Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

In 2006, he appeared in The Break-Up, starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, playing Vaughn's eccentric brother.

This made him a heretic in the eyes of his orthodox brother and a suspect eccentric in the view of many of the worldly power brokers swarming around the Mughal throne.

He lives in Tokyo with his twin sister Hokuto, an exuberant girl whose chief occupations are to design eccentric clothing for herself and her brother, and to egg on their mutual friend Seishirō Sakurazuka, a kindly, 25-year-old veterinarian, when he declares his love for Subaru.

Immediately after the wedding, Mortimer visits the eccentric but lovable relatives who raised him and who still live in his old family home: his elderly aunts Abby ( Josephine Hull ) and Martha ( Jean Adair ), and his brother Teddy ( John Alexander ), who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt.

His younger brother was the eccentric, Stephen Tennant.

Mamlakat is an aspiring actress, daughter of an eccentric father, and sister to a mad brother, who falls for the lies of an actor in a theater company that passes through her village.

Alexei Sayle stars as Billy Balowski, an eccentric taxi driver and brother of the students ' landlord Jerzei.

She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as Minnie Castevet, Rosemary's overly solicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, as the eccentric Maude in Harold and Maude and as the mother of Orville Boggs in the Clint Eastwood film Every Which Way but Loose.

Privately, he was highly eccentric with his preference for communing with spirits, including those of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, and several of his Irish Terrier dogs, all named Pat except for one named Bob.

His mother was " a highly cultured eccentric " who supported them by splitting her time between driving a cab and creating papier-mâché puppets.

Born in London, Joyce was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps ( 1880 – 1953 ), the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper, and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne ( 1889 – 1955 ), the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railway millionaire.

* Mrs. Hardcastle-Wife to Mr. Hardcastle and mother to Tony, Mrs. Hardcastle is a corrupt and eccentric character.

From tidbits he occasionally lets slip, it appears that his problems can largely be traced back to his eccentric and domineering mother ( who appears in 2. 8, " Naked ", played by Anwen Williams ).

Biographers have attributed most of his brutish and eccentric nature to the fact that he was abandoned by his father, an Oakland police officer and overly coddled by his mother, Lydia, who was married six times.

In a profile of Lady Bird Johnson, Time magazine described Lady Bird's mother as " a tall, eccentric woman from an old and aristocratic Alabama family, liked to wear long white dresses and heavy veils and who scandalized people for miles around by entertaining Negroes in her home, and once even started to write a book about Negro religious practices, called Bio Baptism.

Mr. Strange is the archetypal ' man your mother warned you about ', the weird man who walks around town in a dirty old mac, indulging in disturbingly eccentric behaviour.

Louis Holland arrives in Boston to find that a minor earthquake in Ipswich has killed his eccentric grandmother, triggering a struggle between him, his sister Eileen, and his mother Melanie over the disposition of a $ 22 million inheritance.

When Sturges was three years old, his eccentric mother left America to pursue a singing career in Paris, where she annulled her marriage with Preston's father.

He leaves behind his eccentric mother Beatrice and befriends a close friend of hers, Monsignor Darcy.

Sometimes the artistic name consists of the home town appended to the first name ( Manolo Sanlúcar, Ramón de Algeciras ); but many, perhaps most, of such names are more eccentric: Pepe de la Matrona ( because his mother was a midwife ); Perico del Lunar ( because he had a mole ); Tomatito ( son of a father known as Tomate ( tomato ) because of his red face ); Sabicas ( because of his childhood passion for green beans, from niño de las habicas ); and many more.

Among the racers are scheming twins Duane and Blaine Cody, businesswoman Merrill Jennings and her estranged mother Vera, disgraced football referee Owen Templeton, the Pear family led by opportunistic father Randy, eccentric Italian tourist Enrico Pollini who suffers from narcolepsy, and no-nonsense attorney Nick Schaffer.

After the deaths of his father and mother in 1914 and 1915, he went to live with his doting grandmother and eccentric uncles.

Her later stage roles include the 1946 revival of ' He Who Gets Slapped ' and an eccentric mother in the 1961 black comedy, ' Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin ' So Sad.

He lives in London with his Uncle Andrew and Andrew's sister Leticia, because his father is away in India, and his mother is deathly ill. Andrew, an eccentric old man, has made magic rings that allow whoever wears them to travel to other worlds by passing through the Wood between the Worlds.

Mermaids is narrated in the first person by Charlotte Flax, a 15-year-old girl living with her eccentric mother, Rachel ( whom she calls " Mrs. Flax "), and sister, Kate.

Once they arrive, they are greeted by Greg's eccentric but fun-loving and amiable father, Bernie ( Hoffman ), and mother, Roz ( Streisand ), who is a sex therapist for elder couples.

An eccentric boy who is a fan of horror films, his personality does not fit in with the carefully calculated conservative image his mother ( Redgrave ) has designed for their family.

Hermione Gingold ( pronounced with a hard G, not as Jingold ; 9 December 1897 – 24 May 1987 ) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother reportedly encouraged her not to remove.

While her father was a wasteful eccentric, her mother who had had Scottish ancestors was said to be very quiet and dutiful.

Sula's family is very different: she lives with her grandmother, Eva, and her mother, Hannah, both of whom are seen by the town as eccentric and loose.

* Grandma Lynn, Abigail's mother, an eccentric alcoholic who comes to live with the Salmons when her son-in-law asks her to help her daughter cope with the death, after Abigail leaves she helps with her grandchildren.

In the early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name " Idaho ," which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning " the sun comes from the mountains " or " gem of the mountains ".

It is claimed by some that the Hatter's character may have been inspired by Theophilus Carter, an eccentric furniture dealer.

The film was based upon the true story of a gas station attendant who claimed to be an heir of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and won two Academy Awards.

It has also been claimed that it " spawned a perception of Washington as a land of eccentric country bumpkins like Ma and Pa Kettle.

The eccentric Barry Fell shortly claimed to have decoded the text.

Though eccentric and childlike, Waddell was not illiterate ( as some sources have claimed ), although Ken Burns baseball documentary claimed he lost track of how many women he'd married.

To reinforce the public perception of Hughes as an eccentric recluse, Irving also created fake interviews that he claimed were conducted in remote locations all over the world, including one on a Mexican pyramid.

The eccentric Zúñiga never got more than a few votes, but always claimed to have been the victim of fraud and considered himself to be the legitimate president.

Promoter and exhibitor Frank Hansen claimed the Minnesota Iceman was discovered in the region of Siberia and that he was acting as its caretaker for an absentee owner he described as an " eccentric California millionaire ".

In an episode of Barney Miller, an eccentric man wearing a long striped scarf claimed to be a time-traveler.

In the first season she played the eccentric medium Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, a part many claimed was made for her.