Davies was invited round to talk to Renwick and " turned up in his duffle coat with straggly hair and a broad grin was self-evidently the closest match yet to Creek as we had always seen him ".

Although he was originally portrayed as having neatly trimmed purple-grey hair, this was soon redesigned as a long, straggly, grey-black mane, and more recently into dreadlocks.

It is a rather straggly tree, with sharp, 3 – 6 cm long stem spines in the leaf axils.

Despite her straggly appearance and repeated failures to get a break, she understands that the music business is a business, and when her opportunity comes, she is ready.

This poor curate sets off on his straggly mare Grizzle in a quest for picturesque scenery, often ( and usually to his discomfort ) oblivious to the realities of the world around him.

The technique is named after actor Frederick Matthias Alexander, who developed its principles in the 1890s as a personal tool to alleviate breathing problems and hoarseness during public speaking.

in the 1990 telling of Macbeth in a New York Mafia crime family setting, " Men of Respect " the character of Banquo is named " Bankie Como " played by American actor Dennis Farina.

According to Suetonius, Domitia Longina was exiled in 83 because of an affair with a famous actor named Paris.

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

They had their second child, Leslie Howard Bogart on August 23, 1952, a girl named after British actor Leslie Howard.

Casting the familiar Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and Mae Clarke as his fiancée Elizabeth, Whale turned to an unknown actor named Boris Karloff to play the Monster.

In one scene an old man named Homer, played by actor Curt Bois ( 1901 – 91 ), searches in vain for Potsdamer Platz, but finds only rubble, weeds and the graffiti-covered Berlin Wall.

Connery claims he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present.

She has two siblings ; an older brother named Todd, an actor and avid cyclist, and a younger brother named Schuyler.

In 2005 actor Shane West was cast to play Crash in the Germs biographical film What We Do Is Secret named after a song by the Germs.

A song from the band Gorillaz is named " Clint Eastwood ", and features references to the actor, with the iconic yell featured in The Good, the Bad and the Uglys score heard at the beginning of the video.

According to The Phantom of the Muppet Theater, the theater was built by a stage actor named John Stone in 1802.

Fox, to avoid being confused with another actor named Michael Fox.

Hoffman was named after stage and silent screen actor Dustin Farnum.

It was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932, and died in 1957.

The award is named after screen actor Jean Hersholt ( 1886 – 1956 ), who served as president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund for 18 years.

The chain was named after Arthur Treacher ( 1894 – 1975 ), an English character actor who was known as " the perfect butler " for his performances as Jeeves, as a butler in several Shirley Temple films, and the role of Constable Jones in Disney's Mary Poppins.

Another time, after the ecclesia had refused to hear him and he was going home dejected, an actor named Satyrus followed him and entered into a friendly conversation with him.

Both kings were enjoying a performance of Euripides ' Greek tragedy The Bacchae and a certain actor of the royal court, named Jason of Tralles, took the head and sang the following verses ( also from the Bacchae ):

* A character named Balliol, portrayed by British actor Bernard Horsfall, appears in Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winning epic, Braveheart, an heroic tale of Scottish national hero William Wallace.

His parents, Aimé Derrida ( 1896 – 1970 ) and Georgette Sultana Esther Safar ( 1901 – 1991 ), named him Jackie, after American actor Jackie Coogan, though he would later adopt a more " correct " version of his first name when he moved to Paris.

In the Ian Fleming novel You Only Live Twice, Kissy Suzuki has a cormorant who is named " David " after the actor.

In 1963 an actor named Eugene Weingand, who was unrelated to Lorre, attempted to trade on his slight resemblance to the actor by changing his name to " Peter Lorie ", but his petition was rejected by the courts.

* 1988 – Jim Jordan, American actor ( b. 1896 )

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1935 – Jim Dale, English actor

* 1950 – Jim Beaver, American actor and scriptwriter

* 1987 – Jim Bakkum, Dutch singer and actor

* Charles Lawson ( 1959 – ), actor ( plays Jim McDonald in Coronation Street )

* 1977 – Jim Jefferies, Australian stand-up comedian, actor and writer

* 1955 – Jim J. Bullock, American actor

James R. " Jim " Jarmusch (; born January 22, 1953 ) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer.

* 1920 – Jim Siedow, American actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor

* 1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and actor ( The Doors and Rick & the Ravens ) ( b. 1943 )

* 1989 – Jim Backus, American actor ( b. 1913 )

* 1966 – Jim Gaffigan, American comedian and actor

* 1962 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian

* 1976 – Jim Jones, American rapper and actor ( The Diplomats )

* 1968 – Jim Norton, American comedian, actor, and author

Although this featured Moon's singing, much drumming was left to other artists, including Ringo Starr, session musicians Curly Smith and Jim Keltner and actor / musician Miguel Ferrer ( Twin Peaks and Crossing Jordan ).

* Lucky Jim ( 1909, actor )

* 1973 – Jim Parsons, American actor

* 1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor

Twenty times on the original Star Trek, McCoy declares someone or something deceased with the line, " He's dead ", " He's dead, Jim ", or something similar ; the phrase is considered a catchphrase of the character, although actor Kelley disliked repeating such lines, and refused to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death ; James Doohan as Montgomery Scott says " He's dead already " instead.

* June 15 – Jim Varney, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* November 7 – Jim Houghton, American actor and director

** Jim Backus, American actor ( d. 1989 )