* The protagonist of the novel My Uncle Napoleon

References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled " The Man from My Uncle ", References in other televison shows have continued over the years, including a 2011 episode of Mad Men, " The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ".

His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors ; he also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and scripted Vanya on 42nd Street, a film adaptation of Anton Chekov's play Uncle Vanya.

He also played the title role in the television series My Uncle Silas, based on the short stories by H. E. Bates, about a roguish but lovable poacher-cum-farm labourer looking after his great-nephew.

A number of animated cartoons were produced, including the Bugs Bunny cartoon Southern Fried Rabbit ( 1953 ), in which Bugs disguises himself as Uncle Tom and sings My Old Kentucky Home in order to cross the Mason-Dixon line ; Uncle Tom's Bungalow ( 1937 ), a Warner Brothers cartoon supervised by Tex Avery ; Eliza on Ice ( 1944 ), one of the earliest Mighty Mouse cartoons produced by Paul Terry ; and Uncle Tom's Cabaña ( 1947 ), an eight-minute cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

Formal innovation characterised Mon oncle d ' Amérique ( My American Uncle ) ( 1980 ) in which the theories of the neurobiologist Henri Laborit about animal behaviour are juxtaposed with three interwoven fictional stories ; and a further counterpoint to the fictional characters is provided by the inclusion of film extracts of the classic French film actors with whom they identify.

* Mon oncle d ' Amérique ( My American Uncle ) ( 1980 )

In 1969, Brel appeared in his third film, Mon oncle Benjamin ( My Uncle Benjamin ), directed by Édouard Molinaro, and co-starring Claude Jade and Bernard Blier.

* Uncle Martin, title character from the American situation comedy My Favorite Martian

However, in the 1920s, the son, Clarence, repeated the story and published a book in the United States, My Uncle George V, in which he claimed he was born in London in September 1890, about nine months after Albert Victor's meeting with Mrs. Haddon.

His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle Silas.

The My Uncle Silas stories were also made into a UK TV series 2000-2003.

A prolific and successful author in his own lifetime, his greatest success was however posthumous, with the television adaptations of his stories The Darling Buds of May and its sequels, My Uncle Silas and Love for Lydia

* My Uncle Silas ( 1939 )

He was best known for his mystery novels, notably Death of His Uncle and Death of My Aunt, but his other novels were also highly regarded, especially by other writers.

He is also known for his roles in Richie Rich, Uncle Buck, My Girl, The Pagemaster, and Party Monster, as well as Michael Jackson's music video Black or White.

Tati's next film, 1958's Mon Oncle ( My Uncle ), was his first film to be released in colour.

* " South of the Border ( Part 2 )", the 11th episode in the comedic My Name Is Earl TV sitcom, has Catalina's Uncle ( a south-American " bandito " obsessed with 1980s-vintage U. S. pop culture, who was briefly redeemed from his villainous ways by the titular character during his Latin American trip ) yell " Wolverineeeees!

His later films include Pretty Baby ( 1978 ), Atlantic City ( 1981 ), My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Crackers ( 1984 ), Alamo Bay ( 1985 ), Damage ( 1992 ) and Vanya on 42nd Street ( 1994, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya ) in English ; Au revoir, les enfants ( 1987 ) and Milou en Mai ( May Fools in the U. S., 1990 ) in French.

Other initiators include Old 97's, Steve Earle, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Ryan Adams, My Morning Jacket, Blitzen Trapper, and Drive-By Truckers.

The poet Derek Mahon mentions Carnmoney Cemetery in his poem " My Wicked Uncle ".

The quirky moviemaker filmed much of his 1958 " My Uncle " (" Mon Oncle "), in Saint-Maur, using many of the locals as extras.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

My wife died in childbirth after I was sent away.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

My great-grandmother, I have been told, made her garden her great pride ; ;

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

My reply is that I associate myself with all those who affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations should contribute to the theory and practice of human dignity.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

He listed what he had spent for `` My own diet in London eighteen weeks, in which I was sick a month ; ;

My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).

I recalled sympathetically the Duke's complaint in Browning's `` My Last Duchess ''.

My eyes were so bleary I could barely see him but there he was, a little smooth olivefaced guy in a new spring overcoat and a taffycolored fedora.

My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.

My camp-made leather wallet, bulky with twisted, raised stitches around the edges, I stuffed with money I had been saving.

`` My brushes are different from those used by most watercolorists, for I combine the sable and the bristle.

My enemies were only too anxious to level against me such charges as `` reactionary '', `` robber baroness '', and even `` traitor ''!!

My instructions were that Mr. Nishimo would meet me at the hotel, but instead he and three others were at the station with a very warm welcome.

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

In 2007, Clarence Thomas published his autobiography, My Grandfather's Son, in which he revisited the controversy, calling Hill his " most traitorous adversary " and saying that pro-choice liberals who feared that he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade if he were seated on the Supreme Court used the scandal against him.

" My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants ," wrote Capp in 1978.

A number of previously unreleased Haley country-western recordings from the 1946-1950 period began to emerge near the end of Haley's life, some of which were released by the Arzee label, with titles such as " Yodel Your Blues Away " and " Rose of My Heart.

His final projects were compiling a pictorial autobiography, My Life in Pictures ( 1974 ) and rescoring A Woman of Paris for re-release in 1976.

: My parents were not scientists.

This track and " My Sharona " by The Knack, which were both included the soundtrack of the film Reality Bites, were bundled together on a jukebox single to promote the film soundtrack.

Four years after Shepherd Moons she released The Memory of Trees ( 1995 ), another Top Five success in both the UK and Germany, as well as her first Top 10 album in the U. S. Singles released from the album were " Anywhere Is " and " On My Way Home ".

The Doors were banned on September 17, 1967 after they were asked to remove the lyric " Girl, we couldn't get much higher " from their song " Light My Fire " ( CBS censors believed that it was too overt a reference to drug use ).

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

My understanding and sympathies were enlarged, and many of my social, political, and economic views were modified as a consequence of increased knowledge.

Connick's album Oh, My NOLA, and Chanson du Vieux Carré were released in 2007, with a following tour called the My New Orleans Tour.