* 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor ( b. 1918 )

* January 29 – John Forsythe, American actor ( Dynasty ) ( d. 2010 )

* Topaz ( 1969 ), Hitchcock film starring John Forsythe.

In 1981, Collins was offered a role in the second season of the then struggling new soap opera Dynasty ( 1981 – 89 ) playing Alexis Carrington, the beautiful but vengeful ex-wife of tycoon Blake Carrington ( John Forsythe ).

For live-action production, voice acting often involves reading the parts of computer programs ( Douglas Rain ; Majel Barrett ), radio dispatchers ( Shaaron Claridge ), or characters who never actually appear on screen but who give instructions by telephone ( John Forsythe in Charlie's Angels ), or mailed recording ( Bob Johnson in Mission: Impossible ).

The best-selling book, in turn, spawned several filmed versions of the story: director Richard Brooks ' theatrical feature film In Cold Blood in 1967 starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and John Forsythe, and a two-part made-for-television movie of the same title starring Eric Roberts, Anthony Edwards and Sam Neill that aired on network TV in 1996.

* John Forsythe ( 1918 – 2010 ), television and character actor.

In the 1965 – 1966 television season she was a regular on John Forsythe's sitcom The John Forsythe Show on NBC in the role of Miss Culver, the principal of a private girls ' academy in San Francisco.

The movie stars Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Craig T. Nelson and Thomas G. Waites.

As the film opens, he is in jail on a charge of contempt of court for having thrown a punch at judge Henry T. Fleming ( John Forsythe ) while arguing the case of an innocent defendant, Jeff McCullaugh ( Thomas G. Waites ).

* John Forsythe as Judge Henry T. Fleming

The series stars Kate Jackson ; Farrah Fawcett-Majors ; Jaclyn Smith ; Cheryl Ladd ; Shelley Hack ; Tanya Roberts ; David Doyle ; and John Forsythe as the voice of Charles Townsend, also known as " Charlie " ( the Angels ' boss ).

Their boss, Charlie ( voiced by John Forsythe ), is never seen full face.

Her costar was John Forsythe.

Starring John Forsythe, Linda Evans and Joan Collins as oil magnate Blake Carrington, his new wife Krystle, and his former wife Alexis.

Peppard, who had difficulties dealing with the somewhat unsympathetic role of patriarch Blake Carrington, was quickly replaced with John Forsythe.

As Dynasty begins on January 12, 1981, powerful oil tycoon Blake Carrington ( John Forsythe ) is about to marry the younger Krystle Jennings ( Linda Evans ), his former secretary.

Filmed in Australia, the movie starred Bartholomew John as Forsythe, Melora Hardin as Evans, and Alice Krige as Collins.

It assembled former cast members from the series, including John Forsythe, Joan Collins, and Linda Evans, as well as the four original actors who played the Carrington children ( Pamela Sue Martin, Al Corley, Gordon Thomson, and Catherine Oxenberg ).

John Forsythe was the only cast member to appear in all 222 episodes of the series.

Forsythe and John James were the only two original cast members to appear in the final episode.

; Blake Carrington ( John Forsythe, 1985 – 1986 )

It stars Jean Simmons ( who received an Oscar nomination ), John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges and Teresa Wright.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

Both John Madden and Walsh played and coached at the College of San Mateo early in their careers.

He played a lawyer turned bounty hunter who was trying to hunt down John Bly, the man who killed his father.

The red-headed Mumy came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, most notably as Will Robinson, the youngest of the three children of Prof. John and Dr. Maureen Robinson ( played by Guy Williams and June Lockhart respectively ) and friend of the nefarious and pompous Dr. Zachary Smith ( played by Jonathan Harris ), in the 1960s CBS sci-fi television series Lost in Space.

After that, he watched reruns of The Third Man, and he was a Jonathan Harris fan, growing up ( when he was actually a fan of Guy Williams's, Zorro, who played his future TV father – John Robinson ).

Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).

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

John Jaques apparently claimed in a letter to Arthur Lillie in 1873 that he had himself seen the game played in Ireland and, " I made the implements and published directions ( such as they were ) before Mr Spratt above introduced the subject to me ".

John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.

Communists have played an active role in the organisation, and John Cox, its chairman from 1971 to 1977, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

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.

" Iron Man " Torres, played by John Dehner-the world's first cyborg, plans to assassinate President Grant in New Mexico.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

In 2005, Elwes played the young Pope John Paul II in the CBS television film Pope John Paul II.

The British Dental Association, formed in 1880 with Sir John Tomes as president, played a major role in prosecuting dentists practising illegally.

He was also joined for some of the storyline by Nick Cotton ( played by John Altman ), who was imprisoned for a different offence.

Michael Gambon played John Harrison, and Jeremy Irons played Rupert Gould, who restored Harrison's timepieces for posterity in the mid-20th century.

Hopper also played heroes, such as John Canyon in Space Truckers.

John Brown played the character " Broadway ," who doubled as host and narrator.