According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

It was Rohmer's contention that he based Fu Manchu and other " Yellow Peril " mysteries on real Chinese crime figures he knew during his time as a newspaper reporter covering Limehouse activities.

The character was conceived in late 1972 when Marvel Comics acquired the comic book rights to Sax Rohmer's pulp novel villain Dr. Fu Manchu while they also held the rights to the Kung Fu television program.

The book's eponymous villain was influenced by Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories.

Fleming's inspiration for the Dr. No character was Sax Rohmer's villain Dr Fu Manchu, the books about who Fleming had read and enjoyed in earlier years.

In 1963 Les Films du Losange produced the New Wave omnibus film Six in Paris, in which Rohmer's short " Place de l ' Etoile " was the centerpiece.

My Night at Maud's was Rohmer's first successful film both commercially and critically.

" It was Rohmer's first film shot in color, with Rohmer explaining " the presence of the lake and the mountains is stronger in color than in black and white.

It was one of Rohmer's most critically acclaimed film, with many critics ranking it with My Night at Maud's and Claire's Knee.

In 2007, Rohmer's final film, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, was shown during the Venice Film Festival, at which he spoke of retiring.

His style was famously criticised by Gene Hackman's character in the 1975 film Night Moves who describes viewing Rohmer's films as " kind of like watching paint dry ".

Rohmer's mother died without ever knowing that her son Maurice was in fact a famous film director named Eric Rohmer.

" wherein he posits that No's mother was an agent of Fu Manchu named Madame de Medici, who was in turn the daughter of Fu Xi, from Sax Rohmer's novel The Golden Scorpion.

" The exchange from Night Moves was quoted in director Éric Rohmer's New York Times obituary in 2010.

Chabrol's company AJYM produced Rohmer's feature directorial debut, Le signe du lion in 1959.

* The lead character in Eric Rohmer's The Sign of Leo ( original French title: ' Le Signe du lion ', 1959 ) refers to himself as ' Lucky Pierre ' early on in the film.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

Éric Rohmer's 1978 film Perceval le Gallois is an eccentrically staged interpretation of Chrétien de Troyes's original poem.

The story is told in Éric Rohmer's 1978 film Perceval le Gallois, based on Chrétien de Troye's Perceval.

In 1972 she played an au pair in Éric Rohmer's film Love in the Afternoon.

Rohmer's work had a strong influence on Ian Fleming, whose James Bond novels and their film adaptations further popularized the image in popular culture, like Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

He made his film debut in 1983, working with his father in the film Surprise Party, and appeared the next year in Éric Rohmer's Full Moon in Paris.

Adaptations in languages other than English flourish around the globe, such as Akira Kurosawa's two epic films Throne of Blood ( 1957 ) and Ran ( 1985 ), and Eric Rohmer's Conte d ' hiver ( A Tale of Winter, 1992 ).

Sax Rohmer's legendary criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu also employed Burmese dacoits as his henchmen.

Laurette Luez played Karamaneh in 1956's The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, but the character owed more to Fah lo Suee than Rohmer's depiction of Karamaneh.

Likewise Rohmer's publisher, Doubleday, refused to publish further additions to the bestselling series for the duration of the Second World War once the United States entered the conflict.

BBC Radio and Broadway investors subsequently rejected Rohmer's proposals for an original Fu Manchu radio serial and stage show during the 1940s.

Perhaps most representative of this is Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.

Other characters inspired by Rohmer's Fu Manchu include Pao Tcheou.

In Sax Rohmer's Fu-Manchu novels, Dr. Fu-Manchu has a serum that induces a state of catalepsy so extreme as to be indistinguishable from death.

In his complex schemes for world-domination, he is also reminiscent of Sax Rohmer's character, Fu Manchu.

It draws heavily on the atmosphere of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, together with a bizarre twist of 50's underground bondage illustration and a modern quirky English wry humour for good measure.

In the fall of that year the best musicians of the Berlin and Frankfurt Kulturbund orchestras joined under the combined efforts of Bronislaw Hubermann and Steinberg to become the Palestine Orchestra -- now known as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra -- with Steinberg as founder-conductor.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

But the best known exploiters of the new medium are Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen.

And there, on the way, had been the box turtle, that slow, self-contained, world-ignoring relic of pre-history, bent, for reasons best known to itself, on crossing the road.

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

The best known field of application for builders is in heavy-duty, spray-dried detergent formulations for household use.

As long as the bar prefers to adduce evidence by written deposition, rather than viva voce before an authoritative judicial officer, I fear that the antiquated rules will remain unchanged, and expensive prolixity remain the best known characteristic of Equity ''.

G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite her never winning a WTA singles title.

" His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death:

The Ancient Pueblo culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras.

Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.

Jackson Pollock is the artist best known for starting that revolution.

Leopold is the author of several essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac ( 1953 ).

Callicott is, perhaps, best known for his research which explores an Aldo Leopold ethic as a response to global climate change.

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

By 2006, the best known attacks were on 7 rounds for 128-bit keys, 8 rounds for 192-bit keys, and 9 rounds for 256-bit keys.

* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).

Many of these designs are still under patent, and other types are best known by their original trademarked names.

* Adrian Rollini ( 1903 – 1956 ), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music

* Adrian Utley ( born 1957 ), English musician best known as a member of the band Portishead

He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.

Ahmed II's best known act was to confirm Mustafa Köprülü as grand vizier.