Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

On television, Gracen has appeared in Shelley Duvall's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sidney Sheldon's The Sands of Time and Death of the Incredible Hulk.

* The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1989 ) ( TV )

Frankenstein draws heavily on a forged document feel, as do Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and many of the works of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe and H. G.

Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ) was a classic Gothic work of the 1880s, seeing many stage adaptations.

Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

Other films of the 1920s include Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde ( 1920 ), The Phantom Carriage ( Sweden, 1920 ), The Lost World ( 1925 ), The Phantom Of The Opera ( 1925 ), Waxworks ( Germany 1924 ), and Tod Browning's ( lost ) London After Midnight ( 1927 ) with Chaney.

Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( Paramount, 1931 ), remembered for its use of color filters to create Jekyll's transformation before the camera, Michael Curtiz's Mystery of the Wax Museum ( Warner Brothers, 1933 ), and Island of Lost Souls ( Paramount, 1932 ) were all important horror films.

Robert Louis Stevenson's work included the urban Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), and played a major part in developing the historical adventure in books like Kidnapped and Treasure Island.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

Enduring icons of horror derived from these stories include Victor Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Monster, Count Dracula, and Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde.

' Lovebug Starski, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Full Force, Russell Simmons and Wyclef Jean all have been produced by, or have worked with, Kurt.

He finished Titus Groan and Gormenghast and completed some of his most acclaimed illustrations for books by other authors, including Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark ( for which he was reportedly paid only £ 5 ) and Alice in Wonderland, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Brothers Grimm's Household Tales, All This and Bevin Too by Quentin Crisp and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as well as producing many original poems, drawings, and paintings.

* Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( by Robert Louis Stevenson )

* Several pre-1950 talkies were sold to other studios for remakes, among them Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) and Make Me a Star ( 1932 ) to MGM ; The Letter ( 1929 ), A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 ) and One Sunday Afternoon ( 1933 ) to Warner Brothers ; and " The Dance of Life ( 1929 ), The Story of Temple Drake ( 1933 ) and " Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ) to 20th Century Fox.

In 1931, Rouben Mamoulian used the technique in his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Interestingly, Film is also said to refer to the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

They even worked with Bandai on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, released in Japan in 1988 and in North America in 1989.

This is perhaps linked to Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which Wilde admired.

The division that was witnessed in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, although extreme, is evident in Dorian Gray, who attempts to contain the two divergent parts of his personality.

* Robert Louis Stevenson published Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

In fiction, Robert Louis Stevenson had Dr. Henry Jekyll set up a home for Edward Hyde in Soho in his novel, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and many short stories by Edgar Allan Poe had a formidable impact.

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

* The character of Absalom appears in Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

* Mr. Bill, claymation character from Saturday Night Live

J. Brooking Rowe, writing in 1895, states that the tomb was re-erected in 1890 under the direction of Mr. E. Fearnley Tanner, who said that he was dissatisfied with the result because several stones were missing and it was difficult to recreate the original character of the monument.

* Mr. Conductor, a character in Shining Time Station and in Thomas and the Magic Railroad

In movies, Cary Grant's character teaches rhyming slang to his female companion in the film Mr. Lucky ( 1943 ) and describes it as Australian rhyming slang.

He last starred on stage as the title character in Visiting Mr. Green.

Apart from the end credits ( where he is listed as Steven Martin ), Raymond Burr's character is never referred to by his full name, only as " Mr. Martin " or simply " Martin ", for the entirety of the US version.

* In the anime adaptation of the 2009 Japanese visual novel, Steins ; Gate, the character Yūgo Tennōji, aka ' Mr. Braun ', uses the pseudonym ' FB ', after Karl Ferdinand Braun.

While many today would say that any misfortune surrounding a production is mere coincidence, actors and other theatre people often consider it bad luck to mention Macbeth by name while inside a theatre, and sometimes refer to it indirectly, for example as " the Scottish play ", or " MacBee ", or when referring to the character and not the play, " Mr. and Mrs. M ", or " The Scottish King ".

Remaining with the WWF, Mr. T became a special " WWF boxer " in light of his character in Rocky III.

During the early 1970s, Mobil ran a TV commercial featuring a character known as " Mr. Dirt " to show the ruinous effects that dirt had on automotive engines for which a tank of Mobil Detergent Gasoline could provide a cure and preventive medicine against damage that could lead to costly repairs.

* Mr. Nu, a fictional character from the novel Hitman: Enemy Within

* Nemo Nobody, the title character of the film Mr. Nobody ( 2009 )

* Quincy, the first name of cartoon character Mr. Magoo

* Mr. ( Edward ) Rochester, a character in the novel Jane Eyre

An avid fan of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5, he appeared in the season 4 episode " Moments of Transition " as a character named " Mr. Adams ," who hires former head of security Michael Garibaldi to locate his megalomaniacal dog and cat.

In sympathy for Marianne, and to illuminate his character, Colonel Brandon reveals to Elinor that Mr. Willoughby had seduced Brandon's fifteen-year-old ward, and abandoned her when she became pregnant.

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.

Gradually a defined, philandering character emerged from the strip, and on November 1, 1903, the Sunday feature evolved into Mr. Jack.

The largest cut was the removal of the character of Mr. Gribsby, a solicitor who comes from London to arrest the profligate " Ernest " ( i. e., Jack ) for his unpaid dining bills.

Several scenes relating to the Mr. Glass character involve glass.

In 1927, during a court case over published claims that he had had improper relationships with some of these women, the jury unanimously found that the evidence " completely vindicated the high moral character of the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone ".

* Mr. Gladstone ( character sketch by W. T.

* Mr. Largo, a character from The Simpsons