( Howerd went on to star in Up Pompeii !, a 1969 British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii, as the slave Lurcio, whose character was based on Pseudolus.

A girlfriend recalled his " scrawling notes on a cocktail napkin about a crazy rock star named Iggy or Ziggy ", and on his return to England he declared his intention to create a character " who looks like he's landed from Mars ".

The final single, " Road to Love ," was poorly received. Jones and Maureen McCormick in 1971 during The Brady Bunch episode in which he was a guest star Jones also continued acting after the Monkees, either as himself or another character.

* In the anime Trinity Blood Esther is the main character, a nun with a star on her side.

Arden's character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin ( played by Gale Gordon ), and nursed an unrequited crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton ( played originally by future film star Jeff Chandler and, on television, by Robert Rockwell ).

The character was a clown ... with red cheeks and wild clown hair ... and the running joke was his attempts of becoming a big singing star and in every skit just as he was preparing to pull out a guitar and start to sing, the camera would zoom out and the door swing shut.

He was a main character in the first volume of X-Factor, and a star in flashback stories when he was a teenager in X-Men: The Hidden Years and X-Men: First Class.

In the film Contact, the message intercepted by Jodi Foster's character is coming from Vega, the brightest star in the Lyra constellation.

Anderson is best remembered as a film maker for his " Mick Travis trilogy ", all of which star Malcolm McDowell as the title character: If .... ( 1968 ), a satire on public schools ; O Lucky Man!

Gordon won an Emmy Award for a guest appearance on the sitcom Taxi, for a 1978 episode called " Sugar Mama ," in which her character tries to solicit the services of a taxi driver, played by series star Judd Hirsch, as a male escort.

In part of her Marvel Comics career, the character Jean Grey had undergone an enormous increase in her power, which under the new name Dark Phoenix made her increasingly dark in character until she consumed a whole star and caused the death of billions of beings on a planet orbiting that star.

Sunset Boulevard shows the disconnect between the two eras in the character of Norma Desmond, played by silent film star Gloria Swanson, and Singin ' in the Rain deals with the period where the people of Hollywood had to face changing from making silents to talkies.

* Mario, the star character of Nintendo's Mario series

They also wanted it to star a janitor ( a choice possibly inspired by the mop-wielding main character from Infocom's humorous sci-fi text adventure Planetfall ).

* Griffin Silver-An aging rock star admired by Katchoo in her youth, Griffin's songs were printed in the series long before the character made his first appearance.

As the franchise has grown in popularity, several titles have been released that are set within or star a minor character from the universe of The Legend of Zelda but are not directly connected to the main The Legend of Zelda series.

Other spin-off titles include Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland for the Nintendo DS – an RPG released in September 2006 in Japan ( Summer of 2007 in the UK ) to star supporting character Tingle.

There was some crossover between the two shows, and Leo G. Carroll played Mr. Waverly in both programs, becoming the second actor in American television to star as the same character in two separate series.

Originally, Curry rehearsed the character with a German accent and peroxide blond hair, but the character evolved into the sly, very upper class English mad scientist and transvestite that carried over to the film version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and made Curry both a star and a cult figure.

In 1936, Avery directed a string of cartoons, starring Porky Pig, which established the character as the studio's first bona fide star.

The character was closely modeled after Offenbach's female star Hortense Schneider, and Offenbach's librettist Ludovic Halévy gave Émile Zola the details.

Gumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath.

In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he described the central character, thought to represent himself, as being far from a typical student ; he was interested in science as a goal in itself, rather than as a way to establish a career.

Dominating children's TV stop motion programming for three decades in America was Art Clokey's Gumby series — which spawned a feature film, Gumby I in 1995 — using both freeform and character clay animation.

** Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character / narrator of Maus ( a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust ) ( b. 1906 )

Human members in the Culture setting vary in size, colour and shape as in reality, and with possibly even further natural differences: in the novella The State of the Art, it is mentioned that a character " looks like a Yeti ", and that there is variance among the Culture in minor details such as the number of toes or of joints on each finger.

As revealed in The Art of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, director George Lucas conceived the character of Qui-Gon Jinn during pre-production of the film.

Art director Samwise Didier has stated that the character design for " Erik the Swift " was based on childhood friend Michael Cripps.

Of Disney studio animators, Art Babbitt is most regarded for the creation of the Goofy character, while original concept drawings were by Frank Webb.

* In the 1993 film Amos & Andrew, Samuel L. Jackson's character has won the Pulitzer Prize for a play called Yo Brother, Where Art Thou?

In the Museum of Modern Art retrospective ( 2010 ), it was suggested that the pieces of the mirror falling into the ocean waves set up At Land ( 1944 ) as a direct sequel, while Deren's last scene in the latter film ( running with her hands up with a chess piece in one of them ) is then echoed by a scene in Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ), with that character still running.

In his essay The Art of Fiction, and in prefaces to each volume of The New York Edition, James explained his views of the art of fiction, emphasising the importance to him of realist portrayals of character as seen through the eyes and thoughts of an embodied narrator.

* Art Garfunkel named his first post-Simon & Garfunkel solo album Angel Clare after the character of the same name.

After the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth came up with the clay character Gumby.

Bright's book was followed by a number of others, including John Willis's Art of Stenography in 1602, Edmond Willis's An abbreviation of writing by character in 1618, and Thomas Shelton's Short Writing in 1626 ( later re-issued as Tachygraphy ).

At the end of the sixties and early seventies Pop Art references disappear from the work of these artists as they adopt a more critical attitude towards America because of the Vietnam War's increasingly gruesome character.

During this renovation every part of the building was improved without sacrificing the distinctive character of this 1941 Art Deco theatre.

As in Serling's 1963 screenplay for the political thriller, Seven Days in May, in which a highly moral minor character is named Art Corwin, the appellation of Carney's " Night of the Meek " character, Henry Corwin, was a tribute to Serling's idol, legendary television, film and, most memorably for Serling, radio writer Norman Corwin whose lengthy career, in contrast to Serling's relatively brief 50-year lifetime, had spanned over seven decades.

Another original character design sheet showed the characters in a stylised 1950s style ( not unlike that of the live-action Adventures of Superman TV series ), suggesting that the producers were also considering having the series set during that period, or possibly end up like Batman: The Animated Series ( set during modern time, but with an Art Deco feel ).

In 1961-62, Art Carney played Frank Michaelson in an English comedy by Phoebe & Henry Ephron entitled " Take Her, She's Mine " with Phyllis Thaxter as his co-star in the Biltmore Theatre in New York two seasons before his role in " the Odd Couple " in the Plymouth Theatre in New York ; the character was played by James Stewart in the 1963 film version.

Babbitt is also credited with creating the character of Goofy, a character which he later described in the 1987 documentary film " Animating Art ":

The use of Artificial DNA defines a generative approach to Art focused on the construction of a system able to generate unpredictable events, all with a recognizable common character.

* In the April 27, 2007 episode of Numb3rs ( The Art of Reckoning ), a character uses a quipu to keep a private journal.