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.

Lynde garnered considerable fame from the series, as well as money.

For his role in the series, Lynde was nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe.

Although he was voted America ’ s favorite comedian in a 1974 poll and highly sought out for every manner of TV game and variety show, it was the failure of his two series that reportedly exacerbated Lynde ’ s drinking problem, leading to numerous run-ins with the law and frequent arrests for public intoxication.

Despite this, Lynde's amazing popularity led to his being signed by ABC to host a series of specials from 1975 to 1979, including: The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( November 6, 1975 ) with Jack Albertson, Nancy Walker and the Osmond Brothers ; The Paul Lynde Halloween Special ( October 29, 1976 ) featuring the first prime-time network appearance of KISS, along with Margaret Hamilton recreating her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.

After the airing of his final programs for ABC, Paul Lynde at the Movies ( March 1979 ) with guests Betty White, Vicki Lawrence, Robert Urich and Gary Coleman and Paul Lynde Goes M-A-A-A-AD ( May 20, 1979 ) with Marie Osmond, Charo and Vicki Lawrence, Lynde's disenchantment with being " boxed into " the The Hollywood Squares led him to leave the series despite not having any other offers of work.

Lynde did not want to return, but according to Peter Marshall, they made Lynde an offer he could not refuse-including co-star billing with Marshall-and he return to series in the spring of that year.

Lynde left the series after taping the August 20 – 24, 1979, week of shows, but returned when the series relocated to Las Vegas in the 1980 – 1981 season.

* Stanley ( 1956 TV series ), American comedy series starring Buddy Hackett, Paul Lynde, and Carol Burnett

The series, Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers, starred Frank Sinatra, Jr. and Joey Heatherton as musical hosts, with comedy routines by Paul Lynde, Stanley Myron Handelman, Barbara Heller, comic impressionists Bill Skiles and Pete Henderson, and neo-vaudeville musicians The Times Square Two.

The pair's other writing credits include work on the television series The Paul Lynde Show, Dorothy, Those Whiting Girls, Kocham Klane ( an I Love Lucy series remake in Poland ) and The Tom Ewell Show.

The duo's non-Lucy credits include work on the television series The Paul Lynde Show, Dorothy, Those Whiting Girls and Kocham Klane.

He is the most popular character of the series, and he was voiced by an uncredited Paul Lynde.

She played Felix Unger's daughter Edna in the 1970s ABC series version of The Odd Couple and Paul Lynde's daughter Sally on the short-lived The Paul Lynde Show.

Also, if needed, Stephenson has been known to do a take-off on Paul Lynde as heard on the 1977 series Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics as the character Mildew Wolf.

Originally, Paul Lynde voiced the character as part of a segment shown on a series called Cattanooga Cats but was not interested in reprising the role on Laff-a-Lympics.

Stephenson reached back for the Paul Lynde voice when he was cast as Wilfred Wolf in the early 1980s series, Kwicky Koala.

Between 1944 and 1947 Helion had a series of one-man shows -- at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in New York and in Paris -- of his new realistic pictures.

A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning, it is the first in a genre of " fish out of water " themed television shows, and was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS.

In 2007 President Paul W. Gooch wrote that Gate House undertook an " escalating series of actions " that were " defiant " and " disparaging of women ", in response to Gate members constructing a 2. 5-metre snow penis and placing a cooked pig's head in an Annesley bathroom.

McCarry is best known for a series of books concerning the life of super spy Paul Christopher.

Cheerleader Nation is a 60 minute television series based on the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School cheerleading team's ups and downs on the way to nationals, of which they are the three time champions.

* Linda Nagy, aka Ellen Troy, who has wetware in her brain, spines in her fingers ( for linking with computers ) and an antenna that lets her shut down machine remotely from the Venus Prime series by Arthur C. Clarke and Paul Preuss

In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

Paul Cornell's dark vignette in the Doctor Who Magazine Brief Encounters series, " An Incident Concerning the Bombardment of the Phobos Colony " occurs sometime between " Resurrection of the Daleks " and his assumption of the role of Emperor.

Examples include the Regional Youth Circuit program in the USA and the Leon Paul Youth Development series in the UK.

Grand Guignol flourished briefly in London in the early 1920s under the direction of Jose Levy, where it attracted the talents of Sybil Thorndike and Noël Coward, and a series of short English " Grand Guignol " films ( using original screenplays, not play adaptations ) was made at the same time, directed by Fred Paul.

After he became pope in 1978, John Paul II continued on the Catholic Theology of the Body of his predecessors with a series of lectures, entitled Theology of the Body, in which he talked about an original unity between man and women, purity of heart ( on the Sermon on the Mount ), marriage and celibacy and reflections on Humane Vitae, focusing largely on responsible parenthood and marital chastity.

When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.

From 1968 to 1978, he and Paul Samuelson participated in the Economics Cassette Series, a biweekly subscription series where the economist would discuss the days ' issues for about a half hour at a time.

Shang-Chi had two more short series: the Master of Kung Fu: Bleeding Black graphic novel ( 1990 ) and the MAX miniseries Master of Kung Fu: Hellfire Apocalypse ( 2002 ) ( with artist Paul Gulacy on art again ).

Religious Studies professors Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young made similar comparisons in their 2001, three-book series Beyond the Fall of Man, which treats misandry as a form of prejudice and discrimination that has become institutionalized in North American society.

In the 1960 BBC series based on Shakespeare's history plays, An Age of Kings, Paul Daneman played Richard.

His family unit beyond his near-fraternal relationship with Hawk is essentially Susan Silverman, an unofficial foster son named Paul Giacomin, and a series of dogs named Pearl after Spenser's childhood dog of the same breed, a German shorthaired pointer.

Although the series used more composers than any other Star Trek series ( Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, David Bell, Paul Baillargeon, Velton Ray Bunch, Brian Tyler, Mark McKenzie, John Frizzell and Kevin Kiner ), only McCarthy's score for the pilot has been released.

In the 1970s, former CIA man Charles McCarry began the Paul Christopher series with The Tears of Autumn ( 1978 ), which was well-written, with believable tradecraft.

The major semiotic book series " Semiotics, Communication, Cognition ", published by De Gruyter Mouton ( series editors Paul Cobley and Kalevi Kull ) replaces the former " Approaches to Semiotics " ( over 120 volumes ) and " Approaches to Applied Semiotics " ( series editor Thomas A. Sebeok ).

Thiessen appeared as a celebrity client for Lonni Paul, one of the final three contestants on season four of the HGTV interior designing reality series Design Star, on the September 6, 2009 episode.

In 1884 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a 23-year-old university student in Germany, patented the first electromechanical television system which employed a scanning disk, a spinning disk with a series of holes spiraling toward the center, for rasterization.