David Suchet has starred as the eponymous detective in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the ITV series since 1989.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

Geraldine McEwan starred in the first three series.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks co-wrote ( with longtime collaborator Monica Johnson ), directed and starred in a series of well-received comedies, playing variants on his standard neurotic and self-obsessed character.

As well as Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in their usual roles, this series starred Hugh Laurie as the Prince Regent, and Helen Atkinson-Wood as Mrs. Miggins.

" Ash " Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L. A. and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

He starred in the television series Jack of All Trades, set on a fictional island, occupied by the French in 1801.

Two different animated cartoon series also starred ' Charlie ' a tramp character, the first a series of nine shorts from 1916 by Movca Film Service.

He was a team captain on the sci-fi quiz series Space Cadets ( 1997 ) on Channel 4, which guest starred William Shatner.

The series starred Derek Jacobi as Claudius and was broadcast in 1976 on BBC2.

In 1999, he guest starred as Dr. John York in an episode of the television series The Outer Limits.

Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven, a regular on the 1990 – 1991 NBC series American Dreamer, guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a supporting role in the short-lived 1996 – 1997 sitcom Pearl, which starred Rhea Perlman.

In the 1940s these were one-shots in the Four Color series ( issued 4-6 times a year ) that starred Donald and his nephews.

Later, he guest starred on NBC's medical drama The Eleventh Hour in the role of Hal Kincaid in the 1962 episode " Make Me a Place ", with series co-stars Wendell Corey and Jack Ging.

Janssen starred in four television series of his own:

He next played the psychotic wife-beating husband of Twiggy in her American film debut, W. Benedict starred in the television series Chopper One which aired for one season in 1974.

The majority of films produced in the Federal Republic in the 1960s were genre works: westerns, especially the series of movies adapted from Karl May's popular genre novels which starred Pierre Brice as the Apache Winnetou and Lex Barker as his white blood brother Old Shatterhand ; thrillers and crime films, notably a series of Edgar Wallace movies in which Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Wolfgang Völz, and Joachim Fuchsberger were among the regular players ; and softcore sex films, both the relatively serious Aufklärungsfilme ( sex education films ) of Oswalt Kolle and such exploitation films as Schulmädchen-Report ( Schoolgirl Report ) ( 1970 ) and its successors.

The latter series starred Dirk Bogarde, probably the British industry's most popular star of the 1950s.

Merv Hughes also starred in the series 2 episode Workin ' Class Man.

The ninth film in the Godzilla series, it starred Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi and Yoshio Tsuchiya.

As the Marx Brothers, he and his brothers starred in a series of popular stage shows and movies.

In addition to the duo's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures.

Perhaps the Pirate who will be the unhappiest over the news that Musial probably will sit out most of the series is Bob Friend, who was beaten by The Man twice last season on dramatic home runs.

A series of memos from Bob Belleville clarified these concepts, outlining the Mac, LaserWriter and a file server system which would become Macintosh Office.

* The Fatal Fury game series has two capoeira fighters, Richard Meyer and Bob Wilson, master and student.

Arnaz would make a guest appearance on the TV series Alice, starring Linda Lavin and produced by I Love Lucy co-creators Madelyn Pugh ( Madelyn Davis ) and Bob Carroll, Jr.

With Screen Gems producing the series, Jones was shortlisted for auditions, as he was the only Monkee who was signed to a deal with the studio, but still had to meet producers Bob Rafelson's and Bert Schneider's standards.

This series was Bob Woolmer's first as coach and Kepler Wessels ' last as captain.

In 1938, The Captain and the Kids became the subject of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first self-produced series of theatrical short subject cartoons, directed by William Hanna, Bob Allen and Friz Freleng.

This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody ( with Bob Goody ) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.

MTM Enterprises later produced popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda and Phyllis ( both spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show ), The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues, and Newhart.

But there was a producer on that show, a man named Bob Justman .... six, seven years later, I get this call from Bob Justman and he ’ s working at Paramount on this new Star Trek series and he said I remember your love of the show, we ’ ve got this character, would you be interested in coming in and seeing us?

With Dylan, The Hawks played a series of concerts from September 1965 through May 1966, billed as Bob Dylan and the Band.

The 2006 US reality series Knight School focused on students at Texas Tech University vying for a walk-on ( non-scholarship ) roster position on the school's men's basketball team under legendary coach Bob Knight.

Well-remembered series include John Cleese and Connie Booth's farcical Fawlty Towers, John Esmonde and Bob Larbey's self-sufficiency comedy The Good Life.

* For the actor who played singing cowboy " Bob Blake " in a series of all African American westerns from the 1930s, see Herb Jeffries

A number of celebrities guest-starred on the series over the course of its run, including Debbie Allen, Bob Saget, Charles Rocket, Neil Patrick Harris, Lydia Cornell, Brooke Shields, Roddy McDowall, and others ; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared in episodes as themselves.

The idea of a family of comical monsters was first suggested to Universal Studios in the late 1940s by animator Bob Clampett, who wanted to do a series of cartoons.

The contemporary Christian right became increasingly vocal and organized in reaction to a series of United States Supreme Court decisions ( notably Bob Jones University v. Simon and Bob Jones University v. United States ) and also engaged in battles over pornography, obscenity, abortion, state sanctioned prayer in public schools, textbook contents ( concerning creationism ), homosexuality, and sexual education.

Appears in a series of westerns known as Cowboy Bob films.

Robert Underdunk Terwilliger Jr., better known as Sideshow Bob, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

In addition to his recurring role in the series, Sideshow Bob has made several appearances in other Simpsons media.

In addition to regular roles in the television series, Sideshow Bob has made several appearances in other Simpsons media.

Notable characters in the series who are police include Detective John Hartigan, his partner Bob, Lieutenants Jack Rafferty and Mort, Commissioner Liebowitz, and Officers Manson and Bundy from Hell and Back.