When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.

This is a frequent occurrence in sitcoms, where networks may agree to continue a show, but only if a certain character is emphasized, leading other minor characters to become victims of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, while the emphasized character ( usually a Breakout Character ) ( as in the case of Frasier Crane ) develops a more complete back story that ignores previous, more simplified back stories.

Frasier Crane starts as a recurring character but then becomes a permanent character.

The character became the center of the spin-off Frasier, one of the most successful spin-offs in TV history.

He was the first American actor ever to be nominated for multiple Emmy awards for portraying the same character on three different television shows ( Cheers, Frasier, and Wings ).

* Gil Chesterton, a supporting character on the TV sitcom Frasier

Sideshow Bob shares some personality traits of Grammer's character Frasier Crane from the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, and has been described as " Frasier pickled in arsenic ".

Sideshow Bob's brother Cecil was designed to resemble actor David Hyde Pierce, who also played the brother of Grammer's character on the show Frasier.

He decided to incorporate elements of Grammer's other show into the character of Sideshow Bob, and designed Cecil to resemble Grammer's brother on Frasier.

In Frasier, Maris Crane is an unseen character, and the producers of Frasier asked that the scene be removed.

* Niles Crane, a character in the US television series Frasier

James Arness and Milburn Stone portrayed their Gunsmoke characters for 20 consecutive years, as did Kelsey Grammer as the character Frasier Crane, but over two half-hour sitcoms.

Eddie belonged to lead character Frasier's father Martin, and constantly " stole the show " with his deadpan antics, receiving more fan mail than any other Frasier character.

* Gil Chesterton, a minor character on Frasier

With the 2005 Emmy Win, Spader became one of the few actors ( along with co-star William Shatner as Denny Crane ) to win an Emmy award while playing the same character in two different series.

* Madrigal Raith, aka Darby Crane, a character in the novel Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

* Seneca Crane, fictional character in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

One such specimen, IGM 100 / 980, was nicknamed " Ichabodcraniosaurus " by Norell's team because the fairly complete specimen was found without its skull ( an allusion to the Washington Irving character Ichabod Crane ).

He even appears himself as a character, as does his aunt Annie Gamwell and one of his acquaintances, Hart Crane.

Helga Crane is a fictional character loosely based on Larsen's experiences in her early life.

This appearance makes Crane the only character outside the main ensemble, and the only villain, to appear in all three of the Nolan Batman films.

* Dr. Frasier Crane, a character on Cheers, and its successful spin-off, Frasier

The Red-crowned Crane ( Grus japonensis ), also called the Japanese Crane or Manchurian Crane (; Hanyu Pinyin: < span class =" Unicode "> Dāndǐng Hè </ span >;, tancho ; the Chinese character ' 丹 ' means ' red ', ' 頂 / 顶 ' means ' crown ' and ' 鶴 / 鹤 ' means ' crane '), is a large east Asian crane and among the rarest cranes in the world.

However, the most important plot line follows the path of one Hugh Crane which may or may not be this Universe's Hagbard Celine ; a character that is an obvious representation of Wilson himself.

( formerly Crane ) is a fictional character on the American television sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, portrayed by Bebe Neuwirth.

According to an April 1 – 4, 1993, telephone survey of 1, 011 people by the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press ( now Pew Research Center ), before the Frasier premiere and the Cheers finale, Sam Malone ( Ted Danson ) was voted a favorite character by 26 percent, and Frasier Crane and Lilith Sternin were voted favorites by 1 percent each.

* The Oiler, an unnamed character in The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1820.

* Animal, nickname of a regular character in Takeshi's Castle, played by Brad Lesley

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy.

In the 1985 film „ Out of Africa ” Karen “ Tanja “ Blixen, the character played by Meryl Streep, cites poems by A. E.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation Throne of Blood makes the character into Capitan Miki ( played by Minoru Chiaki ), slain by Macbeth's equivalent ( Captain Washizu ) when his wife explains that she is with child.

in the 1990 telling of Macbeth in a New York Mafia crime family setting, " Men of Respect " the character of Banquo is named " Bankie Como " played by American actor Dennis Farina.

Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).

To his delight ( since, as Lennier, he always appeared onscreen in prosthetic makeup ), he played a human character who assists Ezri Dax in turning cloaked Dominion mines against an army of Jem ' Hadar.

Chaplin is also a supporting character in several other films, such as The Cat's Meow ( 2001 ), in which he was played by Eddie Izzard and The Scarlett O ' Hara War ( 1980 ), in which he was played by Clive Revill.

* Cricket, character played by Hoagy Carmichael in the film " To Have and Have Not "

The character was played by Silvana Mangano in the US production, Ullyses ( 1955 ); by Juliette Mayniel in the European television co-production L ' Odissea ( 1968 ); and by Bernadette Peters in the American TV feature Ulysses ( 1997 ).

* Cyrus " The Virus " Grissom, a character in the 1997 film Con Air, played by John Malkovich

2003 saw the introduction of another gay male character, Sean Tully played by Antony Cotton.

Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.

She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2009.

He has not played major roles in any of his own films, but he did put in a brief appearance as a gynecologist in The Fly ; he can also be glimpsed among the sex-crazed hordes in Shivers ; he can be heard as an unseen car-pound attendant in Crash ; his hands can be glimpsed in eXistenZ ; and he appeared as a stand-in for James Woods in Videodrome for shots in which Woods ' character wore a helmet that covered his head.

Other films in this genre were, Khote Sikkay ( 1973 ), Mera Gaon Mera Desh ( 1971 ), and Kuchhe Dhaage ( 1973 ) both by Raj Khosla, the latter inspired the blockbuster, Sholay ( 1975 ) had the character of Gabbar Singh played by Amjad Khan.

John Brown played the character " Broadway ," who doubled as host and narrator.