* Alfred Brooks, the main character in The Contender, created by Robert Lipsyte

Bayezid ( spelt Bayazid ) is a central character in the Robert E. Howard story Lord of Samarcand.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

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 ).

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.

The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

His life was characterised by debates over issues that arose within the fledgling organisation and some of this process can be found in the book Robert Roberts — A study of his life and character by Islip Collyer.

Leading libertarian philosophers such as Robert Kane have rejected Dennett's model, specifically that random chance is directly involved in a decision, on the basis that they believe this eliminates the agent's motives and reasons, character and values, and feelings and desires.

Instead of reviving the old character, Schwartz had writers Robert Kanigher and John Broome, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Joe Kubert create an entirely new super-speedster, updating and modernizing the Flash's civilian identity, costume, and origin with a science-fiction bent.

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

Arden's character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin ( played by Gale Gordon ), and nursed an unrequited crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton ( played originally by future film star Jeff Chandler and, on television, by Robert Rockwell ).

It has been suggested that the dissolute writer Robert Greene may also have been an inspiration for the character of Falstaff.

When he began his collaborative film work, he was influenced by Robert Alton and John Murray Anderson, striving to create moods and character insight with his dances.

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

At this time he fell in love with a married daughter of King Robert of Naples ( known as Robert the Wise ) and she is immortalized as the character " Fiammetta " in many of Boccaccio's prose romances, particularly Il Filocolo ( 1338 ).

Aside from his thinly-veiled appearance in Robert Bloch's " The Shambler from the Stars ", Lovecraft continues to be used as a character in supernatural fiction.

The short-lived series starred Renne Jarrett ( born 1946 ) as the title character and Celeste Holm and Robert F. Simon in supporting roles.

Robert Hugill for Music and Vision called the production " astonishing … nearly twenty years after its premier ," while City Beats Tom McElfresh called Nixon's score " a character in the drama " and " too intricate, too detailed to qualify as minimalist.

Beria is a significant character in the opening chapters of the novel Archangel, written by British novelist Robert Harris.

* Lindisfarne is where the main character of Harry goes to on pilgrimage in the book " Kingdom by the Sea " by Robert Westall.

Robert Bridges, for instance, perceived a paradox: a character able to express such convincing horror before Duncan's murder would likely be incapable of committing the crime.

This idea of the infinite, of the unreal, of the innocence dying ..." — Robert Smith 2003 ( about the Peake character that inspired the early Cure song The Drowning Man in 1980 )

Wesley Crusher is a character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, appearing regularly in the first four seasons and sporadically afterwards.

Many fans, including Wil Wheaton himself, considered the character to be a Mary Stu and a stand-in for Gene Roddenberry, whose middle name was " Wesley.

" On TV Tropes, " Creator's Pet ", a trope describing a character who is liked by the creators but disliked by audiences, was formerly named " The Wesley " after him.

Entwistle, played by Burt Kwouk, was formerly a supporting character brought in to replace Wesley Pegden after the death of actor Gordon Wharmby, but whose role on the show steadily increased in the previous two series.

* Sandman ( Wesley Dodds ), the Golden Age DC character

Wesley Earl " Wes " Craven ( born August 2, 1939 ) is an American film director, writer, producer, actor, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, particularly slasher films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and he also co-wrote A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with Bruce Wagner, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character and has directed the entire Scream series, featuring Ghostface.

His Connexional Economy is a standard work, and his Living Wesley a most discriminating study of the character and work of its subject.

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce ( also spelled Wyndam-Price and Wyndham-Price ) is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Played by Alexis Denisof, Wesley first appeared in nine episodes of Buffy < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s third season in 1999 before moving over to spin-off series Angel where he became, and remained, a main character for five seasons.

Over the course of Angel, Wesley went through dramatic character developments, becoming darker and less comedic.

Wesley was initially designed to be a foil for the character of Rupert Giles.

Wesley, when the character was first introduced on Buffy.

For Wesley to work as a long-term character, Denisof claimed they had to re-shape the character to be more sympathetic.

While discussing Wesley's character development over the course of Angel, Denisof explains: " I decided that Wesley was internally confronting his father and that released him a little bit and made him less repressed.

When Wesley is introduced in Angel, having been fired from the Watcher's Council, Denisof says this experience gave the character " a little shake ".

" Coming into the show immediately following the death of Doyle, Wesley serves as a partial replacement for that character.

Discussing Wesley's betrayal of his friends to protect Angel's baby, Denisof explains, " It isn't that he's purely bad or purely good, we're discovering a deeper and more complicated area of the character where good and bad aren't as clear, where Wesley does something motivated, he thinks, for the good of all-i. e.

It was also seen in the movie Passenger 57, in which an old woman confuses the character played by Wesley Snipes with Arsenio Hall.

* Sandman Mystery Theatre, a 1990s comic book devoted to the character of Wesley Dodds, the Golden-Age Sandman

** Blade ( film series ), a movie trilogy starring Wesley Snipes based on the Marvel Comics character

Quaid's other television appearances include a season as a Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) cast member ( 1985 – 1986 ), the role of real-life gunslinger John Wesley Hardin in the miniseries Streets of Laredo and starring roles in the short-lived series The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire ( 2003 ) and Davis Rules ( 1991 – 1992 ), as well as the two part TV film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, playing the character of Lenny.

* The film Wanted's main character, Wesley Gibson, works in a cube farm until he becomes part of The Fraternity.

** Sandman ( Wesley Dodds ), a comic character from the 1930s who has made more recent appearances in:

Shelton created a minor controversy for 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark, a subordinate to Shelton during the 1999 Kosovo military actions, when he stated: " I will tell you the reason came out of Europe early had to do with integrity and character issues, things that are very near and dear to my heart.