* 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 ).

Houseman was portrayed by Cary Elwes in the 1999 Tim Robbins-directed film, Cradle Will Rock.

Elwes returned to the Saw franchise in Saw 3D ( 2010 ), the seventh and final film in the series, as Dr. Lawrence Gordon.

* Cary Elwes as Dr. Jonas Miller

* Cary Elwes as Dr. Fritz Hippler

An episode of The Outer Limits titled " Ripper " ( 1997 ) was set in 1888 and starred Cary Elwes as Dr. Jack York, who kills women whom he believes are possessed by an alien entity.

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

This was reinforced when their foremost interpreter and performer, Gervase Elwes ( who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which Percy Grainger and others had developed their collections of country music ) died in a horrific accident in 1921.

Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (; born 26 October 1962 ), known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor and voice actor.

The son of painter Dominick Elwes and designer Tessa Georgina Kennedy, Elwes acted in off-Broadway plays during college and moved to the United States in the early 1980s.

Elwes was born in Westminster, London.

He is the third and youngest son of portrait-painter Dominick Elwes and interior designer Tessa Georgina Kennedy, who is of Croatian, Anglo-Irish, and Scottish descent.

His brothers are Damian Elwes, an artist, and Cassian Elwes, a producer and agent.

Elwes attended Harrow School in London and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

His parents divorced when he was 4 years old, and his father later committed suicide in 1975 when Elwes was 13.

Elwes moved to the United States in 1981 to study acting at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

While living in New York, Elwes studied acting at both the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Elwes made his acting debut in 1984 with Marek Kanievska's film Another Country.

Elwes in 2010.

Elwes also appeared in such films as Francis Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Crush, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Twister, Liar Liar, Cradle Will Rock, The Cat's Meow and Kiss the Girls.

Elwes was set to portray George Harrison in Zemeckis's 3D performance capture re-telling of Yellow Submarine ; however in May 2011, Disney withdrew from the project, leaving its fate uncertain.

Nelson closed the 1980s with the William Lustig thriller, Relentless ( 1989 ), in which he plays a Los Angeles serial killer being hunted by two cops ( Robert Loggia and Leo Rossi ); he also provided a cameo in the Adam Rifkin road movie Never on Tuesday ( 1989 ) Tommy Chongs ( Out Man ) ( 1989 ) along with Nicolas Cage, Cary Elwes, Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen.

Elwes filmed a film adaptation of Camilla Dickinson in late 2010 where he played Rafferty Dickinson.

* Sir Henry Elwes 17 February 1992 – 24 October 2010

His paternal grandfather was painter Simon Elwes, whose father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes ( 1866 – 1921 ).

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

Of the film's cast, two actors had previously appeared in vampire movies: Udo Kier played Count Dracula in Blood for Dracula ( 1974 ) as well appearing in Blade ( 1998 ) as Dragonetti and Cary Elwes played Arthur Holmwood in Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ).

Arriving in a new city, writer Nick Eliot ( Cary Elwes ) secures a job at Pique magazine and lodgings in a guest house belonging to Cliff and Liv Forrester ( Kurtwood Smith and Gwynyth Walsh ).

Also starring are Michael Jenn ( Barclay ), Robert Addie ( Delahay ), Rupert Wainwright ( Donald Devenish ), Tristan Oliver ( Fowler ), Cary Elwes ( James Harcourt ), Piers Flint-Shipman ( Menzies ) and Anna Massey ( Imogen Bennett ).

In addition Elwes undertook numerous journeys abroad to study the trees in the wild, even visiting Chile to see Monkey Puzzle trees ( Araucaria araucana ).

Dame Alice Godman, who was related by marriage to Elwes, agreed to underwrite the cost of the work ( co-written by Grove and the botanist A. D. Cotton ) and the first seven parts of the supplement were published between July 1933 and February 1940, with 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates, all but two by Lillian Snelling ( 1879 – 1972 ).

Dr. Wijdicks studied 30 films ( made between 1970 and 2004 ) that portrayed actors in prolonged comas, and he concluded that only two films accurately depicted the state of a coma victim and the agony of waiting for a patient to awaken: Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ) and The Dreamlife of Angels ( 1998 ).

* Alan Rickman as Alexander Dane, the actor who portrayed Dr Lazarus of Tev ' Meck on the Galaxy Quest TV show.

Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.

She portrayed a child prostitute, Charlie Chiemingo, taken under the guidance of Dr. Doug Ross, played by George Clooney.

Dr. Manhattan is also portrayed as a nihilist on the cosmic scale by stating if the Earth was destroyed and all life on it eradicated, the universe would not notice.

In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Worf's grandfather Colonel Worf ( also portrayed by Michael Dorn ) appears in a role as the legal advocate of Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy after they are accused of killing Chancellor Gorkon of the Klingon High Council.

In Voltaire's Candide, Dr. Pangloss is portrayed as a clueless scholar who, despite the evidence, says that " all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

* Maskelyne is portrayed as " Dr. Vickery " in Kate Grenville's semi-historical novel The Lieutenant.

Spiner also portrayed Data's manipulative and malignant brother Lore ( a role he found much easier to play, because the character was " more like me "), and Data's creator, Dr. Noonien Soong.

In " Brothers ", Data reunites with Dr. Soong ( also portrayed by Spiner ).

In " Satisfaction Guaranteed ", the character of Susan Calvin was renamed Dr Inge Jensen and portrayed by Ann Firbank.

In 1976, it was remade under its original title as an NBC television movie starring Elizabeth Montgomery as television producer Katherine Merrill under the care of Dr. Michael Grant, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins.

He was cast in a number of stark dramas, such as 1964's Fail-Safe, in which he portrayed Pentagon adviser Dr. Groeteschele, who urges all out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in response to an accidental transmission of an attack signal to U. S. Air Force bombers, in the tense, and timely cold-war thriller.

In The Country Doctor ( 1936 ), a movie starring the Dionne quintuplets, Hersholt portrayed Dr. John Luke, a character based on Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the Canadian obstetrician who delivered and cared for the Dionne Quintuplets.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

The judge in this episode was portrayed by John Hoyt, who later portrayed Dr. Phillip John Boyce, one of Leonard McCoy's predecessors, on the Star Trek pilot " The Cage ".

In 1999 Farrell was given the part of veterinarian Jim Hansen, the father of the lead character Dr. Sydney Hansen, portrayed by Melina Kanakaredes, on the NBC-TV melodrama series Providence.

* Dr. Donald " Ducky " Mallard, portrayed by actor David McCallum, is a fictional medical examiner on the American television crime drama NCIS.

Generations of people grew up under the shadow of nuclear devastation, portrayed in films such as Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Cafe.

In 2006, he portrayed the role of Galileo on the podcast " The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd ".

In 1973, she appeared twice on Lorne Greene's short-lived ABC crime drama Griff, including the episode The Last Ballad, in which she portrayed Dr. Martha Reed, an abortionist held by police in the death of a patient.

Winfield portrayed Captain Terrell of the Starship Reliant in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and he also portrayed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the television miniseries King, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.