The series introduced Nielsen as Frank Drebin, the stereotypical police officer modeled after serious characters in earlier police TV series.

The film returned Nielsen to his role as Frank Drebin.

Nielsen briefly appeared on the World Wrestling Federation program in the summer of 1994 on WWF Monday Night Raw ; capitalizing on his Frank Drebin character, Nielsen ( and George Kennedy ) were hired as " super-sleuths " to unravel the mystery of The Undertaker who had disappeared at January's Royal Rumble event.

Nielsen attempted a variety of similar roles with none achieving the prominence of Frank Drebin.

This became the first time Nielsen reprised a character since his appearances as Frank Drebin.

As Zeroman, Les fights the crime that plagues Fair City in a similar fashion to Nielsen's Lieutenant Frank Drebin character in the Naked Gun series.

* In the The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, Nielsen's character Frank Drebin mentions how painful it is to land on a bicycle without a seat.

In the 1988 film The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad !, Frank Drebin describes the " same old story " of " Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day ".

" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

Freak Out !, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's sardonic farce about rock music and America as a whole, and Face to Face by The Kinks, the first collection of Ray Davies's idiosyncratic character studies of ordinary people, are conceptually oriented albums.

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

Piter De Vries is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

* Frank Butcher, a character from the British soap opera EastEnders

* Frank Gallagher, character from the TV series Shameless

* Frank Martin ( character ), protagonist in the motion picture trilogy The Transporter

* Frank Rossitano, character on 30 Rock

* Frank West, main character of Capcom's Dead Rising game

* Frank, a character on the television show CSI: Miami

* TV's Frank, character from Mystery Science Theater 3000

Francisco Madero, Porfirio Díaz, and other major figures and events of the Mexican Revolution are seen and experienced by the character of Frank Traverse in Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day.

The song served as one of several obsessions of a psychopathic character named Frank Booth ( Dennis Hopper ).

The character of the conflict in England gradually began to shift ; as historian Frank Barlow suggests, by the late 1140s " the civil war was over ", barring the occasional outbreak of fighting.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

One character is Frank Mitsui, an Asian American whose family was murdered by the invaders because they did not fit in the new PanAsiatic racial order.

In the American crime drama television series Millennium ( 1996 – 1999 ), the main character Frank Black ( Lance Henriksen ) uses the phrase " Soylent Green is people " as a login to the Millennium Group Database.

In addition to his appearance in Through the Looking-Glass, as a character Humpty Dumpty has been used in a large range of literary works, including L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose ( 1901 ), where the rhyming riddle is devised by the daughter of the king, having witnessed Humpty's " death " and her father's soldiers ' efforts to save him.

Paul Atreides (; later known as Paul Muad ' Dib ) is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

1937 ; libretto by composer, adapted from " Lulu " plays of Frank Wedekind under # Germany | Germany above ); Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Die tote Stadt ( The Dead City ; libretto by composer and Paul Schott ; actor Fritz banters and sings in the guise and costume of Pierrot — an ironic counterpart to the lovelorn main character, Paul ).

In film and television adaptations, the character has been played by, amongst others, Peter Paget ( 1934 ), Roland Young ( 1935 ), Colin Jeavons ( 1966 ), Ron Moody ( 1970 ), Martin Jarvis ( 1974 ), Paul Brightwell ( 1986 ), Nicholas Lyndhurst ( 1999 ) and Frank MacCusker ( 2000 ).

In 1990, Nielsen also appeared as a Frank Drebin-style character in a series of advertisements in the United Kingdom for Red Rock Cider.

Screwball comedies, such as produced by Frank Capra, exhibited a pleasing, idealized climate that portrayed reassuring social values and a certain optimism about everyday life.

Archetypal lovers Romeo and Juliet portrayed by Frank Bernard Dicksee | Frank Dicksee

He also features prominently in the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller, as well as the movie adaptation ( portrayed by Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro ), in which he is represented as a giant god-king.

The murders are described in an honest and matter-of-fact way, often with grotesque humour ; what may be more disturbing than the details of the violence itself is the depth and intensity with which Frank is portrayed.

Van Vliet is portrayed in both The Real Frank Zappa Book and Barry Miles ' biography Zappa as fairly spoiled at this stage of his life, the center of attention as an only child.

The husband and wife of the family call themselves the King ( portrayed by Gord Robertson and voiced by Jerry Nelson ) and Queen ( portrayed by Trish Leeper and voiced by Myra Fried in 1983, Cheryl Wagner in 1984-1987 ) of the Universe, with their son Junior ( portrayed by Rob Mills in Season 1-4, Frank Meschkuleit in Season 5, and voiced by Richard Hunt ), as its Prince and their heir, but to all appearances working as simple farmers with a hut and garden patch.

In the 2000 film Thirteen Days, McGeorge Bundy is portrayed by Frank Wood.

* Frank Thring portrayed a somewhat jaded though shrewd Pilate in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ).

CosMc is portrayed by Tommy Vicini and voiced by Frank Welker.

He also appeared in Ralph Thomas's Doctor in Love and portrayed an education minister in Frank Launder's The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, and appeared as Inspector Corcoran in the Montgomery Tully-directed film Dead Lucky, opposite Vincent Ball and Betty McDowall.

Crenna portrayed the character of New York City Police Lieutenant of Detectives Frank Janek in a series of seven popular made for television films starting in 1988 and ending in 1994.

; Thomas " Tommy " Oliver: Originally the Green Ranger and later the White Ranger then White Ninja Ranger ; portrayed by Jason David Frank.

* Willibald Feivel Cornfed, known as Cornfed Pig or " Corny " ( voiced by Gregg Berger ): Duckman's Joe Friday-esque business partner and best friend ; loosely based on the character " Greggery Peccary " as portrayed by Frank Zappa in a handful of songs.

Alia Atreides, portrayed by Daniela Amavia in the Frank Herbert's Children of Dune | Children of Dune miniseries ( 2003 ).

In 1954, Richard Travis portrayed Frank James in an episode of Jim Davis's syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century.

In 1977 John Bennett Perry portrayed Frank James in an episode of Little House on the Prairie.

In 1980, country singer Johnny Cash portrayed Frank James in the concept album The Legend of Jesse James.

Yedrin Dax, portrayed by Gary Frank, is a host of the Dax symbiont in an alternate timeline that is created when the USS Defiant travels two hundred years back in time in the Children of Time DS9 season 5 episode.

Seneca Falls is believed by some to have been the inspiration for the fictional town of " Bedford Falls, N. Y ." portrayed in filmmaker Frank Capra's classic 1940s film " It's a Wonderful Life ".

The movie, appearing shortly after The New York Times suffered a similar scandal to the one that Shattered Glass portrayed, occasioned critiques of the journalism industry itself by nationally prominent journalists such as Frank Rich and Mark Bowden.

Among the prominent British personalities he portrayed were Eddie Waring, the famously impossible to understand rugby league commentator ; Brian Clough, the controversial football manager ; Robin Day, the then top political interviewer on the BBC ; Magnus Pyke, the eccentric TV science presenter ; Alf Garnett, the star from Till Death Us Do Part ; the fictional American detective Columbo ; Frank Spencer, the comic creation of sitcom actor Michael Crawford ; and Wilson's Conservative Party rival Ted Heath.