Another character, Father Paneloux, uses the plague as an opportunity to advance his stature in the town by suggesting that the plague was an act of God punishing the citizens ' sinful nature.

According to Linehan, Father Ted was a character created by Mathews for Paul Woodfull, when the three men performed together as The Joshua Trio on the comedy circuit in Ireland.

Just weeks before his death Morgan said that he did not want to continue playing the role of Father Ted for fear of being typecast: " I don't want to be the next Clive Dunn and end up playing the same character for years.

In the English-speaking world, the character called " Father Christmas " influenced the development in the United States of Santa Claus, and in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, most people now consider them to be interchangeable.

The character continued to appear over the next 250 years, appearing as Sir Christmas, Lord Christmas or Father Christmas, the last becoming the most common.

This work shows Father Christmas to be a deeply complex character, in whom the qualities of charity and goodwill are at odds with those of violence and greed.

The reaction of readers to Henry's personality and character as represented in Father and Son has included phrases such as " scientific crackpot ," " bible-soaked romantic ," " a stern and repressive father ," and a " pulpit-thumping Puritan throwback to the seventeenth century.

Even a modern editor of Father and Son has rejected this portrait of Philip Henry Gosse on the grounds that his " writings reveal a genuinely sweet character.

** " Father Christmas " is a main character of the Christmas masque written by Ben Jonson and presented at the court of King James I of England.

Karl Malden's character, Father Barry, was based on the real-life " waterfront priest " Father John M. Corridan, S. J., a Jesuit priest, graduate of Regis High School who operated a Roman Catholic labor school on the west side of Manhattan.

It was probably the priest who received Jones into the Church, Father John O ' Connor ( in fact the model for G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown character ), who suggested that he contact the Catholic artist Eric Gill.

* In Alex Kava's A Necessary Evil, character Father Michael Keller is poisoned by monkshood in his tea.

Linnell provided the singing voice for the Other Father character in the 2009 film Coraline, for which They Might Be Giants wrote the " Other Father Song ", which is included on the film's soundtrack.

Controversy over the historical authenticity of Juan Diego was stirred in 1996 by Father Guillermo Schulenburg, a longtime abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who called Juan Diego a mythical character.

Father of the Bride had a sequel the following year, called Father's Little Dividend, in which Taylor's character has a baby.

Aspects of the character Father Merrin were based on the British archaeologist Gerald Lankester Harding, who had excavated the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls had been found and whom Blatty had met in Beirut.

Novello is best known for his work on NBC's Saturday Night Live, from 1977 until 1980, and again in 1985-86, often as the character Father Guido Sarducci.

Don Novello created the Father Guido Sarducci character in 1973 after finding a monsignor's outfit for $ 7. 50 at a St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop.

He also appeared numerous times on the show in the Father Guido Sarducci character.

Father Guido Sarducci is a fictional character created by American comedian Don Novello.

In Disney Studios ' animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire released in 2001, Don Novello uses the voice and speech style of Father Sarducci to portray the character of demolitions expert Vinny Santorini.

Patrol, opposite Nia Long, Tim Thomerson and Brian Keith ; Like Father Like Son ( 1987 ); White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon ( 1987 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ); the World War II film Memphis Belle ( 1990 ); Toy Soldiers ( 1991 ); Encino Man ( 1992 ); and the college football biopic Rudy ( 1993 ), about the life-changing struggles and rewards of the titular character, Daniel Ruettiger.

At the same time it is possible that Robin Hood has always been a fictional character ; the folklorist Francis James Child declared " Robin Hood is absolutely a creation of the ballad-muse " and this view has been neither proven or disproven.

His 2002 novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street features characters carrying on the Hellfire tradition, while the Faction Paradox audio plays, Sabbath Dei and The Year of the Cat, feature Francis Dashwood as a secondary character.

* Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of the Buck Rogers character ( d. 1940 )

Besides arguing that Arlequin be a character of Sufi origins, Idries Shah also wrote a chapter of The Sufis on the sufi influence over Saint Francis, arguing him having adopted the patched robe as his only garment was a clear example of a sufi influence ( Shah, I.

The film's screenwriter, Robert Rodat, said of Mel Gibson's character: " Benjamin Martin is a composite character made up of Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, and a few bits and pieces from a number of other characters ".

Francis Marion was one of the influences for the main character in the 2000 movie The Patriot, which according to Crawford " exaggerated the Swamp Fox legend for a whole new generation ".

* Evadne is a character in The Maid's Tragedy, a play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Sir Philip Francis said of Fox: " The essential defect in his character and the cause of all his failures, strange as it may seem, was that he had no heart ".

In 1998, he returned as the character Francis " Ponch " Poncherello in the TNT made-for-TV movie CHiPs ' 99, along with the rest of the original cast.

The likeness of the Captain Scarlet character has, since his first appearance, been attributed to Francis Matthews, who voiced Scarlet in the series, Cary Grant and Roger Moore.

While the film is fictionalized, it is drawn directly from the memoir / biography Dance of the Infidels written by Francis Paudras, who had befriended Powell during his Paris expatriate days and on whom the character " Francis " is based.

* Francis " Frank " Grimes, character in the show Ugly Americans

The character has also appeared in a number of films, and the Babar stories have inspired musical works by Francis Poulenc and Raphael Mostel.

* In The Illusionist ( 2006 ), a central character is the fictitious " Crown Prince Leopold ", son of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria.

Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz, based on Conrad's character, who has gone rogue far up a river, deep in the Southeast Asian jungle.

In Francis Ford Coppola's tense character study / spy thriller, The Conversation ( 1974 ), a bugging-device expert ( Gene Hackman ) systematically uncovered a covert murder while he himself was being spied upon.

The main character, Ross Poldark, a British Army officer, returns to his home in Cornwall from the American Revolutionary War only to find that his fiancée, Elizabeth Chynoweth, having believed him dead, is about to marry his cousin, Francis Poldark.

* Francis McCourt: The writer of the book and main character.

As to the origins of the name itself, " Heller admitted in later years that the name ' Yossarian ' was derived from the name of one of his Air Force buddies, Francis Yohannan, but that the character of Yossarian himself was ' the incarnation of a wish ' ( Now and Then 175-6 ).

Joseph Francis " Joey " Tribbiani, Jr. is a fictional character from the NBC sitcoms Friends and its spin-off Joey, portrayed by Matt LeBlanc.

Fleming also used historical references for some of his names and Marc-Ange Draco's name is based upon that of El Draco, the Spanish nickname for Sir Francis Drake, a fact also used by J. K. Rowling for the naming of her character Draco Malfoy.

Osborne Gordon, the influential Oxford don, Sir John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Hollywood character actor, Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen, an influential Victorian civil servant ; Dr William Macmichael, physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane, Bishop Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Henry John Roby, the classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament, Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse, inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester, General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during the period of the Jack the Ripper Murders and a General in the Second Boer War, and Cyril Washbrook, the cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.

His writing career began in 1989 with the publication of House of Cards, the first in what would become a trilogy of political thrillers with Francis Urquhart as the central character.