Afterwards, he was played by a further two female beagles, Breezy and Windy, although the character of Porthos remained male.

Windy was indeed a female and purely a fictitious character who popped into my head one fine day in 1967 ...

In 1955, he left Providence for Albany, New York, where he landed a job at station WROW-TV ( now WTEN ), hosting The Early Show featuring MGM movies and a kids ’ variety show, playing a " Gabby Hayes " type character named " Windy Knight ".

Paramount held the rights to the name Windy Halliday, so a new nickname was created for Hayes ' character ; Gabby.

" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

Brown celebrated his status as an icon by appearing in a variety of entertainment and sports events, including an appearance on the WCW pay-per-view event, SuperBrawl X, where he danced alongside wrestler Ernest " The Cat " Miller, who based his character on Brown, during his in-ring skit with The Maestro.

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 character Ralph Garcy ( stage name for Raul Garcia ) played by Barry Miller speaks often of growing up with Prinze and seeing him as the local neighborhood hero.

As Gremio does have a counterpart in I Suppositi, Miller concludes that " to argue the priority of A Shrew in this case would mean arguing that Shakespeare took the negative hints from the speeches of Polidor and Phylema and gave them to a character he resurrected from Supposes.

" Miller argues that there is even evidence in the play of what the compiler felt he was doing, working within a specific literary tradition ; " as with his partial change of character names, the compiler seems to wish to produce dialogue much like his models, but not the same.

At the time, sales of the Daredevil title were poor ; however, Miller saw something in the character he liked and asked editor-in-chief Jim Shooter if he could work on Daredevil's regular title.

Miller finished his Daredevil run with issue No. 191 ( Feb. 1983 ); in his time he had transformed a second-tier character into one of Marvel's most popular.

Miller used this miniseries to expand on Wolverine's character.

In the post-apocalyptic science fiction book A Canticle for Leibowitz, written by Walter M. Miller, Jr. and published in 1959, a character that can be interpreted as being the Wandering Jew is the only one to appear in all three novellas.

* The lead character of Peppy Miller from the 2011 film The Artist was inspired principally by Clara Bow, and in playing the part actress Bérénice Bejo invoked many of Bow's screen mannerisms.

" In the 1994 film in which Penelope Ann Miller portrayed the character, she is characterized as a telepath.

In 1994 the character was adapted once again into a feature film, The Shadow, starring Alec Baldwin as Lamont Cranston, alongside Penelope Ann Miller as Margo Lane.

Literary historian Ben Harris McClary suggests that a Ducktown-area farmer named William " Sut " Miller ( d. 1858 ) was the inspiration for the George Washington Harris character, Sut Lovingood.

An episode of the 1980s US sitcom, Growing Pains entiled " Meet the Seavers " has character Ben Seaver dream that he is an actor named Jeremy Miller starring in a sitcom about the Seaver family, with Miller and other cast members appearing as themselves.

Miller fused several people into one character: for example, the judges " Hathorne " and " Danforth " are representative of several judges in the case and the number of young girls involved was similarly reduced.

By that time, however, parent Miller Brewing had discontinued it over concerns it might be interpreted as marketing beer to children ; R. J. Reynolds Tobacco had recently been forced to discontinue its Joe Camel character for similar reasons.

In the Dilbert TV series, in which he is voiced by comedian Larry Miller, the character is notably smarter ( although still quite stupid and inept ) and more openly corrupt.

It stars Sean Astin as the title character, along with Ned Beatty, Jason Miller and Charles S. Dutton.

* Troy Miller ( Neighbours ), a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours

* Dan Miller, a character in The Mist

* Dan Miller, a character in The Thick of It

Artist Frank Miller collaborated with Claremont and helped to revise the character with a four-part eponymous limited series from September to December 1982 in which Wolverine's catchphrase, " I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn't very nice ," debuted.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

More indirectly, Christie ’ s famous character of Hercule Poirot can be compared to an archaeologist in his detailed scrutiny of all facts both large and small.

It was from her that Bret Harte took his famous character of Cherokee Sal in The Luck of Roaring Camp.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

Another famous character was Joe Btfsplk, who wants to be a loving friend but is " the world's worst jinx ," bringing bad luck to all those nearby.

Its famous catechetical school, while sacrificing none of its famous passion for orthodoxy since the days of Pantaenus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen of Alexandria, had begun to take on an almost secular character in the comprehensiveness of its interests, and had counted influential pagans among its serious auditors.

Mickey Mouse is perhaps the most famous cartoon character and fictional mouse in the world.

Some Howard scholars believe this Conan to be a forerunner of the more famous character.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

One famous example is the Star Wars character Darth Vader, portrayed by David Prowse.

The most famous of Einhard's works is his biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, " The Life of Charlemagne " ( c. 817 – 836 ), which provides much direct information about Charlemagne's life and character, written sometime between 817 and 830.

The October 1934 issue of Black Mask ( magazine ) | Black Mask featured the first appearance of the detective character whom Raymond Chandler would develop into the famous Philip Marlowe.

This famous portrait was the main inspiration of Luchino Visconti in creating the character played by Burt Lancaster in his film The Leopard ( film ) | Il Gattopardo.

Producers at HBO asked Busey to play a " character " on the show who was the self-named actor who is also a famous painter and sculptor.

* Kornfield Kounty Operator Service: Irlene Mandrell as Kornfield Kounty's telephone operator ( similar to Lily Tomlin's more famous character, Ernestine Tomlin ) would answer phone calls from various Kornfield Kounty residents, who would eventually hang up in various degrees of frustration, causing the Operator to often say, innocently, " And they wonder why we telephone operators turn gray!

In place of less easily available tin, arsenic was added to copper in the Bronze Age to harden it ; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired Lewis Carroll's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would have suffered from chronic poisoning as a result of their livelihood.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

The characters on Sam and Friends were forerunners of Muppets, and the show included a prototype of Henson's most famous character: Kermit the Frog.

Both are famous less for their interpretation of character than for certain aspects of staging.

Occasionally, when catering at the customers ’ homes, foodservice establishments of this category would only provide the few specialty dishes they are famous for, just like foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character lou.

Just like foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character ju, when catering at the customers ’ homes, foodservice establishments of this category would also only provide the few specialty dishes they are famous for, but they would mostly bring the already cooked dishes to the location, and would only cook on locations occasionally.