;
Burt Ward); The Batman, 2004-2008 (TV series; Evan Sabara voiceover); Batman
and Robin, 1949 (serial; Johnny Duncan); Batman
and Robin, 1997 (Chris O’Donnell); Batman
Forever, 1995 (Chris O’Donnell); Batman Revealed, 2012 (Derek Mindler); The
Batman/Superman Hour, 1968-1969 (animated TV series; Casey Kasem voiceover);
Batman: The Animated Series, 1992-1995 (TV series; Loren Lester voiceover);
Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV series; Jeremy Shada
voiceover); Batman: The Movie, 1966 (Burt Ward); Batman with Robin the Wonder
Boy, 1969 (TV series; Casey Kasem voiceover); Challenge of the Super Friends,
1978- (animated TV series; Casey Kasem voiceover); Legends of the Superheroes,
1979 (TV series; Burt Ward); The New Adventures of Batman, 1977-1978 (TV
series; Burt Ward voiceover); The New Batman Adventures, 1997-1999 (TV series;
Mathew Valencia, Loren Lester voiceovers); Super Friends, 1973-2011 (animated
TV series; Casey Kasem voiceover); Super Friends, 19801983 (animated TV series;
Casey Kasem voiceover); Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, 1984-
(animated TV series; Casey Kasem voiceover); The Super Powers Team: Galactic
Guardians, 1985-
(animated
TV series; Casey Kasem voiceover); Superman, 1996-2000
(TV series;
Mathew Valencia voiceover); The World’s Greatest Super
Friends,
1979- (animated TV series; Casey Kasem voiceover); Young Justice, 2010-
(animated TV series; Jesse McCartney, Cameron Bowen voiceovers).
Robin Hood
(fictional character; heroic outlaw in British folklore): The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938 (Errol Flynn); The Adventures of
Robin Hood, 1955-1960 (TV series; Richard Greene); The Adventures of Robin
Hood, 1985 (made-for-TV; Robert Colby voiceover); The Ballad of the Valiant
Knight Ivanhoe, 1983 (Boris Khmelnitsky); The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, 1946
(Russell Hicks; Cornel Wilde as the son of Robin Hood); Beyond Sherwood Forest,
2009 (made-for-TV; Robin Dunne); A Challenge for Robin Hood, 1968 (Barrie
Ingham); Il Magnifico Robin Hood, 1970 (George Martin); Il trionfo di Robin
Hood, 1962 (Don Burnett); Into the Labyrinth, 1981-1982 (TV series; “Robin,”
1981 episode; Tony Wright); Ivanhoe,
1952 (Harold Warrender); Ivanhoe, 1970- (TV miniseries; Clive Graham); Ivanhoe,
1982 (made-forTV; David Robb); Ivanhoe, 1986 (made-for-TV; Robert Colby
voiceover); Ivanhoe, 1997- (TV miniseries; Aden Gillett); The Legend of Robin
Hood, 1968- (TV series; David Watson); The Legend of Robin Hood, 1975 (TV
miniseries; Martin Potter); Long Live Robin Hood, 1971 (Giuliano Gemma); The
Men of Sherwood Forest, 1954 (Don Taylor); NBC Children’s Theatre, 1963-1973
(TV series; “Robin Hood,” 1964 episode; Dan Ferrone); The New Adventures of
Robin Hood, 1997-1999 (TV series; Matthew Porretta, John Bradley); Once Upon a
Time, 2011-
(TV series; Sean Maguire); One Hysterical Night, 1929 (Slim Summerville as a
lunatic in an asylum believing himself to be the famous outlaw); Prince of
Thieves, 1948 (Jon Hall); Richard the Lionheart, 1962 (TV series; Ronald
Howard); Robin and Marian, 1976
(Sean Connery); Robin Hood, 1922
(Douglas Fairbanks Sr.); Robin Hood, 1953- (TV miniseries; Patrick Troughton);
Robin Hood, 1970 (Carlos Quiney); Robin
Hood, 1973 (Brian Bedford voiceover); Robin
Hood,
1984-1986 (TV series; Michael Praed; Toby Lee as young Robin); Robin Hood, 1991
(Patrick Bergin); Robin Hood, 2006-2009 (TV series; Jonas Armstrong); Robin Hood, 2010 (Russell Crowe; Jack Downham
as young Robin); Robin Hood and the Pirates, 1960 (Lex ROBINSON CRUSOE
Aidan Quinn (as Robinson Crusoe) in Crusoe, 1989.
Barker);
Robin Hood en zijn schelmen, 1962 (Henk Van Der Linden); Robin Hood: Ghosts of
Sherwood 3D, 2012 (Martin Thon); Robin
Hood: Men in Tights, 1993 (Cary Elwes); Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves, 1991 (Kevin Costner); Robin Hood:
The Noble Robber, 1966 (Hans von Borsody; Manfred Heidmann voiceover); Rogues
of Sherwood Forest, 1950 (John Derek); The
Story of Robin Hood [AKA: The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men] 1952
(Richard Todd); Sword of Sherwood Forest, 1961 (Richard Greene); Tales of Robin
Hood, 1951 (Robert Clarke; David Stollery, Robin as a boy); Time Bandits, 1981 (John Cleese); The
Time Tunnel, 1966-1967 (TV series; “The Revenge of Robin Hood,” 1966 episode;
Donald Harron); Wolfshead:
The Legend
of Robin Hood, 1973 (David Warbeck); Young Robin Hood, 1991-1992 (animated TV
series; Thor Bishopric voiceover); The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood, 1984
(made-for-TV; George Segal).
Robinson
Crusoe (young British squire who is shipwrecked on an island and must make a
life for himself for twenty years with only a dog, a cat and, eventually, a
young native he names Friday, as depicted in Daniel DeFoe’s 1719 adventure
novel): The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1922 (Harry Myers); The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [AKA:
Robinson Crusoe], 1954 (Dan O’Herlihy); The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,
1964- (TV miniseries; Michael Chevalier, Erich Bludau, Lee Payant, Curt
Ackermann, Robert Hoffmann); As Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe, 1978 (Costinha);
BBC Play of the Month, 1965-1983 (TV series; “Robinson Crusoe,” 1974 episode;
Stanley Baker); Crusoe, 1989 (Aidan
Quinn); Crusoe, 2008-2009 (TV series; Philip Winchester); Ein Robinson, 1940
(Herbert A.E. Bohme); Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., 1966 (Dick Van Dyke); Man
Friday, 1976 (Peter O’Toole); Miss Robinson Crusoe, 1954 (Amanda Blake); Mr.
Robinson Crusoe, 1932 (Douglas Fairbanks Sr.); Robinson Crusoe, 1927 (M.A.
Wetherell); Robinson Crusoe, 1947 (Pavel Kadochnikov); Robinson Crusoe, 1970
(Hugo Stiglitz); Robinson Crusoe, 1973 (Leonid Kuravlyov); Robinson Crusoe,
1974 (Ion Caramitru voiceover); Robinson Crusoe, 1980 (TV series; Nolle
Versyp); Robinson Crusoe, 1997 (Pierce Brosnan); Robinson Crusoe, 2003
(made-for-TV; Pierre Richard).
Roderick
Raskolnikov (Roskolnikov; intellectual crime writer and killer whose conscience
haunts and nags him into the confession of a murder in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s
classic 1866 novel, Crime and Punishment):
Crime and Punishment, 1917 (Derwent Hall Caine); Crime and Punishment, 1927
(Gregori Chmara); Crime and Punishment,
1935 (Pierre Blanchar); Crime and
Punishment, 1935 (Peter Lorre); Crime and Punishment, 1948 (Hampe
Faustman); Crime and Punishment, 1951 (Roberto Canedo); Crime and Punishment,
1956 (Robert Hossein); Crime and Punishment, 1970 (Georgy Taratorkin); Crime
and Punishment, 1971 (made-for-TV; Francois Marthouret); Crime and Punishment,
1979 (TV miniseries; John Hurt); Crime and Punishment, 1998 (made-for-TV;
Patrick Dempsey); Crime and Punishment, 2002 (madefor-TV; John Simm); Crime and
Punishment, 2002 (Crispin Glover); Crime and Punishment, USA, 1959 (George
Hamilton); Crime et chatiment, 1955 (made-for-TV; Roger Crouzet); Pickpocket,
1959 (Martin LaSalle); Raskolnikoff, 1959 (Hartmut Reck); Raskolnikow, 1953
(made-for-TV;
Paul Edwin Roth); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World, 1988 (TV miniseries;
“Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment,’” Douglas Hodge).
Romeo
(fictional character and star-crossed lover of Romeo in William Shakespeare’s
1597 play “Romeo and Juliet”; see Juliet, this index):
BBC Play of
the Month, 1965-1983 (TV series; “Romeo and Juliet,”
1967
episode; Hywel Bennett); BBC Sunday Night Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Romeo
and Juliet,” 1955 episode; Tony Britton); The Hollywood Review of 1929, 1929
(John Gilbert); Kraft Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; “Romeo and Juliet,” 1954
episode; Liam Sullivan); The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, 1948-1956
(TV series; “Romeo and Juliet,” 1949 episode; Kevin McCarthy); Producers’
Showcase, 1954-1957 (TV series; “Romeo and Juliet,” 1957 episode; John
Neville); Romeo and Juliet, 1916 (Francis X. Bushman); Romeo and
Juliet,
1916 (Harry Hilliard); Romeo and Juliet,
1936 (Leslie Howard); Romeo and Juliet, 1947 (made-for-TV; John Bailey); Romeo and Juliet, 1954 (Laurence
Harvey); Romeo and Juliet, 1956 (Yuri Zhdanov); Romeo and Juliet, 1962 (TV
series; David Weston); Romeo and Juliet, 1965 (Clive Francis); Romeo and
Juliet, 1966 (ballet; Rudolf
Nureyev); Romeo and Juliet, 1968 (Leonard
Whiting); Romeo and
Juliet,
1976 (made-for-TV; Christopher Neame); Romeo and Juliet, 1978 (made-for-TV;
Patrick Ryecart); Romeo & Juliet, 1982 (ballet; Rudolf Nureyev); Romeo and
Juliet, 1984 (British Royal Ballet at
Covent
Garden; Wayne Eagling); Romeo & Juliet, 1993 (Antoni Cimolino); Romeo &
Juliet, 1994 (Jonathan Firth); Romeo and Juliet on Ice, 1983 (made-for-TV;
Brian Pockar); Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss, 2006 (animated animal
version; Daniel Trippett voiceover); Romeo
+ Juliet, 1996 (Leonardo DiCaprio); Shakespeare: The Animated Tales,
1992-1994 (TV miniseries; “Romeo and Juliet,” 1992 episode; Linus Roache
voiceover).
Rooster
Cogburn (fictional U.S. Marshal who shoots first and talks later, a colorful
lawman serving in the Indian Territory of the Old West and where he heroically
bests bandits and villains against all odds): Rooster
Cogburn, 1975 (John Wayne); True Grit, 1969 (John Wayne); True
Grit, 1978 (made-for-TV; Warren Oates); True
Grit, 2010 (Jeff Bridges).
Roxanne
(the beautiful cousin of long-nosed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac,
created by playwright Edmond Rostand in 1897, a woman Cyrano believes he cannot
win because of his protruding nose and therefore recites in hiding his sonnets of
love to her for another suitor): ): BBC Play of the Month, 1965-1983 (TV
series; ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,” 1968 episode; Suzanne Neve); Cyrano de Bergerac,
1923 (Linda Moglia); ): Cyrano de Bergerac, 1946 (Ellen Bernsen); Cyrano de Bergerac, 1950 (Mala Powers);
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1960 (madefor-TV; Francoise Christophe); Cyrano de
Bergerac, 1962 (made-forTV; Hope Lange); Cyrano de Bergerac, 1975 (made-for-TV;
Lies Franken); Cyrano de Bergerac, 1978 (made-for-TV; Evelyne Desutter); Cyrano
de Bergerac, 1985 (made-for-TV; Sinead Cusack); Cyrano de Bergerac, 1986
(made-for-TV; Rosa Cadafalch); Cyrano de
Bergerac, 1990 (Anne Brochet); Cyrano de Bergerac, 2000 (made-for-TV;
Barbara Auer); Cyrano de Bergerac, 2007 (made-for-TV; Francoise Gillard);
Cyrano de Bergerac, 2008 (Sondra Radvanosky); Great Performances, 1971- (TV
series; “Cyrano de Bergerac,” 1974 episode; Marsha Mason; “Cyrano de Bergerac,”
2008 episode; Jennifer Garner); The PhilcoGoodyear Television Playhouse,
1948-1956 (TV series; “Cyrano de Bergerac,” 1949 episode; Frances Reid);
Producers’ Showcase, 1954-
1957 (TV
series; “Cyrano de Bergerac,” 1955 episode; Claire Bloom); Schlitz Playhouse,
1951-1959 (TV series; “The Sword,” 1957 episode; Niki Dantine).
Rudolph Rassendyll
(lookalike cousin to the king of mythical Ruritania who saves his relative’s
crown and life by impersonating him in Anthony Hope’s 1894 adventure novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, this character
invariably played as dual roles): The DuPont Show of the Month, 19571961 (TV
series; “The Prisoner of Zenda,” 1961 episode; Christopher Plummer); The
Prisoner of Zenda, 1915 (HenryAinley); The
Prisoner of Zenda, 1922 (Lewis Stone); The
Prisoner of Zenda, 1937 (Ronald Colman); The Prisoner of Zenda, 1952 (Stewart Granger); The Prisoner of
Zenda, 1979 (Peter Sellers); The Prisoner of Zenda, 1984- (TV miniseries;
Malcolm Sinclair); Rupert of Hentzau, 1915 (Henry Ainley); Rupert of Hentzau,
1923 (Bert Lytell); Rupert of Hentzau, 1957 (madefor-TV; John Westbrook); Rupert
of Hentzau, 1964- (TV series; George Baker).
SANTA CLAUS
Liza Minnelli (as Sally Bowles) in Cabaret, 1972.
Rumpelstiltskin
(fairytale character in German lore, a hideous-looking imp who can spin gold
from straw): Faerie Tale Theatre 1982-1987 (TV series; “Rupelstiltskin,” 1982
episode; Herve Villechaize); Happily
N’Ever
After, 2006 (Michael McShane); Happily N’Ever After 2, 2009
(David
Lodge); Once Upon a Brothers Grimm, 1977 (made-for-TV; Clive Revill);
Rumpelstiltskin, 1955 (Werner Kruger); Rumpelstiltskin,
1987 (Billy
Barty); Rumpelstiltskin, 1995 (Max Grodenchik); 7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not
Enough, 2006 (Axel Neumann); The Seventh Dwarf, 2015 (Darius Hammersmith);
Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “Rupelstiltskin,” Shaike
Ophir); Shrek Forever After, 2010
(Walt Dohrn); Shrek the Third, 2007
(Conrad Vernon); The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, 1962 (Arnold
Stang).
Rupert of
Hentzau (conspirator to seize the throne in mythical Ruitania and one of the master
villains in literature, created in Anthony Hope’s 1894 adventure novel, The Prisoner of Zenda): The Prisoner of Zenda, 1922 (Ramon
Novarro); The Prisoner of Zenda,
1937 (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); The
Prisoner of Zenda, 1952 (James Mason); The Prisoner of Zenda, 1979 (Stuart
Wilson); The Prisoner of Zenda, 1984(TV miniseries; Jonathon Morris); Rupert of
Hentzau, 1915 (Gerald Ames); Rupert of Hentzau, 1964- (TV series; Peter
Wynegarde).
Sadie
Thompson (prostitute of the South Seas who finds redemption through a fanatical
missionary only to be further disillusioned when seduced by him, as depicted in
W. Somerset Maugham’s short story, “Rain,” as well as the 1923 play): Miss Sadie Thompson, 1953 (Rita
Hayworth); Rain, 1932 (Joan
Crawford); Sadie Thompson, 1928
(Gloria Swanson); W. Somerset Maugham, 1969-1970 (TV series; “Rain,” 1970
episode; Carroll Baker).
Sagramore
(legendary knight in King Arthur’s Round Table in 6th Century England): Camelot, 1967 (Peter Bromilow); A Connecitcut Yankee, 1931 (Mitchell
Harris); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1921 (George Siegmann); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,
1949 (William Bendix); First Knight,
1995 (Tom Lucy); A Knight in Camelot, 1998 (made-for-TV; Robert Addie); Once
Upon a Classic, 1976-1979 (TV series: “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court,” 1978 episode, Fredrick Coffin); Perceval, 1978 (Gilles Raab); Studio
One in Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series: “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court,” 1952 episode, Barry Kroeger).
Sally
Bowles (amoral but optimistic cabaret singer in 1930s Berlin created in the
books of Christopher Isherwood): Cabaret,
1972 (Liza Minnelli); Cabaret, 1993 (made-for-TV; Jane Horrocks); I Am a
Camera, 1955 (Julie Harris); To cabare, 1979 (made-for-TV; Aliki Vougiouklaki).
Sam Spade
(hardboiled San Francisco private detective created by Dashiell Hammett, first
appearing in the 1930 novel, The Maltese
Falcon): The Black Bird, 1975
(George Segal as Sam Spade Jr.); The
Life of Riley, 1949 (Howard Duff as the voice of Sam Spade on the radio); The Maltese Falcon, 1931 (Ricardo
Cortez); The Maltese Falcon, 1941
(Humphrey Bogart); Murder by Death,
1976 (spoof of great detectives; Peter Falk as Sam Diamond); Satan Met a Lady, 1936 (Warren William
as Ted Shane); Revenge of the Pink
Panther, 1978
(Lon
Satton, Rosita Yarboy, Keith Hodiak, Pepsi Maycock); The Strange Case of the
End of Civilization as We Know It, 1977 (Mike O’Malley).
Sancho Panza
(fictional character, a self-indulging squire who aids deluded knight Don
Quioxte to ostensibly achieve impossible deeds of valor and who is profiled in
Miguel de Cervantes’ 1605 novel, The
Ingenuous Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha): BBC Play of the Month,
1965-1983 (TV series; “The Adventures of Don Quixote,” 1973 episode; Frank
Finlay); CBS Television Workshop, 1952- (TV series; “Don Quixote,” 1952
episode; Jimmy Savo); Der Mann von La Mancha, 1994 (made-for-TV; Helmut
Wallner); Don de la mancha, 1980 (TV miniseries; Setsuo Wakui, Clifton Wells);
Don Quichotte, 2000 (JeanPhilippe Lafont); Don Quichotte, 2010 (made-for-TV;
Werner Van Mechelen); Don Quijote de la Mancha, 1949 (Juan Calvo); Don Quijote
de la Mancha, 1978 (TV series; Antonio Ferrandis); Don Quijote de la Mancha,
1991-1992 (TV series; Alfredo Landa); Don Quijote von der
Mancha,
1965 (TV miniseries; Roger Carel); Don Quixote, 1915 (Max Davidson); Don
Quixote, 1923 (George Robey); Don
Quixote [AKA: The Adventure of Don Quixote], 1934 (George Robey); Don Quixote,
1973 (Ray
Powell); Don Quixote, 1992 (Akim Tamiroff, Juan Carlos Ordonez voiceover); Don
Quixote, 2000 (made-for-TV; Bob Hoskins);
Don
Quixote, Knight Errant, 2002 (Carlos Iglesias); Don Quixote: The Ingenious
Gentleman of La Mancha, 2015 (Horatio Sanz); The DuPont Show of the Month,
1957-1961 (TV series; “I, Don Quixote,” 1959 episode; Eli Wallach); Great
Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Monsieur Quixote,” 1987 episode; Leo McKern);
La rebellion de los fantasmas, 1949 (Francisco Pando); Man of La Mancha, 1972
(James Coco).
Santa Claus
(Chris Cringle; Father Christmas; Kris Kringle; Le Pere Noel; Saint Nicholas;
Saint Nick; Santa; jovial gift-giving mythical figure appearing at
Christmastime, endeared to children everywhere): The Alcoa Hour, 1955-1957 (TV
series; “Night,” 1957 episode; William Hansen); All I Want for Christmas, 1991
(Leslie Nielsen); Amen, 1986-
1991 (TV
series; “Miracle on 134th Street,” two 1990 episodes; William Windom); The
Arrangement, 1969 (Stephen Coit); Arthur Christmas, 2011 (Jim Broadbent);
Asphalt Girl, 1964 (Hiroshi Hirano); Babes
in SANTA CLAUS
Eric Lloyd and Tim Allen (as Santa
Claus) in The Santa Clause, 1994.
Toyland, 1934 (Ferdinand Munier); Babes in
Toyland, 1954 (made-for-
TV; Dave
Garroway); The Boy Who Saved Christmas, 1998 (Colin Mc-
Clean); A
Boyfriend for Christmas, 2004 (made-for-TV; Charles
Durning);
Broadway Serenade, 1939 (Sydney Jarvis); Bundle of Joy, 1956 (Paul Maxey); The
Case for Christmas, 2011 (made-for-TV; George Buza); The Cheaters, 1945 (Jack Daley); The Christmas
Dragon,
2014 (Adam Johnson); Christmas Dream, 2000 (made-for-TV;
Gary
Russell); A Christmas Eve Miracle, 2015 (William “Bus” Riley); Christmas in
Wonderland, 2007 (Matthew Walker); The Christmas List, 1997 (made-for-TV; Percy
Hayes); Christmas on the Bayou, 2013 (Edward Asner); Christmas Reunion, 1994
(made-for-TV; James Coburn); A Christmas
Story, 1983 (Jeff Gillen); Christmas Story, 2008 (Hannu-
Pekka
Bjorkman); The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, 1966 (Alberto Rabaglioti); A
Christmas Wedding Tail, 2011 (made-for-TV; Keith Dobbins); The Christmas Wife,
1988 (made-for-TV; Bill Lynn); The
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion; the Witch; and the Wardrobe, 2005 (James
Cosmo); The Coca-Cola Kid, 1985 (David Bracks, Ian Nimmo,
Scott J.
Ateah, Chris Hession, Bernard Ledger); Come See the Paradise,
1990 (David
MacIntyre); The Comic Book Christmas Caper, 1990 (Ned Beatty); A Country
Christmas, 2013 (Abraham Benrubi); Dear Santa, 1998 (Bennett Curland); Deck the
Halls, 2005 (made-for-TV; Rob Morton); Defending Santa, 2013 (Bill Lewis); A
Different Kind of Christmas, 1996 (made-for-TV; Bruce Kirby); Double Dynamite,
1951 (Virgil Johnson, Charles Coleman); Elmo’s Christmas Countdown, 2007
(made-for-TV;
Kevin James); Eloise at Christmastime, 2003 (made-forTV; Tom Tumminello);
Ernest Saves Christmas, 1988 (Douglas Seale); Exclusive, 1937 (Pat West); A
Fairly Odd Christmas, 2012 (made-forTV; Donavon Stinson); Farewell, Mr.
Kringle, 2010 (made-for-TV; William Morgan Sheppard); Finding Mrs. Claus, 2012
(made-for-TV; Will Sasso); A Flintstone Christmas, 1977 (made-for-TV; Hal
Smith); The Ford Television Theatre, 1952-1957 (TV series; “Remembrance
Day,” 1956
episode; George Cisar): Fred Claus, 2007 (Theo Stevenson, Paul Giamatti); Gay
Blades, 1946 (Matt McHugh); Get Santa, 2014 (Jim Broadbent); The Gift of Love:
A Christmas Story, 1983 (made-for-TV; James Dodds); Good Sam, 1948 (Tom Dugan);
The Good Shepherd, 2006 (Sjoerd Dejong); Great Performances, 1971- (TV series;
“The Nutcracker,” 2001 episode; Richard Ramsey); The Great Santa Claus Switch,
1970 (made-for-TV; Art Carney); The Greatest Store in the World, 1999
(made-for-TV; Ricky Tomlinson); Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever, 2014
(made-for-TV; Russell Peters); Happy Holidays, 2008 (Nicole Anderson); Help for
the Holidays, 2012 (made-for-TV; Steve Larkin); Her Highness and the Bellboy,
1945 (Charles Morton); Highway Patrol, 1954-1959 (TV series; “Christmas Story,”
1956 episode; Elmore Vincent); Holiday Affair, 1949 (Frank Johnson); Holiday in
Your Heart, 1997 (made-for-TV; John William Galt); Holiday Inn, 1942 (Bud Jamison); A Holiday to Remember, 1995
(made-forTV; Don McManus); Home Alone,
1990 (Ken Hudson Campbell); Homeless for the Holidays, 2009 (Russ Bruzek); How
the Toys Saved
Christmas,
1996 (Neil Shee voiceover); How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale, 2000
(made-for-TV; Hamilton Camp); I Saw Mommy
Kissing
Santa Claus, 2001 (Dane Stevens, Sonny Carl Davis); In the Nick of Time, 1991
(made-for-TV; Lloyd Bridges); It’s Christmas, 2007 (Harace Carpenter); The Jack
Benny Program, 1950-1965 (TV series; “Christmas Show,” 1960 episode; Paul
Maxey); The Jim Backus Show, 1960-1961 (TV series; “Sad Sack Santa,” 1961
episode; J. Pat O’Malley); Jingle All the Way, 1996 (James Belushi); Journey to
the Christmas Star, 2012 (Andreas Cappelen); Julie’s Christmas Special, 1973
(madefor-TV; Peter Ustinov); The Kid Who Loved Christmas, 1990 (Jimmy
Carville); Lake Placid Serenade, 1944 (Ferdinand Munier); Last Christmas, 1999
(made-for-TV; Mark Benton); Le pere Noel, 2014 (Tahar Rahim); The Lemon Drop Kid, 1951 (Bob Hope,
Harry Tyler); Les Misérables, 2012
(Peter Mair, Jack Chissick); The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, 1985
(made-for-TV; Earl Hammond, J.D. Roth as young Santa); Life Begins at
Eight-Thirty, 1942 (Alec Craig); Life with Mikey,
1993
(Christopher Durang); Like Father, Like Santa, 1998 (made-forTV; William
Hootkins); The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, 1988 (TV miniseries; Bert
Parnaby); Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure, 2012 (Gary
Mountaine); The Loretta Young Show, 1953-1961 (TV series; “Time and Yuletide,”
1954 episode; Forrest Lewis); Love
That Brute,
1950 (Tiny Timbrell); Magic Silver, 2009 (Knut Walle); Magic Silver II, 2011
(Knut Walle); The Magic Snowflake, 2013 (Michael Sorich, Benoit Allemane,
Vincent Grass); The Man in the Santa Claus Suit, 1979 (made-for-TV; Fred
Astaire); The Marvelous History of St. Bernard, 1952 (made-for-TV); Mary
Christmas, 2002 (made-for-TV; Tom Bosley); Millions,
2005 (Harry Kirkham); The Miracle of the White Reindeer, 1960 (Hal Smith); Miracle on 34th Street, 1947 (Edmund
Gwenn as the real Santa Claus; Percy Helton as drunken Santa Claus); Miracle on
34th Street, 1959 (made-for-TV; Ed Wynn); Miracle on 34th Street, 1973
(made-for-TV; Sebastian Cabot); Miracle on 34th Street, 1994 (Richard
Attenborough); Mister Scrooge to See You, 2013 (Torry Martin); Mr. St. Nick,
2002 (made-for-TV; Kelsey
Grammer);
Mrs. Santa Claus, 1996 (made-for-TV; Charles Durning); A Muppets Christmas:
Letters to Santa, 2008 (made-for-TV; Richard Griffiths); The Munsters’ Scary
Little Christmas, 1996 (made-for-TV; Mark Mitchell); Musical Comedy Time, 1950-1951
(TV series; “Babes in Toyland,” 1950 episode; Robert Weede); Must Be Santa,
1999 (madefor-TV; Arnold Pinnock); A Nanny for Christmas, 2010 (Keith Dobbins);
The Night Before Christmas, 1994 (J. Michael Oliva); The Night Before the Night
Before Christmas, 2010 (made-for-TV; R.D. Reid); The Night They Saved
Christmas, 1984 (made-for-TV; Art Carney); The
Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993 (Edward Ivory); North Station, 2002
(Benoit Briere); Northpole: Open for Christmas, 2015 (madefor-TV; Donovan
Scott); O. Henry’s Full House, 1952
(Fred Kelsey); Once Upon a Christmas, 2000 (made-for-TV; Douglas Campbell); One
Magic
Christmas, 1985 (Jan Rubes); One True
Thing, 1998 (John Deyle); Our First Christmas, 2008 (made-for-TV; Richard
Riehle); Paris, Palace Hotel, 1956 (Rene Genin); Peter in Magicland, 1990
(Walter Reichelt); The Polar Express, 2004 (Tom Hanks); Prancer, 1989 (Michael Constantine); A Princess for Christmas, 2011
(made-for-TV; Iovu Costel); The Proud and the Profane, 1956 (Alvin Greenman); Road to Utopia, 1946 (Ferdinand
Munier); Ruby and Rata, 1990 (Peter Sharp); Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in
July, 1979 (Mickey Rooney); Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 1964 (made-for-TV;
Stan Francis);
Rudolph the
Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie, 1998 (John Goodman);
Rudolph’s
Shiny New Year, 1976 (made-for-TV; Paul Frees); Saint Ralph, 2005 (Robert
Smith); St. Vincent, 2014 (Nicholas
Wuehrmann); Santa and Pete, 1999 (made-for-TV; Hume Cronyn); Santa and the Ice
Cream Bunny, 1972 (Jay Ripley); Santa and the Three Bears, 1970 (Hal Smith
voiceover); Santa Baby, 2006 (made-for-TV; George Wendt); Santa Baby 2:
Christmas Maybe, 2009 (made-for-TV; Paul Sorvino); Santa Claus, 1960 (Jose
Elias Moreno); Santa Claus, 1985 (David Huddleston); The Santa Claus Brothers,
2001 (made-for-TV; Bryan Cranston); Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, 1964
(John Call); Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, 1970 (made-for-TV; Mickey Rooney
voiceover); The Santa Clause, 1994
(Tim Allen); The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, 2006 (Tim Allen); The Santa Clause 2, 2002 (Tim Allen);
The Santa Trap, 2002 (made-for-TV; Dick Van Patten); Santa vs. Claus, 2008
(made-for-TV; Stephen Hughes); Santa Who?, 2000 (made-for-TV; Leslie Nielsen);
Santa’s Apprentice, 2015 (Michael Sorich, Shane Jacobson, Benoit Allemane);
Santa’s Christmas Circus, 1966 (John Bilyeu); Santa’s Magic Book, 1996
(made-for-TV; Buz McKim); Scrooged, 1988 (Al “Red Dog” Weber); Secret Santa,
2003 (made-for-TV; John A. Keim); Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus, 2004
(made-for-TV; John Wheeler, Austin Miles); The Story of Santa Claus,
1996
(Edward Asner voiceover); Studio 57, 1954-1958 (TV series; “Christmas Every
Day,” 1954 episode; Harry Bartell); Surviving Christmas, 2004 (Tumbleweed);
Tall, Dark and Handsome, 1941 (Arthur Thalasso); A Thousand Men and a Baby,
1997 (made-for-TV; Joe Bays); To Grandmother’s House We Go, 1992 (made-for-TV;
Rick Poltaruk); ‘Twas the Night, 2001 (made-for-TV; Jefferson Mappin); The 20th
CenSHERLOCK HOLMES
Christopher Plummer (as Sherlock
Holmes) and James Mason (as Dr. Watson) in Murder
by Decree, 1979.
tury Fox
Hour, 1955-1957 (TV series; “Miracle on 34th Street,” 1955 episode; Thomas Mitchell);
Twice Upon Christmas, 2001 (made-forTV; Matthew Walker); The Ultimate Christmas
Present, 2000 (madefor-TV; John B. Lowe); A Very Cool Christmas, 2004
(made-for-TV; George Hamilton); The Walt Disney Christmas Show, 1951
(made-forTV; Don Barclay); Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, 1954-1992
(TV series; “Holiday Time at Disneyland,” 1962 episode; Paul Maxey;
“Lefty, the
Dingaling Lynx,” 1971 episode; James L. Wilson); When Santa Fell to Earth, 2011
(Alexander Scheer); Wonderful Adventures of Nils, 1962 (Manne Grunberger); The
Year Without Santa Clause, 1974 (made-for-TV; Mickey Rooney); Yogi’s First
Christmas, 1980 (madefor-TV; Hal Smith voiceover).
Scaramouche
(fictional stock clown character in Italian and French comedies, usually a
boasting and cowardly buffoon): The Adventures of Scaramouche, 1964 (Gerard
Barray); La grande avventura di Scaramouche, 1972 (Christian Hay); The Loves
and Times of Scaramouche, 1976 (Michael Sarrazin); Marion Delorme, 1967
(made-for-TV; Marcel Champel); Moliere, 1980 (Mario Gonzales); Scaramouche, 1923 (Ramon Novarro); Scaramouche, 1952 (Henry Corden;
Stewart Granger); Scaramouche, 1960 (made-for-TV; Klaus Salin); Scaramouche,
1965 (TV miniseries; Dominico Modugno).
The
Scarecrow (straw-filled scarecrow that comes alive and becomes a devoted
companion to Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas transported to a strange world
in L. Frank Baum’s iconic 1900 novel, The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz): Journey Back to Oz, 1972 (animated; Mickey Rooney
voiceover); The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, 2005 (Steve Whitmore as Kermit the Frog
voiceover); The New Wizard of Oz, 1914 (Frank Moore); Off to See the Wizard,
1967-1968 (animated TV series; Daws Butler voiceover); The Wiz, 1978 (Michael
Jackson); The Wizard of Oz, 1925 (Larry Semon); The Wizard of Oz, 1939 (Ray Bolger); The Wizard of Oz, 1982
(animated; Billy Van voiceover); The Wizard of Oz, 19901991 (animated TV
series; David Lodge voiceover); The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True,
1995 (made-for-TV; Jackson Browne); The Wizard of Oz on Ice, 1996 (made-for-TV;
Victor Petrenko).
Sebastian
Moran (Colonel Sebastian Moran; fictional character and criminal mastermind and
nemesis of Sherlock Holmes in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle; also
see James Moriarty, John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, this index): The Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, 1980 (TV series; Nikolai Kryukov); The Baker
Street Boys, 1983- (TV series; Michael Godley); Elementary, 2012- (TV series;
Vinnie Jones); Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street, 2002 (Jou
Fujimoto);
Murdoch Mysteries, 2008- (TV series; “A Study in Sherlock,” 2013 episode; Steve
Boyle); No Place Like Holmes, 2010- (TV series; Mark Saint John Ridley); The
Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1929 (Donald Crisp); The Return of Sherlock Holmes,
1986-1988 (TV series;
Patrick
Allen); Sherlock Holmes, 1951 (TV miniseries; Eric Maturin); Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,
2011 (Paul Anderson); Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour, 1931 (Louis Goodrich);
Silver Blaze (AKA: Murder at the Baskervilles), 1937 (Arthur Goulett); Terror by Night, 1946 (Alan Mowbray);
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes, 1935 (Wilfrid Caithness); Without a Clue, 1988 (Tim Killick).
Sherlock
Holmes (brilliant private detective in four novels and fifty-six short stories
by Arthur Conan Doyle, first appearing in publication in 1887 in the short
story, “A Study in Scarlet,” Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London): The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter
Brother, 1975 (Douglas Wilmer); The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1939 (Basil Rathbone); The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes, 1984-1985 (TV series; Jeremey Brett); The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, 1980 (TV series; Vasily Livanov); The Baker
Street Boys, 1983 (TV series; Roger Ostime); Batman: The Brave and the Bold,
2008-2011 (animated TV series; Ian Buchanan voiceover); The Case of Marcel
Duchamp, 1984 (Guy Rolfe); The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire,
2002
(made-for-TV; Matt Frewer); The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, 1991-1993 (TV
series; Jeremy Brett); Crazy House, 1943 (Basil Rathbone); The Crucifer of
Blood, 1991 (made-for-TV; Charlton Heston); Der Hund von Baskerville, 1929
(Carlyle Blackwell); The Double-Barreled Detective Story, 1965 (Jerome
Raphael); Dressed to Kill, 1946
(Basil Rathbone); Elementary, 2012- (TV series; Jonny Lee Miller);
Hands of a
Murderer, 1990 (Edward Woodward); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1932 (Robert
Rendel); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1937 (Bruno Guttner); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939
(Basil Rathbone); The Hound of the
Baskervilles, 1959 (Peter Cushing); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1972
(made-for-TV; Stewart Granger); The
Hound of
the Baskervilles, 1980 (Peter Cook); The Hound of the
Baskervilles,
1981 (made-for-TV; Vasili Livanov); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1982 (TV
miniseries; Tom Baker); The Hound of the
Baskervilles,
1983 (made-for-TV; Ian Richardson); The Hound of the
Baskervilles,
1988 (made-for-TV; Jeremy Brett); The Hound of the
Baskervilles,
2000 (made-for-TV; Matt Frewer); The Hound of the Baskervilles, 2003
(made-for-TV; Richard Roxburgh); The Hound of London, 1994 (made-for-TV;
Patrick Macnee); The House of Fear,
1945 (Basil Rathbone); Incident at Victoria Falls, 1992 (made-for-TV;
Christopher
Lee); Lelicek in the Service of Sherlock Holmes, 1932 (Mac
Fric); The
Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, 1937 (AKA: Two Merry
Adventurers;
Hans Albers impersonating Holmes); The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1994 (TV
series; Jeremy Brett); Mr. Holmes, 2015
SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM
George Sanders (as Simon Templar) in The Saint Strikes Back, 1939.
(Ian
McKellen); Murder by Decree, 1979
(Christopher Plummer); The Other Side, 1992 (made-for-TV; Richard E. Grant);
Pater Brown, 1966-
1972 (TV
series; Gerhard Dorfer) The Pearl of
Death, 1944 (Basil
Rathbone); The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes,
1970 (Robert Stephens); Pursuit to
Algiers, 1945 (Basil Rathbone); The Return
of
Sherlock
Holmes, 1929 (Clive Brook); The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1987 (made-for-TV; Margaret
Colin as Michael Pennington); The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1986-1988 (TV
series; Jeremy Brett); The Royal Scandal, 2001 (made-for-TV; Matt Frewer); The Scarlet Claw,
1944 (Basil
Rathbone); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,
1976 (Nicol Williamson); Sherlock, 2002 (made-for-TV; James D’Arcy; Stefan
Veronca as
young Holmes); Sherlock Holmes, 1916 (William Gillette);
Sherlock Holmes, 1922 (John Barrymore); Sherlock
Holmes, 1932
(Clive
Brook); Sherlock Holmes, 1951 (TV miniseries; Alan Wheatley);
Sherlock Holmes,
1954-1955 (TV series; Ronald Howard); Sherlock Holmes, 1964-1968 (TV series;
Perter Cushing; Douglas Wilmer); Sherlock Holmes, 1967-1968 (TV series; Eric
Schellow); Sherlock Holmes, 2009
(Robert Downey Jr.); Sherlock Holmes, 2011 (Kevin Glaser);
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 2011 (Robert Downey Jr.); Sherlock
Holmes and a Study in Scarlet, 1983 (Peter O’Toole voiceover); Sherlock Holmes
and Dr. Watson: The Bloody Inscription, 1979 (made-for-TV; Vasily Livanov);
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker
Street
Irregulars, 2007 (made-for-TV; Jonathan Pryce); Sherlock Holmes and the
Baskerville Curse, 1983 (Peter O’Toole voiceover);
Sherlock
Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, 2004 (made-forTV; Rupert Everett);
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, 1962 (Christopher Lee); Sherlock
Holmes and the Leading Lady, 1991 (madefor-TV; Christopher Lee); Sherlock
Holmes and the Masks of Death, 1984 (made-for-TV; Peter Cushing); Sherlock
Holmes and the Missing Rembrandt, 1932 (Arthur Wontner); Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, 1942 (Basil Rathbone);
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow Watchers, 2011 (Anthony D. P. Mann); Sherlock
Holmes and the Sign of Four, 1983 (Peter O’Toole voiceover); Sherlock Holmes
and the Valley of Fear, 1983 (Peter O’Toole voiceover); Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, 1942 (Basil Rathbone); Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, 1943
(Basil Rathbone); Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour, 1931 (Arthur Wontner); Sherlock
Holmes in China, 1994 (Alex Vanderpor); Sherlock Holmes in New York, 1976
(made-for-TV; Roger Moore);
Sherlock Holmes in Washington, 1943 (Basil Rathbone); Sherlock
Holmes in the 22nd Century, 1999-2001 (TV series; Jason Gray-Stanford);
Sherlock Holmes Returns, 1993 (made-for-TV; Anthony Higgins); The Sign of Four:
Sherlock Holmes’ Greatest Case, 1932 (Arthur Wontner); The Sign of Four, 1983
(made-for-TV; Ian Richardson); The Sign of Four, 1988 (made-for-TV; Jeremy
Brett); The Sign of Four, 2001 (made-for-TV; Matt Frewer); Silver Blaze (AKA:
Murder at the Baskervilles), 1937 (Arthur Wontner); The Speckled Band, 1931 (Raymond Massey); The Spider Woman, 1944 (Basil Rathbone); The Strange Case of the
End of Civilization as We Know It, 1977 (John Cleese as Arthur Sherlock
Holmes); A Study in Scarlet, 1933 (Reginald
Owen); A Study in Terror, 1966 (John Neville);
Terror by Night, 1946
(Basil
Rathbone); Testimony, 1988 (Rodney Litchfield); They Might Be Giants, 1971 (role model for George C. Scott); The
Three Garridebs,
1937 (made-for-TV;
Louis Hector); Touha Sherlocka Holmese, 1971
(Radovan
Lukavsky); The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes, 1935 (Arthur
Wontner);
The Valley of Fear, 1916 (H.A. Saintsbury); Without a Clue,
1988
(Michael Caine); The Woman in Green,
1945 (Basil Rathbone); The Xango from Baker Street, 2002 (Joaquim de Almeida);
Young Sherlock, 1981 (TV series; Guy Henry); Young Sherlock Holmes, 1985 (Nicholas Rowe).
Sheriff of
Nottingham (fictional character and dedicated foe of Robin Hood): The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938
(Melville Cooper); The
Adventures
of Robin Hood, 1955-1960 (TV series; Alan Wheatley); The Bandit of Sherwood
Forest, 1946 (Lloyd Corrigan); A Challenge for Robin Hood, 1968 (John Arnatt);
Into the Labyrinth, 1981-1982 (TV series; “Robin,” 1981 episode; Conrad
Phillips); The Legend of Robin Hood, 1968- (TV series; Steve Forrest); The
Legend of Robin Hood,
1975 (TV miniseries; Paul Darrow); The Men
of Sherwood Forest, 1954 (Leonard Sachs); NBC Children’s Theatre, 1963-1973 (TV
series;
“Robin
Hood,” 1964 episode; Sorrell Brooke); Robin
and Marian,
1976 (Robert Shaw); Robin Hood, 1922 (William Lowery); Robin
Hood, 1953-
(TV miniseries; David Kossoff); Robin
Hood, 1973 (Pat
Buttram
voiceover); Robin Hood, 2006-2009 (TV series; Keith Allen);
Robin Hood, 2010 (Matthew Macfadyen); Robin
Hood: Ghosts of
Sherwood
3D, 2012 (Tom Savini); Robin Hood: Men
in Tights, 1993 (Roger Rees); Robin
Hood: Prince of Thieves, 1991 (Alan Rickman); The Story of Robin Hood [AKA: The Story of Robin Hood and His
Merrie Men]
1952 (Peter Finch); Sword of Sherwood Forest, 1961 (Peter Cushing); Tales of
Robin Hood, 1951 (Tiny Stowe); Young Robin Hood, 1991-1992 (animated TV series;
A.J. Henderson voiceover).
Silas
Barnaby (Mother Goose character): Babes
in Toyland, 1934 (Henry Brandon); Babes in Toyland, 1954 (made-for-TV; Jack
E.
Leonard);
Babes in Toyland, 1961 (Ray Bolger); Babes in Toyland, 1986
(made-for-TV;
Richard Mulligan); Babes in Toyland, 1997 (Christopher Plummer voiceover);
Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series, “Babes in Toyland,” 1960
episode; Jonathan Winters).
Simon
Templar (AKA: The Saint; suave amateur detective created by British-Chinese
author Leslie Charteris, appearing first in a 1928 novel): CBS Summer
Playhouse, 1987-1989 (TV series; “The Saint in Manhattan,” 1987 episode; Andrew
Clarke); The Dance of Death, 1960 (Felix Marten); The Fiction Makers, 1967
(Roger Moore); The Return of the Saint, 1978-1979 (TV series; Ian Ogilvy); The
Saint, 1962-1969 (TV series; Roger Moore); The Saint, 1997 (Val Kilmer); The
Saint, 2016 (made-for-TV; Adam Rayner); The Saint and the Brave Goose, 1979
(Ian Ogilvy); The Saint: Fear in Fun Park, 1989 (made-for-TV; Simon Dutton); The Saint in London, 1939 (George
Sanders); The Saint in New York,
1938 (Louis Hayward); The Saint in Palm
Springs, 1941 (George Sanders); The Saint Lies in Wait, 1966 (Jean Marais);
The Saint Meets the Tiger, 1941 (Hugh Sinclair); The Saint Strikes Back, 1939
(George Sanders); The Saint: The Big Bang, 1989 (made-for-TV; Simon Dutton);
The Saint; The Blue Dulac, 1989 (made-for-TV; Simon Dutton); The
Saint: The
Brazilian Connection, 1989 (made-for-TV; Simon Dutton);
The Saint:
The Software Murders, 1989 (made-for-TV; Simon Dutton);
The Saint:
Wrong Number, 1989 (made-for-TV; Simon Dutton); The Saint’s Double Trouble, 1940 (George Sanders); The Saint’s Girl Friday, 1954 (Louis
Hayward); The Saint’s Vacation, 1941
(Hugh Sinclair); True Crimes: The First 72 Hours, 2003- (TV series; “The
Saint,”
2003 episode;
Garth Hewitt); Vendetta for the Saint, 1969 (Roger Moore).
Simple
Simon (Mother Goose character): Babes in
Toyland, 1934 (Charley Rogers); Happily N’Ever After, 2009 (Doug Erholtz
voiceover).
Sinbad
(AKA: Sinbad the Sailor; fictional seaman and hero of Middle Eastern origin):
The Adventures of Sinbad, 1996-1998 (TV series; Zen Gesner); Arabian Nights, 1942 (Shemp Howard);
The Arabian Nights: Adventures of Sinbad, 1975- (TV series; Ian Odle); Babes in
Bagdad, 1952 (Sebastian Cabot); Captain Sinbad, 1963 (Guy Williams); The Desert
Hawk, 1950 (Joe Besser); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, 19561963 (TV series;
“Arabian Nights,” 1960 episode; John Vivyan); The Freedom Force, 1978- (TV
miniseries; Michael Bell); The Golden
Voyage of Sinbad, 1974 (John Phillip Law); Invitation to the Dance, 1956 (Gene Kelly in dance number); Magi:
The Kingdom of Magic, 2013(TV series; Matthew Mercer); Magi: The Labyrinth of
Magic, 2012 (TV series; Matthew Mercer); The Magic Lamp, 1956 (animated; Gene
Kelly); The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,
1958 (Kerwin Matthews); Sinbad,
2012- (TV
series; Elliot Knight); Sinbad and the
Eye of the Tiger,
1977 (Patrick
Wayne); Sinbad and the Minotaur, 2011 (made-for-TV; Manu Bennett); Sinbad:
Beyond the Veil of Mists, 2000 (Brendan STROMBOLI
Sinbad (Brad Pitt voice) and Marina
(Catherine Zeta-Jones voice) in Sinbad:
Legend of the Seven Seas, 2003.
Fraser); Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, 2003
(Brad Pitt); Sinbad of the Seven Seas, 1989 (Lou Ferrigno); Sinbad: The Battle
of the Dark Knights, 1998 (Richard Grieco); Sinbad the Sailor, 1947 (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); Son of Sinbad, 1955
(Dale Robertson); Thief of Damascus, 1952 (Lon Chaney Jr.); The Wizard of
Bagdad, 1960 (Frank Logan).
Sleeping
Beauty (AKA: Princess Aurora; fairy tale character created by the Brothers
Grimm, a beautiful, young princess in a state of deep sleep as a result of a
curse and who is awakened by a kiss from Prince Charming): American Playhouse,
1981- (TV series; “Into the Woods,” 1991 episode; Maureen Davis); Dornroschen,
1917 (Mabel Kaul); Faerie Tale Theatre, 1982-1987 (TV series; “Sleeping
Beauty,” 1983 episode; Bernadette Peters); Great Performances, 1971- (TV
series; “The Sleeping Beauty,” 1995 episode; Viviana Durante); The Magic Land
of Mother Goose, 1967 (Linda Appleby); Once Upon a Brothers Grimm,
1977
(made-for-TV; Joanna Kirkland); Producer’s Showcase, 19541957 (TV series; “The
Sleeping Beauty,” 1955 episode; Margot
Fonteyn);
Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “The Sleeping Beauty,” 1958
episode; Anne Helm); Sleeping Beauty, 1949
(Tuula
Usva); Sleeping Beauty, 1959 (Mary
Costa); Sleeping Beauty,
1965
(Angela von Leitner); Sleeping Beauty, 1971 (Juliane Koren);
Sleeping
Beauty, 1987 (Tahnee Welch); The Sleeping Beauty, 1987
(made-for-TV;
Rosalynn Sumners); Sleeping Beauty, 1999 (made-for-
TV; Vanessa
de Ligniere); The Sleeping Beauty, 2003 (made-for-TV; Sofiane Sylve); The
Sleeping Beauty, 2007 (made-for-TV; Alina Cojocaru); Sleeping Beauty, 2008
(made-for-TV; Anna Hausburg); The Sleeping Princess, 1939 (made-for-TV; Margot
Fonteyn).
Snow White
(fairytale character from Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs by the Brothers Grimm, 1812): American Playhouse, 1981-
(TV series; “Into the Woods,” Cindy Robinson); Christmas Night of One Hundred
Stars, 1986 (TV special; Dana); Faerie Tale Theatre, 1982-1987 (TV series;
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” 1984 episode; Elizabeth McGovern); Happily
Ever After, 1993 (Irene Cara); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child,
1995-2000 (TV series; “Snow White,” 1995 episode; Elaine Bilstad); Happily
N’Ever After, 2009 (Helen Niedwick voiceover); Into the Woods, 2011 (Sophie
Caton); Mirror Mirror, 2012 (Lily Collins); Schneewittchen, 2009 (made-for-TV;
Laura Berlin); The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue, 1951 (Rossana Podesta); 7
Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough, 2006 (Katy Karrenbauer); Shrek the Third, 2007 (Amy Poehler);
Snow White, 1916 (Amy Ehrlich); Snow White, 1916 (Marguerite Clark); Snow
White, 1961 (Doris Weikow); Snow White,
1989 (Sarah
Patterson; Nicola Stapleton playing Snow White as a child); Snow White, 2009
(Nagisa Shirai); Snow White and Rose Red, 1966 (Rosemarie Seehofer); Snow White and the Huntsman, 2012
(Kristen Stewart); Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs, 1937 (Adriana Caselotti voiceover); Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, 1955 (Elke Arendt); Snow White and the Three Stooges, 1961 (Carol Heiss);
Snow White Live, 1980 (made-for-TV; Mary Jo Salerno); The Wonderful World of
the Brothers Grimm, 1962 (True Ellison).
Spider-Man
(AKA: Peter Parker; U.S. comic book character, a superhero crime-fighter): The
Amazing Spider-Man, 1977-1979 (TV series; Nicholas Hammond); The Amazing
Spider-Man, 2012 (Andrew Garfield); The
Amazing Spider-Man 2, 2014 (Andrew Garfield); The
Avengers:
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, 2010-2012 (TV series; Drake Bell); The Spectacular
Spider-Man, 2008-2009 (TV series; Josh Keaton); Spider-Man, 1967-1970 (TV
series; Paul Soles); Spider-Man, 1981-1987 (TV series; Ted Schwartz);
Spider-Man, 1994-1998 (TV series; Christopher Daniel Barnes); Spider-Man, 2002 (Tobey Maguire);
Spider-Man, 2003 (TV series; Neil Patrick Harris); Spider-Man and His Amazing
Friends, 1981-1986 (TV series; Dan Gilvezan); Spider-Man: Lost
Cause, 2014
(Joey Lever); The Spider-Man Saga: 2015- (TV series; Mark Ricci); Spider-Man 2, 2004 (Tobey Maguire);
Spider-Man Unlimited, 1999-2001 (TV series; Rino Romano); Ultimate Spider-Man,
2012- (TV series; Drake Bell).
Stephen
Orlac (gifted concert pianist who suffers a mutilating accident and has the
hands of a murderer grafted to his arms, these hands causing him to become a
horrific killer): Des voix dans la nuit – Les mains de Orlac, 1991
(made-for-TV; Jacques Bonnaffe); Hands of a Stranger, 1962 (James Stapleton
[James Noah]); The Hands of Orlac, 1924 (Conrad Veidt); The Hands of Orlac,
1964 (Mel Ferrer); Mad Love, 1935
(Colin Clive).
Stromboli (original
story name is Mangiafuoco; the manager of a marionette theater who holds
captive a wooden marionette that transform into a real boy, a fictional
character in the 1883 children’s novel The
Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi): The Adventures of
Pinocchio, 1947 (Erminio Spalla); The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1972 (TV
miniseries; Lionel Stander); The Adventures of Pinocchio,
1996 (Udo
Kier); Geppetto, 2000 (made-for-TV; Brent Spiner); The
New
Adventures of Pinocchio, 1999 (Udo Kier); Pinocchio,
1940 (Charles Judels voiceover); Pinocchio, 1972 (Michele Gammino);
Pinocchio,
2002 (Franco Javarone); Pinocchio, 2006 (Will Kemp); Pinocchio, 2008
(made-for-TV; Maurizio Donadoni); Pinocchio, 2012 (Rocco Papaleo); Pinocchio,
2013 (TV miniseries; Ulrich Tukur); Shrek
the Third, 2007 (Chris Miller voiceover); Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of
Color, 1954-1992 (TV series; “Disney on Parade,” 1971 episode; Thuri
Ravenscroft).
STYGIAN WITCHES
Christopher Reeve (as Superman) in Superman, 1978.
Stygian
Witches (three haggard sisters in Greek mythology who share one eye and one
tooth and possess great powers): Clash
of the Titans, 1981 (Freda Jackson, Anna Manahan, Flora Robson).
Superman
(AKA: Clark Kent; U.S. comic book character created in 1933, a crime-fighter
having superhuman powers): Adventures of Superman, 1952-1958 (TV series; George
Reeves); The All-New Super Friends Hour, 1977-1978 (animated TV series; Danny
Dark voiceover); Atom Man vs. Superman, 1950 (serial; Kirk Alyn); The Batman, 2004-
2008 (TV
series; George Newbern voiceover); The Batman/Superman Hour, 1968-1969
(animated TV series; Bud Collyer, Bob Hastings voiceovers); The Batman Superman
Movie: World’s Finest, 1997 (Animated made-for-TV; Tim Daly voiceover); Batman:
The Brave and the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV series; Roger Rose
voiceover); Batman v Superman: Dawn of
Justice, 2016 (Henry Cavill); Challenge of the Super Friends, 1978- (animated
TV series; Danny Dark voiceover); Justice League, 2001-2006 (Animated TV
series; George Newbern); The Lego Movie,
2014 (Channing Tatum voiceover); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of
Superman, 1993-1997 (TV series; Dean Cain); Man of Steel, 2013 (Henry Cavill); The New Adventures of Superman,
19661970 (Animated TV series; Bob Hastings voiceover); Smallville, 20012011 (TV
series; Tom Welling); Superboy, 1988-1992 (TV series;
Gerard
Christopher); Super Friends, 1973-2011 (animated TV series;
Danny Dark
voiceover); Super Friends, 1980-1983 (animated TV series;
Danny Dark
voiceover); Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, 1984- (animated TV
series; Danny Dark voiceover); The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, 1985-
(animated TV series; Danny Dark voiceover); Superman, 1941-1943 (serial; Bud
Collyer); Superman, 1948 (serial; Kirk Alyn); Superman, 1978 (Christopher Reeve; Jeff East as young Clark Kent);
Superman, 1988 (Animated TV series; Beau Weaver voiceover); Superman and the
Mole-Men, 1951 (George Reeves); Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, 1987
(Christopher Reeve); Superman: Requiem, 2011 (Martin Richardson); Superman Returns, 2006 (Brandon Routh);
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton, 1996 (Animated made-for-TV; Tim Daly);
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, 1987 (Christopher Reeve); Superman III, 1983 (Christopher Reeve);
Superman II, 1981 (Christopher
Reeve); Superman, 1996-2000 (Animated TV series; Tim Daly voiceover); The
Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, 1967-1968 (TV series; Bud Collyer); The
World’s Greatest Super Friends, 1979- (animated TV series; Danny Dark
voiceover); Young Justice, 2010- (TV series; Nolan North).
Svengali
(insidious Hungarian music teacher who uses his hypnotic powers to transform a
beautiful model into a singing superstar as depicted in the 1895 novel Trilby by George du Maurier): BBC Play
of the Month, 1965-1983 (TV series; “Trilby,” 1976 episode; Alan Badel);
Saturday Playhouse, 1958-1961 (TV series; “Trilby,” 1959 episode;
Stephen
Murray); Studio One in Hollywood, 1948-1958 (TV series;
“Trilby,”
1950 episode; Arnold Moss); Svengali, 1914 (Ferdinand Bonn); Svengali, 1927
(Paul Wegener); Svengali, 1931 (John
Barrymore); Svengali, 1955 (Donald Wolfit); Svengali, 1983 (made-for-TV; Peter
O’Toole); Three Tales of Terror, 1912 (Paul Askonas); Trilby, 1914 (Herbert
Beerbohm Tree); Tribly, 1915 (Wilton Lackaye); Trilby, 1923 (Arthur Edmund
Carewe); Trilby, 1947 (made-for-TV; Abraham Sofaer).
Sydney
Carton (one of the chief protagonists in the 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens): The DuPont Show of the
Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “A Tale of Two Cities,” 1958 episode; James
Donald); The Only Way, 1927 (John Martin Harvey); The Only Way,
1948
(made-for-TV; Andrew Osborn); The Plymouth Playhouse, 1953 (TV series; “A Tale
of Two Cities,” two 1953 episodes; Wendell Corey); A Tale of Two Cities, 1917 (William
Farnum); A Tale of Two Cities, 1935
(Ronald Colman); A Tale of Two Cities, 1957 (TV miniseries; Peter Wyngarde); A
Tale of Two Cities, 1958 (Dirk Borgarde); A Tale of Two Cities, 1958
(made-for-TV; John Cameron); A Tale of Two Cities, 1965 (TV series; John Wood);
A Tale of Two Cities, 1980 (TV miniseries; Paul Shelley); A Tale of Two Cities,
1980 (made-for-TV; Chris Sarandon); A Tale of Two Cities, 1989 (TV miniseries;
James Wilby).
Tarzan
(fictional character of a jungle man raised by apes, created by author Edgar
Rice Burroughs, 1875-1950, in his 1912 magazine story and subsequent 1914 novel
in book form): The Adventures of Tarzan, 1921 (Elmo Lincoln); Adventures of
Tarzan, 1985 (Hemant Birje); At Long Last Love, 1975 (Bill Couch); Bons baisers
de de Tarzan, 1974 (made-for-TV; Luis Rego); The Death of Tarzan, 1968 (Rudolf Hrusinsky); Diamonds, 2000 (Val
Bisiglio); Greystoke: The Legend of
Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, 1984 (Christopher Lambert); Green Inferno, 1973
(Richard Yesteran [Jose Luis Ayesteran]); The Hollywood Knights,
1980 (Gary
Prendergast); The Journey to Paris, 1999 (Olivier Gourmet); The Legend of Tarzan,
2001-2003 (TV series; Michael T. Weiss voiceover); The New Adventures of
Tarzan, 1935 (Herman Brix [Bruce Bennett]); The Revenge of Tarzan, 1920 (Gene
Pollar); The Romance of Tarzan, 1920 (Elmo Lincoln); The Son of Tarzan, 1920
(P. Dempsey Tabler); Tansan vs. Tansan, 1963 (Vic Vargas); Tarzan, 1966-1968
(TV series; Ron Ely); Tarzan, 1991-1994 (TV series; Wolf Larson); Tarzan, 2013
(Kellan Lutz voiceover); Tarzan and His
Mate, 1934 (Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan and Jane, 2002 (Michael T. Weiss
voiceover); Tarzan and Jane Regained…Sort Of, 1964 (Taylor Mead); Tarzan and
King Kong,
1965 (Randhava); Tarzan and the Amazons, 1945 (Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan and
the Brown Prince, 1972 (Steve Hawkes);
Tarzan and
the Golden Lion, 1927 (James Pierce); Tarzan and the Great River, 1967 (Mike
Henry); Tarzan and the Huntress, 1947 (Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan and the
Jungle Boy, 1968 (Mike Henry); Tarzan and the Kawana Treasure, 1974 (Richard
Yesteran [Jose Luis Ayesteran]); Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, 1946 (Johnny
Weissmuller); Tarzan and the Lost City, 1998 (Casper Van Dien); Tarzan and the
Lost Safari, 1957 (Gordon Scott); Tarzan and the Mermaids, 1948 (Johnny
Weissmuller); Tarzan and the She-Devil, 1953 (Lex Barker); Tarzan and the Slave
Girl, 1950 (Lex Barker); Tarzan and the Super 7, 1978-1980 (TV series; Robert
Ridgely voiceover); Tarzan and the Trappers, 1960 (made-for-TV; Gordon Scott);
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, 1966 (Mike Henry); Tarzan and the Valley of
Lust, 1970 (Duane Prodd); Tarzan Comes to Delhi, 1965 (Dara Singh); Tarzan en
la gruta del oro,
1972 (Steve
Hawkes); Tarzan en las minas del rey Solomon, 1974
(David
Carpenter); Tarzan Escapes, 1936
(Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan Finds a
Son!, 1939 (Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan Goes to India, 1962 (Jock Mahoney);
Tarzan in Manhattan, 1989 (Joe Lara); Tarzan in Istanbul, 1952 (Tamer Balci);
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, 1976-1978 (TV series; Robert Ridgely voiceover); Tarzan of the Apes, 1918 (Elmo
Lincoln); Tarzan the Ape Man, 1932
(Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan the Ape Man, 1959 (Denny Miller); Tarzan the Ape
Man, 1981 (Miles O’Keefe); Tarzan; The Epic Adventures, 1996 (TV series; Joe
Lara); Tarzan the Fearless, 1933 (Buster Crabbe); Tarzan the Magnificent, 1960
(Gordon Scott); Tarzan the Mighty, 1928 (Frank Merrill); Tarzan the Tiger, 1929
(Frank Merrill); Tarzan Triumphs, 1943 (Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan’s Desert
Mystery, 1943 (Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan’s Fight for Life, 1958 (Gordon
Scott); Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure,
1959 (Gordon Scott); Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle, 1955 (Gordon Scott); Tarzan’s
Magic Fountain, 1949 (Lex Barker); Tarzan’s
New York
Adventure, 1942 (Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan’s Peril, 1951
(Lex
Barker); Tarzan’s Revenge, 1938 (Glenn Morris); Tarzan’s Savage Fury, 1952 (Lex
Barker); Tarzan’s Secret Treasure,
1941 (Johnny Weissmuller); Tarzan’s
Three Challenges, 1963 (Jock Mahoney).
Thetis
(Greek goddess of water, mother of Achilles): Clash of the Titans, 1981 (Maggie Smith); The Temple of Venus, 1923
(Senorita Consuella).
TOM SAWYER
Maureen O’Sullivan (as Jane), Cheetah
and Johnny Weissmuller (as Tarzan) in Tarzan
and His Mate, 1934.
Thief of
Bagdad (inventive thief who undergoes wondrous adventures as depicted in the
1924 novel, The Thief of Bagdad, by
Achmed Abdullah, elements derived from the fables in One Thousand and One Nights): The Princess and the Cobbler, 1993
(animated; Ed E. Carroll); The Thief of
Bagdad, 1924 (Douglas Fairbanks Sr.); The
Thief of Bagdad, 1940 (Sabu); The Thief of Baghdad, 1961 (Steve Reeves); The
Thief of Baghdad, 1978 (made-for-TV; Frank Finlay).
The Tin Man
(Tin Woodman; man made of tin that comes alive and becomes a devoted companion
to Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas transported to a strange world in L. Frank
Baum’s iconic 1900 novel, The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz): Journey Back to Oz, 1972 (animated; Danny Thomas voiceover);
The New Wizard of Oz, 1914 (Pierre Couderc);
The Wiz,
1978 (Nipsey Russell); The Wizard of Oz, 1925 (Oliver
Hardy); The Wizard of Oz, 1939 (Jack Haley);
The Wizard of Oz, 1982 (animated; John Stocker voiceover); The Wizard of Oz,
1990-1991 (animated TV series; Hal Rayle voiceover); The Wizard of Oz in
Concert: Dreams Come True, 1995 (made-for-TV; Roger Daltrey); The Wizard of Oz
on Ice, 1996 (made-for-TV; Bob Frank); The Wizard of the Emerald City, 1994
(Evgeny Gerasimov).
Tinker Bell
(fictional character, a fairy created by Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie in his
1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up): The Adventures of Peter
Pan, 1989 (TV series; Sumi Shimamato);
Hook, 1991 (Julia Roberts); Neverland,
2003 (Kari Wahlgren); Peter Pan, 1924 (Virginia Brown Faire); Peter Pan, 2003
(Ludivine Sagnier); Peter Pan and the Pirates, 1990-1991 (TV series; Debi
Derryberry).
Tiny Tim (crippled
but optimistic young boy, the son of meek-mannered clerk who slaves for miserly
businessman Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol): The Alcoa Hour,
1955-1957
(TV series;
“The Stingiest Man in Town,” 1956 episode; Dennis Kohler); A Christmas Carol, 1938 (Terry Kilburn); A Chirstmas Carol, 1950
(made-for-TV; Thomas Moore); A Christmas
Carol, 1951 (Glyn Dearman); A Christmas Carol, 1977 (made-for-TV; Timothy
Chasin); A Christmas Carol, 1979 (musical; Kirk Hanson); A Christmas Carol,
1981 (made-for-TV; Tyson Thomas); A Christmas Carol, 1984 (madefor-TV; Anthony
Walters); A Christmas Carol, 1999 (made-for-TV; Ben Tibber); A Chirstmas Carol,
2000 (made-for-TV; Ben Tibber); A Christmas Carol, 2009 (animated; Gary Oldman
voiceover); A Christmas Carol, 2015 (Devon Murray-Powell); A Christmas Carol at
Ford’s Theatre, 1979 (made-for-TV; John Morgal); A Christmas Carol: 50th
Anniversary, 2015 (Bradley Bundlie); A Christmas Carol: The Musical, 2004
(made-for-TV; Jacob Moriarty); Dickensian, 2015- (TV series; Zaak Conway); A
Diva’s Christmas Carol, 2000 (made-for-TV; Joshua Archambault); Ebenezer, 1998
(made-for-TV; Joshua Silberg); Fireside
Theatre,
1949-1955 (TV series; “A Christmas Carol,” 1951 episode;
Roberet
Hay-Smith); General Electric Theater, 1953-1962 (TV series; “The Trail to
Christmas,” 1957 episode; Dennis Holmes); The Gospel According to Scrooge, 1983
(made-for-TV; Melanie Burve); Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, 1962 (made-for-TV;
Joan Gardner); Mr.
Scrooge,
1964 (made-for-TV; Neil Culleton); Mr. Scrooge to See You, 2013 (Matt Koester);
Ms. Scrooge, 1997 (made-for-TV; William Greenblatt); The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992 (Jerry Nelson voiceover); The
Right to Be Happy, 1916 (Francis [Frankie] Lee); Scrooge, 1935
(Philip
Frost); Scrooge, 1970 (Richard
Beaumont); Scrooge, 1978 (made-for-TV; Colin Graves); Shower of Stars,
1954-1958 (TV series; “A Christmas Carol,” 1954 and 1956 episodes; Christopher
Cook); The Stingiest Man in Town, 1978 (animated made-for-TV; Bobby Rolofson voiceover).
Tom Canty
(character in the children’s novel, The
Prince and the Pauper, 1881, by Mark Twain, a boy who exchanges identities
with the prince of England, Edward VI): The Adventures of the Prince and the
Pauper, 1969 (Barry Pearl); Crossed Swords, 1978 (Mark Lester); The DuPont Show
of the Month, 1957-1961 (TV series; “The Prince and the
Pauper,”
1957 episode: Johnny Washbrook); The Prince and the Pauper, 1915 (Marguerite
Clark); The Prince and the Pauper, 1920 (Tibi Lubinszky); The Prince and the Pauper, 1937 (Billy Mauch); The Prince and the
Pauper, 1943 (Mariya Barabanova); The Prince and the Pauper, 1976 (TV series;
Nicholas Lyndhurst); The Prince and the Pauper, 1977 (Mark Lester); The Prince
and the Pauper, 1996 (TV series; six episodes: Philip Sarson); The Prince and
the Pauper, 2000 (made-for-TV; Robert
Timmins);
Shirley Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1960 (TV series; “The Prince and the Pauper,”
1960 episode: Peter Lazer); Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, 1954-1992
(TV series; “The Prince and the Pauper: The Pauper King,” 1962 episode: John
Scully; “The Prince and the Pauper: The Merciful Law of the King,” 1962
episode: John Scully; “The Prince and the Pauper: Long Live the Rightful King,”
1962 episode: John Scully).
Tom Jones
(wild country boy who womanizes his way from the West Country to London in
Henry Fielding’s 1749 novel): The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones, 1976 (Nicky
Henson); Tom Jones, 1917 (Langhorn Burton); Tom Jones, 1963 (Albert Finney); Tom Jones, 1996 (made-for-TV; Greg
Fedderly).
Tom Sawyer
(character in the books of Mark Twain): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
1955 (made-for-TV; Robert Hyatt [Bobby Hyatt]); The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, 1981 (made-for-TV; Dan MonaTOM
THUMB
Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas
voice for both) in Alice in Wonderland, 2010.
han); The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1944
(Michael Miller); The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1985 (Chris Ritchie voiceover);
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1938
(Tommy Kelly); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1960 (TV series; Fred Smith); The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1980 (TV series; Masako Nozawa voiceover); The
Adventures of Tom
Sawyer,
1986 (Simon Hinton voiceover); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn, 1982 (made-for-TV; Fyodor Stukov [as Fedya Stukov]); Climax!, 1954-1958
(TV series; “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” 1955 episode: Robert Hyatt);
Aventures de Tom Sawyer, 1953 (TV series; David Jose); Back to Hannibal: The
Return of Tom
Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn, 1990 (made-for-TV; Raphael Sparge);
Huck and
Tom, 1918 (Jack Pickford); Huckleberry Finn, 1920 (Gordon
Griffith);
Huckleberry Finn, 1931 (Jackie Coogan); Huckleberry Finn,
1967 (made-for-TV; Pascal Duffard);
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends,
1979-1980
(TV series; Sammy Snyders); Les aventures de Tom Sawyer,
1968 (TV miniseries; Roland Demongeot);
The New Adventures of
Huckleberry
Finn, 1968-1969 (TV series; Kevin Schultz); Huckleberry Finn, 1975
(made-for-TV; Don Most [as Donny Most]); Rascals and
Robbers: The
Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, 1982
(made-for-TV;
Patrick Creadon); Sawyer and Finn, 1983 (made-for-TV; Peter Horton); Shirley
Temple’s Storybook, 1958-1961 (TV series; “Tom and Huck,” 1960 episode: David
Ladd); Tom and Huck, 1995
(Jonathan
Taylor Thomas); Tom Sawyer, 1917 (Jack Pickford); Tom Sawyer, 1930 (Jackie Coogan); Tom Sawyer, Detective, 1938
(Billy Cook); Tom Sawyer, 1973
(Johnny Whitaker); Tom Sawyer, 1973
(made-for-TV;
Josh Albee); Tom Sawyer, 2011 (Louis Hofmann); Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry
Finn, 2015 (Joel Courtney); The United States Steel Hour, 1953-1963 (TV series;
“Tom Sawyer,” 1956 episode: John Sharpe).
Tom Thumb
(five-inch heroic youth created in a 16th Century fable): Cendre, 2014 (Ray
Pan); Elle voit des nains partout!, 1982 (Martin Lamotte); Rugrats, 1990-2006
(TV series; “Rugrats Tales from the Crib: Three Jacks and a Beanstalk,” 2006
episode; Don Lake); Snow White: The Sequel, 2007 (Sasha Supera); Tom Thumb, 1958 (Russ Tamblyn); Tom
Thumb, 1958 (Cesareo Quesadas); Tom Thumb, 1976 (Titoyo); Tom Thumb and Little
Red Riding Hood, 1962 (Cesareo Quesadas).
Tonto
((fictional Indian sidekick character to the Lone Ranger of the Old West first
appearing in a 1933 radio broadcast by Detroit’s WXYZ): The Legend of the Lone
Ranger, 1952 (Jay Silverheels); The Legend of the Lone Ranger, 1981 (Michael
Horse); The Lone Ranger, 1938 (serial; Chief Thundercloud); The Lone Ranger,
1949-1957 (TV series; Jay Silverheels); The
Lone Ranger, 1956 (Jay Silverheels); The Lone Ranger, 1966-1969 (TV series;
Shepard Menken); The Lone Ranger, 2003 (made-for-TV; Nathaniel Arcand); The Lone Ranger, 2013 (Johnny Depp);
The Lone Ranger Rides Again, 1939 (serial; Chief Thundercloud).
Troilus (Trojan
prince, son of Priam, in Greek mythology): Le guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu,
1967 (made-for-TV; Gerald Robard); Troilus und Cressida, 1964 (made-for-TV;
Karl-Heinz Pelzer); Troilus und Cressida, 1966 (made-for-TV; Andrew Murray);
Troilus und Cressida, 1969 (made-for-TV; Gerd Seid).
Tweedledee
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; Harry Waters Jr.); Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (Roscoe
Karns); Alice in Wonderland, 1951
(J. Pat O’Malley voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Don
Hanmer); Alice in Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV; Matthew Brassill); Alice in
Wonderland, 1985 (madefor-TV; Eydie Gorme); Alice in Wonderland, 1999
(made-for-TV; George Wendt); Alice in
Wonderland, 2010 (Matt Lucas); Alice
Through the
Looking Box, 1960 (made-for-TV; Bernie Winters); Alice
Through the
Looking Glass, 1966 (made-for-TV; Dick Smothers); Alice Through the Looking
Glass, 1973 (made-for-TV; Raymond Mason); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1987
(made-for-TV; Jonathan Winters voiceover); Alice Through the Looking Glass,
1998 (made-for-TV; Marc Warren); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Frank
Cox);
Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV;
James Hayter); The Ford Theatre Hour, 1948-1951 (TV series; “Alice in
Wonderland,” 1950 episode; Biff McGuire); Great
Performances,
1971- (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1983 episode; Alan Weeks); Kraft
Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1954 episode; Carl
White); Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, 2013 (TV series; Ben Cotton, Matty
Finochio).
Tweedledum
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; Robert Barry Fleming); Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (Jack Oakie);
Alice in Wonderland, 1951 (J. Pat
O’Malley voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Ian Martin); Alice
in Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV; Gary Costello); Alice in Wonderland, 1985
(made-forTV; Steve Lawrence); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Robbie
Coltrane); Alice in Wonderland, 2010 (Matt Lucas);
Alice Through the
Looking
Box, 1960 (made-for-TV; Mike Winters); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1966
(made-for-TV; Tom Smothers); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1973
(made-for-TV; Anthony Collin); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1987
(made-for-TV; Jonathan Winters voiceover); Alice Through the Looking Glass,
1998 (made-for-TV; Gary Olsen); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Freddie
Cox); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 1948
(made-forTV; Ian Wallace); Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Alice in
Wonderland,”
1983 episode; Andre De Shields); Kraft Theatre, 19471958 (TV series; “Alice in
Wonderland,” 1954 episode; Iggie Wolfington); Once Upon a Time in Wonderland,
2013 (TV series; Ben Cotton, Matty Finochio).
Two Face
(AKA: Harvey Dent; fictional evil character in the Batman series): Batman Forever, 1995 (Tommy Lee Jones);
Batman Revealed, 2012 (Tim Nugent); Batman: The Animated Series, 1992-1995 (TV
series; Richard Moll voiceover); Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 20082011
(animated TV series; James Remar voiceover); The New Batman Adventures,
1997-1999 (TV series; Richard Moll voiceover).
Ulysses (AKA:
Odysseus; hero of Greek mythology): Adventures from the Book of Virtues,
1996-2000 (TV series; “Perseverance,” 1997 episode: Mark Harmon); BBC
Sunday-Night Theatre, 1950-1959 (TV series; “Troilus and Cressida,” 1954
episode; Walter Hudd); Biblioteca di Studio Uno: Odissea, 1964 (made-for-TV;
Felice Chiusano); Dante’s Inferno, 2011 (Anthony Alabi voiceover); Der
trojanisch krieg findet nicht statt, 1957 (made-for-TV; Wolfgang Priess); Der
todiche Schlag, 1975 (made-for-TV; Hannes Messemer); Der trojanisch krieg
findet nicht statt, 1964 (made-for-TV; Hannes Messemer); Doctor Who, 19631989
(TV series; several episodes: Ivor Salter); Eine Odyssee, 2010 (made-for-TV;
Max Nehrig); El viaje de Penelope, 2010 (Glauca); Furkesz tortenetei, 1983 (TV
series; four episodes: Tibor Bitskey); Fury of Achilles, 1962 (Piero Lulli);
Hector the Mighty, 1972 (Giancarlo Giannini/Andy Luotto voiceover); Helen of
Troy, 1924 (Otto Kronburger); Helen of Troy, 1956 (Torin Thatcher); Helen of
Troy, 2003 (made-for-
TV; Nigel
Whitmey); Hercules, 1959 (Gabriele Antonini); Hercules, 1998-1999 (TV series;
1998 and 1998 episodes: Steven Weber); Hercules and the Princess of Troy, 1965
(made-for-TV; Mart Hulswit); Hercules Unchained, 1960 (Gabriele Antonini);
Hercules, Samson & Ulysses, 1965 (Enzo Cerusico); Ich log die Wahrheit,
1971 (made-forTV; Walter Kohut); Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, 1980 (Werner
Hollweg); Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, 1985 (made-for-TV; Thomas Allen); Il
ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, 2002 (made-for-TV; Dietrich Henschel); Il ritorno
d’Ulisse in patria, 2002 (made-for-TV; Kresimir Spicer); ITV Play of the Week,
1955-1974 (TV series; “Tiger at the Gates,” 1960 episode; WALRUS
Uma Thurman (as Venus) and Oliver
Reed (as Vulcan) in The Adventures of
Baron Munchausen, 1989.
Charles
Gray); Le guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu, 1967 (made-for-TV; Michel Etcheverry);
Le guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu, 1981 (madefor-TV; Jean Piat); L’odissea,
1991 (made-for-TV; Andrea Roncato); L’odyssee, 2003 (made-for-TV; Francois
Papineau); Mr. Peabody and
Sherman, 2014 (Tom McGrath voiceover);
Mythic Warriors, Guardians of the Legend, 1998-2000 (TV series: four episodes:
Roger Honeywell); Myths, 2009 (TV series; Jamie Doyle); O Canto das Sereias,
1990 (TV miniseries; Jose de Abreu); Odissea, 1968 (TV miniseries; Bekim
Fehmiu); Odysseia sto diadiktio, 2009-2010 (TV series; Dimosthenis
Halkiopoulos); Odysseus, 2013 (TV series; eight episodes: Alessio
Boni);
Odysseus auf Ogygia, 1968 (made-for-TV; Alexander Kerst);
Odysseus:
Voyage to the Underworld, 2008 (Arnold Vosloo); The
Odyssey,
1997 (TV series; Armand Assante); Operazione Odissea, 1999 (made-for-TV;
Daniele Liotti); Penelope, 2009 (Frano Maskovic); Penelope oder Die
Lorbeemaske, 1959 (made-for-TV; Max Eckard); Penthesilea, 1963 (made-for-TV;
Hannsgeorg Laubenthal); Play of the Week, 1959-1961 (TV series; “Tiger at the
Gate,” 1960 episode: Martin Gabel);
The Private
Life of Helen of Troy, 1927 (Tom O’Brien); The Return of Ulysses to His
Homeland, 1973 (made-for-TV; Benjamin Luxon); Sacrifice to the Wind, 1954
(made-for-TV; John Justin); Seinto Seiya: Tenkai-hen joso – Overture, 2004
(Hiroki Takahashi voiceover); Tantalus: Behind the Mask, 2001 (made-for-TV;
Alan Dobie); The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, 1962 (John Cliff); The Time
Tunnel, 1966-1967
(TV series;
“Revenge of the Gods,’ 1966 episode: John Doucette); Troilus & Cressida,
1981 (made-for-TV; Benjamin Whitrow); Troilus und Cressida, 1964 (made-for-TV;
Manfred Heidmann); Troilus und Cressida, 1966 (made-for-TV; Derek Seaton);
Troilus und Cressida, 1969 (made-for-TV; Arno Assmann); Troilus und Cressida,
1981 (madefor-TV; Benjamin Whitrow); The Trojan Horse, 1962 (John Drew
Barrymore); Troy, 2004 (Sean Bean);
Ulysse est revenu, 1978 (made-for-TV; Maxence Mailfort); Ulysses, 1955 (Kirk Douglas); Ulysses Against Hercules, 1962
(Georges Marshal); Ulysses 31, 19811982 (TV series; twenty-seven episodes: Matt
Berman [English version]); Xena: Warrior Princess, 1995-2001 (TV series;
“Ulysses,” 1997 episode: John D’Aquino).
Uncus (son
of Chingachgook, the last living survivor of the extinct Mohican Indian tribe,
a branch of the Delaware Indians, a character in James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales): Fall of the
Mohicans, 1965 (Daniel Martin); The Last
of the Mohicans, 1920 (Alan Roscoe); The Last of the Mohicans, 1932 (Frank
Coghlan Jr.); The Last of the Mohicans,
1936 (Phillip Reed); The Last of the Mohicans, 1971 (TV miniseries; Richard
Warwick); The Last of the Mohicans, 1975 (animated made-for-TV; Casey Kasem
voiceover); Last of the Mohicans, 1977 (made-for-TV; Don Shanks); The Last of the Mohicans, 1992 (Eric
Schweig); Last of the Redmen, 1947 (Rick Vallin).
Uther
Pendragon (legendary king of Britain and the father of King
Arthur):
Camelot, 2011 (TV miniseries; Sebastian Koch); Excalibur, 1981 (Gabriel Byrne); Merlin, 1998 (TV miniseries; Mark
Jax); The Mists of Avalon, 2001 (made-for-TV; Mark Lewis Jones).
Venus
(Roman goddess of love, pleasure, beauty and procreation; Aphrodite in Greek
mythology): The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen, 1989 (Uma Thurman); The Brave and the Bold, 2013 (Sereniti
Stewart); Castor et Pollux, 1991 (made-for-TV; Sandrine Piau); Goddess of Love,
1988 (made-for-TV; Vanna White); Hercules in New York, 1970 (Erica Fitz); In
Performance, 1978- (TV series; “Orpheus in the Underworld,” 1983 episode;
Felicity Palmer); The Illiac Passion, 1968
(Tally
Brown); Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld, 1997 (made-for-TV;
Michele Patzakis); Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus, 2001- (animated TV
series; Tifanie Christun voiceover); L’odissea, 1991 (made-for-TV; Wendy
Windham); Mars: God of War, 1962 (Michele Bailly); Night Life of the Gods, 1935
(Marda Deering); One Touch of Venus, 1948 (Ava Gardner); Orphee aux enfers,
1997 (madefor-TV; Maryline Fallot); Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 1975 (Gisela
Bestehorn); Orpheus in der Unterwelt, 2007 (made-for-TV; Urszula Koszut);
Romulus and the Sabines, 1961 (Rosanna Schiaffino); The Temple of
Venus, 1923
(Celeste Lee); The Tinted Venus, 1921 (Maud Cressall); The Triumph of Venus,
1918 (Betty Lee); Vamping Venus, 1928 (Thelma Todd).
Vulcan
(Roman god of fire, volcanoes and forging of iron; Hephaestus in Greek
mythology): The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen, 1989 (Oliver Reed); Clash
of the Titans, 1981 (Pat Roach); Goddess of Love,
1988
(made-for-TV; Sid Haig); The Triumph of Venus, 1918 (Percy Standing); Vamping Venus,
1928 (Fred O’Beck); Vulcan, Son of Giove, 1962 (Rod Flash); Young Hercules,
1998-1999 (TV series; Jason Hoyte).
Walrus
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll):
Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; Ken Page); Alice, 2009 (TV
miniseries; David “Squatch” Ward); Alice
in Wonderland, 1951 (J. Pat O’Malley voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955
(made-for-TV; Mark Breaux); Alice in Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-
TV; Tucker
McCrady); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Karl
Malden);
Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV; Peter Ustinov);
Alice
Through the Looking Box, 1960 (made-for-TV; Glen Melville); Alice Through the
Looking Glass, 1973 (made-for-TV; Bruce Purchase); Alice Through the Looking
Glass, 1998 (made-for-TV; Brian Gilks).
WHITE KING
Margaret Hamilton (as the Wicked
Witch), melting in The Wizard of Oz, 1939.
White King
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author
Lewis
Carroll): Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (Ford
Sterling); Alice in
Wonderland,
1982 (made-for-TV; Stephen Boe); Alice in Wonderland,
1985
(made-for-TV; Harvey Korman); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1966
(made-for-TV; Ricardo Montalban); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1973
(made-for-TV; Richard Pearson); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1987
(made-for-TV; Alan Dinehart voiceover); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1998
(made-for-TV; Geoffrey Palmer); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through
the Looking Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV; Harold Scott).
White
Knight (fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author
Lewis
Carroll): Alice, 2009 (TV miniseries; Matt Frewer); Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (Gary Cooper); Alice in Wonderland, 1955
(madefor-TV; Reginald Gardiner); Alice in Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV;
Stephen Boe); Alice in Wonderland, 1985
(made-for-TV; Lloyd Bridges); Alice in Wonderland, 1999 (made-for-TV;
Christopher Lloyd);
Alice in
Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, 1966
(animated made-for-TV; Bill Dana); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1973
(made-for-TV; Geoffrey Bayldon); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1987
(made-for-TV; Alan Young voiceover); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1998
(made-for-TV; Ian Holm); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the
Looking Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV; Anthony Sharp); Great Performances, 1971(TV
series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1983 episode; Richard Burton); Kraft Theatre,
1947-1958 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1954 episode; Ernest Truex); Once
Upon a Time in Wonderland, 2013 (TV series; Ben Wilkinson).
White Queen
(fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll): Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (Louise
Fazenda); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV; Eva Le Gallienne); Alice in
Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Carol Channing); Alice in Wonderland, 2010 (Anne Hathaway); Alice Through the
Looking Glass, 1966 (made-forTV; Nanette Fabray); Alice Through the Looking
Glass, 1973 (madefor-TV; Brenda Bruce); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1987
(made-for-TV; Phyllis Diller voiceover); Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1998
(made-for-TV; Penelope Wilton); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through
the Looking Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV; Ann Codrington); Great Performances,
1971- (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1983 episode; Maureen Stapleton).
White
Rabbit (fictional character from the 1865 novel by British author Lewis
Carroll): Adventures in Wonderland, 1992-1994 (TV series; Patrick Richwood);
Alice, 2009 (TV miniseries; Alan Gray); Alice in Wonderland, 1915 (Herbert
Rice); Alice in Wonderland, 1931 (Ralph Hertz); Alice in Wonderland, 1933 (Skeets Gallagher); Alice in Wonderland,
1949 (Ernest Milton voiceover); Alice in
Wonderland, 1951 (Bill Thompson voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 1955 (made-for-TV;
Martyn Green); Alice in Wonderland, 1966 (made-for-TV; Wilfred Brambell); Alice
in Wonderland, 1976 (Carlos Lorca); Alice in Wonderland, 1982 (made-for-TV;
Wendy Lehr); Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (made-for-TV; Red Buttons); Alice in
Wonderland, 1985 (TV series; Paul Eddington); Alice in Wonderland, 1986
(made-for-TV; four 30minute segments; Jonathan Cecil); Alice in Wonderland,
1999 (madefor-TV; Kiran Shah; Richard Coombs voiceover); Alice in Wonderland, 2010 (Michael Sheen); Alice in Wonderland or
What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, 1966 (animated
madefor-TV; Howard Morris); Alice Through the Looking Box, 1960 (madefor-TV;
Spike Milligan); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1956 (made-for-TV; Michael
Segal); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1972 (Michael Crawford); Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, 2011 (madefor-TV; Edward Watson); Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 1948 (made-for-TV; Roddy Hughes);
Great Performances, 1971- (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,” 1983 episode;
Austin Pendleton); Kraft Theatre, 1947-1958 (TV series; “Alice in Wonderland,”
1954 episode; Joseph Walsh); Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, 2013 (TV series;
John Lithgow); Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland, 2007 (Andrew Watts).
Wicked
Witch of the West (evil witch who attempts to acquire the magic slippers worn
by Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas transported to a strange world in L. Frank
Baum’s iconic 1900 novel, The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz): Journey Back to Oz, 1972 (animated; Ethel Merman voiceover);
The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, 2005 (Eric Jacobson as Miss Piggy voiceover); Oz the Great and Powerful, 2013 (Mila
Kunis); The Wiz, 1978 (Mabel King); The
Wizard of Oz, 1939 (Margaret Hamilton); The Wizard of Oz, 1982 (animated;
Elizabeth Hanna voiceover); The Wizard of Oz, 1990-1991 (animated TV series;
Tress MacNeille voiceover); The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, 1995
(made-for-TV; Debra Winger).
Will
Scarlet (fictional character and follower of Robin Hood): The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938 (Patric Knowles); The Adventures
of Robin Hood, 1955-1960 (TV series; Paul Eddington; Ronald Howard);
The Bandit
of Sherwood Forest, 1946 (John Abbott); Beyond Sherwood
Forest,
2009 (made-for-TV; Richard de Klerk); A Challenge for Robin Hood, 1968 (Douglas
Mitchell); Il Magnifico Robin Hood, 1970 (Luciano Conti); The Legend of Robin
Hood, 1968- (TV series; Harvey Jason); The Legend of Robin Hood, 1975 (TV
miniseries; Miles Anderson); Long Live Robin Hood, 1971 (Manuel Zarzo); The Men
of Sherwood Forest, 1954 (John Van Eyssen); NBC Children’s Theatre, 1963-1973
(TV series; “Robin Hood,” 1964 episode; Joey Trent); Prince of Thieves, 1948
(Syd Saylor); Robin Hood, 2010
(Scott Grimes); Robin and Marian,
1976 (Denholm Elliott); Robin Hood,
1922
(Maine
[Bud] Geary); Robin Hood, 1953- (TV miniseries; Philip
Guard);
Robin Hood, 1984-1986 (TV series; Ray Winstone); Robin
Hood, 1991
(Owen Teale); Robin Hood, 2006-2009 (TV series; Harry Lloyd); Robin Hood:
Ghosts of Sherwood 3D, 2012 (Dennis Zachmann); Robin Hood: Men in Tights, 1993 (Matthew Porretta); Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, 1991
(Christian Slater); Rogues of Sherwood Forest, 1950 (Billy Bevan); Son of Robin
Hood, 1959 (Jack Lambert); The Story of
Robin Hood [AKA: The Story of Robin Hood and His
Merrie Men]
1952 (Anthony Forwood); Tales of Robin Hood, 1951 (Robert Bice); Young Robin
Hood, 1991-1992 (animated TV series; Sonja Ball voiceover).
The Wizard of
Oz (a shifty, palavering charlatan, who pretends to be an all-powerful wizard
and who is challenged by Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas transported to a
strange world in L. Frank Baum’s iconic 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz): Journey Back to Oz, 1972
(animated;
Bill Cosby voiceover); The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, 2005 (Jeffrey Tambor); The
New Wizard of Oz, 1914 (J. Charles Haydon); Oz the Great and Powerful, 2013 (James Franco); 20th Century Oz,
1976 (Graham Matters); The Wiz, 1978 (Richard Pryor); The Wizard of Oz, 1925
(Charles Murray); The Wizard of Oz,
1939 (Frank Morgan); The Wizard of Oz, 1982 (animated; Lorne Greene voiceover);
The Wizard of Oz, 1990-1991 (animated TV series; Alan Oppenheimer voiceover);
The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, 1995 (made-for-TV; Joel Grey);
The Wizard of Oz on Ice, 1996 (made-forTV; Bobby McFerrin); The Wizard of the
Emerald City, 1994 (Viktor Pavlov).
Wolf Larsen
(sea captain with a superman complex depicted in Jack
London’s
1904 novel, The Sea Wolf): Barricade,
1950 (Raymond
Massey);
Legend of the Sea Wolf, 1978 (Chuck Connors); The Sea
Wolf, 1913
(Hobart Bosworth); The Sea Wolf, 1920 (Noah Beery); The
Sea Wolf,
1926 (Ralph Ince); The Sea Wolf, 1930 (Milton Sills); The Sea Wolf, 1941 (Edward G. Robinson); The Sea Wolf, 1990- (TV seZEUS
Laurence Olivier (as Zeus) in Clash of the Titans, 1981.
ries;
Liubomiras Laucevicius); The Sea Wolf, 1993 (made-for-TV; Charles Bronson); The
Sea Wolf, 2008 (made-for-TV; Thomas Kretschmann); Sea Wolf, 2009 (TV
miniseries; Sebastian Koch); The Seawolf, 1971 (TV miniseries; Raimund
Harmstorf); Wolf Larsen, 1958 (Barry Sullivan).
Wolf Man
(Lawrence Talbot, a fictional character afflicted by lycanthropy that
transforms him into a werewolf): Abbott
and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948 (Lon Chaney Jr.); Frankenstein and the
Werewolf
Reborn!, 2005 (Robin Downes); Frankenstein
Meets the Wolf Man,
1943 (Lon
Chaney Jr.); Frankenstein’s Aunt, 1987 (TV series; Flavio
Bucci); House of Dracula, 1945 (Lon Chaney
Jr.); The House of
Frankenstein, 1944 (Lon Chaney Jr.); House of the
Wolf Man, 2009
(Billy
Bussey); Monster Brawl, 2011 (R. J. Skinner); Monster Squad,
1976 (TV
series: Buck Kartalian); Transylvania 6-5000, 1985 (Donald Gibbs); The Wolf Man, 1941 (Lon Chaney Jr.);
The Wolf Man, 2010 (Benicio Del Toro).
Wonder
Woman (AKA: Diana Prince; fictional comic book superhero character): The All-New
Super Friends Hour, 1977-1978 (animated TV series; Shannon Farnon voiceover);
Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 2008-2011 (animated TV series; Vicki Lewis
voiceover); Challenge of the Super Friends, 1978- (animated TV series; Shannon
Farnon voiceover); Heroes Crossing, 2010 (Tere Lee); Justice League, 20012006
(TV series; Susan Eisenberg voiceover); The
Lego Movie, 2014 (Cobie Smulders voiceover); Super Friends, 1973-2011
(animated TV series; Shannon Farnon voiceover); Super Friends, 1980-1983
(animated TV series; Shannon Farnon voiceover); Super Friends: The Legendary
Super Powers Show, 1984- (animated TV series; Constance Cawlfield voiceover);
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, 1985- (animated TV series; B.J. Ward
voiceover); Superman, 1988 (Animated TV series; Mary McDonald-Lewis voiceover);
Wonder Woman, 1974 (made-for-TV; Cathy Lee Crosby); Wonder Woman, 1975-1979 (TV
series; Lynda Carter); Wonder Woman, 2013- (animated TV series; Susan Eisenberg
voiceover); The World’s Greatest Super Friends, 1979- (animated TV series;
Shannon Farnon voiceover).
Woody
(animated cowboy doll character): Toy
Story, 1995 (Tom Hanks voiceover); Toy
Story 3, 2010 (Tom Hanks voiceover); Toy
Story 2, 1999 (Tom Hanks voiceover).
Zaroff
(Count Zaroff, an insane Cossack aristocrat who rules a remote island and hunts
human beings to the death for sport, as depicted in the1924 short story, “The
Most Dangerous Game” [AKA: “The Hounds of Zaroff”] by Richard Connell): A Game
of Death, 1945 (Edgar Barrier as Erich Kreiger); Johnny Allegro, 1949 (role
model for George Macready); Kill or Be Killed, 1950 (role model for George
Coulouris); The Most Dangerous Game,
1932 (Leslie Banks); The Most Dangerous Game, 2015 (Eric Etebari); Run for the Sun, 1956 (Trevor Howard as
Browne); To Kill a Clown, 1972 (role model for Alan Alda).
Zeus
(father of the gods residing on Mount Olympus in Greek mythology; Jupiter in
Roman mythology): The Adventures of Hercules II, 1985 (Claudio Cassinelli):
Biblioteca di Studio Uno: Odissea, 1964 (madefor-TV; Umberto D’Orsi); Clash of the Titans, 1981 (Laurence
Olivier); Clash of the Titans, 2010
(Liam Neeson); Conan the Destroyer, 1984 (Matt Conner); The Enchanted Castle,
1979- (TV series; “Feast of Magic,” 1979 episode; Alastair Hunter); Goddess of
Love,
1988
(made-for-TV; John Rhys-Davies); Hercules, 1983 (Claudio Cassinella); Hercules, 1997 (Rip Torn voiceover);
Hercules, 1998-1999
(TV series;
Corey Burton voiceover); Hercules and the Amazon Women, 1994 (made-for-TV;
Anthony Quinn); Hercules in New York, 1970 (Ernest Graves); Hercules in the
Maze of the Minotaur, 1994 (madefor-TV; Anthony Quinn); Hercules in the
Underworld, 1994 (made-forTV; Anthony Quinn); Hercules: The Brave and the Bold,
2013 (Brayden Patterson); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys – Hercules and the
Circle of Fire, 1994 (made-for-TV; Anthony Quinn); Hercules: The Legendary
Journeys – Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, 1994 (made-for-TV; Anthony Quinn);
The Illiac Passion, 1968 (Paul Swan); Immortals, 2011 (Luke Evans); Jason and the Argonauts, 1963 (Niall
MacGinnis);
Jason and
the Argonauts, 2000 (TV miniseries; Angus Macfayden); Mighty Aphrodite, 1995
(Kent Blocher voiceover); The Mighty Hercules, 1963-1966 (TV series; Jimmy Tapp
voiceover); Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, 1998- (TV series; Gary
Krawford); Myths, 2009- (TV series; Josh Bowman); Percy Jackson & the
Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 2010 (Sean Bean); Persephone, 1952
(made-for-TV; Noel Carey); The Temple of Venus, 1923 (Frank Keller); The
Thracian Horses, 1946 (made-for-TV; Rupert Davies); Ulysses 31, 1981-1982 (TV
series; Vlasta Vrana); Wondrous Myths & Legends, 1999- (TV series; Ian
James Corlett); Wrath of the Titans, 2012 (Liam Neeson).
ABOVE SUSPICION
Note: The following annotated index, exclusively created by the author,
offers some of the great last lines delivered in theatrically-released feature
films (chiefly U.S. and British releases, along with notable foreign
productions, showing U.S. year of release). All titles shown in boldface represent
entries profiled in this work.
Above Suspicion, 1943: Fred MacMurray (after he and
wife Joan Crawford escape Nazis in Bavarian Alps and are about to enter Italy):
“Well, how about some spaghetti?”
The Adventures of Don Juan, 1948; Errol Flynn: “My dear friend,
there’s a little bit of Don Juan in every man, but since I am Don Juan, there
must be more of it in me.”
The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938; Errol Flynn (to Ian Hunter,
playing King Richard the Lionheart of England, who has ordered Flynn to marry Maid
Marian): “May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure, Sire!”
Alien, 1979; Sigourney Weaver (recording
her final report just before getting into a hibernation chamber on a small
spacecraft with her cat after battling a deadly alien monster on a distant
planet): “Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo. Third officer reporting. The other members of the
crew—Kane, Lambert , Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas, are dead. Cargo
and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a
little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off. Come on, cat.”
Amelia, 2009; Hilary Swank (as Amelia
Earhart; voiceover): “All the things I never said for so very long, look up,
they’re in my eyes. Everyone has oceans to fly, as long as you have the heart
to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries? I think
about the hands that I have held, the places I’ve seen, the vast lands whose
dirt is caked on the bottom of my shoes. The world has changed me.”
Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938; Pat O’Brien (as a priest to
street boys who have idolized a gangster just put to death in the electric
chair and who was O’Brien’s boyhood friend, and who, in their youth, had been
captured by police and set on a path of crime while O’Brien escaped): “Let’s go
and say a prayer for a boy who couldn’t run as fast as I could.”
Annie Hall, 1977; Woody Allen: (describing his
ended up-and-down relationship with Diane Keaton, the girl of the title name):
“But it was great seeing Annie again…and I thought about that old joke, you
know…this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says ‘Doc, my brother’s crazy. He
thinks he’s a chicken.’ And the doctor says ‘Well, why don’t you turn him in.’
And the guys says ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess that’s pretty
much now how I feel about relationships. You know, they’re totally irrational
and crazy and absurd, but I guess we keep going through it…because…most of us
need the eggs.”
The Apartment, 1960; Shirley MacLaine (to Jack
Lemmon, who had declared his love for her and before they play cards): “Shut up
and deal.”
Apollo 13, 1995; Tom Hanks (as Jim Lovell,
narrating): “And, as for me, the seven extraordinary days of Apollo 13 were my
last in space. I watched other men walk on the moon and return safely, all from
the confines of Mission Control, or our house in Houston. I sometimes catch
myself looking at the moon, remembering our changes of fortune in our long
voyage, thinking of the thousands of people who worked to bring the three of us
home. I look up at the moon and wonder: When will we be going back, and who
will that be?”
Arsenic and Old Lace, 1944; Garry Owen (frustrated cab
driver who has waited hours for a fare outside of a house where darkly comedic
murder and mayhem has occurred): “I’m not a cab driver. I’m a coffeepot!”
The Assassination of Jesse James by
the Coward Robert Ford, 2007; Narrator: “There would be no eulogies for Bob. No photographs of
his body would be sold in sundries stores, no people would crowd the streets in
the rain to see his funeral cortege, no biographies would be written about him,
no children named after him, no one would ever pay twentyfive cents to stand in
the room he grew up in. The shotgun would ignite, Ella Mae would scream, but
Robert Ford would only lay on the Floor and look at the ceiling, the light
going out of his eyes before he could find the right words.”
The Aviator, 2004; Leonardo DiCaprio (as Howard
Hughes): “The way of the future…The Way of the future…The way of the future…”
Bananas, 1971; Howard Cossell (sports
commentator describing the bedroom antics of wacky comedian Woody Allen and
wife Louise Lasser as if covering an important sports event): “It’s hard to
tell what may happen in the future. But they may live happily ever after.
Again, they may not. Be assured of this, though. Wherever the action is, we
will be there with ABC’s Wild World of Sports to cover it. Now, on behalf of
Nancy and Fielding Mellish and all the others who have made this possible, this
is Howard Cossell thanking you for joining us and wishing you a most pleasant
good night.”
Bataan, 1943; Robert Taylor (the last survivor
of small U.S. infantry unit in the Philippines in WWII, who has dug his own
grave next to those of his men and is firing at advancing Japanese troops with
a machine gun): “Come and get it!...We’re still here!...We’ll always be
here!...”
Bell, Book and Candle, 1958; Kim Novak (having lost her
powers as a witch by falling in love with James Stewart, who asks her to stop
crying): “I don’t think I can. I am only human.”
The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946; Dana Andrews (former WWII
Army Air Force officer struggling to adjust to civilian life while proposing to
Teresa Wright, the woman he loves): “You know what it will be, Peggy. It may
take us years to get anywhere. We’ll have no money, no decent place to live.
We’ll have to work—get kicked around.”
The Big Carnival (AKA: Ace in the Hole), 1951; Kirk
Douglas (as an opportunistic newspaperman): “I’m a thousand-dollar-a-day
newspaperman. You can have me for nothing.”
The Big Sleep, 1946; Humphrey Bogart: “What’s
wrong with you?”; Lauren Bacall: “Nothing you can’t fix.”
The Birth of a Nation, 1915; title card written by
director D.W. Griffith: “Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and
forever!”
Blade Runner, 1982; Harrison Ford (a futuristic
police detective talking about the android woman he loves): “Tyrell had told me
that Rachel was special: no termination date. I didn’t know how long we had
together. Who does?”
Blood on the Sun, 1945; James Cagney (as a U.S.
journalist in preWWII Tokyo, who has discovered the Tanaka Plan that reveals
Japan’s secret schedule for world domination): “Sure, forgive your enemies. But
first, get even.”
Bolero, 1934; William Frawley (holding George Raft, who has just died of
a heart attack in a nightclub after dancing a frantic Bolero): “He was too good
for this joint!”
The Bourne Legacy, 2012; Rachel Weisz (as Dr. Marta
Shearing): “Are we lost?”; Jeremy Renner (as Aaron Cross): “No, I was just
looking at our options.”; Weisz: “Oh, I was kind of hoping we were lost.”
Boys Town, 1938; Spencer Tracy (as Father
Edward Joseph Flanagan, founder of the orphanage called Boys Town in Douglas
County, Nebraska): “This is no bad boy.”
Braveheart, 1995; Narrator: “In the year of our
Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields
of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen and
won their freedom.”
The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 1954; Fredric March (as an admiral
on board an aircraft carrier during the Korean War): “Where do we get such men?
They leave this ship and they do their job. Then they must find this speck
somewhere lost on the sea. When they find it, they have to land on its pitching
deck. Where do we get such men?” Voice on loudspeaker: “Launch jets!”
Brother Orchid, 1940; Edward G. Robinson (a former
gangster who has become a monk in monastery): “This…this is the real class!”
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969; Paul Newman (as Cassidy, to
Robert Redford as Sundance when they are pinned down by hundreds of police and troops
in a Bolivian village and are about to be killed but where Redford has told
Newman that famed U.S. lawman Joe Lefors is not present among their attackers):
“Oh, good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble.”
Cabaret, 1972; Joel Grey (master of
ceremonies at the Kit-Kat Club in Berlin, which is now controlled by Nazi storm
troopers): “Ladies and gentlemen, where are your troubles now? Forgotten? I
told you so. We have no troubles here. Here, life is beautiful. The girls are
beautiful. Even the orchestra is beautiful. Auf
wiedersehen! A bientot!”
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1921; title card (about a killer
somnambulist): “I think I know how to cure him now.”
Caddyshack, 1980; Rodney Dangerfield: “Hey,
everybody! We’re gonna get laid!”
The Candidate, 1972; Robert Redford (an attractive
but utterly shallow politician who has been elected to the U.S. Senate from
California after a driving, insidious and manipulative campaign and who has no
idea of what his new post entails or the reason why he has run for office):
“What do we do now?”
Cape Fear, 1962; Gregory Peck (to Robert
Mitchum, a sadistic killer who has menaced Peck and his family and who has been
captured by Peck): “You’re going to live a long life—in a cage! That’s where
you belong. And that’s where you’re going. And this time, for life! Bang your
head against the walls! Count the years, the months, the hours until the day
you rot!”
Casablanca, 1942: Humphrey Bogart (to Claude
Rains, the police prefect who has shielded Bogart and who must now both flee to
a Free French garrison): “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship.”
Champion, 1949; Arthur Kennedy (generously
white-washing his corFOREIGN
CORRESPONDENT
rupt prizefighting brother, who has just died of injuries in the ring):
“I’ll give you a statement…He was a champion. He went out like a champion. He
was a credit to the fight game…to the very end.”
Charlotte’s Web, 1973; (narration): “Wilbur never
forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none
of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class
by herself. It’s not often when someone comes along who is a true friend and a
good writer. Charlotte was both.”
A Christmas Carol, 1938; Reginald Owen [as Scrooge]: “God
bless us, every one!”
City Lights, 1931; title card: “Yes, I can see
now.”
Clash of the Titans, 1981; Laurence Olivier (as Zeus on Mount
Olympus): “As long as man shall walk on earth and search the night sky in
wonder, they will remember the courage of Perseus forever. Even if we, the
gods, are abandoned, or forgotten, the stars will never fade, never. They will
burn to the end of time.”
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008; Brad Pitt (as Benjamin
Button): “Some people are born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning.
Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons.
Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people dance.”
The Dark Knight, 2008; Gary Oldman (as Lt. James
Gordon): “Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right
now. So, we’ll hunt him because he can take it, because he’s not our hero. He’s
a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a dark knight.”
Desperate Journey, 1942; Errol Flynn (escaping Germany
in a stolen enemy plane during WWII): “Now for Australia and a crack at those
Japs!”
Detour, 1945; Tom Neal (though innocent,
wanted and on the run for the murder of a scheming woman that inveigled him
into crime): Yes, fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you and
me for no good reason at all.”
Dinner at Eight, 1933; Marie Dressler: “Oh, my dear,
that’s something you need never to worry about.”
D.O.A., 1950; Roy Engel (a police caption
to whom Edmond O’Brien tells how he has been fatally poisoned by a stealthy
murderer, and, after O’Brien collapses dead in the police office, Engel tells a
subordinate how to make out the report): “Better make it ‘Dead on Arrival.’”
Dr. Strangelove…1964; Peter Sellers (as a deformed
former Nazi scientist, one of three characters he plays, and where he finally
leaves his wheelchair, to say to the U.S. President, whom he also plays): “Mein
Fuehrer, I can walk!”
Dracula’s Daughter, 1936; Edward Van Sloan: “She was
beautiful when she died…a hundred years ago.”
Edison; The Man, 1940; Spencer Tracy [as Thomas Alva
Edison]: “What man’s mind can conceive, man’s character can control. Man must
learn that, and then we needn’t be afraid of tomorrow. And man will go forward
toward more light.”
Foreign Correspondent, 1940; Joel McCrea (a newspaper
correspondent broadcasting from London, England as the city is under a bombing
attack by German planes): “I can’t read the rest of this speech because THE FRONT PAGE
the lights have gone out, so I’ll just have to
talk off the cuff. All that noise you hear isn’t static. It’s death coming to
London. Yes, they’re coming here now. You can hear the bombs falling on the
streets and homes. Don’t tune me out—hang on—this is a big story, and you’re
part of it. It’s too late now to do anything except to stand in the dark and
let them come. It feels as if the lights are all out everywhere except in
America. Keep those lights burning. Cover them with steel! Ring them with guns!
Build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them! Hello, America!
Hang on to your lights! They’re the only lights left in the world!”
The Front Page, 1931 and its 1974 remake; Adolphe
Menjou and Walter Matthau (playing the scheming editor of a Chicago newspaper
and who has given his watch as a memento to his prized reporter leaving town to
be married and whom he schemes to have back on his staff by having that
reporter arrested when calling police to make the following report): “The
son-of-a-bitch stole my watch!”
Gandhi, 1982; Ben Kingsley (as Gandhi):
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love
has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and, for a time, they
can seem invincible, but, in the end, they always fail. Think of it. Always.”
Giant, 1956; Rock Hudson (to wife
Elizabeth Taylor): “You want to know something, Leslie. If I live to be ninety,
I’m never gonna be able to figure you out.”
Golden Boy, 1939; William Holden: “Papa, I’ve
come home!”
Gone with the Wind, 1939; Clark Gable (as Rhett
Butler): “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”; Vivien Leigh (as Scarlett
O’Hara): “Well, tomorrow is another
day!”
The Good Earth, 1937; Paul Muni: “O-Lan, you are
the earth!”
Good Night and Good Luck, 2005; David Strathairn (as Edward
R. Murrow): “Good night and good luck.”
The Goodbye Girl, 1977; (over the phone as Marsha Mason
learns that her room renter actor Richard Dreyfuss loves her and is returning
to her and while she retrieves the guitar he has left behind, asking her to
restring it and while she holds it, crying, and telling him that she loves
him): Richard Dreyfuss: “Never mind that. You’re rusting my guitar.”
Goodfellas, 1990; Ray Liotta (voiceover, sourly
commenting on his mundane life in the witness protection program): “Today,
everything is different. There’s no action. I have to wait around like everyone
else. Can’t even get decent food. Right after I got here, I ordered some
spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I’m an average
nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”
Grand Hotel, 1932; Lewis Stone (hotel physician,
who is oblivious to the dramatic events that have just occurred at the hotel):
“Grand Hotel… always the same…people come, people go…nothing ever happens…
Grand Hotel.”
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940; Jane Darwell (as Ma Joad,
head of an Okie family that has survived innumerable hardships in the Great
Depression): “That’s what makes us tough. Rich fellas come up and they die, and
their kids ain’t no good, and they die out. Bet we keep a-coming. We’re the
people that live. They can’t wipe us out. They can’t lick us. And we’ll go on
forever, Pa, ‘cause we’re the people!”
The Great Gatsby, 2013; Tobey Maguire (as Nick
Carraway, voiceover): “I remembered how we’d all come to Gatsby’s and guessed
at his corruption, while he stood before us concealing his incorruptible dream.
The moon rose higher and, as I stood there brooding on the old unknown world, I
thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end
of Daisy’s dock. He had come such a long way, and his dream must have seemed so
close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. But he did not know that it was
already behind him. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future
that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter.
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And then one fine
morning…So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into
the past.”
The Great Ziegfeld, 1936; William Powell (as dying
showman Florenz Ziegfeld): “I’ve got to have more steps. I need more steps.
I’ve got to get higher…higher!”
A Guy Named Joe, 1943; Spencer Tracy (as the spirit
of a dead American pilot who has become the temporary guardian angel of the woman
he loved on earth and the young man who has replaced him in her heart): “That’s
my girl…and that’s my boy.”
High Society, 1956; Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong:
“End of story.”
The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1945; Jack Benny (a horn player who
falls from his chair on a bandstand after dreaming that he was an angel ordered
to blow Gabriel’s horn to end the world): “Elizabeth, I just had the craziest
dream. You know, if you saw it in the movies, you’d never believe it.”
The Hucksters, 1947; Clark Gable (to Deborah Kerr
after walking out on a high-paying advertising job): “Now we’re starting out
with an even nothing in the world. It’s neater that way.”
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939; Charles Laughton (as
Quasimodo while sitting next to a stone gargoyle in one of the church towers):
“Why was I not made of stone like thee?”
The Hurricane, 1937; Raymond Massey (the French
governor of an island obliterated by a hurricane, who sees through his
telescope a wanted native fleeing with his family far out to sea, but, because
the native has saved his wife’s life, abandons all notions of pursuit and
capture, with a benevolently lying statement to his wife, Mary Astor): “Yes,
it’s only a floating log.”
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932; Paul Muni (as he retreats
into darkness from the woman he loves): “I steal!”
In a Lonely Place, 1950; Gloria Grahame (after ending
her affair with a tempestuous writer): “I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Goodbye, Dix.”
The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957; Grant Williams (narration):
“All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant
something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God
there is no zero. I still exist!”
Indiscreet, 1958; Cary Grant to Ingrid Bergman,
who accepts his proposal and is crying: “Don’t cry, Anna. I love you.
Everything will be all right. You’ll like being married. You will. You’ll see.
Yes.”
Jaws, 1975; (after they have lost their
boat and killed a giant shark in a life-and-death battle and where they are
floating toward shore): Roy Scheider: “I used to hate the water…” Richard
Dreyfuss: “I can’t imagine why.”
Jurassic Park, 1993; Sam Neill: “Hammond, after
careful consideration, I have decided not
to endorse your park.”; Richard Attenborough: “So have I.”
King Kong, 1933; Robert Armstrong: “Oh, no, it
wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty [that] killed the beast.”
L.A. Confidential, 1997; Kim Basinger: “Some men get
the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.”
The Lady from Shanghai, 1948; Orson Welles: “Well,
everybody is somebody’s fool. The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow
old, so I guess I’ll concentrate on that. Maybe I’ll live so long that I’ll
forget her. Maybe I’ll die trying.”
The Last Hurrah, 1958; Spencer Tracy (as an old-fashioned
politician on his deathbed when a reformer suggests that he would have changed
his life or political decisions): “Like hell I would!”
The Last of the Mohicans, 1992; Russell Means: “Great Spirit
and the Maker of all life. A warrior goes to you swift and straight as an arrow
shot into the sun. Welcome him and let him take his place at the council fire
of my people. He is Uncus, my son. Tell them to be patient and ask death for
speed for they are all there but one, I, Chingachgook, last of the Mohicans.”
The Life of Emile Zola, 1937; Morris Carnovsky (as Anatole
France at Zola’s funeral): “He was a moment of the conscience of man.”
Little Caesar, 1931; Edward G. Robinson (as a
ruthless gangster dying from police bullets): “Mother of Mercy! Is this the end
of Rico?”
The Longest Day, 1962; Richard Beymer (a GI lost
after landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944 and rhetorically asking downed and
wounded R.A.F. pilot Richard Burton which side was victorious): “I wonder who
won.”
Lost Horizon, 1937; Hugh Buckler: “Here’s my hope
that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La…Here’s my hope that we all find our
Shangri-La.”
The Lost Weekend, 1945; Ray Milland (recovering
alcoholic ending the film with a cautionary narrative): “I wonder how many
others that are like me, poor bedeviled guys on fire with thirst…such comical
figures to the rest of the world as they stagger blindly towards another binge,
another bender, another spree.”
Love Story, 1970; Ryan O’Neal: “Love means
never having to say you’re sorry.”
The Magnificent Seven, 1960; Yul Brynner (gunfighter
leaving a small Mexican village after defending it from a horde of bandits):
“The old man was right. Only the farmers won. We lost. We always lose.”
Magnum Force, 1973; Clint Eastwood (watching his
corrupt police superior drive away only to be killed by a bomb explosion
Eastwood knew was hidden in the car): “A man’s got to know his
limitations.”
The Maltese Falcon, 1941; Humphrey Bogart (as detective
Sam Spade, carrying and describing the statuette of a falcon): “The stuff that
dreams are made of.”
The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956; James Stewart (to some family
friends waiting in their hotel room after he and wife Doris Day have
harrowingly rescued their son from kidnappers): “I’m sorry that we were gone so
long, but we had to go over and pick up Hank.”
The Manchurian Candidate, 1962; Frank Sinatra (about Laurence
Harvey, who had been mentally programmed as an assassin by his Communist
captors during the Korean War and how Harvey truly earned his Congressional
Medal of Honor): “Made to commit acts too unspeakable to be cited here by an
enemy that had captured his mind and soul. He freed himself at last and, in the
end, heroically and unhesitatingly gave his life to save his country. Raymond
Shaw…Hell!...Hell!”
Manila Calling, 1942; Lloyd Nolan (an American who
has joined the Filipino guerrillas in resisting the Japanese that have invaded
the Philippines in WWII, and while calling the U.S. via radio): “This is Manila
calling—and I ain’t no Jap!”
The Mark of Zorro, 1940; Tyrone Power: “We’re going to
marry and raise fat children and watch our vineyards grow!”
Meet John Doe, 1941; James Gleason (addressing a
powerful kingpin): “There are, Norton. The people! Try and lick that!”
Midnight Run, 1988; (after bounty hunter Robert
De Niro asks a cabdriver at L.A. Airport if he can change a $1,000 bill): Bob
Maroff/cabdriver: “What are you, a comedian? Get out of her, you bum!”; De Niro
(to himself): “Looks like I’m walking.”
The Misfits, 1961; Clark Gable (to Marilyn
Monroe): “Just head for that big star straight on. The Highway’s under it.
It’ll take us right home.”
Mrs. Miniver, 1942; Henry Wilcoxon (minister
preaching from a bombed out church in England): “This is the people’s war. It
is our war. Fight it then. Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend
the right.”
Mr. Roberts, 1955; Jack Lemmon: “Captain, it is
I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now
what’s all this crud about no movies tonight?”
Moby Dick, 1956; Richard Basehart (voiceover
narration): “The drama’s done. All are departed away. The great shroud of the
sea rolls over the Pequod, her crew
and Moby Dick. I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.”
My Little Chickadee, 1940; (as two film icons exchange
their trademark lines) W.C. Fields: “You must come up and see me sometime.”;
Mae West: “Oh, yeah, yeah, I’ll do that, my little chickadee.”
The Naked City, 1948; (narration): ‘There are eight
million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.”
The Natural, 1984; Sports Announcer (after
Robert Redford hits a game-winning home run and goes around the bases as the
ball strikes an arc light that creates a series of showering and dazzling
explosions): “And it’s spinning away, way back up, high into the right field!
That ball is still going! It’s way back, high up in there! He did it! Hobbs did
it!”
Network, 1976; (narrator): “This was the
story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because
he had lousy ratings.”
The Night of the Hunter, 1955; Lillian Gish (about the children
in her care she has protect ted from a murderous maniac, and children
everywhere): “They abide and they endure.”
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
No Country for Old Men, 2007; Tommy Lee Jones: “And in the
dream, I knew that he was goin’ on ahead and he was fixin’ to make a fire
somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold. And I knew that
whenever I got there, he’d be there. And then I woke up.”
Now, Voyager, 1942; Bette Davis: “Don’t let’s ask
for the moon—we have the stars.”
An Officer and a Gentleman, 1982; Lisa Blount (when seeing
Richard Gere, who has graduated officer training school in the U.S. Navy and
who returns to retrieve Blount’s close friend and the woman Gere loves, Debra
Winger, from her factory job, kissing her and carrying her from the place):
“Way to go, Paula! Way to go!”
The Old Man and the Sea, 1958; (Spencer Tracy narration,
quoting the end of Ernest Hemingway’s great novella): “Up the road in his shack
the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face, and the boy
was sitting by him, watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”
The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976; Clint Eastwood: “I guess we
all died a little in that damn war.”
Patton, 1970; George C. Scott (narrating as
General George S. Patton): “For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors
returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph, a tumultuous parade…The
conqueror rode in a triumphant chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains
before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the
chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a
golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning that all glory is fleeting.”
The Petrified Forest, 1936; Bette Davis (quoting French
poet Francois Villon in her farewell to dying lover Leslie Howard): “‘This is
the end for which we twain are met.’”
The Plainsman, 1936; Jean Arthur (as Calamity
Jane, kissing Gary Cooper, who plays gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok and who has
just been killed): “That’s one kiss you won’t wipe off.”
Platoon, 1986; Charlie Sheen (voiceover):
“But be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build
again, to teach to others what we know, and to try with what’s left of our
lives to find a goodness and meaning to our lives.”
Play Misty for Me, 1971; Clint Eastwood (a hip
California disc jockey playing a record for a rejected, berserk woman who has repeatedly
tried to kill him and his girlfriend and who originally called in to have him
play the title song): “And now, here’s a pretty one for lonely lovers on a
cool, cool night. It’s the great Earl Garner classic, ‘Misty.’ And this one is
especially for Evelyn.”
Poppy, 1936; W.C. Fields: “Never give a
sucker an even break.”
The Prestige, 2006; Michael Caine: “Now you’re
looking for the secret. But you won’t find it, of course, because you’re not
really looking. You don’t really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.”
The Pride of the Yankees, 1942; Gary Cooper (as New York
Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who has been stricken with an incurable
disease, and quoting Gehrig’s own words in his farewell speech at Yankee
Stadium): “People all say that I’ve had a bad break, but today…Today I consider
myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
The Princess Bride, 1987; Fred Savage (the grandson to
whom this story has been read by his grandfather): “Grandpa, maybe you could
come over and read it again to me tomorrow.”; Peter Falk (the grandfather): “As
you wish.”
The Producers, 1967; Zero Mostel (directing chorus
dancers to kick higher in a rehearsal of a prison show): “Higher, you animals,
higher. We open in Leavenworth [Penitentiary] Saturday night!”
The Professionals, 1966; Lee Marvin (an adventurer,
who has released the wife of Ralph Bellamy, a wealthy man, to her lover and
after Bellamy has called him a “S.O.B.”): “Yes, sir. In my case, an accident of
birth, but, you, sir, you are a self-made man.”
Prometheus, 2012; Noomi Rapace (as Elizabeth
Shaw; voiceover): “Final report of the vessel Prometheus. The ship and her
entire crew are gone. If you’re receiving this transmission, make no attempt to
come to the point of its origin. There is only death here now, and I am leaving
it behind. It is New Year’s Day, the year of our Lord, 2094. My name is
Elizabeth Shaw, the last survivor of the Prometheus. And I am still searching.”
Psycho, 1960; Tony Perkins (in custody for
murder, sitting in a straitjacket, eyes nervously searching the jail cell, now
psychologically transformed into his own mother’s persona): “I’m not even going
to swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They’ll see and they’ll know and
they’ll say: ‘Why she wouldn’t even harm a fly.’”
Pygmalion, 1938 and its 1964 remake My Fair Lady; Leslie Howard and Rex
Harrison: “Where the devil are my slippers, Eliza?”
Radio Days, 1987; Narrator: “I never forgot
that New Year’s Eve when Aunt Bea awakened me to watch 1944 come in. And I’ve
never forgotten any of those people, or any of the voices we used to hear on
the radio. Although the truth is, with the passing of each New Year’s Eve,
those voices do seem to grow dimmer and dimmer.”
Rain, 1932; Joan Crawford: “I’m sorry for
everybody in the world, I guess.”
The Right Stuff, 1983; Narrator: “The Mercury
Program was over. Four years later Gus Grissom was killed, along with
astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But
on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther and faster
than any other American – twenty-two complete orbits around the world. He was
the last American ever to go into space alone. And, for a brief moment, Gordo
Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen.”
Road to Perdition, 2002; Tyler Hoechlin (as Michael
Sullivan Jr. voiceover): “When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good
man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer.
I just tell them: ‘He was my father.’”
The Roaring Twenties, 1939; Gladys George (holding the
body of slain gangster James Cagney while identifying the dead man to a cop
arriving upon the scene): “He used to be a big shot!”
Robin and Marian, 1976; Sean Connery (as Robin Hood,
to Nicol Williamson, playing Little John, and about to shoot an arrow, the spot
where it falls to be his burial spot as well as that of lifelong lover Marian):
“Give me my bow. Where this falls, John, put us close, and leave us there.”
Sahara, 1943; Humphrey Bogart (holding the
dog tags of those in his contingent who died while fighting a German mechanized
battalion and after hearing that British troops have stopped German forces in a
major battle): “They’d want to know…They stopped them at El Alamein!”
Sands of Iwo Jima, 1949; John Agar (as he and other
Marines watch the American flag being raised atop Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima):
“There she goes. All right! Saddle up! Let’s get back in the war.”
Saving Private Ryan, 1998; Harrison Young (as old Ryan):
“Tell me I am a good man.”; Kathleen Byron (as old Mrs. Ryan): “You are.”
The Searchers, 1956; John Wayne: “Let’s go home,
Debbie.”
Sergeant York, 1941; Gary Cooper: “The Lord sure
does move in mysterious ways.”
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 1954; (A preacher performing a mass
marriage ceremony): “I now pronounce you men and wives.”
The Shanghai Gesture, 1942; Mike Mazurki (a towering
Chinese doorman outside a lavish casino, who ironically repeats a line that has
earlier mocked him from a powerful Anglo patron, Walter Huston and who leaves
the casino at the end of the film with his life in ruins): “You likee Chinese
New Year?”
The Shawshank Redemption, 1994; Morgan Freeman (voiceover):
“I find that I am so excited that I can barely sit still or hold a thought in
my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at
the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it
across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the
Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
Ship of Fools, 1965; Michael Dunn (a philosophical
dwarf and one of the passengers on an ocean liner sailing to Nazi-controlled
Germany, delivering his lines directly to the audience): “Oh, I can just hear
you saying; ‘What has all this to do with us?’ Nothing.”
Sleeper, 1973; Wood Allen: “Sex and death,
two things that come once in a lifetime. But, at least after death, you’re not
nauseous.”
Some Like It Hot, 1959; Joe E. Brown (a daffy
millionaire, who is smitten with Jack Lemmon, and, despite the fact that Lemmon
removes his wig to reveal that he has been impersonating a woman and declares
that he is a man): “Well, nobody’s perfect!”
Spider Man, 2002; Tobey Maguire (as Peter
Parker/Spider Man): “Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget
these words: ‘With great power comes great responsibility.’ This is my gift…my
curse. Who am I? I’m Spider Man.”
Stagecoach, 1939; George Bancroft: “I’ll buy
you a drink.”; Thomas Mitchel: “Just one.”
Stalag 17, 1953; Robert Strauss (remarking
about the recent escape of fellow inmate from a German POW camp in WWII):
“Maybe he just wanted to steal our wire-cutters. Did you ever think of that?”
Stand by Me, 1986; Richard Dreyfuss (The Writer
writing the following words on a computer): “I never had any friends later on
like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”
A Star is Born, 1937 and its 1954 remake; Janet
Gaynor, and Judy Garland: “Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine!”
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country, 1991;
William Shatner (as
Captain James T. Kirk; voiceover): “This is the final cruise of the StarTHINGS TO COME
ship Enterprise under my
command. The ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew.
To them and their posterity we will commit our future. They will continue the
voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly
going where no man…where no one has gone before.”
The Sting, 1973; (two con artists after having
successfully swindled a vicious NYC gangster out of a fortune in a sham betting
parlor in Chicago): Paul Newman: “You’re not going to stick around for your
share?” Robert Redford: “Naw, I’d only blow it.”
The Strawberry Blonde, 1941; James Cagney: “When I want to
kiss my wife, I’ll kiss her anytime, anyplace, anywhere. That’s the kind of
hairpin I am!”
A Streetcar Names Desire, 1951; Marlon Brando: “Hey, Stella!
Hey, Stella!”
The Sullivans (AKA: The Fighting Sullivans), 1944;
Selena Royle (as the mother of the five Sullivan boys, who all died together as
sailors in battle in the Pacific during WWII and after launching a new
destroyer named after them, as she remarks to her husband, Thomas Mitchell):
“Tom, our boys are afloat again!”
Sunset Boulevard, 1950; Gloria Swanson (as faded
silent film star Norma Desmond, after killing her gigolo lover, and while
newspaper cameras record her descent on a staircase inside her mansion before
she goes into police custody and, in her demented state, believes she is again
starring in a movie): “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup…”
Superman, 1978; Christopher Reeve (as
Superman and after delivering returning dangerous criminals to prison and where
the warden thanks him): “No, sir! Don’t thank me, Warden. We’re all part of the
same team. Good night!”
A Tale of Two Cities, 1935; Ronald Colman (just before he
mounts the stairs of a scaffold to be guillotined after having taking the place
of another person during the French Revolution): “It’s a far, far better thing
I do than I have ever done. It’s a far, far better rest I go to than I have I
have ever known.”
Them!, 1954; Edmund Gwen (as a scientist):
“When Man entered the Atomic Age, he opened a door into a new world. What we
will find in that new world nobody can predict.”
There Will Be Blood, 2007; Daniel Day-Lewis (as a
ruthless oil baron who has just murdered a manipulative preacher): “I’m
finished!”
The Thief of Bagdad, 1924; title card: “Happiness must
be earned!”
The Thief of Bagdad, 1940; Sabu (as the thief Abu):
“You’ve got what you wanted…Now I am going to get what I want—some fun and
adventure!”
The Thing from Another World, 1951; Douglas Spencer (a newspaper
reporter who has witnessed an attack from a space alien near the North Pole and
is talking from that outpost via radio): “Every one of you listening to my
voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Watch the
skies, everywhere, keep looking. Keep watching the skies!”
Things to Come, 1936; Raymond Massey (a futuristic
leader who has just sent a colony of humans into space by rocket ship): “All
the universe THE 39 STEPS
or nothingness…which shall it be…which shall it be?”
The 39 Steps, 1935; Wylie Watson (as a dying Mr.
Memory, who has just related a complicated top secret to Scotland Yard
detectives): “Thank you, sir. Thank you. I’m glad it’s off my mind. Glad.”
A Thousand Clowns, 1965; Jason Robards Jr. (a non-conformist
who is returning to a full-time job he dislikes in order to keep custody of his
nephew and while loudly addressing the neighborhood in NYC street at morning
with no one responding): “Campers, I can’t think of anything to say.”
Tight Spot, 1955; Ginger Rogers (who has been
marked for death and identifying herself as she takes the witness stand in a
trial to testify against a mob boss): “Gang buster!”
To Catch a Thief, 1955; Grace Kelly (to a
not-too-happy Cary Grant after she sees his mountaintop villa): “So this is
where you live. Oh, Mother will love it up here.”
To Each His Own, 1946; John Lund (to Olivia de
Havilland): “I think this is our dance, Mother.”
Tombstone, 1993; Robert Mitchum (as narrator):
“Wyatt and Josephine embarked upon a series of adventures. Up or down, thin or
flush, in forty-seven years they never left each other’s side. Wyatt Earp died
in Los Angeles in 1929. Among the pallbearers at his funeral were early western
movie stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Tom Mix wept.”
Toy Story 2, 1999; Tom Hanks (as Woody):
“Besides, when it all ends, I’ll have old Buzz Lightyear to keep me company –
for infinity and beyond.”
True Grit, 1969; John Wayne (as Rooster
Gogburn): “Well, come and see a fat old man sometime!”
2010: The Year We Made Contact, 1984; Narrator: “You can tell your
children of the day when everyone looked up and realized that we were only
tenants in this world. We have been given a new lease, and a warning, from the
landlord.”
Unforgiven, 1992; Clint Eastwood (shouting to
hiding inhabitants as he leaves the town of Big Whiskey in a rainstorm): “You
better bury Ned right! You better not cut up or otherwise harm no whores, or
I’ll come back and kill every one of you sons-of-bitches!”
The Untouchables, 1987; Kevin Costner (playing
Prohibition Agent Elliot Ness, who, when asked what he will do when Prohibition
is repealed, replies): “I think I’ll have a drink.”
Viva Villa!, 1934; Wallace Beery (dying as
Francesco “Pancho” Villa): “Forgive me? Johnny—what I done wrong?”
The War of the Worlds, 1953; Sir Cedric Hardwicke
(voiceover narration): “The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our
atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once they had breathed
our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came
swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all
that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was
saved by the littlest things, which, God in His wisdom, had put upon this
earth.”
White Heat, 1949; James Cagney (a ruthless
gangster engulfed in flames from an exploding gas tank): “Made it, ma! Top of
the world!”; John Archer (an FBI agent, who, with others, watch the gangster
being blown to pieces): “Codie Jarrett. He finally got to the top of the world
and it blew right up in his face.”
The Wild Bunch, 1969; Edmond O’Brien (to Robert
Ryan, the last two survivors of a misanthropic U.S. outlaw band, and where he
proposes that Ryan join him and others in joining the rebels in the Mexican
Revolution): “Well, me and the boys here, we got some work to do. You wanna
come along? It ain’t like it used to be, but it’ll do.”
The Wizard of Oz, 1939; Judy Garland (after returning
to her Kansas farm and family from the magical country of Oz): “There’s no
place like home!”
Woman of the Year, 1942; Spencer Tracy (returning from
off-camera scene with Katharine Hepburn’s unctuous secretary, Gerald, who
wanted her to launch a battleship with a bottle of champagne and after the
crashing sound of the bottle has been heard): “I’ve just launched Gerald.”
The Women, 1939; Norma Shearer (deciding to
fight for the man she loves at the cost of her pride): “No pride at all. That’s
a luxury a woman in love can’t afford.”
A Yank in the R.A.F., 1941; Tyrone Power (wounded and
getting off a boat after being shot down in WWII and where a nurse passes him,
asking him to call her up as he reunites with his always forgiving girlfriend
Betty Grable, stating to Grable): “I know…I’m a worm.”
Young Frankenstein, 1974; Madeline Khan (singing, as
she consummates her marriage to a gigantic monster turned gentlemen Peter
Boyle): “Ah, sweet mystery of life, at last I’ve found you!”
Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939; Henry Fonda (as a young
Abraham Lincoln and after having won a murder case that freed two innocent
young men, telling a friend that he is going to take a stroll in the Illinois
countryside): “No, I think I might go on a piece…maybe to the top of that
hill.”
Note: The following annotated index, exclusively created by the author,
shows significant historical persons appearing in theatrically-released feature
films (chiefly U.S. and British releases, along with notable foreign
productions, showing U.S. year of release), as well as feature films made-for-TV,
TV series and miniseries, but does not include shorts, documentaries or video
productions. Persons are presented alphabetically by last and first name and
titles of films are sequentially presented in alphabetical and chronological
order. Titles shown in boldface represent entries profiled in this work, with
the actor or actress enacting the historical person shown in parenthesis
following each entry.
Aaron (In Old Testiment Bible; older brother of Moses): The Bible, 2013
(TV miniseries, “Exodus,” 2013 episode: Louis Hilyer); Exodus:
Gods and Kings, 2014 (Andrew Tarbet); The Green Pastures, 1936 (David
Bethea); In the Beginning, 2000 (made-for-TV; David Threlfall);
Moses, 1995 (made-for-TV; David Suchet); Moses and Aaron, 1975 (Louis
Devos); Moses and Aaron, 2009 (made-for-TV; Andreas Conrad); Moses the
Lawgiver, 1974 (TV miniseries; Anthony Quayle); ADAM
Estelle Taylor
(Miriam), James Neill (Aaron) and Theodore Roberts (Moses) in The Ten Commandments, 1923.
Moses und Aaron, 2006 (made-for-TV; Thomas Moser); The Prince of
Egypt, 1998 (Jeff Goldblum voiceover); The Ten Commandments, 1923 (James
Neill); The Ten Commandments, 1956
(John Carradine);The Ten Commandments, 2006 (made-for-TV; Linus Roache); The
Ten Commandments, 2007 (Christopher Gaze voiceover); The Ten Commandments: The
Musical, 2006 (Nicholas Rodriguez).
Abel (Biblical person, one of two sons born to Adam and Eve; murdered by
his brother Cain): After Six Days, 1920 (Mario Cionci); The Bible: In the
Beginning…, 1966 (Franco Nero); The Cradle of God, 1926 (Gabriel de Gravone);
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood, 1994 (B. Haddan Mohammed); The Green Pastures, 1936 (Duke Upshaw);
La biblia en pasta, 1984 (Alberto de Gregorio); The Last Eve, 2005 (Chul
Jeong); The Making of…And God Spoke, 1994 (Andy Dick); Noah, 2014 (Arnar Dan); SuperBook, 1981-1982 (animated TV series;
“My Brother’s Keeper: Cain and Abel,” 1982 episode; Hal Studer); Year One, 2009
(Paul Rudd).
Abel, Rudolf (Vilyam Fisher; c.1903-1971; Soviet spymaster and KGB
colonel operating in the U.S., captured by the FBI in 1957 and imprisoned,
later exchanged for Gary Francis Powers, 1929-1977, pilot of the CIA U-2 spy
plane, which was shot down by the Soviets on May 1, 1960 by one of eight
ground-to-air missiles, on February 10, 1962 at the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin,
Germany): Bridge of Spies, 2015
(Mark Rylance); Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident, 1976
(made-for-TV; Nehemiah Persoff in role model for Abel). For more information on
Abel, see my book, Spies: A Narrative
Encyclopedia of Dirty Tricks and Double Dealing from Biblical Times to Today (M.
Evans, 1997; illustrated pages: 13-17).
Abernathy, Ralph David Sr. (1926-1990; U.S. black civil rights leader):
All the Way, 2016 (made-for-TV; Dohn Norwood); Betty and Coretta, 2013
(made-for-TV; Benz Antoine); Boycott, 2001 (made-for-TV; Terrence Howard);
Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War, 1987 (made-for-TV; Charles Woods
Gray); King, 1978- (TV miniseries; Ernie Lee Banks); Selma, 2014 (Colman Domingo); The Vernon Johns Story, 1994
(made-for-TV; Michael Howell).
Abraham (Founding father of the Israelites): Abraham, 1993 (TV
miniseries; Richard Harris); Abraham en Samuel, 1989 (made-for-TV; Pol
Goossen); Animated Stories from the Bible, 1987-2005 (TV series; “Abraham and
Isaac,” 1992 episode; Oscar Rowland); The Bible, 2013(TV miniseries; “In the
Beginning,” 2013 episode; Gary Oliver); Bible Battles, 2005 (made-for-TV; Ray
Porter); The Bible: In the Beginning, 1966 (George C. Scott); The Cradle of
God, 1926 (Gabriel Signoret); Greatest Heroes of the Bible, 1978- (TV seres;
two 1982 episodes; Gene
Barry); The Green Pastures,
1936 (Billy Cumby); In the Beginning,
2000 (made-for-TV; Martin Landau); It Is Written, 1956- (TV series;
“Lessons from a Vacant Lot,” 2008 episode; Larry Marko); Jacob, The
Man Who Fought with God, 1977 (Fosco Giachetti); Matinee Theatre,
1955-1958 (TV series; “The Story of Sarah,” 1957 episode; Tom Tryon); Mysteries
and Miracles, 1965- (TV series; “Guilds and Pageants,” 1965 episode; Ralph
Nossek); The Old Testament Scriptures, 1958 (TV series; Bruce Wendell); The
Real Old Testament, 2003 (Sam Lloyd); Restitution, 1918 (Frank Whitson); Son of
God, 2014 (Gary Oliver); Super-
Books, 1981-1982 (animated TV series; Ray Owens, George Gonneau);
Testament: The Bible in Animation, 1996- (TV series; “Abraham,” 1996 espisode;
Robert Hardy); Year One, 2009 (Hank Azaria).
Acheson, Dean (Dean Gooderham Acheson; 1893-1971; U.S. attorney,
statesman and 51st U.S. Secretary of State): Collision Course: Truman vs.
MacArthur, 1976 (made-for-TV; Barry Sullivan); Die Kuba-Krise, 1969
(made-for-TV; Ernst Fritz Furbringer); The Flood, 1962 (madefor-TV; Jacques
d’Amboise); Kennedy, 1983- (TV miniseries; George Martin); MacArthur, 1977 (Art Fleming); The Missiles of October, 1974
(made-for-TV; John Dehner); Tail Gunner Joe, 1977 (made-forTV; Alan Hewitt);
Truman, 1995 (made-for-TV; Ramak Ramsey); Spies, Lies and the Superbomb, 2007
(TV miniseries; Ben Tyler); Thirteen
Days, 2000 (Len Cariou); Truman, 1995 (made-for-TV; Remak Ramsey).
Adam (Biblical person, the first human being made by God): Adam and Eve,
1958 (Carlos Baena); The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1985 (John Morrison
voiceover); After Six Days, 1920 (Umberto Semprebene); The Bible, 2013- (TV
miniseries; “In the Beginning,” 2013 episode; Paul Knops); The Bible: In the
Beginning, 1966 (Michael Parks); The Cradle of God, 1926 (Pierre Daltour); Genesis:
The Creation and the Flood, 1994 (Sabir Aziz); The Green Pastures, 1936 (Rex Ingram); The Green Pastures, 1959
(made-for-TV; Earle Hyman); In the Beginning, 2000 (made-for-TV; Sendhil
Ramamurthy); Jacob, The Man Who Fought with God, 1977 (Giuseppe Addobbati); The
Jersey Devil, 2014 (Roy Nowlin); The Making Of ‘…And God Spoke,’ 1994 (Andrew
Simmons); Noah, 2014 (Adam
Griffith); The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, 1960 (made-for-TV; Martin
Milner); The Real
Old Testament, 2003 (Andy Hirsch); Restitution, 1918 (Eugene Corey); The
Sin of Adam and Eve, 1973 (Jorge Rivero); Son of God, 2014 (Paul Knops);
Testament: The Bible in Animation, 1996- (TV series; “Creation and the Flood,”
1996 espisode; Simon Harris); Year One, 2009 (Harold Ramis).