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.

He appears as a character throughout most of the Amelia Peabody series of books by Elizabeth Peters ( a pseudonym of Egyptologist Dr Barbara Mertz ); and in much of Arthur Phillips's The Egyptologist.

The script was rewritten to place more emphasis on Barbara Carrera's character, and the reworked version was released after Davis's death.

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.

* Barbara Park ( born 1949 ), author of children's literature best known for her series of books starring the character Junie B. Jones.

Sophie Bangs is hoping to interview a woman named Barbara Shelley for a college paper on " Promethea ", a character who seems to recur in literature and pop culture through the centuries.

The wife of comic book writer Steven Shelley, Barbara became Promethea when her husband began projecting Barbara's characteristics onto the Promethea character in his comics.

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Holloway made short propaganda films on behalf of the British Film Institute and Pathé News and took character parts in a series of war films including Major Barbara, The Way Ahead, This Happy Breed and The Way to the Stars.

In 1941 Holloway took a character part in Gabriel Pascal's film of Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, in which he played a policeman.

* The character ' Methuselah ' in Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Poisonwood Bible is an African Grey parrot.

It also starred veterans Jean Simmons as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard and Roy Thinnes as Roger Collins, British character actress Lysette Anthony as Angelique Collins, Barbara Steele as Julia Hoffman, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as David Collins.

When the film was released, Variety gave the film a favorable review: " There is no attempt to gloss the character of Barbara Graham, only an effort to understand it through some fine irony and pathos.

Later in 1988, Midler lent her voice to the animated character Georgette, a snobbish poodle, in Disney's Oliver & Company, and had a hit with the tearjerker Beaches, co-starring Barbara Hershey.

" Reggie once had a one night stand with Barbara Windsor, whose EastEnders character Peggy Mitchell was reputedly based on Violet Kray ( i. e. her matriarchy over two thuggish sons ).

The ten years that followed were not happy ones for Mantegna and Mantua: his character grew irritable, his son Bernardino died, as well as the marquis Ludovico, his wife Barbara and his successor Federico ( who had declared Mantegna cavaliere, " knight " ).

Worzel Gummidge is a British children's fictional character who originally appeared in a series of books by the novelist Barbara Euphan Todd.

The main character played by Barbara Bain eventually concludes that the crewman's story will create new mythology similar to the legend of St. George.

Barbara Tuchman describes Ludendorff in her book The Guns of August as Schlieffen ’ s devoted disciple who was a glutton for work and a man of granite character.

The novel was filmed in 1943 as Lady of Burlesque, directed by William Wellman, starring Barbara Stanwyck as " Dixie Daisy " ( the Lee character ), Michael O ' Shea as her romantic interest, and Pinky Lee, among many notable supporting players.

In the episode, two teachers at the school, science teacher Ian Chesterton and history teacher Barbara Wright, discover that one of their students, Susan Foreman, is an alien time traveller who has been attending the school as her grandfather, the Doctor ( the central character of the series ), makes repairs on their time machine, the TARDIS.

* Barbara Gordon will appear as Nightwing alongside Batman when the character makes his long-awaited appearance in the Smallville universe in the " Detective " story arc of the Smallville: Season 11 series.

When Dallas was popular, it was spoofed with a character determined to corner the fertilizer market, and featured a cameo by Barbara Frum.

There is wide speculation that the book is, at least in part, based on real life, and that the Zenia character is based loosely on Barbara Amiel, the real-life journalist and wife of Conrad Black.

William Randolph Wintergreen, is a fictional character in DC Comics Teen Titans comics.

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

Since the various braille alphabets originated as transcription codes of printed writing systems, the mappings ( sets of character designations ) vary from language to language.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

It cannot be said with certainty from where the megalithic culture of Korea originated, and therefore it is difficult to define its true cultural character.

The concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a drawing of a character from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics initiated a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels, which in turn initiated a discussion group that met at science fiction and comics conventions.

In gaming culture, such a character was called Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person, abbreviated as AFGNCAAP ( pronounced " afgan-cap "); a term that originated in Zork: Grand Inquisitor where it is used satirically to refer to the player.

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States of America and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

The character of Uli originated on the set of Fargo between Ethan Coen and Stormare, who often spoke in a mock German accent.

Character-count integrity is not the same as character integrity, which requires that the characters delivered be, in fact, exactly the same as they were originated.

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.

Wendy Hiller originated the role of Catherine on Broadway ; in the West End, Peggy Ashcroft portrayed the title character.

The character in Polish folklore named Pan Twardowski presents similarities with Faust, and this legend seems to have originated at roughly the same time.

If the character of Banbha originated in an earth-goddess, non-leptic podzol may have been the particular earth-type of which she was the deification.

According to fandom historian Fred Patten, the concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a character drawing from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics started a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels.

He originated the character from 1981-1983.

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.

Writing the " character sketch " as a scholastic exercise also originated in Theophrastus's typology.

* Flip Wilson, whose character, the female Geraldine, originated the catchphrases " What you see is what you get " and " The devil made me do it ".

The character was originated by Mark Lenard in the 1967 episode " Journey To Babel.

Martin Short originated the character on Toronto's Second City stage as an unnamed school parent in a sketch.

Bisque doll of Momotarō, a character from Japanese literature and Japanese folklore | folklore. Certain genres of writing originated in and are often associated with Japanese society.

Philip Marlowe's character is foremost within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction that originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared.

The role had been originated on Dynasty by Pamela Sue Martin, who had left the series in 1984 and the character presumed dead in a car crash.

Wardriving originated from wardialing, a method popularized by a character played by Matthew Broderick in the film WarGames, and named after that film.

* There are some scholars who believe this character may be originated from the first disciple of Xuan Zang, Shi Banto.