Aeneas is also a titular character in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ( c. 1688 ), and one of the principal roles in Hector Berlioz ' opera Les Troyens ( c. 1857 ).

* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

In response to the question “ Which side does Abner part his hair on ?," Capp would answer, “ Both .” Capp said he finally found the right " look " for Li ' l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ( 1936 ).

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

* Case ( Henry Dorsett Case ), fictional character in Neuromancer

* Henry Cortez, a character in the Millennium series of novels by Stieg Larsson.

Similarly, while having several characters as students in a class taught by Henry Kissinger, the dialogue made up for Kissinger would also come from “ off-panel ” ( although Kissinger had earlier appeared as a character with his face shown in a 1972 series of strips in which he met Mark Slackmeyer while the latter was on a trip to Washington ).

A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".

In Act II, Scene III of Henry V, his death is described by the character " Hostess ", possibly the Mistress Quickly of Henry IV, who describes his body in terms that parody Plato's description of the death of Socrates.

However, many stage and film adaptations have seen it necessary to include Falstaff for the insight he provides into King Henry V's character.

A sampler of the book has indicated some inspiration from Charles Dickens life and literature, but it also contains a character called Henry Mayhew: a gentleman who concerns himself with the well-being of the poor, even going so far as to take people in to his home to nurse and feed them on some occasions.

One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was Henry Morton Stanley of " Dr. Livingstone, I presume " fame, as he was a principal explorer of " The Dark Heart of Africa ", particularly the Congo.

Horatio ( character ) | Horatio, Marcellus, Hamlet, and the Ghost ( Artist: Henry Fuseli 1798 )

Henry returned to public attention as a character in Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin ( 1850 ), trying to gain the support of the Brabantian nobles against the Magyars.

Scholars have identified a gay sensibility suffused through the film, especially a camp sensibility, particularly embodied in the character of Pretorius ( Thesiger ) and his relationship with Henry Frankenstein ( Clive ).

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

His detractors, among them Henry James, deplored his arbitrary word changes such as " would have " for " should have " in the speech at Lady Macbeth's death, and also his " neurasthenic " and " finicky " approach to the character.

He is also a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and was the hero of James Hill's UK TV movie Owain, Prince of Wales, broadcast in 1983 in the early days of Channel 4 / S4C.

Shakespeare omitted the character of the traitorous Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford in The Life and Death of King John, and the character of the 12th Earl of Oxford is given a much more prominent role in Henry V than his limited involvement in the actual history of the times would allow.

Even a modern editor of Father and Son has rejected this portrait of Philip Henry Gosse on the grounds that his " writings reveal a genuinely sweet character.

Shakespeare uses the image of Proteus to establish the character of his great royal villain Richard III in the play Henry VI, Part Three, in which the future usurper boasts:

* In Charles Bukowski's 1978 novel Women, the main character, Henry Chinaski, vomits on Peter Stuyvesant's burial vault cover before a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church.

Although a number of critics praised Eastwood's performance as Dirty Harry, such as Jay Cocks of Time magazine who described him as " giving his best performance so far, tense, tough, full of implicit identification with his character ", the film was also widely criticized and accused of being fascistic.

* Savannah, a character in Jay Jay the Jet Plane

However, another African American character named Jay Weldon appeared in the 1986 animated series to far less controversy as he was not a stereotype.

* Jay Sherman, the main character in The Critic

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional main character that appears in the animated television series The Simpsons as the patriarch of the eponymous family.

Jay Ward is credited with the creation of the Cap ’ n Crunch character and his Jay Ward Studios produced the first Cap ’ n Crunch commercials.

Kevin Smith has stated that he sees Jay as ambisexual: " Jay — who's always talking about women — is a character a lot of young hetero guys identify with.

On television, Richards also appeared in Miami Vice ( as an unscrupulous bookie ), Cheers ( as a character trying to collect on an old bet with Sam Malone ), and made several guest appearances with Jay Leno as an accident-prone fitness expert.

* Jay North, played the character Dennis the Menace, from the TV series ( 1959 – 1963 )

* Jay O. Sanders, an American character actor

Eliza Doolittle, the central character in George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion, and the musical adaptation by Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady, is a Covent Garden flower seller.

In the 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Will Ferrell plays a character named " Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly ," a reference to the three main characters on Land of the Lost.

Jay Ward bought an island in Minnesota near his home and dubbed it " Moosylvania ," based upon the home of his most famous TV character Bullwinkle.

He also played the character Quark on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Regis & Kathie Lee.

The character of Jay was featured, prompting Smith to point out that he owned the character rights to both Jay and Silent Bob ( for the purposes of featuring them in separate films ).

According to Divine's manager, Bernard Jay, this was " not because Divine happened to be a gay person himself … but because it was the gay community that openly and proudly identified with the determination of the female character Divine ".

" She also said that the character Thelma ( based on Margaret Jay ) looked like a giraffe with " big feet.

The film was directed by Jay Roach, co-written by Mike Myers and screenwriter Michael McCullers, and once again stars Myers as the title character.

In the episode of The Critic, Jay Sherman shows a clip of a movie entitled " Field Of Dreams 2 " where after Kevin Costner's character completes his new ball field, Martin emerges and punches Costner.