His notable novels are The Thirty-nine Steps ( 1915 ), Greenmantle ( 1916 ) and sequels, all featuring the heroic Scotsman Richard Hannay.

Raffles ; Professor Challenger ; Richard Hannay ; Bulldog Drummond ; the evil Fu Manchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith ; G-8 ; The Shadow ; Sam Spade ; Doc Savage's cousin Patricia Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair ; The Spider ; Nero Wolfe ; Mr. Moto ; The Avenger ; Philip Marlowe ; James Bond ; Lew Archer ; Travis McGee ; Monsieur Lecoq ; and Arsène Lupin.

The novel featured Buchan's oft used hero, Richard Hannay, whose character was based on Edmund Ironside, a friend of Buchan from his days in South Africa.

In 1935, Buchan's literary work was adapted to the cinematic theatre with the completion of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered.

Robert Powell ( born 1 June 1944 ) is a British television and film actor, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay.

In 1978, Powell took the leading role of Richard Hannay in the third film version of The Thirty Nine Steps.

The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters ( e. g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond ), including James Bond in dramatised scenes from Goldfinger – notably featuring the hero being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam – and Diamonds Are Forever.

John Buchan was an admirer of Bunyan, and Pilgrim's Progress features significantly in his third Richard Hannay novel, Mr Standfast, which also takes its title from one of Bunyan's characters.

Richard Hannay flees London to lie low in Galloway in John Buchan's novel The Thirty-nine Steps.

* The Thirty-Nine Steps ( 1959 ) as Richard Hannay

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.

* Richard Hannay, stolid and resourceful soldier and occasional spy

The subsequent Richard Hannay novels of John Buchan are:

Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional secret agent and army officer created by Scottish novelist John Buchan.

As revealed through the various novels, Richard Hannay was born in Scotland about 1877 ; his father was Scottish and had German business partners.

Richard Hannay was one of the first modern spy thriller heroes and as such has heavily influenced the genre.

* Richard Hannay: The Thirty-Nine Steps ' Secret Scot

Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.

* Brigadier-General Richard Hannay, tough soldier and occasional spy

The subsequent Richard Hannay novels of John Buchan are:

In July 2008, Robards took over the role of Richard Hannay in the New York City theatrical run of The 39 Steps.

He has worked extensively on BBC radio drama including as Charles in the original radio series of Up the Garden Path opposite Imelda Staunton, as Captain Jack Aubrey in the BBC Radio 4 adaptations of the Patrick O ' Brian " Aubrey " novels and as Richard Hannay in several adaptations of the John Buchan novels, including Mr Standfast in 2007.

It identifies Mary Lamington, a young intelligence officer, who falls in love, mutually, with the hero of the novel, general Richard Hannay.

Richard Hofstadter has traced the sentimental attachment to the rural way of life, which he describes as " a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins.

Richard Aitson ( Kiowa-Apache ) has both an Indian and non-Indian audience for his work and is known for his fully beaded cradleboards.

The sociologist Richard Quinney has written about the relationship between society and crime.

* The Fatal Fury game series has two capoeira fighters, Richard Meyer and Bob Wilson, master and student.

This has been put forward by J. Richard Gott III, James E. Gunn, David N. Schramm, and Beatrice Tinsley, who said that asking what occurred before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the North Pole.

The term Left Bank was first coined by film critic Richard Roud, who has described them as having " fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking ", as well as an identification with the political left.

Since the 1990s the term has been used ( interchangeably with " the Copernicus method ") for J. Richard Gott's Bayesian-inference-based prediction of duration of ongoing events, a generalized version of the Doomsday argument.

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

Quixote has served as an important thematic source not only in literature but in much of art and music, inspiring works by Pablo Picasso and Richard Strauss.

In literature and journalism, Dartmouth has produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago.

Because it demonstrates the fundamental limitation of the observer to predict experimental results, Richard Feynman called it " a phenomenon which is impossible ... to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics.

( One original member of Gypsy Fever, backing vocalist Richard Dennison, has remained with Parton's organization through the early 2010s, serving as a supporting vocalist, as well as the vocal arranger for Parton's band.

More than half of the footage filmed for Superman II by the originally credited director ( Richard Lester ) has been removed from the film and replaced with Donner footage shot during the original principal photography from 1977 – 1978.

Derrida warns against considering deconstruction as a mechanical operation when he states that “ It is true that in certain circles ( university or cultural, especially in the United States ) the technical and methodological “ metaphor ” that seems necessarily attached to the very word “ deconstruction ” has been able to seduce or lead astray .” Commentator Richard Beardsworth explains that

Derrida's thinking has inspired Slavoj Zizek, Richard Rorty, Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler and many more contemporary theorists developed a deconstructive approach to politics.

In one response to Gettier, the American philosopher Richard Kirkham has argued that the only definition of knowledge that could ever be immune to all counterexamples is the infallibilist one.

The Design Academy Eindhoven has produced major Dutch designers, such as Maarten Baas, Marcel Wanders, Richard Hutten, Jurgen Bey, and Hella Jongerius.

" Richard Corliss of TIME gave the film a mixed review, praising Ehrenreich's performance, but claiming Coppola " has made a movie in which plenty happens but nothing rings true.

Richard Klemensen ’ s Little Shoppe of Horrors has a particular focus on " Hammer Horrors " and has continued publishing issues on an irregular schedule since 1972.

Varadkar in particular has been a strong proponent of small, indigenous business, advocating that smaller firms should benefit from the government's recapitalisation program Its former finance spokesman Richard Bruton's proposals have been seen as approaching problems from a pro-enterprise point of view.

Richard Dawkins has rejected the charge of " fundamentalism ," arguing that critics mistake his " passion "— which he says may match that of evangelical Christians — for an inability to change his mind.

J. Philippe Rushton has argued that the effect should be called the " Lynn-Flynn effect ", after Richard Lynn, " because it was actually the Lynn ( 1982 ) article in Nature that first identified the trend in recent times ( amongst the Japanese ).

In recent years English director writer, Richard Mazda, has re-introduced New York audiences to the Grand Guignol.

He has a brother, Richard.