Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Jane Porter and of the highly fictionalized Academy Award-winning epic film Braveheart.

In the early 19th century, Walter Scott wrote of Wallace in Exploits and Death of William Wallace, the " Hero of Scotland ", and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in 1810.

** Jane Porter, English novelist ( b. 1776 )

His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter ( 1825 – 1888 ), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter ( 1833 – 1865 ).

* Jane Porter, author of the novel, Thaddeus of Warsaw ( 1803 ), of which Kościuszko is the title hero.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

* Jane Porter & Anna Maria Porter-Tales Round a Winter Hearth

Then, after a performance where Kean went out of his way to botch the opening night of " Switzerland " by historical novelist Jane Porter in February 1819, for whom Kean had had a personal dislike, Bucke pulled the play out of contempt for Kean's conduct .. After much cajoling to still perform the play by the theatre staff, Mr. Bucke then later had it republished with a preface concerning the incident, including excerpts from correspondences between the involved parties, which was later challenged in two books, The Assailant Assailed and A Defense of Edmund Kean, Esq.

She next played Sara Jane Moore in Assassins at Donmar Warehouse ( 1992 – 93 ) and toured in Noël / Cole: Let's Do It, a Cole Porter and Noël Coward revue ( 1994 and 1995, beginning in Memphis, Tennessee ; and on the cast album ).

Another classic damsel in that mould was Jane Porter in both the novel and movie versions of Tarzan.

* Jane Porter ( Tarzan ), later Jane Clayton, wife of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke ( Tarzan ) in the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Because of his numerous friendships and post as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, he provided connections between the poets and painters like Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter and Larry Rivers ( also his lover ).

She most recently played Mary Jane Porter, an old girlfriend of Larry David's who runs into and then goes on a date with him in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that aired on October 11, 2009.

In animation, she dubs the voices of Star Sapphire and Morgaine le Fey in Justice League ( 2001 ) and Justice League Unlimited ( 2004 ); Tak in Invader Zim ( 2001 – 02 ); Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan ; Jedi Master Luminara Unduli in Star Wars: The Clone Wars ( 2008 ); Carol Ferris in Green Lantern: First Flight ( 2009 ), Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm ( 1996 ) and Natalia Romanoff-Black Widow in Ultimate Avengers II, The rise of the Panther ( 2006 ).

* Sir John Seymour ( 1535 – before August 1599, will probated 4 August 1599 ), married firstly in 1568 Jane or Joan Poyntz, daughter of Sir Nicholas Poyntz and Joan Berkeley, and married secondly Dyzary Porter, and had issue.

Porter was born and raised in Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Thomas Richard Porter, a merchant, and Mary Jane ( Clark ) Porter ; he had three brothers and one sister.

Subsequently, a new party of whites is marooned on the coast, including Jane Porter, the first white woman Tarzan has ever seen.

It has also been recorded by The Ventures ( Liberty 1965 ) as well as by Arseno Rodriguez ( Bang 1966 ), The Supremes ( Motown 1966 ), The Kingsmen ( WAND 1966 ), Little Caesar and the Consuls, The Yardbirds, Saving Jane, Jan & Dean ( Liberty-LP " Folk ' n ' Roll " 1965 ), David Porter ( Enterprise " Into A Real Thing " 1971 ), Lieutenant Pigeon and Die Toten Hosen ( 2002 ).

The first, from Cardiff, was jailed for 2 years ; the second, Sarah Jane Porter, was convicted of grievous bodily harm through the reckless transmission of HIV, and was sentenced to 32 months in prison in June 2006.

: Jane Porter is also the name of the romantic interest of Tarzan in the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.

On August 17, 1835 he married Jane Williams Bourne, daughter of Abner Bourne and Abagail Williams.

Fonda appeared in a revival of The Time of Your Life that opened in March 17, 1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles where Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Ron Thompson, Strother Martin, Jane Alexander, Lewis J. Stadlen, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin were among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing.

On July 2, 1887, Henry moved his family into their summer villa on Silver Lake: Helen Steel ( 21 ), Mary Jane ( 17 ), Charles William ( 15 ), Henry Jaquess ( 13 ), Margaret ( 11 ), Anne ( 9 ) and James Timothy ( 6 ).

Mary Jane West ( August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980 ), known as Mae West, was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.

Playing on March 17, 2006 at The Troubador in L. A. with Weezer tour-mates Ringside, and performing " Our Lips Are Sealed ", with the Go-Go's member, Jane Wiedlin, on June 1, 2006 at the Viper Room.

Jane filled in as " guest host " on Turner Classic Movies for Robert Osborne while he was on medical leave July 17 – 23, 2011.

Born at 17 Euston Square, London, he was the son of Frederick Harrison ( 1799-1881 ), a stockbroker and his wife Jane, daughter of Alexander Brice, a Belfast granite merchant.

Seven years later, on December 17, 1891, he married Jane Russell Sneath ; the pair had eight children.

On January 17, 2008, Loken announced on her Web site that she had become engaged to her Painkiller Jane co-star Noah Danby.

Her friend Jane Davis, aged 17, was the youngest victim of the two bombings.

The play The Time of Your Life was revived in March 17, 1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles with Martin, Henry Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Lewis J. Stadlen, Ron Thompson, Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing.

Virgil and Ellen had a daughter, Nellie Jane Earp ( January 7, 1862 – June 17, 1930 ).

An obituary published in The Salt Lake Tribune on September 21, 2008 for Susie Jane Dwyer ( maiden name Quealy ) ( 4 / 24 / 1915-9 / 17 / 2008 ) of San Francisco makes the claim that " The popular song hit of the era, ' Doin ' the Susie Q ' was written in her honor.

Eleanor Jane Mondale Poling ( January 19, 1960 – September 17, 2011 ) was an American radio personality, television host, and actress.

Andrea Jane Corr ( born 17 May 1974 ) is an Irish musician, songwriter, and actress.

Betty Brant, not Gwen Stacy, was Peter Parker's very first love — in issue # 142 page 17 Peter tells Mary Jane Watson that Betty was his first.

The play The Time of Your Life was revived in March 17, 1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles with Grahame, Henry Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Lewis J. Stadlen, Ron Thompson, Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing.

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, KG ( 17 January 1517 – 23 February 1554 ) was an English nobleman of the Tudor period and the father of Lady Jane Grey.

Jane Elliot ( born January 17, 1947 ) is an American actress, known for her role as Tracy Quartermaine, a role she has played on General Hospital ( 1978 – 80, 1989 – 93, 1996, 2003 – present ) and The City ( 1996 – 97 ).

Claire Jane Sweeney ( born 17 April 1971 ) is an English actress, singer and television personality, best known for playing the role of Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside and her appearance on the first series of the reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother.

Jane Tranter ( born 17 March 1963 ) is an English television executive who has been the executive vice-president of programming and production at BBC Worldwide's Los Angeles base since January 2009.

George Hedley Vicars Bulyea was born on February 17, 1859, in Gagetown, Queen's County, New Brunswick, to James Albert Bulyea, and Jane Blizzard, two prosperous farmers.

The author was Jane Webb who, having been left penniless by the death of her father at 17, had turned to writing as a profession.

On March 17, 2008, Jane was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol for driving at " an extremely high rate of speed " on I-5.