Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.

The character was played by Silvana Mangano in the US production, Ullyses ( 1955 ); by Juliette Mayniel in the European television co-production L ' Odissea ( 1968 ); and by Bernadette Peters in the American TV feature Ulysses ( 1997 ).

* Cyrus " The Virus " Grissom, a character in the 1997 film Con Air, played by John Malkovich

Concurrently with his Seinfeld role, Alexander provided the voice of the lead character in the cult animated series Duckman ( 1994 – 1997 ).

In the 1997 Oscar winning film As Good as It Gets, the misanthropic character played by Jack Nicholson sings " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " as evidence of the character's change in attitude.

The Sontarans have also appeared as a character in the PC game Destiny of the Doctors released on 5 December 1997, by BBC Multimedia.

Capcom later released Street Fighter III in 1997 which featured improved visuals and character depth, but was also unable to match the impact of Street Fighter II.

In the 1997 Sega Saturn / Sony Playstation game Herc's Adventures, she is a playable character.

* Lexx episode " Eating Pattern ", character " Bog " ( 1997 )

Willow Danielle Rosenberg is a fictional character created for the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1997 – 2003 ).

The 1997 film Dante's Peak, which was loosely based on the eruption of Mount St. Helens, features a character called Ruth, an elderly woman who lives in a cabin on the mountain and is reluctant to leave, also claiming " the mountain isn't going to hurt me.

In 1997, she won her third Golden Globe award for CBS ' Cybill ( 1995 – 1998 ), a television sitcom, in which the title character — Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps — was loosely modeled on herself ( including portrayals of her two ex-husbands ).

" Mario Vargas Llosa uses the work of Schiele as a conduit to seduce and morally exploit a main character in his 1997 novel The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto.

* Castor Troy, fictional character in the 1997 movie Face / Off, portrayed by Nicolas Cage and John Travolta

He is a character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love, which deals with the life of A. E. Housman and the Oscar Wilde trials.

* Justin, the main character of Grandia, a 1997 role-playing game

In 1997 the two signed a deal in which Gaiman would give his share of characters Angela, Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro to McFarlane in exchange of McFarlane's share of British superhero Marvelman ( in reality, what McFarlane actually owned were two trademarks for Miracleman logos, not the character, which would become clear only after the lawsuit concluded ).

* Nilus the Sandman, main character of the eponymous children's television show ( 1991 – 1997 )

She appeared in 33 episodes between 1991 and 1997, and was one of the first actresses to portray an openly lesbian recurring character on American television.

A grave marked " J. Dawson " gained fame following the release of the 1997 film Titanic, since the name of Leonardo DiCaprio's character in the film is Jack Dawson.

Played by American actor Richard Dean Anderson, O ' Neill was a main character in the first eight seasons of Stargate SG-1 ( 1997 – 2005 ).

The majority of the 1997 film Leave It to Beaver was filmed in Santa Paula, with many Santa Paula residents being cast in minor character roles and as extras.

They received a Technical Achievement Academy Award in 1997, for " pioneering work in the development of software techniques for computer assisted key framing for character animation ".

In 1997, Norwood was hand-picked by executive producer Whitney Houston to play the title character in Rodgers and Hammerstein ’ s television version of Cinderella featuring a multi-cultural cast that also included Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, and Houston.

In February 1997, cloning became the focus of media attention when Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced the successful cloning of a sheep, named Dolly, from the mammary glands of an adult female.

In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

The Regime of Marshall Mobutu Sese Seko lasted 32 years ( 1965 – 1997 ), during which all but the first seven years the country was named Zaire.

Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max & Moritz Prize as best international comic strip for 1998.

In the Squiddy Awards, Dilbert was named the best daily strip of 1996 and 1997, and the best comic strip of 1998 and 2000.

* 1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.

In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time.

From 1995 – 1997 and again from 2006 – 2009, the stadium was named Jacksonville Municipal Stadium.

In 1997, InterSystems essentially completed this consolidation by launching a unified successor named Caché.

A 42-year-old woman named Vanessa Perhach accused Albert of throwing her on a bed, biting her, and forcing her to perform oral sex after a February 12, 1997 argument in his Pentagon City hotel room.

Fassel named Danny Kanell the team's starting quarterback, and the team finished 10 – 5 – 1 and made the playoffs in 1997.

In 1997 Nashville was awarded an NHL expansion team which was subsequently named the Nashville Predators.

In 1997, the Mateba company developed a type of recoil-operated automatic revolver, commercially named the Mateba Autorevolver, which uses the recoil energy to auto-rotate a normal revolver cylinder holding six or seven cartridges, depending on the model.

After three consecutive losing seasons, the Giants named Brian Sabean as their new general manager in 1997, replacing Bob Quinn.

In 1997, prior to his retirement, The Hockey News named a committee of 50 hockey experts ( former NHL players, past and present writers, broadcasters, coaches and hockey executives ) to select and rank the 50 greatest players in NHL history.

Gretzky was named to the club on November 29, 1997.

An asteroid 14966 Jurijvega, discovered on July 30, 1997, is named after him.

A large memorial to Ellington, created by sculptor Robert Graham, was dedicated in 1997 in New York's Central Park, near Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, an intersection named Duke Ellington Circle.

He could manage only seven games in 1997 and although he was named captain in 1998 ( a position he held until the end of 2005 ), he was restricted to thirteen games that year.

In 1997, the Essendon Football Club named the then-triple best and fairest winner in its Team of the Century on the half-forward flank.

Completed in 1997, the tunnel, approaches and related buildings were designed by the hypermodernist Dutch architectural firm Van Berkel + Bos, and was named after the Dutch naval hero Piet Hein.

The law enforcement agents who were named in the suit lost their bid for immunity from prosecution on 15 October 1997.

* Adelaide Steamship Company, Australian company active 1875 – 1997 ; now named Residual Assco Group and delisted

Hollander says she " turned gay " around 1997, establishing a long-term relationship with a woman named Dia.

While playing with Seattle, Griffey was a 10-time American League Gold Glove winner, the 1992 All-Star Game MVP, 1997 AL MVP, 1998 ESPY co-winner for Male Athlete of the Year, 1999 Players Choice Awards Player of the Decade ( by the players ), and was named to the All-Century team in 1999.