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.

It is such a character that she portrays in Edward Weston, and that her heroine Agnes Grey finds deeply appealing.

* Beverly Weston, fictional character in " August: Osage County "

By 1870, substantial country estates were being built in Weston by Bostonians, establishing a prosperous residential character for the town.

Dr. Weston was portrayed by Richard Mulligan and the character was a pediatrician.

My Family has used several actors from various past hit sitcoms, most notably David Haig from The Thin Blue Line, Belinda Lang of 2point4 children, Diana Weston from The Upper Hand who ( in a possible reference to a character from her own sitcom ) portrayed a male-female transsexual named Charlie, Pauline Quirke of Birds of a Feather and Sam Kelly from On the Up.

Only in recent decades ( after Saunders retired ) has the strip centered more on the title character, along with a regular cast of her closest friends, most of whom were introduced to the strip after 1980: Professor Ian Cameron and his younger wife Toby, advice columnist Wilbur Weston and his college student daughter Dawn, and Dr. Jeff Cory, Mary's perennial beau, and his son, Dr. Drew Cory.

Weston had countless character roles in major films such as The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair.

He meets his new friends at this school: Pandora, a girl with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and a thing for locked boxes ; Stigmartha, a girl who has holes in her hands and bleeds from them whenever she's nervous ; Smith and Weston, conjoined twins who are very smart and conjoined at the head ; The Seep, an armless, legless, foul-mouthed kid in a vat ; and The Dead Guppy, a character who speaks for himself.

The film's supporting cast includes two two-time Tony Award winners, Tammy Grimes and Russell Nype, June Havoc ( sister of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee ), Altovise Davis ( wife of Sammy Davis, Jr .), character actor Jack Weston, and Emmy-winner Leigh Taylor-Young.

Bree Van de Kamp ( née Mason ; also known in the series as Bree Hodge and Bree Weston ) is a fictional character and one of the four protagonists on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives.

In 1987 he made a guest appearance on " The Golden Girls " as Jake Smollens, the handsome but rough-around-the edges caterer for Blanche's ( Rue McClanahan ) Hospital Charity Banquet, and in 1988 he guest appeared on " Empty Nest " as Leonard, an old friend of the main character, Dr. Harry Weston ( played by fellow Soap alumnus, Richard Mulligan ), who dates Harry's daughter, Carol ( Dinah Manoff, who also has appeared on Soap ).

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

Pomham and Soconoco, a couple of minor sachems ( of something less than exalted character ) under Miantonomi, declared that they had never assented to the sale of land to Gorton and had never received anything for it.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

He respected each of these approach techniques, and kept them in character: his quill drawings had a scratchiness, suggesting skin texture ; ;

Viola had been urged to attend, by telephone, and not knowing the host or the character of the party, she had gone.

If the character flying that thing had gone over San Clemente Island yesterday he would have had an eyeful.

His own children had suffered from the weakening of those values which he and Theresa had always taken for granted, and as for his grandchildren ( he had one so far, still in diapers ), he shuddered to think that the true meaning of character might never dawn on them at all.

The " space " character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20 < sub > hex </ sub >; for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits.

With the increase of wealth and power, abbots had lost much of their special religious character, and become great lords, chiefly distinguished from lay lords by celibacy.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

Agrippina is regarded in ancient and modern historical sources as a Roman Matron with a reputation as a great woman, who had an excellent character and had outstanding Roman morals.

There were the seeds ( spermata ) or miniatures of wheat and flesh and gold in the primitive mixture ; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes ( the homoiomereiai of Aristotle ), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character.

This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.

The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.