George and his best friend Bob ( David Bowe ) meet the Channel 62 staff which is made up of the receptionist and wannabe reporter Pamela Finklestein ( Fran Drescher ), dwarf photojournalist and cameraman Noodles MacIntosh ( Billy Barty ), and eccentric engineer Philo ( Anthony Geary ).

Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Whimsey ( the respective creations of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers ) have retained Holmes' egotism but not his zest for life and eccentric habits.

Peter Tork first portrays Jed, and like Topanga early on, he is very eccentric.

The eccentric and autocratic director, Eli Cross ( Peter O ' Toole ), agrees to hide Cameron from the police if he will take the dead man's place.

* Death on the Nile ( 1978 ), Peter Ustinov and Olivia Hussey tango whilst David Niven is the unfortunate partner to Angela Lansbury's rather eccentric version of the dance.

It was the sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks ( 1965 ), and starred Peter Cushing in his return to the role of the eccentric inventor and time traveller Dr. Who.

The eccentric Leonard de Tomkinson is reputedly based on a real man named Leonard who used to visit Peter during his working time at the local Majestic Garage.

Buzz Sherwood ( Peter Wildman ) is a local bush pilot known around Possum Lake for his eccentric antics in his small Cessna seaplane, which he moors on the Possum Lodge boat dock.

Something of an eccentric, Morris has been called " daft as a brush " by bandmate Peter Hook.

Peter was an individualist, eccentric, surprising and brilliant.

The eccentric writer stole a skull from the Saint Peter Cemetery of Medellín to be his companion in a country farm of his relatives where he went to live alone.

Peter soon becomes caught up in the various intrigues of the " theater people ", including the charming but mercurial Michael Degan, the beautiful leading lady Grace Hargrove, and a cast of other eccentric players.

After a distinguished career at school and college, he adopted the law as his profession, and in 1837 married the highly gifted but eccentric Augusta Marie, daughter of the philologist Peter Oluf Brøndsted.

* Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter Horton as a young couple having trouble with eccentric doctor Griffin Dunne delivering and then concealing their newborn baby ;

He meets Peter McLachlan, an eccentric member of an online free-thinking Internet group called the Slan ( t ) ers, who is researching dark matter and who is fascinated by a new and unknown artificial object discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Beverly is eccentric, free spirited and enigmatic like an exploding star, which captivates Peter initially, but her deeper nature is revealed with her impending fatal illness from consumption.

Mr Fairford had arranged that Peter Peebles, an eccentric plaintiff, should be his son's first client, and Alan was pleading the cause before the Lords Ordinary when his father, by mistake, handed him a letter from Mr Crosbie, announcing that Darsie had mysteriously disappeared.

The situation focuses primarily on their futile attempts to run the farm efficiently through utilising the current staff consisting of Elgin ( David Ross ), Bryan ( Ivan Kaye ), Jed ( Peter Heppelthwaite ) and Imelda ( Ella Kenion ) – the farm ’ s loyal, if a little eccentric staff.

Trevor Eve portrays the workaholic and often eccentric Peter Boyd on whom plotlines are often centred.

A tragicomedy set in a fading Scottish aristocratic family, in which the drunken Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, Bt ( Peter O ' Toole ) has an incestuous relationship with his equally eccentric sister Hilary Dow ( Susannah York ).

Peter Allan ( September 6, 1799 – August 31, 1849 ) was an English recluse and eccentric who carved rocks in the Marsden Bay at Marsden, South Shields into a house.

Orwell's confusing approach to matters of social decorum — on the one hand expecting a working-class guest to dress for dinner, and on the other, slurping tea out of a saucer at the BBC canteen — helped stoke his reputation as an English eccentric.

Among the first venues for what would soon be called " Off-Off-Broadway " ( a term supposedly coined by critic Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice ) were coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, in particular, the Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, operated by the eccentric Joe Cino, who early on took a liking to actors and playwrights and agreed to let them stage plays there without bothering to read the plays first, or to even find out much about the content.

Many gags focus on this ; his inability to get a date is usually attributed to his lack of social skills, his poor taste in clothes ( Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that " two hundred moths committed suicide "; in another, the " geek police " ordered Jon to " throw out his tie "), and his eccentric interests which range from stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails to watching movies with " polka ninjas ".

His housemaster, R. H. J. Brooke, whom Peel described as " extraordinarily eccentric " and " amazingly perceptive ", wrote on one of his school reports, " Perhaps it's possible that John can form some kind of nightmarish career out of his enthusiasm for unlistenable records and his delight in writing long and facetious essays.

Well known for being eccentric, Barthez started out well for Manchester United.

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When Bates dropped out through illness in 1976 after two series, the role of the third man of the trio was filled in various years up to the 30th series by the quirky war veteran, Foggy Dewhirst ( Brian Wilde ), the eccentric inventor, Seymour Uttherthwaite ( Michael Aldridge ), and former police officer Truly Truelove ( Frank Thornton ).

* Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love ( eccentric aristocratic family spend the interwar years in Britain falling in and out of love )

The princess's relativesplayed by Jessie Royce Landis, Estelle Winwood, and Brian Aherneare comically eccentric, and Agnes Moorehead, as the queen who shows up near the end to find out if the princess has made the grade, is crankily imperious.

An eccentric judge named Rayford ( Jack Warden ), who has a friendly relationship with Kirkland, takes him for a hair-raising ride in his personal Bell 47 helicopter over the harbor and Fort McHenry, laughing as he tests how far they can possibly go without running out of fuel, while Arthur, his terrified passenger, begs him to land the helicopter immediately.

It was difficult to find people who would agree to be transfused, but an eccentric scholar, Arthur Coga, consented and the procedure was carried out by Lower and King before the Royal Society on November 23, 1667.

During the Slanted & Enchanted tour Gary Young's eccentric behaviour included his handing out cabbage and mashed potatoes to fans at the door of the venue, doing handstands, drunkenly falling off his drum stool, and running around the venue and stage while the rest of the band was playing.

The Melbourne Museum is a post-modernist building, structured with a grid-like order that embraces eccentric metal clad forms extruding out and creating an irregular sculptural composition with moments of abstract colour throughout the building.

His first work was Der Montanismus u. die christliche Kirche des 2ten Jahrhunderts ( 1841 ), in which he pointed out for the first time that Montanism was much more than an isolated outbreak of eccentric fanaticism in the early church, though he himself introduced fresh misconceptions by connecting it with Ebionitism as he conceived the latter.

The performance which was seen as eccentric and out of touch – at a time when house prices were rising significantly.

Ophite teaching was, most likely, dying out in the days of Hippolytus ; in the time of Epiphanius it was not absolutely extinct, but the notices in his work would lead us to think of it as but the eccentric doctrine of some stray heretic here and there, and not to have counted many adherents.

; Stu Benedict ( Damian Young ): An eccentric and emotionally unstable bus driver who drives both Petes to school, often while nursing wounds from a relationship with fellow bus driver Sally Knorp while shouting out quotes such as " Passengers will refrain from KILLING MY SOUL!

In his later years, the main troubles of his life stem from his many sisters, particularly the formidable Connie, who despair at his eccentric appearance and distracted ways, and his younger son Freddie, who he longs to see safely married off and out of trouble ; his joy at seeing him finally paired off with Aggie Donaldson knows no bounds.

Though eccentric, Kramer is more often than not caring, friendly and kind-hearted ; he often goes out of his way to help total strangers, and tries to get his friends to also help others and to do the right thing even when they do not want to.

Lydia is established as being a creative, bright, sharp, yet eccentric young girl, but otherwise Lydia's unique outlook on life makes her stand out from most of the other school-girls, which leaves her feeling out of place and alone in the real world, finding it difficult to fit in well with most of her classmates — leading her to frequently visit and seek out reassurence with her closest best friend, Beetlejuice, in the Neitherworld, where she is accepted and loved for who she is as a person.

He was jerking his head around in what then seemed an eccentric manner, as though hoping to catch someone peering out at him from behind a potted palm tree or an easy chair, or even from directly overhead, from the crystal chandelier.

The Marigny was laid out in the first decade of the 19th century by eccentric Creole millionaire developer Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville on land that had been his family plantation just down river from the old city limits of New Orleans.