* Marshal Micah Torrance, fictional character in the television series The Rifleman ( 1958 – 63 )

* William Marshal is a central character in the traditional English ballad " Queen Elanor's Confession " ( Child 156 ), in which he is ( fictitiously ) revealed to have seduced Eleanor of Aquitaine while escorting her to England.

* William Marshal also appears as a supporting character in Thomas B. Costain's out of print novel Below the Salt, and Sharon Kay Penman's novels Time and Chance and Devil's Brood, as well as a minor appearance in Penman's When Christ and His Saints Slept, illustrating the story about young William's time as King Stephen's hostage and John Marshal's defiance.

* William Marshal is the main character of the novel A Pride of Kings by Juliet Dymoke, published by the New English Library in 1978.

* William Marshal is a significant secondary character in the novel The Witch Hunter by Bernard Knight, in the author's John Crowner medieval mystery series, published in 2004.

As one of the prominent historical figures of the period, Marshal also appears as a minor character in several of her other novels set around the same time.

* William Marshal is a major character in the novels The Devil is Loose and its sequel, Wolf at the Door by Graham Shelby.

* William Marshal is a major character in Sir Ridley Scott's Robin Hood epic who tries to convince King John to agree to the Magna Carta.

* William Marshal is also a key character in Christopher Morley's new play The King's Disposition.

* A character named " Marshal " ( played by James Purefoy ), based loosely on the historical William Marshal, is the central character in the 2011 film Ironclad.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

The fictional character Morgan Kane is described as a US Marshal in more than 15 of the 83 books in the Morgan Kane book series, penned by Louis Masterson.

The character of the U. S. Marshal later appeared in the short-lived TV series Karen Sisco.

Beginning in 2004, the character Edward Mars in Season 1 and Season 6 of the TV series Lost portrays a U. S. Marshal obsessed with apprehending Kate Austen, a character who has murdered her abusive stepfather and previously escaped from the same marshal.

In 1994, Garner played Marshal Zane Cooper in a movie version of Maverick, with Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick ( in the end it is revealed that Garner's character is the father of Gibson's Maverick ) and Jodie Foster as a gambling lass with a fake southern accent.

In the 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Will Ferrell plays a character named " Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly ," a reference to the three main characters on Land of the Lost.

* Carrie Stetko, the main character of the comic book Whiteout ( created by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber ), works as a Deputy U. S. Marshal at McMurdo Station.

* Carrie Stetko, the main character of the film adaptation of comic book Whiteout ( created by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber ), works as a Deputy U. S. Marshal at McMurdo Station.

The political career of Marshal Soult was by no means as creditable, and it has been said of him that he had character only in the face of the enemy.

* In the 1997 film Liar Liar, Jim Carrey reprised his " Fire Marshal Bill " character ( albeit with no lines ) in the background of one of the closing scenes.

* In the game Unreal II the main character is named Marshal John Dalton.

In a gender reversal, the woman writer ( Mitchell ) narrates Lost Laysen through a heroic male character, Billy Duncan.

While the recurring character of Michael Eddington ( played by Kenneth Marshall ) in Deep Space Nine was a member of the Maquis, Voyager contained three regular Maquis characters, Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ), Seska ( Martha Hackett ) and B ' Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ), as well as Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ), a regular character that had been captured and imprisoned for joining the Maquis.

Thomas Eugene " Tom " Paris, played by Robert Duncan McNeill, is a character in the television series Star Trek: Voyager.

Similarly, Thom Duncan published an independent novel where an Indiana Jones-type character escapes from a curelom, described as a mammoth.

* Zaharoff is a character in the novel The King's Commisar by Duncan Kyle.

After nearly 30 years out of feature films, he returned to perform character roles, including the sympathetic Walley World theme park founder Roy Walley in National Lampoon's Vacation, and Duncan's Toy Chest toy store owner Mr. Duncan in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

Duncan Idaho is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

In the 1992 video game Dune, Duncan is a minor character with whom the player ( as Paul Atreides ) can interact.

The narrator and central character is playwright Duncan Patullo.

" Duncan also established his reputation as a stoic player, to the extent that opposing fans taunted him as " Mr. Spock ", the prototypical logical, detached character from Star Trek.

Seeing this as a foothold to a lasting role in primetime, Taylor only thought it appropriate that the Michael Hogan character would be home more often for his family, both in the wake of his wife's death and in order to help his sister ( Duncan ) settle into the household.

* Amy Duncan, main character in the TV show, Good Luck Charlie

Paul Calf first began as a character named ' Duncan Disorderly ' in Coogan's early stand-up routines.

In the book Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan, the main character, Sarah Zoltanne, realizes that she was Betty Parris in a former life after having several dreams and visions, viewed from Betty's perspective.

* The British Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith demands that Prime Minister Tony Blair apologise for the comments of his press secretary, Tom Kelly, in which Kelly compared Dr. David Kelly, the BBC source who took his own life after his identity was revealed by the Ministry of Defence, to the fictional Walter Mitty character.

* King Duncan, a character in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth

* Duncan ( fictional locomotive ), a locomotive character in The Railway Series children's books by the Rev.

* Duncan Idaho, a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert

* Duncan Quagmire, a fictional character from A Series of Unfortunate Events

* Ser Duncan the Tall, a fictional character from Tales of Dunk and Egg, a series of novellas written by George R. R. Martin, set in the world of his Song of Ice and Fire cycle

The single had some success, and the duo went on to record two albums under their character names of PJ & Duncan.

* Eco, a character, played by Jacqueline Duncan, on the children's show The Shak

* A supporting character in the film The Scorpion King played by actor Michael Clarke Duncan

* Duncan MacLeod, character from Highlander movies and television series