Lemmon's performance also inspired Gil Gunderson, a character on The Simpsons that is modeled on Lemmon's.

Show runner Mike Scully thought that Gil would be " a one-shot thing " but " Dan Castellaneta was so funny at the table read doing the character, we kept making up excuses in subsequent episodes to put him in.

* Gil Grissom, character on American TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, played by actor William Petersen

* A recurring character on the animated TV series The Simpsons, Gil Gunderson

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

* A character in the 1985 arcade game The Tower of Druaga, Gil

* Gil, a character in the manga Dragon Knights

For television, the actor portrayed a character who temporarily replaces Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen, in the CBS show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, during the 2006 – 2007 season.

He reveals himself as a master of historical interpretation in La Prudencia de la mujer ; his sympathetic, malicious wit finds dramatic expression in El Vergonzoso en palacio and Don Gil de las calzas verdes, and the fine divination of feminine character in Averígüelo, Vargas and La Villana de Vallecas ( The peasant woman of Vallecas ) is incomparable.

* Gil Chesterton, a minor character on Frasier

* Gil is the main character in the 1994 song " Surreal Madrid " by British indie band Prolapse.

The program included comedic sketches performed by the duo of Gil Mayer and Norm McGilvary, in which Mayer, a sales manager with the station, performed the character of miner " Marcel Mucker ".

The Season 9 premiere revealed Dourdan's character dying in the arms of his colleague and friend Gil Grissom.

The character first appeared in Green Lantern # 40 ( Oct. 1965 ), and was created by writer John Broome and artist Gil Kane.

When a hired cowboy character fails to show up at their birthday party, Gil dresses as a cowboy himself and assumes the role.

( 68 kg ), married farmer, seeming to have more in common with the book's main character, Gil Martin.

Hama began penciling for comics a year-and-a-half later, making an auspicious debut succeeding character co-creator Gil Kane on the feature " Iron Fist " in Marvel Premiere, taking over with the martial arts superhero's second appearance and his next three stories (# 16-19, July-Nov. 1974 ).

National Periodical ( DC Comics ) licensed the character from Ideal and published five issues of Captain Action in 1968, illustrated at first by Wally Wood, then by Gil Kane.

The main character, Gil Thorp, is the athletic director of Milford High School and coaches the football, basketball, and baseball teams.

Dr. Gilbert " Gil " Grissom, ( Ph. D .) is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by William Petersen.

Zuiker originally named the character Gil Sheinbaum, but after he became part of the cast, William Petersen requested the name to be changed, Petersen and Zuiker decided to rename the character " Grissom ", after astronaut Gus Grissom, of whom Petersen was a great admirer.

Created by writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane, the character, a living human suffering from vampiric abilities resulting from scientific rather than supernatural means, first appeared as an antagonist in The Amazing Spider-Man # 101 ( Oct. 1971 ), and went on to become a heroic, tragically flawed protagonist in his own series and other titles.

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

The character Gus Griswald in the popular children's TV show Recess is named after Grissom ( his fictional father is a General in the US Army and Gus is his recruit ).

In one interview, producer Carol Mendelsohn said that she has never been able to see Grissom with any other character other than Sidle and that this episode was seen by the writers as the right time to reveal the relationship.

The character has often met with the disapproval of his supervisor Gil Grissom, due to listening to loud music such as Marilyn Manson while running lab machines and hiding porn magazines in some area cabinets.

This recurring character is a professional dominatrix and a potential romantic interest for then regular CSI supervisor Gil Grissom, as well as romantic rival to CSI forensic scientist Sara Sidle.

William Petersen has said that his character, Grissom, becomes attracted to Lady Heather because they are " both anthropologists.

As an actor, he is best known for portraying the titular role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk and for voicing the character in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations.

* Bobby Stevens, a main character in the CBS television series Smith

The popularity of Peyton Place prompted the CBS network to spin off popular As the World Turns character Lisa Miller into her own evening soap opera, Our Private World ( originally titled " The Woman Lisa " in its planning stages ).

The one-hour pilot for a revived show, called Hawaii Five-0 ( the last character is a zero instead of the letter " O "), aired September 20, 2010 on CBS, and as of October 2010, the series now airs Monday nights at 10 PM Eastern, 9 PM Central time.

In 1997, she won her third Golden Globe award for CBS ' Cybill ( 1995 – 1998 ), a television sitcom, in which the title character — Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps — was loosely modeled on herself ( including portrayals of her two ex-husbands ).

* Howard Wolowitz, a fictional character on the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actor Simon Helberg.

Jake and the Fatman was a spin-off on CBS, based on a character who originated in " The Don " ( 1986 ) a two-part Matlock episode from season one.

Rogers took on the role of Major Tony Nelson which was originally portrayed by Larry Hagman ( of the CBS TV series Dallas fame ) in the TV series when Hagman was unavailable to reprise the character he had originated.

Once Silverman saw the character designs, he confirmed that CBS would greenlight the show, on the condition that Bakshi serve as its creative director.

In 1993, she played a young wife in the CBS miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove and got a starring role as the leading character Nonnie Parker, a South African girl who must cross of the Kalahari, in the teen-aimed Disney film A Far Off Place.

The Melman character also opened Letterman's first CBS show under his own name, but as essentially the same character, when Letterman moved from NBC to CBS in 1993.

CBS asked Serling to have more action and less character interaction.

The character Leonard Hofstadter, featured in the CBS television comedy The Big Bang Theory, is named after Robert Hofstadter.

* Janice Lynde of Sulphur was an original cast member of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, having portrayed the character Leslie Brooks.

He is best known to modern audiences for his starring role in the CBS television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991, as Clayton Farlow, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes's character, but to an earlier generation, he was known as the star of some of the most famous MGM film musicals ever made, with a rich bass-baritone singing voice.

The release includes new audio commentary featuring Brooks and Marks, James L. Brooks — A Singular Voice, a new documentary on Brooks ’ s career in television and film, featuring actresses Marilu Henner and Julie Kavner, among other collaborators, an alternative ending and deleted scenes, with commentary by Brook, new video interviews with veteran CBS news producer Susan Zirinsky, one of the models for actress Holly Hunter ’ s character and an associate producer on the film, and a featurette containing on-set footage and interviews with Brooks, Hunter, and actor Albert Brooks.

The main character of the CBS show NCIS, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, comes from Stillwater.

In a filmed Thanksgiving special, billed as his TV debut, sponsored by Coca-Cola on CBS in 1950, the new character Podine Puffington was introduced.

The actor most closely identified with the character in recent years has been Stacy Keach, who portrayed Hammer in a CBS television series, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, which ran from 1984 – 1987 and had a syndicated revival in 1997 – 1998.