In 1987 she played the disturbed book editor Alex in Fatal Attraction, and in 1988 she played the scheming aristocrat The Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons.

Sheen played a gay aristocrat in an ensemble cast which included James McAvoy, Emily Mortimer, David Tennant, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent and Peter O ' Toole.

The chess game played in 1858 at an opera house in Paris between the American chess master Paul Morphy and two strong amateurs, the German noble Duke Karl of Brunswick and the French aristocrat Count Isouard, is among the most famous chess games.

* Cynthia Worthington – Cynthia ( played by Amanda Bynes ) is an aristocrat who was brought up by a very wealthy and civilized family.

The ethnic Polish aristocrat Badeni, born in Galicia, had served as governor of that province, during which time he played a key role in the rapprochement between the Polish elite and the Ruthenians that came to be known as the " New Era ".

It later becomes evident that York's inability to commit and his instinct for romantic cruelty derives from conflicting feelings about his adoptive mother who is a former prostitute, played by Rebecca Pan ; and his biological mother, a Filipino aristocrat.

Arnulf of Montgomery ( c. 1068 – 1118 / 1122 ) was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat, who played a role in the history of England, Wales, and Ireland.

Films such as Week-End in Havana ( 1941 ) and That Night in Rio ( 1941 ), where she played a Brazilian aristocrat, made good use of Faye's husky singing voice, solid comic timing, and flair for carrying off the era's starry-eyed romantic storylines.

The Philidor occurred in one of the most famous games ever played, the " Opera Box game " played in 1858 between the American chess master Paul Morphy and two strong amateurs, the German noble Duke Karl of Brunswick and the French aristocrat Count Isouard.

Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor ( c. 1606 – 1663 ) was a French aristocrat and Count of Montrésor, who played a role in the intrigues of the first half of the 17th century, and was also a memoir-writer.

One character appearing in the pilot who was dropped from subsequent incarnations of the story was Lady Cynthia, an aristocrat who helps demolish Dent's house, who was played by another ex-Cambridge Footlights actress, Jo Kendall.

The film centers on the relationship between Lady Mary Loam ( played by Gloria Swanson ), a British aristocrat, and her butler, Crichton.

Two films he made in 1955 saw him cast in more positive roles — in March Hare he played an impoverished aristocrat riding a horse for the Derby, and in the espionage melodrama They Can't Hang Me he starred as a dapper Special Branch officer charged with discovering the identity of an enemy agent.

In 1934, Alvarez married Jean de Gaillard de la Valdène, the Count of Valdene, a French aristocrat and diplomat, and played for three years on the international tennis circuit as " Countess Valdene ".

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 Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

* Prisoner Ball: Also played with volleyball court and a volleyball, prisoner ball is a variation of Newcomb ball where players are " taken prisoner " or released from " prison " instead of scoring points.

The central character — an escaped prisoner played by Tracy — is seen as comparatively passive and fatalistic.

In the smash hit war movie The Great Escape, Garner played the second lead for the only time during the decade, supporting fellow ex-TV series cowboy Steve McQueen, among a cast of British and American screen veterans, including Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, David McCallum, James Coburn, and Charles Bronson, in a film depicting a mass escape from a Nazi prisoner of war camp based on a true story.

During the 1960s and 70s, Kinski appeared in various European exploitation film genres, as well as more acclaimed works such as Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), in which he played an Anarchist prisoner on his way to the Gulag.

The prisoner who is forcibly " implanted " with His Shadow's consciousness in I Worship His Shadow ( and thus becomes the new physical body of His Shadow ) is played by show creator Lex Gigeroff.

It played roles in history during the English Civil War and as the site of a prisoner of war camp during World War I.

Nasrallah also played a major role in a complex prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hezbollah in 2004, resulting in hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners being freed and many bodies, including that of his son, being returned to Lebanon.

After not appearing in a film for two years, Juliá played a political prisoner named Valentín in an adaptation of Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman.

As a prisoner of war, he played a major role in maintaining the troops ' loyalty to the Patriots ' cause.

Claudia Cardinale also featured in a minor role ( a chaste, black-clad Sicilian girl, almost held prisoner at home by her overbearing brother, played by Tiberio Murgia ), although she would later rise to fame for other work.

In the film Piñero played the part of " Go-Go ", a prisoner.

House of Women, she played an aggressive but ultimately sympathetic female prisoner who gets into a catfight with prison matron Jeanne Cooper.

77 Squadron suffered heavy losses during its time at Elvington with over 500 aircrew killed, missing or taken prisoner and almost 80 Halifaxes lost as it played a major part in the Battle of the Ruhr and the bombing of Berlin.

Some of his sons were massacred as well ; one of the surviving sons was sent as a prisoner to Mongolia, where Mongolian historians report he married and fathered children, but played no role in Islam thereafter.

Made prisoner of war in 1940, he played a major role in the French Resistance.

Having briefly played the brusque daughter of released prisoner " Mum " Brooks in 1979, Charleston returned for several appearances in the serial as policewomen through the early 1980s before taking the larger recurring role of Deidre Kean, mother of prison toughie Reb Kean ( Janet Andrewartha ), in 1984.

In 1999, Rockwell played prisoner William " Wild Bill " Wharton in the Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile.

He played a convicted war prisoner recruited to help terminate a German general who is plotting to assassinate Hitler.

Yoo played an important role in developing a legal justification for the Bush administration's policy in the war on terrorism, arguing that prisoner of war status under the Geneva Conventions does not apply to " enemy combatants " captured during the war in Afghanistan and held at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, asserting executive authority to undertake waterboarding and other " enhanced interrogation techniques " regarded as torture by the current Justice Department.

In Lina Wertmüller's Academy Award-nominated film, Seven Beauties ( 1975 ), Rey played the role of Pedro the anarchist who, as a friend of the protagonist and fellow prisoner, Pasqualino Settebellezze, chooses a gruesome suicide rather than spend another day in a Nazi concentration camp.

He had another performance in the 2003 Hector Babenco film Carandiru, where he played a transexual prisoner known as " Lady Di ".

After that, he watched reruns of The Third Man, and he was a Jonathan Harris fan, growing up ( when he was actually a fan of Guy Williams's, Zorro, who played his future TV father – John Robinson ).

* The Monologue Man ( played by Chris Morris ): Short stories, often up to 10 minutes in length, written from the perspective of a lonely and socially inept man.

" The Man " in La jetée, played by Davos Hanich.

The film stars Christina Milian ( who previously played cheerleaders in Love Don't Cost a Thing and Man of the House ) and Rachelle Brook Smith, and was released directly to DVD and Blu-ray on September 1, 2009.

" Iron Man " Torres, played by John Dehner-the world's first cyborg, plans to assassinate President Grant in New Mexico.

Janssen played an alcoholic in the 1977 TV movie A Sensitive, Passionate Man, which co-starred Angie Dickinson and an engineer who devises an unbeatable system for blackjack in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Nowhere to Run, co-starring Stefanie Powers and Linda Evans.

In the 2008 film August, directed by Austin Chick, he played a supporting role as Ogilvie, alongside Josh Hartnett and Rip Torn, with whom he had worked in 1976 for The Man Who Fell to Earth.

In 2005 Coleman appeared in WWE Superstar John Cena's music video for his single Bad, Bad Man ( from the album You Can't See Me ), Coleman played the part of himself as a bad guy taking the 1980s pop stars Madonna and Michael Jackson hostage.

He also drafted an article on The part played by labour in the transition from Ape to Man, apparently a theory of anthropogenesis which would integrate the insights of Marx and Charles Darwin.

In Eastern Europe, a larger descendant of the hammered dulcimer called the cimbalom is played and has been used by a number of classical composers, including Zoltán Kodály, Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez, and more recently, in a different musical context, by Blue Man Group.

The following year, Cagney appeared in Man of a Thousand Faces, in which he played Lon Chaney.

He also played the phenomenally successful US toymaker A. C. Gilbert in the 2002 movie: The Man Who Saved Christmas.

His acting career began when he signed a seven year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and played the role of Tarzan in Tarzan the Ape Man ( 1932 ).

Moon also played timpani on another track, the Jerome Kern classic, " Ol ' Man River " ( Moon was credited on the back of the album as " You Know Who ").

He played one of Lee Marvin's villainous henchmen in the 1962 John Ford classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, with James Stewart and John Wayne.

Wertico played drums on Paul Winter's 1990 Grammy-nominated release, " Earth: Voices Of A Planet "; he has also played on and produced a number of CDs for artists including vocalist Kurt Elling's 1995 Grammy-nominated release " Close Your Eyes ", Elling's 1997 Grammy-nominated release " The Messenger ", Elling's 1998 Grammy-nominated release " This Time It's Love " and Elling's 2003 Grammy-nominated release " Man In The Air.

Crow was featured on the Johnny Cash album American III: Solitary Man in the song " Field of Diamonds " as a background vocalist, and also played the accordion for the songs " Wayfaring Stranger " and " Mary of the Wild Moor.

Gellar next played a lead role in James Toback's independent Harvard Man ( 2001 ), where she played the daughter of a mobster.

Markstein suggested that Danger Man lead, John Drake ( played by McGoohan ), could suddenly resign, and be kidnapped and sent to such a location.

A more tragic character is Lawrence Talbot, played by Lon Chaney, Jr. in 1941's The Wolf Man.

In the meantime, Beiderbecke played on four number-one records in 1928, all under the Whiteman name: " Together ," " Ramona ," " My Angel ," and " Ol ' Man River ", which featured Bing Crosby on vocals.

* Luk Tsut K ' i (" Six Man Chess ") in Canton and Tapatan in the Philippines are equivalent to Three Men's Morris played on a board with diagonals.

In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named The City, where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the single-season ABC television series entitled The Man and the City.