The device has also appeared in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Klingon practice of discommendation ; as a threat in Ancient Greek and Persian culture in Frank Miller's 1998 comic book series 300 and its 2007 film adaptation ; and in the 2004 role playing game Vampire the Requiem.

In Frank Miller's non-canonical The Dark Knight Returns, the role of Robin is filled by Carrie Kelly, a thirteen year old girl.

He also enjoyed a distinguished stage career over the same period, receiving a Tony Award for the role of Biff Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman ( 1949 ).

" In its 1957 season, he appeared as Mr. Mayher in Agatha Christie's Witness For The Prosecution ( July 1957 ), as Hector in Jane Anouilh's Thieves Carnival ( July 1957 ), and the role which he once described as the " catalyst of his career "-as Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge ( from July 30 to August 3, 1957 and directed by Ulu Grosbard who was by then a regular director at the Gateway Theatre ).

Actor Dustin Hoffman with Lee J. Cobb, who originated the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, 1965.

Leigh had previously auditioned for a role in the Coens's Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink.

* October-In Photoplay magazine, Hedda Hopper announces that Sophia Loren and Paul Newman will star in the film version of Arthur Miller's play After the Fall, with Loren in the role that was written about Marilyn Monroe.

Following her high school graduation in 1938, she went to New York, changed her name to " Teresa Wright ", and was hired as understudy to Dorothy McGuire and Martha Scott for the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's stage production of Our Town at Henry Miller's Theatre.

McDormand has starred in six of the Coen Brothers films, including a minor appearance in Miller's Crossing, a secondary role in Raising Arizona and lead roles in Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, Fargo, for which she won an Academy Award, and more recently Burn After Reading.

He supported Frank Miller's successful bid to succeed Davis as party leader in 1985, and took the role of rival candidate Dennis Timbrell to prepare Miller for the party's all-candidate debates.

Harden's breakthrough role was in Miller's Crossing ( 1990 ) and then The First Wives Club ( 1996 ) which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the comedy Flubber ( 1997 ) and Meet Joe Black ( 1998 ).

His first starring role was in an Off Broadway production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, going on to starring performances in The Fantasticks and Carnival !, which was on Broadway.

In the days since Miller's release from prison and her waiver from a promise of confidentiality from her source, many have criticized Miller and the New York Times for not publishing her role in the Plame-Wilson leak, not even to explain why the full story cannot now be revealed.

Miller's first role on television was in Kate & Allie, which starred her real-life aunt, Susan Saint James, whom she resembles.

Among his most acclaimed performances were the role of Mayor George Sitkowski in the original production of Jason Miller's That Championship Season in 1973.

He also played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway performance of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan.

In 1964, Holbrook played the role of the Major in the original production of Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy.

He received an avalanche of critical praise for his performance as Phil Romano in Jason Miller's 1972 Broadway play That Championship Season, a role he repeated in the 1982 TCS film version.

Jon Polito ( born December 29, 1950 ) is an American actor and voice artist, who is known for working with the Coen Brothers, most notably in the major supporting role of Italian gangster Johnny Caspar in Miller's Crossing.

He is usually depicted in recreations of the Salem trials ( including Arthur Miller's play The Crucible and its movie adaptations ) as a harsh and domineering judge, when the historical record shows that he was highly critical of the conduct of the trials, and may have played a role in ending them.

The play's failure nearly derailed Miller's career, and it remained one of his least known works until 1990, when the Bristol Old Vic staged The Man Who Had All The Luck with Iain Glen in the lead role.

Charles Darwin's idea about the importance of music for human sexual selection found a new development in Miller's idea of the role of musical display for " demonstrating fitness to mate ".

She attended Boston University, briefly studying under Peter Kass, who directed her in the role of Abigail in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Miller's first starring role was as the sensitive, introverted David Scott in ABC's mini-series Dinotopia.

For the first five seasons, from 1976 to 1980, the show was set in Milwaukee ( executive producer Thomas L. Miller's home town ), taking place from roughly 1959 ( one early episode involves the girls ' three-year high school reunion of the Fillmore High Class of 1956 ) through the early 1960s.

Daniel Edge, Miller's assistant producer, ( who narrowly escaped being shot himself during the same incident ) said Israeli soldiers put pressure on him to say that the shot came from Palestinians.

In 2002, Frederator created a joint venture for pre-school cartoons with producer Susan Miller's Mixed Media Group, Inc. and produced their first pre-school series, Wow!

Among his best known film scores are Miller's Crossing ( 1990 ), And the Band Played On ( 1993 ), Conspiracy Theory ( 1997 ), Hamlet ( 2000 ), The Spanish Prisoner ( 1997 ), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ( 2007 ), In Bruges ( 2008 ), Twilight ( 2008 ) Where The Wild Things Are ( 2009 ), The Blind Side ( 2009 ), and Breaking Dawn Part 1 ( 2011 ).

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Miller's Report was not fully shown on TV in America, although the new scenes were all spliced into the eighth episode for the Toonami broadcast.

Schlöndorff then went to the United States to make a TV adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman and John Malkovich as Biff.

* Planetary / Batman: Night on Earth: Features various versions and interpretations of Batman spanning the character's history, including Bob Kane's original, a version based on Adam West's portrayal in the 1960s TV series and Frank Miller's Dark Knight.

# Brad Miller's Mariachi Party ad ( in Flash format ), from the Radio and TV ads section of the Robinson website

Miller's TV and film career dates back to 1993, and she has appeared in a variety of Canadian and American productions, including Highlander: The Series, The X-Files ( where she played two different roles ), Stargate SG-1, UC: Undercover, and Frasier.

In 2000, Dennehy was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for a television presentation of his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman which he had performed on Broadway.

That this important event is largely unrecognised ( Meslier was absent from both Richard Dawkins ’ and Jonathan Miller's recent TV series on atheism ) is due partly to Voltaire who published, in 1761, a grossly distorted " Extract " that portrayed Meslier as a fellow-deist and entirely suppressed Meslier's anti-monarchist, proto-communist opinions.

On TV she played Linda opposite Heinz Rühmann in a 1968 German language version of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Miller's first TV appearance was as student-turned-sea monster Gage Petronzi on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (" Go Fish ", 1998 ).

She also served as a frequent panelist on the PAX TV game show Balderdash, which was hosted by Miller's friend Elayne Boosler.

The show debuted in September 2004 and is broadcast live each weekday morning on radio stations throughout the U. S. The radio show should not be confused with Miller's short-lived 1995 syndicated TV talk show with the same name.

The mini-series shared the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Limited Comic-Book Series for 1993 with Frank Miller's Daredevil: The Man Without Fear.

* Rorschach was featured in promo artwork by Art Adams for the Countdown to Final Crisis: Arena mini-series, where he is being beaten by Batman from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.

He was also featured prominently as an interviewee in Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief, a documentary mini-series about atheism's history.