Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added appropriate songs for the characters of Henry Higgins and Liza Doolittle, played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

These themes are played out in the stories of the three main characters, Samuel, Saul and David.

This factor is a natural outcome of Hollywood script development which wishes to highlight one or two major characters which can be played by major stars, and thus a good way of marketing the movie is established but that rings false upon examination.

The character Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer, was featured in his own successful spin-off, Frasier, which also ran for 11 seasons and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major, and some minor, Cheers characters.

In line with Park's suggestion, younger characters were introduced: Nick Tilsley was recast, played by Adam Rickitt, single mother Zoe Tattersall ( Joanne Froggatt ) first appeared, and the Battersbys moved into No. 5.

* The novel is mentioned and referenced by some of the other characters in the 2011 movie The Moth Diaries ; Carmilla also seems to have inspired the main antagonist Ernessa, played by Lily Cole.

Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen.

Two of the male characters were played by women, whose shapely legs were put on display in a fashion that Gilbert later condemned.

Chapman most often played characters with personalities close to his own: outwardly calm and authoritative figures barely concealing a manic unpredictability.

It was reportedly his idea that Rick Blaine be portrayed as a chess player, which also served as a metaphor for the sparring relationship of the characters played by Bogart and Rains in the movie.

* Iceman is one of the three playable characters in X-Men: The Official Game ( which fills in the gap between X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand ) voiced by Shawn Ashmore ( the same actor who played him in the films ).

The Chinese played the game using sheets printed with Chinese characters, often the first 80 characters of the Thousand Character Classic, from which the winning characters were selected.

Male actors played both female and male characters.

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

A projected third installment in the series was derailed by the 1998 death of Ernst-Hugo Järegård, who played Helmer, one of the major characters.

He played different minor characters on four episodes of ABC's The Rifleman between 1959 and 1962 and twice on ABC's Tombstone Territory.

Martial arts films contain many characters who are martial artists, and these roles are often played by actors who are real martial artists.

After this, thousands of Vitaphone shorts ( 1926 – 30 ) were made, many featuring bands, vocalists and dancers, in which a musical soundtrack played while the actors portrayed their characters just as they did in silent films: without dialogue.

In most such games, the player character has no onscreen dialogue and non-player characters will typically address the player as though they don't expect a verbal response.

However in 2007, because of the age of the actors and the onscreen deaths of both characters, he claimed that the film ( which he intended to call Double V Vega ) is " kind of unlikely now ".

While at Roach, McCarey cast Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together and guided development of their onscreen characters, thus creating one of the most enduring comedy teams of all time.

( The character was initially said to be visiting Meta Bauer for several months, until a tribute episode could be constructed where the characters could mourn Bert's passing onscreen.

In the early 1990s he became one of the few Hong Kong actors who dared to play gay characters onscreen.

Winchell played several onscreen characters, including Knucklehead Smiff's father, Bonehead Smiff.

In the default uppercase-only character set, shifted characters appear as a graphics symbol ; e. g. the command,, could be abbreviated ( which resembled onscreen ).

A solo piano ( played onscreen ) accompanies her, and the film's offscreen orchestra ( presumably not heard by the characters ) sneaks in for the second verse of the song.

Roderick Thorp, who wrote the novel Nothing Lasts Forever, upon which the first Die Hard film was based, receives credit for creating " certain original characters ", although his name is misspelled onscreen as " Roderick Thorpe.

However in 2007, because of the age of the actors and the onscreen deaths of both characters, he claimed that the project ( which he intended to call Double V Vega ) was " kind of unlikely now ".

Following the conclusion of Cagney & Lacey, Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless have reunited onscreen three times: all three times playing different characters.

Many characters, like most of She-Ra foes, were first toys before they appeared onscreen, and as a result, many characters appear vastly different from the toys supposedly based on them.

Hamton is one of the few characters whose family appeared onscreen during the Tiny Toon Adventures series ' run ; his family consisted of his parents, Winnie and Wade Pig.

Although the onscreen credits contain a statement saying that the film and characters depicted were " entirely fictional ," the movie was based on the suicide of John William Warde, a twenty-six-year-old man who jumped from the seventeenth floor of the Gotham Hotel in New York City on July 26, 1938, after eleven hours on a ledge.

Perlman also has a successful career as a voice actor in addition to his onscreen acting, having portrayed characters in numerous video games and animated series.

Annoyingly mannered in performance as well as tiresomely familiar in the way it trots out its angst-ridden urban characters ' problems, picture has a hastily conceived, patchwork feel that is occasionally leavened by some lively supporting turns and the presence of so many attractive people onscreen.

Despite the show's connection with The Mary Tyler Moore Show, none of that series ' other regular characters ever appeared ( and were not referred to onscreen ); the only other " crossover " character was MTM recurring character Flo Meredith ( Eileen Heckart ) ( Mary Richards ' aunt ), a churlish veteran journalist with whom Lou had had a brief fling while in Minneapolis, and who appeared on a single episode of Lou Grant.

Given Hollywood's reluctance to hire Asian actors for substantial roles during that period ( with only a few reluctant exceptions, such as Anna May Wong, Sessue Hayakawa, and Philip Ahn ), he portrayed a variety of Asian characters in several movies before being offered the leading role in the 1929 film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu as the first onscreen portrayal of the title character.

His onscreen persona " Max " was one of the first recognizable recurring characters in film.

In the edited version, the story begins after Victor Fleming's director's credit, while in the full-length version, after the director's credit, a title card saying " The Players " appears onscreen, after which all the major lead and supporting actors, as well as the characters that they play, are listed in order of appearance and in groups ( e. g., " At Domrémy ", " At Chinon ", etc.

The 2003 Bianca rape storyline incited controversy when viewers and critics debated the storyline as an attempt by the writers to avoid onscreen physical intimacy between characters Bianca and Lena Kundera, as well as Bianca seemingly being punished for being a lesbian.

The potent onscreen chemistry he and Wagner displayed gave a real edge to their characters ' adversarial relationship.

Director Jon Cassar quickly noticed the " chemistry " between Aylesworth and her costar Carlos Bernard, which led to a decision allowing the actors to develop their characters ' onscreen relationship.