In sympathy for Marianne, and to illuminate his character, Colonel Brandon reveals to Elinor that Mr. Willoughby had seduced Brandon's fifteen-year-old ward, and abandoned her when she became pregnant.

Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European, a change which she found insulting to his Chinese lineage, and she felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film ; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the colonel elsewhere even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was sixty years old.

His character is loosely based on, Lieutenant Colonel (" Lighthorse Harry Lee ") Henry Lee II.

Eventually, his character gave up wearing women ’ s clothing ( after a lecture from Colonel Sherman Potter, explaining how a Section 8 Discharge would adversely affect his life ).

Serling modeled the main character on his former commander, Colonel Oren Haugen.

On 16 Nov 1792, " Red Banks " resident Robert Simpson wrote to Colonel Alexander D. Orr in Lexington, requesting help to appoint a magistrate in Red Banks, as he believed that some of its 30 families were of dubious character and engaged in criminal activities, creating the need for a justice system.

It is also the site of the Green Mansion, the estate of " Colonel " Edward Howland Robinson Green, a colorful character in his own right, who was son of the even more colorful and wildly eccentric Hetty Green, said to be the richest woman in the world in her time, who is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the " world's greatest miser ".

W. C. Falkner's exploits in and around Ripley served as the model for Faulkner's character of Colonel John Sartoris.

The novel tells the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character.

Characters from the Cornelius novels show up in much of Moorcock's other fiction: " The Dancers at the End of Time " series has a character called Jherek Carnelian who is the son of Lord Jagged of Canaria, and there are several hints in the series that Lord Jagged may be a guise of Jerry Cornelius ; the Cornelius-series character Una Persson also appears in the " Dancers " series and the Oswald Bastable books, and may also be the character Oona in the later Elric books ; Colonel Pyat has his own non-SF series of books by Moorcock, beginning with Byzantium Endures.

However, Colonel " Teresa " Stacy ( Ferguson ) quickly emerged as the show's most popular character — each time he appeared, Stacy would load up the Chicken Cannon and fire rubber chickens and other assorted projectiles at whomever he deemed the most annoying public figure of the week ( or year ).

Crenna's performances were also reportedly the inspiration for the character " Colonel Roy Campbell " in the Metal Gear series of games.

Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character.

The character has survived in the form of a clichéd phrase – highly reactionary opinions are characterised as " Colonel Blimp " statements.

Terry gained a new mentor in flying instructor Colonel " Flip " Corkin, a character based on the real-life Colonel Philip " Flip " Cochran of the 1st Air Commando Group.

The only woman character of importance is Bianca Castafiore, who is portrayed to be foolish and nearly oblivious to all negative reactions to her behaviour – though she does show loyalty, presence of mind and quick wit when hiding Tintin and Haddock from Colonel Sponsz in The Calculus Affair.

* Colonel Race, a debonair Secret Service agent, also featured as a character in Death on the Nile

He played the character of Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell, the new commanding officer of SG-1.

* Colonel Dax, a character played by Kirk Douglas in Kubrick's Paths of Glory ( 1957 )

Colonel Graeme, who had been sent to the various courts of Germany on a mission of investigation, reported the charms of character and the excellent qualities of mind possessed by the seventeen-year-old Princess Charlotte.

In the early 20th century, there was an attempt to revive his popularity, spearheaded by Colonel Henry Shoemaker, a Pennsylvania folklorist, who collected Mike Fink tales, and saw the character as a local equivalent to Crockett, but Shoemaker's attempt at reviving the character sputtered.

Jean-Marie Le Pen sued the show, as he disliked being represented as the vampire " Pencassine ", shown wearing a traditional girl's costume from Brittany-a reference to " Bécassine ", a 1910s classic French comic character, and to Le Pen's origins in Brittany, while retaining his vampire fangs.

When Paul West starts his new job in September he is altogether unaware of the true character and the machinations of his boss, Jean-Marie Martin, who is in his early fifties, rich, handsome, impeccably dressed, friendly, and prepared to pay him a good salary.

Diana Soren, the main character in Carlos Fuentes ' novel Diana o la cazadora soltera ( Diana, or The Lone Huntress ), is described as having the same personality as the goddess.

* The Culhanes: The adventures of the Culhane family, depicted as all they did was sit on an old-fashioned sofa in the parlor, which focused on Cousin Clem Culhane ( Gordie Tapp ); Cousin Junior Culhane ( Junior Samples ); Cousin Grandpa Culhane ( Grandpa Jones ); and Cousin Lulu Culhane ( Lulu Roman ) who would sit in deadpan character and comment, à la soap opera.

* Segismundo, main character of Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sueño.

The story of Turandot was taken from a Persian collection of stories called The Book of One Thousand and One Days ( 1722 French translation Les Mille et un jours by François Pétis de la Croix — not to be confused with its sister work The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ), where the character of " Turandokht " as a cold princess was found.

In one of his novels, entitled Invitatie la vals, referring to Carl Maria von Weber's " Invitation to the Dance " ( later orchestrated by Berlioz ), a comparison is made between the novel's main character and Manon Lescaut.

Hellequin is the leader of la Mesnée d ' Hellequin, thought to be related to the Old English Herla, a character often identified with Woden.

There is also the Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada created by Mexican comedian Chespirito transmitted in Mexico between 1968 and 1973 that created famous characters like El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulín Colorado and other character like Los Caquitos, Dr. Chapatín and Los Chifladitos.

Executive producers James L. Brooks and Al Jean confirmed that the character was not dead, but he just fainted, and he would be " brought back to life à la Dr. Marvin Monroe ".

He is also a major character in several historical novels, such as Inés y las raíces de la tierra, by María Correa Morande ( 1964 ), Ay Mamá Inés-Crónica Testimonial ( 1993 ) by Jorge Guzmán, and Inés of My Soul () by Isabel Allende ( 2006 ).

* Clovis la Britannia, a character in the anime series Code Geass

The character was newly discovered and defined by Italian comics artist and writer Romano Scarpa with the comic Topolino e la nave del microcosmo ( lit.

A spectacle play by the Count of Villamediana and thirteen dramas by Calderon de la Barca introduce a character named Astraea to the foreground of political and astrological concerns.

In his most famous play, La vida es sueño, Calderon de la Barca has a character named Rosaura ( an anagram for " dawns ") take on the name of Astraea at Court.

The most complete summary existing about these debates which often take a political ( e. g. communist ) or religious ( e. g. orthodox ) character is Dan Dana, Zalmoxis de la Herodot la Mircea Eliade.

The central character, Martine Domme, lives with her family at the fictional address of 12, rue de la République.

The film is set in Sheffield, England, and it tells the story of six unemployed men, four of them former steel workers, who decide to form a male striptease act ( à la Chippendale dancers ) in order to gather enough money to get somewhere else and for main character, Gaz, to be able to see his son.

In France and in French-speaking Belgium, this character is called la petite souris (" the little mouse ").

There are games similar to " The Price Is Right "' s " 3 Strikes " pricing game, but game play varied depending on that game's concept ( with the El Chacal de la Trompeta character image used as the " strikes "; if the contestant finds the Sabado Gigante logo, it will eliminate one strike and awards a $ 500 bonus, which the contestant gets to keep regardless of outcome ).

Another category is words derived from famous characters in literature, such as quixotic ( referring to the titular character in Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes ), a scrooge ( from the main character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol ), or a pollyanna ( from Eleanor H. Porter's book of the same name ).

His first appearance as a main character is in Chrétien de Troyes ' Le Chevalier de la Charette, or " Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart ," which was written in the 12th century.

Experience is spent a la carte, rather than a blanket increase in character skills as in D & D.

The character later took a life of his own on a radio show first named El Profesor Colgate ( sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive's flagship toothpaste ) and later called El Colegio de la Alegría ( The School of Joy ).

In Rousseau's mind, she became identified with a character in the great novel he was then writing, Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse.