Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

The characters he portrayed in the films were usually very similar to the wise-cracking, sly, lecherous Cockney he was famed for playing on television, and in six cases bore the name Sid or Sidney: Sidney Fiddler, Sid Carter, Sid Plummer, Sidney Bliss, Sidney Boggle and Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond.

More was portrayed as a wise and honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of Queen Elizabeth I ( any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out ).

Sir Ian McKellen portrayed Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ( 2001 – 2003 ) directed by Peter Jackson, though Sean Connery was also offered the role.

He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield ( 1935 ) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ).

Both Sir Humphrey and Jim Hacker are portrayed there by the same actors who dubbed them for the original.

He is the hero of one of the greatest works of Middle English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where he is portrayed as an excellent, but human, knight.

Sir Henry's final appearance was in a television commercial for Ruddles Real Ale ( c. 1994 ), where he is portrayed by a cross-dressing Dawn French, presiding over a family banquet at a long table.

Later in 1961 he also appeared in the first of Tony Hancock's two principal film vehicles, The Rebel, in which he played Hancock's office manager, and in the Terry Bishop-directed Hair of the Dog, where he portrayed Sir Mortimer Gallant.

In 1979 he portrayed Sir Gawain in Walt Disney's film adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Unidentified Flying Oddball, directed by Russ Mayberry, and co-starring Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody and Kenneth More.

In the film Cromwell, Clarendon ( called only Sir Edward Hyde in the movie ), is portrayed by Nigel Stock as a sympathetic, conflicted man torn between Parliament and the King.

The series portrayed Clarendon ( referred to as ' Sir Edward Hyde ' throughout ) as acting in a paternalistic fashion towards Charles II, something the King comes to dislike.

William of Orange ( 1650 – 1702 ), portrayed here as King William III of England by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

Halifax also appears in the film Gandhi, in which he is portrayed by Sir John Gielgud.

* Seti I was portrayed as the father of Rameses II and uncle of Moses by actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments

In 1979, the fictional character Sir Thomas Spivey, portrayed by actor Roy Lansford, appears in Murder by Decree, starring Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Doctor Watson.

Sir William Gull is portrayed by Ray McAnally in 1988 in a TV dramatisation of the murders, starring Michael Caine and Jane Seymour.

In a 2001 film adaptation of the graphic novel From Hell, Sir William Gull is portrayed by Sir Ian Holm.

The play " Sweeney Todd: His Life Times and Execution " devised by Finger in the Pie ( 2009 ) features a fictionalized Sir John Fielding portrayed as a symbol of the enlightenment whose zealous belief in social reform is ultimately undermined by his idealism.

" It is true that the moneylender Moses is portrayed in a comparatively positive light, but the way he is described ( as a " friendly Jew " and an " honest Israelite " by Rowley in III. 1 ) suggest that he is in some way to be considered an exception to Jews in general ; also, his own usurious business practices as stated to Sir Peter are clearly less than exemplary ( e. g., his statement " If he appears not very anxious for the supply, you should require only forty or fifty per cent ; but if you find him in great distress, and want the moneys very bad, you may ask double " ).

He also toured in several musicals, including Camelot as Sir Lancelot, Man of La Mancha, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, where he portrayed Billy Bigelow, a role he also played in 1967 in a made-for-television adaptation of the musical.

The character is portrayed as an excellent knight in the later romances, the Lancelot-Grail cycle and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, under one spelling of his name or another.

On television, the actor Freddie Jones portrayed Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars while the 1985 made-for-television miniseries A. D. features actor Richard Kiley as Claudius.

Richardson said he based his performance of the scheming Francis Urquhart on the way Shakespeare portrayed Richard III.

The 1938 film, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, portrayed Robin as a hero on a national scale, leading the oppressed Saxons in revolt against their Norman overlords while Richard the Lionheart fought in the Crusades ; this movie established itself so definitively that many studios resorted to movies about his son ( invented for that purpose ) rather than compete with the image of this one.

Rous reversed himself and now portrayed Richard as a freakish individual who was born with teeth and shoulder-length hair after having been in his mother's womb for two years.

However, Shakespeare had portrayed Richard as being much older than he actually was, in order to show him participating in events that happened before he was born.

In the television comedy series Blackadder, Richard III is portrayed by Peter Cook in an alternative version of history as a doting, kindly man who treats his nephews with affection.

Slartibartfast was first portrayed in the 1978 radio serial, in which he was voiced by Richard Vernon, who also portrayed him in the 1981 live-action miniseries.

Edward has also been portrayed by Ronald Sinclair in Tower of London, a 1939 horror film loosely dramatising the rise to power of Richard III, and by Eugene Martin in the 1962 remake.

In the 1986 miniseries, Perot was portrayed by Richard Crenna.

Armand Assante portrayed John Gotti and Richard C. Sarafian portrayed Paul Castellano.

* Warbeck was portrayed by British actor Richard Warwick in the 1972 BBC television series The Shadow of the Tower.

A less sympathetic picture is given in Sandra Worth's Lady of the Roses ( 2008 ) as well as in Marjorie Bowen's 1929 novel Dickon where she is portrayed as a schemer who is at the very heart of the various conspiracies against Richard III.

* Richard III ( 1955 ): Elizabeth was portrayed by Mary Kerridge.

* He was portrayed by John Gielgud in Richard III ( 1955 film )

She is portrayed by Claire Bloom in Laurence Olivier's 1955 film adaptation of the play, Kristin Scott Thomas in Ian McKellen's 1995 adaptation of the play and by Winona Ryder in the 1996 movie Looking for Richard.

The story of Anne and Richard is portrayed in the 1982 novel The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, which presents a sympathetic portrayal of Richard.

Peter O ' Toole and Richard Roundtree co-starred in a 1975 film Man Friday which satirically portrayed Crusoe as incapable of seeing his dark-skinned companion as anything but an inferior creature, while Friday is more enlightened and empathetic.

* 1982: In Richard Attenborough's Gandhi ( 1982 ), actor Saeed Jaffrey portrayed Patel.

Another fictionalized version of Mary's marital adventures is portrayed in the 1953 Walt Disney film The Sword and the Rose starring Richard Todd and Glynis Johns.

* Richard Castellano, who portrayed Peter Clemenza in the first film, also declined to return, as he and the producers could not reach an agreement on his demands that he be allowed to write the character's dialogue in the film.

Popular actor, Richard Mulligan, portrayed William Seward in the 1988 Lincoln mini-series, " Random Letters.

Higgins also portrayed Holmes in the 1993 TV film Sherlock Holmes Returns, making him one of the only two actors to portray both Holmes and Moriarty on film, Richard Roxburgh being the other.