Christie features as a character in Gaylord Larsen's Dorothy and Agatha and The London Blitz Murders ' by Max Allan Collins.

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries ; usually, but not always, murders.

In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.

** Dorothy Adams, American character actress ( d. 1988 )

There was also concern that Dorothy McGuire's character being divorced would offend the National Legion of Decency.

Clayton died of acute anterior poliomyelitis contracted within two months of completing an actual spring 1932 expedition to the Gilf Kebir for which he hired Almásy and Pat Clayton ( the basis for the character of Madox ); Dorothy died in an airplane accident in 1933.

In Tin Man, a reimagining of The Wizard of Oz, for example, the main character is named DG, a reference to Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz, and the land she enters is called the Outer Zone ( O. Z.

Over time, however, his character Dorothy Michaels become a television sensation.

* It was not until Yes, Prime Minister that another such character appeared regularly: Dorothy Wainwright, special adviser to the Prime Minister, who was played by Deborah Norton.

The subterranean rivers of London are mentioned in several novels, including Thrones, Dominations ( by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh ), where a character remarks " You can bury them deep under, sir ; you can bind them in tunnels, ... but in the end where a river has been, a river will always be.

Joe, Jack Dawson in the movie Titanic, Dr. Jennifer Keller in the science fiction series Stargate Atlantis, Dorothy McGuire's character in the movie Till the End of Time and the title character of Annie Hall.

*" TTFN ( Ta ta for now )" – Spoken by Dorothy Summers ' character, Mrs Mopp.

* The main character Kendra Tamale of the book Marshmallows for Breakfast by Dorothy Koomson, was said to have grown up or lived in Ealing or nearby.

is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey.

Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers ( 1893 – 1957 ).

The subterranean rivers of London feature in e. g. the novel " Drowning Man " by Michael Robotham as well as in the novel Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh in which a character remarks:

* In the Past Doctor Adventures novel The Murder Game, the Second Doctor encounters weapon designers Neville and Dorothy Adler, using the name as an alias while posing as mystery writers ; the Doctor notes that Adler was the name of a character created by his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, with another character suggesting that the name reflects Dorothy's ego.

The main character, So White, is voiced by Vivian Dandridge, sister of Dorothy.

* After suffering an attack of amnesia, the main character of George Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter, Dorothy Hare, finds herself alone on Old Kent Road.

In any event, this novel marks a clear maturation of Ozma's character, now said to appear significantly older than Dorothy ( in Ozma of Oz they appeared the same age ) and a fairy working her own innate magic.

The name of the character possibly comes from Baum's own niece, Dorothy Louise Gage, who died in infancy.

Dorothy, as depicted by John R. Neill, is usually cited by fans of the book series as the way they see the character.

The character was played by Silvana Mangano in the US production, Ullyses ( 1955 ); by Juliette Mayniel in the European television co-production L ' Odissea ( 1968 ); and by Bernadette Peters in the American TV feature Ulysses ( 1997 ).

The character of Conan has proven durably popular, resulting in Conan stories by later writers such as Poul Anderson, Leonard Carpenter, Lin Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, Roland J.

Ackerman himself appeared as a character in The Vampire Affair by David McDaniel ( a novel in the Man from U. N. C. L. E.

In general, a diacritic is a glyph, even if ( like a cedilla in Spanish, the ogonek in several languages or the stroke on a Polish L ) it is " joined up " with the rest of the character.

The critic L. J. Hurst dismissed Aldiss's accusations, pointing out that in Triffids the main character witnesses several murders, suicides, and misadventures, and is frequently in mortal danger himself.

Japheth is a major character in the Madeleine L ' Engle novel Many Waters ( 1986, ISBN 0 374 34796 4 ).

In 15 – 16th-century French and English depictions of relationships between women ( Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L ' Espion Anglais by various authors in 1778 ), writers ' attitudes spanned from amused tolerance to arousal, whereupon a male character would participate to complete the act.

The greatest popularity, however, was achieved by a 1957 comedy about a testy, ill-tempered character nicknamed Patate and a 1962 comic mystery L ' Idiote Idiot, best known in America as the basis for the play and film A Shot in the Dark.

His first regular television spot was on Granada Television's Braden Beat with Bernard Braden, where he featured his most enduring character: the static, dour and monotonal E. L. Wisty, whom Cook had conceived for Radley College's Marionette Society.

Another more recent story involving travel to the future is Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L ' An 2440, rêve s ' il en fût jamais (" The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Were One "), a utopian novel in which the main character is transported to the year 2440.

Robert Darnton writes that " despite its self-proclaimed character of fantasy ... L ' An 2440 demanded to be read as a serious guidebook to the future.

Nunez told author James L. Dickerson that the resonance of the character was Judd's creation: " The resonance, those moments, was not contrived.

From 2007, Shepherd appeared on the Showtime drama, The L Word as the character Phyllis Kroll for the show's final three seasons.

It was important to Zola that no character should appear larger than life ; but the criticism that Zola ’ s characters are cardboard, is a substantially more damaging one which in view of the characterization of Gervaise Macquart ( L ' Assommoir ), Nana Coupeau ( Nana ), Jacques Lantier ( La Bête humaine ), Serge Mouret ( La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret ), Jean Macquart ( La Terre ) and Pascal Rougon ( Le Docteur Pascal ), may seriously be doubted.

The 1865 grand opera L ' Africaine: Opéra en Cinq Actes, composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer from a libretto by Eugène Scribe, prominently includes the character of Vasco da Gama.

As he is oblivious of the motifs he lives, he is unencumbered by any meaning exterior to his sensory experience, a character trait rendering him " foreign " to his contemporaries ; thus, most English translations of the French title L ’ Étranger are rendered as The Outsider, and less frequently as The Stranger.

In the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby starring Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen, Cohen's character is reading a copy of L ' Etranger while he is driving his NASCAR race car.

The character of Humpty Dumpty was popularised in the United States by actor George L. Fox ( 1825 – 77 ).

American actor George L. Fox ( 1825 – 77 ) helped to popularise the character in nineteenth-century stage productions of pantomime, music and rhyme.

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.

The book was first made into a feature film as a musical titled Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart, produced by David L. Wolper and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, character actor Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe, and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket.

In 1992, he guest-starred in an episode of the legal drama L. A. Law, as a Homer Simpson meetable character at a California amusement park who is dismissed for inappropriate behavior while in costume.