Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation Throne of Blood makes the character into Capitan Miki ( played by Minoru Chiaki ), slain by Macbeth's equivalent ( Captain Washizu ) when his wife explains that she is with child.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

Captain Vancouver played an undeniable role in the subsequent series of upheavals and losses in the lives and homelands of the Indians on the North American Pacific Coast, since his explorations opened up the region to European colonization of the New World.

— William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk

The character of Captain Queeg mirrored those Bogart had played in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Big Sleep — the wary loner who trusts no one — but with none of the warmth or humor of those roles.

* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.

Voight played Captain Woodrow F. Call, the part played by Tommy Lee Jones in the original miniseries.

There is also an urban legend that the first game of polo in America was played in Boerne, Texas at retired British officer Captain Glynn Turquand's famous Balcones Ranch.

Britain and British seafarers – including Sir Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Frobisher and Captain Brown — played a major role in the transatlantic trade in captured Africans between 1530 and 1810.

Hoffman also played the title role of Captain Hook in Steven Spielberg's Hook ( also 1991 ), earning a Golden Globe nomination ; in this movie, Hoffman's costume was so heavy that he had to wear an air-conditioned suit under it.

A dual Premiership Captain at North Melbourne, four time North Melbourne Best & Fairest and seven time All-Australian, Carey, nicknamed " The King ", is generally considered to be one of the greatest players to have ever played Australian Football.

Sturdy, Captain and Mrs. Sevier — who played an important role in the founding of Advaita Ashrama — and J. J. Goodwin, who became his stenographer and recorded his teachings and lectures.

* This book was read aloud by the Captain ( played by Bob Keeshan ) on an early episode of Captain Kangaroo in the 1950s, as well as at least once in the 1960s or early 1970s.

Jeffrey Hunter played Captain Christopher Pike, commanding officer of the USS Enterprise, in the rejected Star Trek television pilot, " The Cage ".

Captain William Thomas Riker, played by Jonathan Frakes, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe appearing primarily as a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

In 1967 he played a spoof super-hero Captain Fantastic ( and also other roles ), in the children's television sketch comedy series Do Not Adjust Your Set ( Rediffusion London / ITV ).

In the 1970s he also acted in radio comedies, including the weekly topical satire Week Ending ( in which he regularly played such figures as then UK Foreign Secretary Dr David Owen ) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( as the " B Ark Captain " in the sixth episode, in an in-joking reference to his Week Ending role as Owen ).

Art Tripp played the marimba on several of Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band's albums, most notably on Lick My Decals Off, Baby and The Spotlight Kid.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, his mother Maude Green originally from Ulverston in England was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

It was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

William Hurt ( at Circle Rep Off-Broadway, memorably performing " To Be Or Not to Be " while lying on the floor ), Jon Voight at Rutgers, and Christopher Walken ( fiercely ) at Stratford CT have all played the role, as has Diane Venora at the Public Theatre.

St Albans played a role in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381: the peasants, led by a local man William Grindcobbe and Jack Straw, forced their way into the Abbey and demanded a charter for the freedom of St Albans from the Abbot (' Charter of freedom of the villeins of St Alban's forcibly obtained from the Abbot and Convent ', 16 June 1381 ).

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

Cagney's career began winding down, and he made only one film in 1960, the critically acclaimed The Gallant Hours, in which he played Admiral William F. " Bull " Halsey.

Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop ( later played by William Holden ) in The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out in order to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.

* William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, and the films made from these two plays ( played by Marlon Brando and Robert Speaight, respectively ).

The action begins when a young couple, Bob ( William Bates ) and Shirley ( sexploitation actress Pat Barrington, billed as Pat Barringer ) survive a car crash only to find themselves tied to posts in a misty cemetery where they are forced to watch dead spirits dance for the Emperor of the Night played by Criswell ( best known for Plan 9 From Outer Space ).

During his short pontificate he played the part of a peacemaker ; he came to terms with the Emperor Frederick I in the vexing question of the appointment to the See of Magdeburg and closed the long quarrel, which had raged through four pontificates, about the appointment of William Fitzherbert ( commonly known as Saint William of York ) to the see of York by sending him the pallium in spite of the continued opposition of the powerful Cistercian order.

William Roache has played Ken Barlow continuously from 1960 on the British soap Coronation Street, which is also the longest-running television soap in the world still in production.

Other Enterprise crewmembers include the ship's first officer William Riker, played by director Jonathan Frakes.

In the 1968 production, Barry Humphries played the role of Long John Silver, alongside William Rushton as Squire Trelawney, and Milligan as Ben Gunn.

Also, the emergence of William Wolfe ( universally known as Billy ) as a leading figure played a huge role in the SNP defining itself as a left-of-centre and social-democratic party.

Michael Fassbender, a German-Irish actor, will play Edwin Epps, the slave's last master, while the first master-planter and Baptist preacher William Ford-will be played by British Olivier-award winning actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

* Bill Hinzman as Cemetery Zombie: The cemetery zombie who kills Johnny in the first scene was played by S. William Hinzman ( credited as Bill Hinzman ).