Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Milton C. " Hardcase " Hardcastle, an eccentric judge notorious for being strict with the law in both his duties and towards defendants, is retiring.

He was an eccentric judge who offended Daniel O ’ Connell.

Known to British TV audiences for his bow tie and pronounced German accent, reinforcing the stereotype of the eccentric but kind-hearted German scientist, much of his recognition by the public is due to his past appearances as presenter of The Great Egg Race and Great Experiments, and as a presenter / judge for the annual Young Scientist of the Year award in the UK, all in the late 1970s to early 1980s.

In the in-game lore of the videogame series The Elder Scrolls, there existed an eccentric emperor named Emperor Pelagius Septim III who seems to be heavily based upon Caligula.

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.

A professor and his colleagues question the effectiveness of the community started by an eccentric man named T. E.

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.

" The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley " — the only remaining of six known Mississippi River panorama paintings -- measures 90 inches wide by 348 feet long and was commissioned about 1850 by an eccentric amateur archaeologist named Montroville W. Dickeson.

Their apartment's handyman is an eccentric but kindly and humble Okinawan immigrant named Mr. Miyagi ( Noriyuki " Pat " Morita ).

The convention adopted resolutions, which were drafted by Brackenridge, Gallatin, David Bradford, and an eccentric preacher named Herman Husband, a delegate from Bedford County.

* The man whom Dickens eventually mentions in his letters and who strongly resembles the character portrayed by Dickens's illustrator, John Leech, was a noted British eccentric and miser named John Elwes ( 1714 – 1789 ).

Elwood P. Dowd ( Stewart ) is a middle-aged, amiable ( and somewhat eccentric ) individual whose best friend is an invisible 6 ' 3. 5 " tall rabbit named Harvey.

Friar Park is a 120-room Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames once owned by an eccentric lawyer named Sir Frank Crisp and purchased in January 1970 by musician George Harrison.

They had three children together: Richard ( 1708 – 1782 ), an eccentric, playwright and artist whose engravings for Thomas Gray ’ s ‘ A Long Story ’ were published in 1753, and two daughters, one named Johanna.

He shares his house with an uninhibited Welsh eccentric named Spike ( Rhys Ifans ).

The main character is a teenage girl named Didi, who appears to be an eccentric, orphaned goth, but who also insists that she is Death personified, taking her one day every hundred year sabbatical as a living person.

The stars of the show were Mister Ed, a palomino horse who could " talk ", played by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by former Western star Allan Lane ( who went uncredited for the entire length of the series ), and his owner, an eccentric and enormously klutzy, yet friendly, architect named Wilbur Post ( Alan Young ).

Leach's nomenclature was a little eccentric – he named twenty-seven species after his friend John Cranch, who had collected the species in Africa and later died on HMS Congo.

The eccentric Leonard de Tomkinson is reputedly based on a real man named Leonard who used to visit Peter during his working time at the local Majestic Garage.

Two brothers and a sister named Ben, Tom and Lindy meet an eccentric but delightful man on an outing to the zoo.

In 2010, he appeared in a multi-episode arc in Season 8 of the Fox television series 24 as a probation officer named Bill Prady, and in the FX television series Justified as the eccentric Judge Mike " The Hammer " Reardon.

The plot takes place in and around the isolated country home populated by eccentric multi-millionaire Lionel Twain ( Truman Capote ), his blind butler Jamesir Bensonmum ( Alec Guinness ) and a deaf-mute cook named Yetta ( Nancy Walker ).

In the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, a character named Xenophilius Lovegood ( the father of one of Harry Potter's more eccentric friends, Luna Lovegood ) is characterized by his interest in unusual or unknown objects, animals, and concepts-as his name unmistakably implies.

In 1880, his namesake McMinn County attempted to have his grave reinterred in its county seat of Athens, but an eccentric preacher named R. J. M.

The roof of the building was featured in the Wesley Snipes motion picture Drop Zone, where an eccentric base jumper named Swoop parachutes down to the street from a suspended window cleaning trolley.

The first act of the book is based in Florence with many scenes taking place in the pension, as Lucy meets characters for the first time who feature throughout the book, most importantly a slightly eccentric young Englishman named George Emerson, and his father.

The Labour Shadow Foreign Minister, Jack Cunningham, greeted Major's appointment of Owen in the British House of Commons by saying that the Prime Minister's choice " was regarded as somewhat eccentric by and myself-he is known for many qualities, but not as a mediator.

The reputation of Mad Jack was already sealed but he continued to confound and surpass his eccentric behaviour by lying between the hooves of dangerous and nervous horses.

* Jack Churchill, eccentric World War II soldier

When not working, Jack often hangs with his eccentric friends, Leo Trench, an agoraphobic computer hacker who, like one of the characters in McKellar's earlier comedy series, Twitch City, is unable to leave his apartment but nonetheless leads a complex and bizarre life, and Bobby Lee, an Asian kid who works in the family store by day, and is a club disc-jockey and masked hero by night.

In 1985, Carradine won a Daytime Emmy Award for his performance as an eccentric old man who lives by the railroad tracks in the Young People's Special, Umbrella Jack.

The book's four main characters are ecologically-minded misfits — " Seldom Seen " Smith, a Jack Mormon river guide ; Doc Sarvis, an odd but wealthy and wise surgeon ; Bonnie Abbzug, his young sexualized female assistant ; and a rather eccentric Green Beret Vietnam veteran, George Hayduke.

( 1997 – 2003 ) as Jack Gallo, the eccentric publisher of a New York fashion magazine.

He lives with his eccentric ghost-hunting parents, Maddie and Jack, and an overbearing 16-year-old sister, Jazz ( short for Jasmine ).

The characters are: Val ( Ricci ) and Stephie ( Hoffmann ), teens from Ronkonkoma who get lost in the seedy Alphabet City section of the borough and wander into a punk club where they meet Dave ( Diaz ) and Tom ( Casey Affleck ), who have a " package " they need to deliver ; ditsy and awkward Cindy ( Hudson ) who is on a dinner date with the paranoid Jack ( Mohr ); Lucy ( Love ) and her best friend Kevin ( Rudd ) who are struggling with the sexual tension between them ; Kevin's feminist ex girlfriend Ellie ( Garofalo ), who walks in on Kevin and Lucy mid-coitus in a restroom stall ; a dim-witted and flirtatious bartender ( Ben Affleck ); competitive friends Bridget ( Parker ) and Caitlyn ( Featherstone ) who attempt to ditch Bridget's boyfriend Eric ( McCardie ) ( who is also Monica's ex boyfriend ); and the eccentric cab driver ( Chappelle ) who takes them all around town throughout the evening in his disco themed taxi.

After that, he assumed the identity of an eccentric old airship captain, who plays mentor role to Jack throughout the game.

He appeared in Midsomer Murders: Down Among the Dead Men as Jack Fothergill and as the eccentric impoverished ghost writer, Majors, in the Inspector Morse episode " Second Time Around ".

Wallace, however, preferred a different flag proposal, featuring a blue stripe and a red stripe at erratic angles on a white background – that is, the same colours as the Union Jack but positioned off-centre in an eccentric fashion.

This degenerate RPE causes foveal hypoplasia ( a failure in the development of normal foveae ), which results in eccentric fixation and lower visual acuity, and often a minor level of strabismus.

Unconventional as a draughtsman, his treatment of human form is often exaggerated and eccentric ( hence his linkage, in the art historical literature, with European Mannerism ), whilst his ornamental style — profuse, eclectic, and akin to the self-consciously " German " strain of contemporary limewood sculptors — is equally distinctive.

Bowersock in particular ), Julian's paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also Neoplatonism.

Some of Spacey's early roles include a widowed eccentric millionaire on L. A. Law, the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan ( 1988 ), opposite Lemmon, and the Richard Pryor / Gene Wilder – starring comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil ( 1989 ).

* Van Diemen's Land is the setting of the novel English Passengers by Matthew Kneale ( 2000 ), which tells the story of three eccentric Englishmen who in 1857 set sail for the island in search of the Garden of Eden.

The Zohar is mostly written in what has been described as an exalted, eccentric style of Aramaic, which was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period ( 539 BCE – 70 CE ), was the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud.

His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric folk singer ; Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA ( failed ), Oriental criminal mastermind ; J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, telephone heavy breather and dirty old man ; and Sandy of the camp couple Julian and Sandy ( Julian was played by Hugh Paddick ).

Supergiant X-ray binaries ( SGXBs ) are HMXBs in which the compact objects orbit massive companions with orbital periods of a few days ( 3 – 15 d ), and in circular ( or slightly eccentric ) orbits.

In 1969 she appeared in Alan J. Pakula's first feature film, The Sterile Cuckoo ( 1969 ), as “ Pookie Adams ”, a needy, eccentric teenager.

He portrayed eccentric characters in guest appearances on such TV shows as Batman ( where he played The Archer's henchman Crier Tuck ), Land of the Giants, Dragnet 1967, and The Monkees.

When Bates dropped out through illness in 1976 after two series, the role of the third man of the trio was filled in various years up to the 30th series by the quirky war veteran, Foggy Dewhirst ( Brian Wilde ), the eccentric inventor, Seymour Uttherthwaite ( Michael Aldridge ), and former police officer Truly Truelove ( Frank Thornton ).

The earliest mention of Hermaphroditus in Greek literature is by the philosopher Theophrastus ( 3rd century BC ), in his book The Characters, XVI The Superstitious Man, in which he portrays various types of eccentric people.

During the band's mid-period, he wrote many cheerfully eccentric — and often ironic — celebrations of traditional English culture and living: " Village Green " ( 1966 ), " Afternoon Tea " and " Autumn Almanac " ( both 1967 ), " The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains " ( 1968 ), " Victoria " ( 1969 ), " Have a Cuppa Tea " ( 1971 ) and " Cricket " ( 1973 ).

* Jimmy James ( Stephen Root ), the station's eccentric, extroverted, playful billionaire owner.

* Albert Mussey Johnson, ( 1872 – 1948 ), born in Oberlin, eccentric multi-millionaire industrialist who is known best for constructing Scotty's Castle in what is now Death Valley National Park.

* Robert Sheffey ( 1820 – 1902 ), eccentric Methodist circuit-rider and evangelist, grew to maturity in Abingdon.

Milton Teagle Simmons ( born July 12, 1948 ), known professionally as Richard Simmons, is an American former actor and now fitness personality, who promotes weight-loss programs, prominently through his Sweatin ' to the Oldies line of aerobics videos and is known for his eccentric, outgoing and frequently flamboyant personality.

Also in the building is Brian Topp ( Mark Heap ), an eccentric conceptual artist who lives and works on his various pieces in the ground floor flat.

Elisabeth was an emotionally complex woman, and perhaps due to the melancholy and eccentricity that was considered a given characteristic of her Wittelsbach lineage ( the best-known member of the family being her favorite cousin, the eccentric Ludwig II of Bavaria ), she was interested in the treatment of the mentally ill.

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.