" 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.

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.

Rohmer's best known article was " Le Celluloid et le marbe " (" Celluloid and Marble ") in 1955, which examined the relationship between film and other arts.

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 ".

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

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 ).

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.

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.

* 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.

Les Films du Losange produced all of Rohmer's work ( except his last three features produced by La Compagnie Eric Rohmer ).

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.

My brother and mother got no value from their religion when they died.

`` My father and mother died when I was two years old '', I said.

A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

First, it came out after Mr. Cooper's will was settled -- he had died the year before -- that John and his mother weren't rich any more.

John's mother died not long after his marriage, and there was even less Cooper money left.

In Indiana, when Lincoln was nine, his mother Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

Huxley's mother died in 1908 when he was 14.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Aga Khan I's mother later moved to India where she died in 1851.

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

In 1180 the Emperor Manuel died and was succeeded by his ten year old son Alexios II, who was under the guardianship of his mother, Empress Maria.

As his mother crossed the threshold of the door on her return, the youth died, and " all Israel mourned for him.

Dürer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.

However, Otto died the same year, and although both mother and grandmother were appointed as co-regents for the child-king, Otto III, Theophano forced Adelaide to abdicate and exiled her.

Meanwhile his father died and his mother was cast into poverty in Corsica, still having four children to support.

His mother was murdered by the Nazis, and two other sisters, Gittel and Devorah, died in Nazi concentration camps.

His mother died on his 12th birthday, and his father, a country solicitor, later remarried, to an elder cousin, Lucy, in 1873.

His father died in 1989 of a heart attack and his mother died in 2002 of cancer.

After Rupert Potter died in 1914, Potter, now a wealthy woman, found Lindeth Howe, a large house in nearby Windermere where her mother lived until her death in 1931 at the age of 93.

The tales sometimes recounted that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or a mother who died in childbirth.

Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage.