Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

In 2004, the SyFy Channel reported that it was developing a Ringworld miniseries.

In 2004 the Sci Fi Channel adapted the first two books of the Earthsea trilogy as the miniseries Legend of Earthsea.

* Spartacus ( TV miniseries ) ( 2004 )

Gardner has been portrayed by Marcia Gay Harden in the TV miniseries Sinatra, Deborah Kara Unger in HBO's The Rat Pack, Kate Beckinsale in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator and Anna Drijver in the 2012 Italian TV film Walter Chiari-Fino all ' ultima risata.

She filmed two projects in Canada during this time: the independent film Between Strangers ( 2002 ), directed by her son Edoardo and co-starring Mira Sorvino, and the television miniseries Lives of the Saints ( 2004 ).

GSN aired this version as recently as 2004, and the VH1 miniseries Game Show Moments Gone Bananas aired a clip from a Convy pilot, as well as a clip with Ross Shafer.

Emperor Bảo Đại was portrayed by actor Huỳnh Anh Tuấn in the 2004 Vietnamese miniseries Ngọn nến Hoàng cung ( A Candle in the Imperial Palace ).

In 2004, she played the High Priestess Thar in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries Legend of Earthsea.

Her most notable roles include Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction ( 1994 ), Debby Miller in the HBO miniseries Hysterical Blindness ( 2002 ), and Beatrix Kiddo in Tarantino's Kill Bill films ( 2003 / 2004 ).

* King Solomon's Mines ( 2004 film ), an American television miniseries

The miniseries was filmed in Vancouver, directed by Rob Lieberman and broadcast on December 13, 2004.

Jonathan Vankin was hired as an editor at Vertigo in 2004 after previously writing two of the line's Vertigo Pop miniseries and several entries in the Paradox Press " Big Book " series as well as several other non-comics works.

In addition, he has produced a number of miniseries including Sebastian O ( 1993 ), the Doom Patrol spin-off Flex Mentallo ( 1996 ), Seaguy ( 2004 ), Vimanarama ( 2005 ), We3 ( 2004 – 2005 ) and " Joe The Barbarian " ( 2010 ) as well as the longer miniseries The Filth ( 2002 – 2003 ).

He also wrote a non-Sandman miniseries, My Faith in Frankie ( 2004 ), the comicbook adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere ( 2005-6 ) and the OGN God Save the Queen ( 2007 ).

Since the 1990s, Schell has appeared in many German language made-for-TV films, such as the 2003 film Alles Glück dieser Erde ( All the Luck in the World ) opposite Uschi Glas and in the television miniseries The Return of the Dancing Master ( 2004 ), which was based on Henning Mankell's novel.

In 2004, Lowe starred in the TNT remake of the Stephen King miniseries Salem's Lot which was the highest rated cable program of that summer and the highest ratings TNT original programming had at the time.

He is also portrayed by British actor Richard Durdon in the BBC docudrama miniseries Dunkirk ( 2004 ).

Jackson was portrayed by Jason Griffith in the 2004 film Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, while his son, Jermaine Jackson Jr., portrayed him in the 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream.

She starred in another miniseries on TNT, The Grid in 2004.

* Retrosexual: The ' 80s ( 2004 ) TV miniseries ( Archive Footage )

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

The 2004 limited series Superman: Birthright has a young Clark Kent study the Meisner technique to move seamlessly between his Clark and Superman personas ( dropping his head, lowering his shoulders, and talking in a lighter tone as Clark Kent, while standing straight and talking in a deeper tone as Superman ).

The 2004 series Superman: Birthright also explained that Superman's eyes are an inhumanly vivid shade of blue, which Clark's glasses diffuse to make his eyes appear more human.

Superman: Birthright, a limited series written by Mark Waid in 2004, offers an alternate look at Luthor's history, including his youth in Smallville, and his first encounter with Superman.

In the 2004 mini-series Superman: Birthright, a new retelling of Superman's origin and early years, Mark Waid depicted a Krypton, officially stated as being located in the Andromeda Galaxy 2. 5 million light-years away, with elements of various versions of the planet, but closer to the pre-Crisis version.

McQuickly and Nasty had cameos in the 2004 graphic novel, Superman: True Brit, co-written by John Cleese.

He has a cameo appearance in several films: Around the World in 80 Days ( 2004 ), where he played a hot-air balloon operator ; Superman Returns, where he was credited as a ' Shuttle Engineer ' and appeared alongside his son, Sam, with a Virgin Galactic-style commercial suborbital shuttle at the centre of his storyline.

Following the cancellation of the third Supergirl comic book series, starring the Linda Danvers version of the character, a modern version of Kara Zor-El was reintroduced into the DC Comics continuity in issue # 8 of the Superman / Batman comic book series titled " The Supergirl from Krypton " ( 2004 ).

Issue # 8 of the Superman / Batman series originally published in 2004 re-introduced Kara Zor-El into the DC continuity.

Superman / Batman: Apocalypse, a direct-to-video animated film released in September 2010, largely parallels the origin-story arc launched in the Superman / Batman comic series in 2004, with some minor plot differences.

* In the 2004 Superman storyline " For Tomorrow ", a story with strong messianic themes, a priest dying of cancer ( and a confidant of Superman ) is transformed into a biological war machine, codenamed " Pilate ", and rampages through a paradise dimension created by Superman.

* Christopher Reeve ( 1952 – 2004 ), of Superman fame, kept a sailboat, the sloop-rigged Chandelle, at a Fairhaven shipyard and sometimes flew into New Bedford Regional Airport to pick it up or to stay in town during a stopover en route to Martha's Vineyard.

* Superman Adventures ( released in 2004 by Platinum Disc Corporation ).

In the 2004 graphic novel, Trinity mini-series, by Matt Wagner, Bizarro is a genetic clone of Superman that is the result of Luthorcorp's " Project Replica ".

Several alternate universe versions of the character exist: the Silver Age Bizarro appears in Justice as a member of the Legion of Doom ; one-shot The Superman Monster ( 1999 ), essentially a Frankenstein pastiche features a monstrous copy of Bizarro created by a Viktor Luthor ; one-shot Superman: Red Son ( 2004 ) features a " Superman 2 " created by genius Lex Luthor for the United States to stop the Soviet-based Superman ; and Lex Luthor creates Bizarro-like duplicates called " Liberators " in the limited series JLA: The Nail ( 1998 ).

The term remake applies to films which use a previous film as its main source material, often reusing the same storyline while updating times and places to match contemporary settings, such as 1998's A Perfect Murder or 2001's Ocean's Eleven, whereas the term reboot is ascribed to film series such as Police Story ( rebooted in the 2004 film New Police Story ), Batman ( 2005's Batman Begins ), James Bond ( 2006's Casino Royale ), Star Trek ( the 2009 Star Trek film-though still in the existing Star Trek canon, but in an alternate universe ), Spider-Man ( 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man ), and Superman ( 2013's Man of Steel ).

In the 2004 miniseries Superman: Birthright, Jor-El, along with Krypton and Lara, was, more or less, reinstated to his Silver Age versions, though with such updated touches as Lara contributing equally to the effort of sending Kal-El, once again an infant while on Krypton, to Earth.

Superman: Birthright is a twelve-issue comic book limited series published by DC Comics in 2003 and 2004, written by Mark Waid and drawn by Leinil Francis Yu.

In 2004, Chiang Fang-liang, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo, asked that both father and son be buried at Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery in Xizhi, Taipei County ( now New Taipei City ).

* Earnhardt Jr. later went on to win the 2004 Daytona 500, three years after his father's death and six years to the day after his father won the 1998 Daytona 500.

In 2004, Voight joined Nicolas Cage, in National Treasure as Patrick Gates, the father of Cage's character.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

* 1916 – John W. Seybold, American businessman, father of computer typesetting ( d. 2004 )

The children had been living in Syria since 2004, after an alleged international child abduction by the father from the Netherlands to Syria, during a family contact in which he supposedly would visit Paris with them.

Probably the most famous examples of depicting proverbs are the different versions of the paintings Netherlandish Proverbs by the father and son Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger, the proverbial meanings of these paintings being the subject of a 2004 conference, which led to a published volume of studies ( Mieder 2004a ).

Following an interview in the monthly supplement of Helsingin Sanomat, Lynn's coauthor Tatu Vanhanen, a political scientist and father of the Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen, was investigated by the Finnish police between 2002 and 2004.

It was only in 2004 that he published a book, entitled Il Duce, mio padre ( Il Duce, my father ), followed by a similar book in 2005, collecting personal memories and accounts of private confidences and discussions with his father.

* Thure von Uexküll ( 1908 – 2004 ), the " father " of modern psychosomatic medicine, developed a diagnostic method based on semiotic and biosemiotic analyses.

In January 2004, Chiang Fang-liang asked that both father and son be buried at Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery in Hsichih, Taipei County ( now New Taipei City ).

Susan McHugh, who teaches theories of animals, literature, and culture at the University of New England, wrote in her 2004 book Dog that, " remaining loyal to his unlikely saviours, the boy Bart and his father Homer, this greyhound has prompted satires of contemporary dog culture, from Barbara Woodhouse's authoritarian training methods " Bart's Dog Gets an F " to Lassie's flawless service to the status quo " The Canine Mutiny ".

#* John Drew Barrymore ( 1932 – 2004 ) ( father of Drew Barrymore )

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Keitel is the father of three children: daughter Stella ( born 1985 ) from his relationship with Bracco ; son Hudson ( born 2001 ) from his relationship with Lisa Karmazin ; and son Roman ( born 2004 ) from his marriage to Kastner.

In November 2004 the Taiwan Ministry of Education proposed that Sun Yat-sen was not the father of their independent country, Taiwan.

Following rumours and a marked change in his appearance, it was confirmed in July 2004 that Paisley had been undergoing tests for an undisclosed illness and in 2005 Ian Paisley, Jr. confirmed that his father had been gravely ill. Paisley himself later admitted that he had " walked in death's shadow.

Wolfgang had played bass guitar alongside his father on some 2004 concerts.

Her father, Andrew Gaines, died of natural causes in December 2004.

In 2004, a paternity test revealed that Rossdale was the father of Pearl Lowe's daughter, Daisy Lowe ( born 1989 ); Rossdale and Pearl Lowe had had a brief relationship and Rossdale had been Daisy's godfather.

In the summer of 2004 Earth, Wind & Fire signed a record deal with Sanctuary Urban Records, owned by Mathew Knowles ( father and manager of r & b / pop singer Beyoncé ).

In 2002, Maurice was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ), along with his brothers, but the awards were not presented until 2004, after Maurice's death ; his son Adam accompanied Barry and Robin to Buckingham Palace for the ceremony, representing his father.

DNA testing confirmed that he is the father of at least two of these children ; the first was born to Maryland resident Monique Wayne in 2004, the second was born to a different woman in late 2008.

From 2002 to 2004, he starred as a recently-widowed father of a Latino L. A .- family in the PBS drama American Family: Journey of Dreams.