The Russian writer Dostoevsky ( himself a problem gambler ) portrays in his novella The Gambler the psychological implications of gambling and how gambling can affect gamblers.

Fox portrays himself as always in the right and always vindicated by God's interventions on his behalf.

In Tootsie ( 1982 ), Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera.

Although Gunge portrays himself as the brains of the pair, neither ever really prove a great help.

DeForest Kelley portrays Doctor Leonard McCoy, who is given many of the film's comedic lines ; Kelley biographer Terry Lee Rioux wrote that in the film " he seemed to be playing straight man to himself ".

* Hungarian psychologist Péter Popper wrote a novel in 1997 Peloni or the Testament of Pilate in which Pilate portrays himself as a cultivated Roman bewildered by Judea and the Jews, who experienced some of the divine power of Jesus and executed him on Jesus's own impulse.

* He portrays himself in Harold Robbins 1995 follow-up to The Carpetbaggers, The Raiders.

In it he portrays himself as a celebrity spokesman for Mega Lo Mart, although his animated form appears much younger than his current age, more closely resembling how he looked in the late 1970s, always wearing the white and red shirt from the cover of his " Feels So Good " album.

In his book, Delmedigo portrays himself as defender of Maimonidean Judaism, and — like many Maimonideans — he emphasized the rationality of Jewish tradition.

* Ron MacLean-the host of Hockey Night in Canada has appeared on Air Farce in several sketches, most notably one in which he portrays himself alongside Goy ( as the Queen who is impersonating Don Cherry ).

* Brian Williams-then-CBC Sports anchor who has made several appearances on Air Farce, most memorably in which he portrays himself locked in his studio at the conclusion of the 2000 Olympic Games.

Nogson portrays himself as " fierce ", but is actually anything but.

When Frank Willard, author of Moon Mullins, narrates a scene from his workplace, he portrays himself as a rowdy underdog much like The Yellow Kid.

A later scene portrays FDR literally dragging himself up the stairs as, through grit and determination, he painfully strives to overcome his physical limitations and not remain an invalid.

Theatre historian Don Wilmeth noted Gray's contribution to a unique style of writing and acting: " The 1980s saw the rise of the autobiographical monologue, its leading practitioner Spalding Gray, the WASP from Rhode Island who portrays himself as an innocent abroad in a crazy contemporary world.

In the video Stevens portrays himself, Santa, the prosecutor, and the Judge.

: An occasional actor on the show ( and a member of Jimmy's writing staff ), Tony Barbieri periodically portrays Jake Byrd, who insinuates himself into real life events around the country, seeking attention and irritating those around him.

Just behind them, Velázquez portrays himself working at a large canvas.

KQ6 primarily portrays the plan as Alhazred's plan to become the new King of the Green Isles ( who asks for advice from Shadrack ), and the Companion takes it further as the ultimate plan is to lead to the Land's destruction ( possibly instigated by Shadrack himself, with Abdul Alhazred being Mordack's underling ).

Possibly the most adept at musical depiction in his program music was the German composer Richard Strauss, whose symphonic poems include Death and Transfiguration ( portraying a dying man and his entry into heaven ), Don Juan ( based on the ancient legend of Don Juan ), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks ( based on episodes in the career of the legendary German figure Till Eulenspiegel ), Don Quixote ( portraying episodes in the life of Miguel de Cervantes ' character, Don Quixote ), A Hero's Life ( which depicts episodes in the life of an unnamed hero often taken to be Strauss himself ) and Symphonia Domestica ( which portrays episodes in the composer's own married life, including putting the baby to bed ).

This would have discredited Sarmiento as a respected father of Argentina, as Sarmiento portrays himself as a sole individual, disregarding or denouncing important ties to other people and groups in his life.

He portrays himself as a veteran stage actor trying to make a new name for himself while having several substance-related vices.

Instead, he often proclaims himself to be a pirate, and typically portrays himself as such in his articles and artwork.

Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.

Billy Gibbons also portrays the father of Angela Montenegro in the television show Bones.

* The novel Cleopatra's Heir by Gillian Bradshaw, portrays Caesarion as an epileptic ( like his father Julius Caesar ), who, after being wounded during an attack by Roman soldiers, is left for dead.

The Epic of Gilgamesh contains an episode involving Ishtar which portrays her as bad-tempered, petulant and spoiled by her father.

After its initial airing, " Encounter " triggered complaints from Japanese-Americans due to the backstory of the character played by Takei: he portrays a Nisei ( the U. S .- born son of Japanese immigrants ) whose father spied for the Japanese navy during the Pearl Harbor attack.

Her second Twilight Zone appearance, with billing in the closing credits, came in the episode broadcast the following week, " Dust ", in which she portrays another pleading child, Estrelita, a little Mexican girl, helping her father beg for the life of her condemned brother.

* Brian Delate as Kirk Burbank / Walter Moore: An actor who portrays Truman's father.

Tate Donovan portrays Jimmy Cooper, Marissa and Kaitlin's father ( and Julie's ex-husband ).

Alan Dale portrays Caleb Nichol, Kirsten's businessman father and later Julie Cooper's husband.

Anthony Head, portrays Ben's cousin and the father of Abi Harper.

Frequently called the father of Portuguese theatre, he portrays the society of the 16th century.

Hyacinth's senile father ( one of the actors who portrays him is George Webb ) is named and referred to as " Daddy " by Hyacinth.

The Danish director Nils Malmros's movie, Facing the Truth ( original Danish title At Kende Sandheden ) from 2002, portrays the dilemma that faced Malmros's father, Richard Malmros, when treating his patients in the 1940s.

With Francis appearance on Y & R, she was reunited with former General Hospital co-star Tristan Rogers, who currently portrays Colin Atkinson, the estranged biological father of Cane Ashby.

However, the following book, Only In Death, portrays Dalin as still unaware of Kolea's status as his father: when Kolea comes to visit the wounded and unconscious Tona he finds Dalin sitting by her side.

In 1960, the family was forced to flee to the United States after her father participated in a failed plot to overthrow the island's military dictator, Rafael Trujillo, circumstances which would later be revisited in her writing: her novel How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, for example, portrays a family that is forced to leave the Dominican Republic in similar circumstances, and in her poem, " Exile ", she describes " the night we fled the country " and calls the experience a " loss much larger than I understood ".

* Johnny Ngan portrays Shek Tai-chuen ( 石大川 ), Mei's father.

Richard Smith is a character in Elizabeth Oakes Smith's 1867 novel Bald Eagle ; or, The Last of the Ramapaughs, which portrays Claudius's son as seeking vengeance on the people of Orange County for the killing of his father.

The Modern Parents, for example, portrays the way a mother and father insist on bringing up their young sons following a doctrine of what they term as ' ethical awareness ', much to the detriment of their children.

Keenan Wynn portrays McClintock's manager Maish ; Keenan's father Ed plays McClintock's cut man, Army.

She portrays their relationship as a manifestation of her Electra complex, that she was attracted to Hughes because he reminded her of her father.

The Comédie humaine frequently portrays the complex emotional, social and financial relationships between fathers and their children, and between father-figures and their mentors, and these relationships are metaphorically linked as well with issues of nationhood ( the king as father, regicide ), nobility ( bloodlines, family names ), history ( parental secrets ), wealth ( the origin of parental fortunes, dowries ) and artistic creation ( the writer or artist as father of the work of art ).