Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ) ( 1980 ) produced the number one hit " Ashes to Ashes ", featuring the textural work of guitar-synthesist Chuck Hammer and revisiting the character of Major Tom from " Space Oddity ".

Under the Constitution of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister's role has evolved, based often on the individual's personal appeal and strength of character, as contrasted between, for example, Winston Churchill as against Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher as against John Major.

The event is run by a character known as " The Major ", who is implied to have much power, stemming from a possible military or fascist state system.

At one point Major Applegate had an assistant and food taster named Ali that was meant to be played by Mischa Auer, but this was evenyually replaed by the character Gogarty.

Hawks got character actors Charlie Ruggles on loan from Paramount Pictures to play Major Horace Applegate and Barry Fitzgerald on loan from the The Mary Pickford Corporation to play the gardener Aloysius Gogarty.

Rogers took on the role of Major Tony Nelson which was originally portrayed by Larry Hagman ( of the CBS TV series Dallas fame ) in the TV series when Hagman was unavailable to reprise the character he had originated.

Conversely in one episode (" Major Boobage ") Cartman acts as an Oskar Schindler character for the town's cats, a rare case of a subplot based on Cartman's altruism.

Plotwise, Group Captain Mandrake serves as the only sane character in the film, while Major Kong fills the role of the hero striving for a harmful goal.

In John Frankenheimer's 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, the character of Major Bennett Marco ( played by Frank Sinatra ) suffers from a nightmare set in Spring Lake.

* Major Force a fictional character in the DC Comics universe.

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Holloway made short propaganda films on behalf of the British Film Institute and Pathé News and took character parts in a series of war films including Major Barbara, The Way Ahead, This Happy Breed and The Way to the Stars.

In 1941 Holloway took a character part in Gabriel Pascal's film of Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, in which he played a policeman.

As Major Calloway, he played the character type with which he became most associated, the slightly dry, slightly crusty, but capable British military officer.

Eight actors have played more than one character in the series: Nicholas Farrell appeared as Donald Fraser in The ABC Murders ( 1992 ) and then as Major Knighton in The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 2005 ), Simon Shepherd appeared as David Hall in " Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan " ( 1993 ) and then as Dr Rendell in Mrs McGinty's Dead ( 2008 ) and Carol MacReady appeared as Mildred Croft in Peril at End House ( 1990 ) and then as Miss Johnson in Cat Among the Pigeons ( 2008 ).

The only recurring character who actively seeks out Hyacinth's company is the Major ( Peter Cellier ), although a few other people show interest in Hyacinth in some episodes ( e. g. Signor Ferrini, the Commodore, the incoherent rural man, etc.

Major character traits may be inherited, while other traits may be due to a combination of genetics and environment, including childhood experiences.

Major storylines in this run include " Critical Mass ", where Constantine is forced to use magic to purge his darker side into another human body, in order to avoid being damned to Hell as part of a trade to save the possessed son of a friend, thus creating the antagonistic character, Demon Constantine, with the assistance of Aleister Crowley.

Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 movie Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted working man Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms All in the Family ( 1971 to 1979 ) and Archie Bunker's Place ( 1979 to 1983 ).

In 1969, he served as technical adviser for the film Battle of Britain, in which the character Major Falke is based on Galland.

A big fan of the character, who got " Igor " as a nickname when he imitated him in high school for his friends, is Juan Gonzalez, the Major League Baseball player.

* Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, a character in the television series M * A * S * H

In 2010, he provides the voice for the character Major Mouse in a series of radio adverts and one produced for television for energy company ; E. ON for their ' eonenergyfit. com ' website campaign.

The character played by Wilson was Major Todd " Maniac " Marshall, a fellow starfighter pilot of Hamill's character.

* On July 24, 2006, the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, changed the name of part of Worcester Center Boulevard to Major Taylor Boulevard — where his memory is honored for his athletic feats as well as his character.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot ; François Rude ; Antoine Étex ; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

( 1952 ); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ; and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel.

Monroe County, Michigan Deputy Sheriff Joseph Wood went into Toledo to arrest Major Benjamin Stickney, but when Stickney and his three sons resisted, the whole family was subdued and taken into custody.

Joseph Paul " Joe " DiMaggio ( ; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999 ), nicknamed " Joltin ' Joe " and " The Yankee Clipper ", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees.

Major public buildings designed by Perret himself include the Hotel de Ville, the Bourse du Commerce, and the churches of Saint Michel and Saint Joseph.

Milo Minderbinder ’ s maxim “ What ’ s good for M & M Enterprises is good for the country ” alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson ’ s statement before the Senate “ What ’ s good for General Motors is good for the country .” The question of “ Who promoted Major Major ?” alludes to Joseph McCarthy ’ s questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Major Joseph Hendricks is sent to negotiate with the Soviets.

Others point out that the settlement occurred after two of Westmoreland's former intelligence officers, Major General Joseph McChristian and Colonel Gains Hawkins, testified to the accuracy of the substantive allegations of the broadcast, which were that Westmoreland ordered changes in intelligence reports on Viet Cong troop strengths for political reasons.

Later he served as " Aide-de-camp " to Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton after serving on a tour of sea duty aboard the.

This claim had originally been raised in the book Amelia Earhart Lives ( 1970 ) by author Joe Klaas, based on the research of Major Joseph Gervais.

Other notable early settlers of Henry County include Colonel George Waller, Captain George Hairston and Major John Redd, all of whom were present at the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown ; Col. Abraham Penn, a native of Amherst County, Virginia, who led his Henry County militia troops with the intention of joining General Nathaniel Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War ; and Brigadier General Joseph Martin, for whom Martinsville is named.

* Joseph Bernard as Major Abe Radnitz-Lawson's Assistant

It was the last official battle of the Civil War between the armies of Major General William T. Sherman and General Joseph E. Johnston.

The county was organized December 29, 1836, from Ray County and named for Major Joseph H. Daviess, a soldier from Kentucky who was killed in 1811 at the Battle of Tippecanoe in the War of 1812.

The county is named for Major Joseph Hamilton Daveiss ( a recording error in the State Clerk's office accounts for the error in spelling, which was never corrected ), the United States Attorney who unsuccessfully prosecuted Aaron Burr.

According to a historical marker on U. S. Highway 278 west of Conyers, Major General Joseph Wheeler of the Confederate States Army and part of his staff were captured by Union troops pursuing Jefferson Davis on May 9, 1865.

Georgia's 43rd county was named for Major Joseph Habersham, who fought in the Revolutionary War, was Mayor of Savannah, served in Congress and was President George Washington's Postmaster General.

Confederate Major General Patrick Cleburne with 4, 100 men used the mountain pass known as the Ringgold Gap to stall the advance of Union Major General Joseph Hooker and his troops.