Moriarty also has a vengeful streak, pursuing Holmes to Switzerland to kill him for destabilising his organization.

Higgins also portrayed Holmes in the 1993 TV film Sherlock Holmes Returns, making him one of the only two actors to portray both Holmes and Moriarty on film, Richard Roxburgh being the other.

* In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Richard Roxburgh portrays the main villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was eventually revealed to be Professor James Moriarty, who also posed as the League's recruiter M ; with a blackmailed Dorian Gray as his agent, Moriarty acquired samples from the League with the intention of duplicating their powers for his own goals.

Roxburgh also portrayed Holmes in the 2002 TV adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, making him one of the only two actors to portray both Holmes and Moriarty on film, Anthony Higgins being the other.

Basil also describes Ratigan as " The Napoleon of Crime ", the same designation Holmes gave Moriarty in " The Final Problem.

* A version of the character also appeared in the anime series Sherlock Hound, Moriarty being the villain behind every crime in the series.

* Moriarty also appears in two episodes of the animated series BraveStarr.

It is also easy to see a link between the names when placed in close proximity-Macavity / Moriarty.

" The Professor " is not really Professor James Moriarty, but is really Professor Moriarty's younger brother who is also named James, who is just as brilliant as his older brother and who has taken over his brother's identity after impersonating, disgracing and then murdering the elder brother.

* Kim Newman has also written a series of short stories about Moriarty, narrated Watson-style by Colonel Moran, in which Moriarty interacts with many of his fictional contemporaries.

British author and literary critic David Langford has also noted that the relationship between Zeck and Wolfe compares to that of Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes.

This is also a reference to the endless fight of Holmes and Moriarty, and probably remarks the way GLaDOS is like a Dr. Watson to Chell when the first is a potato because is helping Chell.

Moriarty also serves as a fireworks Mecca for the Albuquerque metropolitan area with two year around stores as well as at least two other large tents which set up for the sixteen day selling period allowed by New Mexico State Law from June 20 to July 6.

Pulaski is also indirectly referenced in " Ship in a Bottle " as the hostage whom Professor Moriarty had captured in his previous adventure.

The film also featured Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Richard Dysart, and Richard Kiel.

Ed Flanders ( once considered for the role of Karras in The Exorcist ) was also cast ; Michael Moriarty was set to play Captain Billy Cutshaw but dropped out of the production ( he was replaced by Scott Wilson, who was originally cast in a different role ).

Although the name Moriarty occurred in many references, from time to time the surname was also officially recorded as Moriarty, O ' Moriarty, Murtagh, Murtag, McMoriarty, O ' Murtagh, and these changes in spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son.

The story also provides an explanation as to the antagonism between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty.

But Irving turned it down and Tree demanded that Doyle readapt Holmes to his peculiar acting profile ; he also wanted to play both Holmes and Professor Moriarty.

As well as containing material that was excised from the original draft due to its explicit nature, the scroll version also uses the real names of the protagonists, so Dean Moriarty becomes Neal Cassady and Carlo Marx becomes Allen Ginsberg etc.

The Moriarty Tribunal has sat since 1997 and has investigated the granting of a mobile phone license to Esat Telecom by Michael Lowry when he was Fine Gael Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications in the Rainbow Coalition of the mid-1990s.

Although Moriarty appeared in only two of the 60 Sherlock Holmes tales by Conan Doyle, Holmes ' attitude to him has gained him the popular impression of being Holmes ' arch-nemesis – as " The Final Problem " clearly states: " Holmes spent months in a private war against Moriarty's criminal operations " – and he has been frequently used in later stories by other authors, parodies, and in other media.

In " The Final Problem ", Watson tells Holmes he has never heard of Moriarty, while in The Valley of Fear, set earlier on, Watson already knows of him as " the famous scientific criminal ".

In Kim Newman's derivative work Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D ' ubervilles, Newman takes the confusion and runs with it to humorous effect, stating that Professor James Moriarty has two brothers, Colonel James Moriarty and Station Master James Moriarty.

In addition to the master criminal Adam Worth, there has been much speculation among astronomers and Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts that Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer Simon Newcomb.

According to this hypothesis, Doyle as a private joke has Inspector MacDonald describe Moriarty: " He'd have made a grand meenister with his thin face and grey hair and his solemn-like way of talking.

( Orson Welles has played both Holmes and Moriarty on radio programs.

During the film he attempts to provoke a war using advanced weaponry that he has developed ( Moriarty was perpetrating a similar scheme as the Fantom in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ).

Moriarty now has supernatural powers and employs the Hound of the Baskervilles as his henchman.

* In a 2006 comic book story featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom, the 19th Phantom has to fight Professor Moriarty.

* Michael Kurland has written a series of novels in which Moriarty is the hero: His organisation of crime is the method by which he raises the money required for his experimental physics apparatus.

* John Gardner has written three novel featuring the arch-villain: The Return of Moriarty, in which the Professor, like Holmes, is shown to have survived the meeting at the Reichenbach, The Revenge of Moriarty and Moriarty ( released posthumously in 2008 after the author's death in 2007 ).

In this Moriarty is a vampire and is no longer interested in criminal pursuits as he now has an eternal life which he can dedicate to intellectual contemplation.

The ledge is marked by a plaque written in English, German, and French, illustrated here ; the English inscription reads: " At this fearful place, Sherlock Holmes vanquished Professor Moriarty, on 4 May 1891.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty had in reality been a set of prototype programs written for the Analytical Engine.

Lowry resigned from the Cabinet after it was revealed at the Moriarty Tribunal that businessman Ben Dunne had paid for an IR £ 395, 000 extension to Lowry's Tipperary home.

Moriarty was disciplined for this action by then-commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.

Before the 63rd UN General Assembly, Bangladesh's foreign minister had met with James F. Moriarty who is continuing his lobbying for Bangladesh's recognition of Kosovo and not to recognise the break-away regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

In this story, Moriarty is introduced as crime lord who protects nearly all of the criminals of England in exchange for their obedience and a share in their profits.

Des MacHale, in his George Boole: his life and work ( 1985, Boole Press ) suggests George Boole may have been a model for Moriarty.

Jane Stanford, in her biography That Irishman, suggests that Conan Doyle borrowed some traits and background of the Fenian John O ' Connor Power for his portrayal of Moriarty.

Finally, Conan Doyle is known to have used his former school, Stonyhurst College, as inspiration for details of the Holmes series ; among his contemporaries at the school were two boys named Moriarty.

Dr. Watson mentions Moriarty, suggesting that he might be the one responsible for stealing the souls of women ( the real culprit is Jim Craddock ).

* " Elementary My Dear Winston ", the third episode for the 1989 season of The Real Ghostbusters, features Holmes, Watson and Moriarty by way of " belief made manifest ": so many people believed in them that they became real.

His exposure by Mycroft and Sherlock leads to his suicide to avoid arrest, for which Professor Moriarty blames the Holmes brothers, and provides an explanation as to the antagonism between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty.

* Commenting on Nero Wolfe's prolonges struggle with the powerful crime boss Arnold Zeck, Michael Dirda – book critic for The Washington Post – wrote " I was thrilled when Wolfe finally encountered his own Moriarty in the archvillain Arnold Zeck ,".

* In The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, set during Holmes's three-year fake ' death ', Holmes encounters Moriarty during his trip in Tibet, where he learns that Moriarty is actually the Dark One, a former Tibetian mystic possessing great psychic powers who lost his memories in an attack on the Dalai Lama, only for his near-death experience on the Reichenbach Falls to restore his memory, albeit leaving him horribly crippled and disfigured by his injuries.

He attempts to acquire a legendary crystal that would allow him to wield even greater power, but, although Moriarty acquires the crystal, boosting his powers and healing his injuries, he is defeated when it is revealed that Holmes is partly possessed by the spirit of the Dark One's old rival, allowing Holmes to wield similar powers to Moriarty's and delay him long enough for Holmes's ally, Huree Chunder Mockerjee, to knock the crystal away from Moriarty and into Holmes's hands, allowing Holmes to turn Moriarty's powers against him, vaporising his body and destroying him once and for all.