Most notably, Ajax is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, and he is the only principal character on either side who does not receive personal assistance from any of the gods who take part in the battles.

* Ajax Duckman, a character in the animated television series Duckman

* Ajak, a Marvel Comics character, a member of the Eternals, sometimes known as " Ajax the Greater "

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

" the " Regulator Guy " appeared only once in a sketch on the show, but this appearance was a ( deliberately ) cheap and poorly-done affair, which ended with Letterman interviewing the new sidekick character, Ajax, while completely ignoring Elliott ( much to his faux-chagrin ).

From Cicero's remark, however, it would seem that the character of Ajax was rather too tragic for him.

He played Richard, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Kim Cattrall's character in Sex and the City, as Ajax in The Warriors, as the homicidal maniac Albert Ganz in the 1982 comedy / thriller 48 Hrs., Dutch Shultz in The Cotton Club, Lord Raiden in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and more recently as Harry Morgan in Dexter.

He is known for his roles as the aggressively sexual and violent character Ajax in the 1979 cult film The Warriors and as the murdering sociopath Albert Ganz in the 1982 hit 48 Hrs.

This was a reference to the muscular character Ajax of Greek mythology.

By 1971, European participation in the Intercontinental Cup became a running question, and many European teams withdrew, namely Ajax in 1971 and 1973, Bayern Munich in 1974 and 1975, Liverpool in 1977 and 1978, and Nottingham Forest in 1979.

On 7 August 1979, Ajax ( with players Ruud Krol, Frank Arnesen, Dick Schoenaker, Soren Lerby, Tscheu La Ling, and Simon Tahamata ) were beaten in a friendly match 5 – 1 ( 5 – 0 after 39 minutes ).

Some important players playing at Austria Wien in the successful era 1975 – 1976 till 1985 – 1986: Herbert " Schneckerl " Prohaska ( 1972 – 1980, 1983 – 1989 ), Felix Gasselich ( 1974 – 1983 ) who played afterwards at AFC Ajax Amsterdam July 1983 till November 1985, Thomas Parits ( 1964 – 1970, 1977 – 1979 ), Walter Schachner ( 1978 – 1981 ), Thomas Pfeiler ( 1978 – 1983 ), Gerhard Steinkogler ( 1980 – 1986 ), Alfred Drabits ( 1981 – 1988 ) ( nowadays youth-coach at Austria Wien ), Toni Polster ( 1982 – 1987 ), the Hungarian ex-international Tibor Nyilasi ( 1983 – 1988 ).

Rongen began his playing career with Ajax Amsterdam, with whom he played defensive midfielder and defender from 1975 to 1979, but he never played for the first team.

In Arnesen's six seasons at Ajax, he won three Dutch Eredivisie championship titles in 1977, 1979, and 1980, and won the KNVB Cup in 1979, beating FC Twente 3 – 0 in the final.

** 1977, 1979, and 1980, with Ajax

** 1979, with Ajax

He won three Dutch Eredivisie league titles in his first six years at Ajax, namely the 1976 – 77, 1978 – 79, 1979 – 80 championships.

** 1976 – 77, 1978 – 79, 1979 – 80, 1981 – 82, 1982 – 83, with Ajax

Ajax is also the name of the escaped gorilla who appears in the short film Donald Duck and the Gorilla ( 1944 ).

After retiring from wrestling, he appeared in numerous films, including X-Men as Sabretooth ( his film debut ), How to Make a Monster ( as Hardcore ), Joe Dirt, The Scorpion King, Troy ( as Ajax ), Hercules ( as Antaeus ), and The Devil's Rejects ( in the uncredited role of Rufus ).

He is later kicked out of the flophouse that would become the Warriors ' hangout and is beaten up by Ajax for stealing his vest.

In the 1979 spinoff of Upstairs, Downstairs entitled Thomas & Sarah, Watkins and Sarah Moffat, another major character, marry and return briefly to Abergavenny.

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

From 1959 until 1979, Truffaut followed Léaud's character Antoine Doinel, who falls in love with Christine Darbon ( Claude Jade from Hitchcock's Topaz ) in Stolen Kisses, marries her in Bed & Board and separates from her in the last post-New Wave movie Love on the Run.

In 1978 and 1979, Gilda Radner portrayed a character called Candy Slice on Saturday Night Live based on Smith.

He appeared in his own comic, called simply Plug ( 1977 – 1979 ), which starred him and his two pets, Pug from Pup Parade and Chunkee the Monkey, making him the Beano first character to achieve a spin-off.

Flintheart returned to prominence in 1979, when Egmont editors Lars Bergström and Stefan Printz-Påhlson decided to revive the character.

He reprised the character in a voice-over role in Star Trek: The Animated Series ( 1973 – 1974 ), and the first six Star Trek motion pictures ( 1979 to 1991 ).

Also, Ron Burgundy, Will Ferrell's character from the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, fictitiously auditions for a position on SportsCenter just days before the network's launch in 1979, and fails miserably.

He settled into a succession of TV guest star appearances and did not return to movie screens until two decades later, as a character actor in Joan Rivers ' Rabbit Test ( 1978 ), followed by The Day It Came to Earth ( 1979 ) and Ellie ( 1984 ).

He is best known for his works A Long Day ’ s Dying ( his first work, published in 1950 ); The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979 ; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 ; Brendan, a second novel narrating a saint ’ s life, published in 1987 ; Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner ( 1992 ); and his autobiographical works The Sacred Journey ( 1982 ), Now and Then ( 1983 ), Telling Secrets ( 1991 ), and The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found ( 1999 ).

The character went through two later revivals, once by Filmation Studios in 1979, and again in 1987 at the hands of animation director Ralph Bakshi, who had worked at the Terrytoons studio during his early career.

In Cormac McCarthy's 1979 novel, Suttree, the title character winds up in Bryson City after wandering over the mountains from Gatlinburg.

His most famous television role was probably as the title character in Quatermass for ITV in 1979.

Camera Buff ( Amator, 1979 ) ( which won the grand prize at the Moscow International Film Festival ) and Blind Chance ( Przypadek, 1981 ) continued along similar lines, but focused more on the ethical choices faced by a single character rather than a community.

* Haitatsu sarenai santsu no tegami ( 1979 ) ( English title, The Three Undelivered Letters ) a Japanese movie directed by Yoshitaro Nomura ( based on Calamity Town but apparently not containing Ellery Queen or any detective character )

From 1979 until 1981 she played the recurring character Mrs Bloomsbury-Barton in Worzel Gummidge for Southern Television.

* He figured as a minor character in the 1979 film Escape From Alcatraz.

His most famous adventures feature in a 1979 film The Very Same Munchhausen by Russian director Mark Zakharov, which depicts Münchhausen as a tragic character, struggling against the conformity and hypocrisy of the world around him.

She also appeared opposite then-husband Peter O ' Toole and Richard Burton in Becket ( 1964 ); as Ursula Mossbank in the musical film Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1969 ), again starring O ' Toole ; once more opposite O ' Toole in Murphy's War ( 1971 ); as Emmeline Pankhurst in the TV mini-series Shoulder to Shoulder ( 1974 ); as Lady Ann, the unfaithful wife of Alec Guinness's character George Smiley, in the BBC1 espionage dramas Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ) and Smiley's People ( 1982 ), adapted from John le Carré's novels of the same names ; in Nijinsky ( 1980 ); and as the queen Cassiopeia in Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ).

Morita also played " Arnold " as a guest star in 1977 and 1979 before returning as a recurring character after Al Molinaro departed in 1982.

* James Millhollin, a character actor, made the last television appearance of his career as Mr. Rudi in the 1979 episode " Potsie Quits School ".

A similar character called Robert Box, played by Atkinson, appeared in the one-off 1979 ITV sitcom Canned Laughter, which also featured routines used in the 1997 film Bean.

* Plug ( comics ), a short-lived British comic that ran from 1977 until 1979, when it merged with The Beezer, which featured a character from The Bash Street Kids called Plug as its main star

Patti Smith's " Birdland " on her album Horses ( 1975 ) is based on Reich's life, and he is a character in the opera Marilyn ( 1979 ) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero.