Highlander is a film and television franchise that began with a 1986 fantasy movie starring Christopher Lambert, who plays Connor MacLeod, the Highlander.

" The film features a number of flashback scenes establishing Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod's early history, and builds up to his final destiny amongst the last of the mysterious Immortals.

* Russell Edwin Nash, aka Connor MacLeod, lead character in the film Highlander

In the Highlander universe, Connor and Duncan MacLeod are both fictional Scots born in Glenfinnan in 1518 and 1592, respectively.

Directed by Brian G. Hutton, who also directed the 1968 World War II adventure film Where Eagles Dare, the film stars Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O ' Connor and Donald Sutherland, with secondary roles played by Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, and Stuart Margolin.

Artists featured include: Alex Da Corte, Carl Ferrero, Dana Frankfort, Incidental, Chris Johanson, Cary Leibowitz, Gillian MacLeod, Mark Mahosky, Heath Nash, Kate O ' Connor, Jack Pierson, Megan Plunkett, Franklin Preston, Trevor Reese, Alyce Santoro, Sighn, Mickey Smith, Charlie Welch, and Shawn Wolfe.

It is also the fictional birthplace of Connor and Duncan MacLeod from the Highlander franchise.

Singer was the first choice for the role of Connor MacLeod in Highlander, but he turned it down because of his commitment on V: The Series.

Following this catastrophe, Connor MacLeod ( the protagonist of the original film ) and the other Immortals forswear the Game of fighting each other until only one Immortal remains to win the Prize.

He usually fights with the sword that belonged to Connor MacLeod but also carries a boomerang he is quite skilled with.

Consequently, Duncan MacLeod is introduced in the pilot episode as Connor MacLeod's clansman and pupil, and the series focuses on his own life over four centuries.

In " The Gathering ", Duncan and Connor MacLeod explain how Connor, who had undergone a similar ordeal in 1536, found Duncan in 1625, told him about his immortality and became his mentor.

The pilot episode " The Gathering " shows Duncan returning to The Game after a period of semi-retirement with his girlfriend Tessa Noël and a meeting with clansman and mentor Connor MacLeod.

In Highlander: Endgame, it is revealed that Immortal Jacob Kell has spent the last four centuries killing all people close to Connor MacLeod because Connor had killed Kell's adoptive father.

Immortals Slan Quince ( Richard Moll ) and Connor MacLeod ( Christopher Lambert ) break into their store, making Tessa aware of the Game.

It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985.

The pilot introduced Richie Ryan ( Stan Kirsch ) as a thief who entered Duncan's shop and witnessed the confrontation between Duncan, evil Immortal Slan Quince ( Richard Moll ) and Duncan's fellow clansman Connor MacLeod, the hero from the movies.

Christopher Lambert did not wish to do television, though he agreed that there should be a series, and originally Connor MacLeod was to be the protagonist.

After Lambert declined, and because there were still films being made with the Connor character, it was decided at Adrian Paul's request to have the series focus on another MacLeod.

The intruder is Slan Quince, who is hunting Duncan, unaware that he is himself the target of Duncan's kinsman, Connor MacLeod.

* Highlander: The Element of Fire, by Jason Henderson — The chronicles of Duncan's training days with Connor MacLeod ; the friendship between the two Highlanders through the centuries.

Connor MacLeod, also known as The Highlander, is a fictional character in the Highlander film series, as well as the television programs Highlander: The Series, and Highlander: The Animated Series.

It was probably the priest who received Jones into the Church, Father John O ' Connor ( in fact the model for G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown character ), who suggested that he contact the Catholic artist Eric Gill.

The character Earl Williams is loosely based on " Terrible " Tommy O ' Connor.

She reprised the character, Sarah Connor, for the theme park attraction T2 3-D.

* John Henry, character in the science-fiction TV show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

The character portrayed by Carroll O ' Connor in the 1965 film, In Harm's Way, starring John Wayne, was modeled after Arleigh Burke.

O ' Connor spent much of his youth in Elmhurst and Forest Hills, Queens, the same borough in which his character Archie Bunker would later live.

O ' Connor made his television acting debut as a character actor on two episodes of Sunday Showcase.

O ' Connor starred as an Eastern European villain in the first season of " Mission Impossible " Season 1, Episode 18 " The Trial ," brilliantly played and recognizable by his intense blue eyes .</ ref > Late in his career, he appeared on several episodes of Mad About You as the father of Helen Hunt's character.

O ' Connor was afraid of being typecast for playing the role, but at the same time, he was protective of not just his character, but of the entire show.

O ' Connor met Broadway and character actress Jean Stapleton in a 1962 episode of The Defenders.

Seated: Verna Felton (" Grandma " to Skelton's " Junior " character ), Rod O ' Connor ( announcer ), Lurene Tuttle (" Mother " to Skelton's " Junior " character ).

* Mitch Connor, recurring character from the television series South Park

A bronze sculpture of Tinker Bell by London artist Diarmuid Byron O ' Connor was commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, to whom Barrie bequeathed the copyright to the character, to be added to his original four-foot statue of Peter Pan, wresting a thimble from Peter's hand.

Some of the characters ' names were slightly changed from their original versions from the graphic novel: the surname of the real-life gangsters John Looney and his son Connor were changed to Rooney, and the surname of Tom Hanks ' character and his family was streamlined from the original O ' Sullivan to simply Sullivan.

The character appears alongside the resurrected Connor Kent as his companion and sidekick, with a much more amicable relationship than before Connor's death.

Gabrielle is a fictional character played by Renée O ' Connor in Xena: Warrior Princess.

Charles " Trip " Tucker III ( short for “ Triple ”, since he is the third generation of his family to be named Charles Tucker ), played by Connor Trinneer, is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, which is the last generation of the Star Trek series

Connor said the character needed a wilder, stranger last name, and offered " Godot " -- an allusion to Waiting for Godot, the famous existential play by Samuel Beckett.

* Sarah Connor ( Terminator ), fictional character in the Terminator franchise

** Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, television series featuring the above fictional character

Spy was named after the fictitious magazine that employed James Stewart's character, Macaulay " Mike " Connor, in the movie The Philadelphia Story.

" Spawning just one another single, " From Zero to Hero " was picked to be used as the theme song to the computer-animated movie Robots ( 2005 ), for which Connor voiced the character of Cappy.