In which Classic book and film does the character the Michael Henchard appear?
"The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003 film) The Mayor of Casterbridge is a British made-for-TV film, produced by Georgina Lowe for Sally Head Productions and directed by David Thacker, based on the 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy. Appearing in the film are Ciarán Hinds as Henchard, Juliet Aubrey as Susan Henchard, Jodhi May as Elizabeth Jane, James Purefoy as Farfrae, and Polly Walker as Lucetta. The series was released as a 2-disc DVD in 2004. Hardy's characters, some deeply flawed, struggle throughout the film against accidents of fate and with difficult moral dilemmas. This film emphasizes the constant struggle of Hardy's"
"has also been featured in a number of made-for-television films, including the role of Michael Henchard in Thomas Hardy's ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" in 2004, for which he received the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. Additional television performances include Edward Parker-Jones in the crime drama series ""Prime Suspect 3"" (1993), Abel Mason in Dame Catherine Cookson's ""The Man Who Cried"" (1993), Jim Browner in ""The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"" episode ""The Cardboard Box"" (1994), Fyodor Glazunov in the science fiction miniseries ""Cold Lazarus"" (1996), Edward Rochester in Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" (1997), the"
"appeared in 'A Touch of Frost', 'Eastenders', 'The Bill', 'Dream Team', 'Doctors', 'The Amazing Mrs Pritchard' and 'Holby City'. Among the roles he has played are: Leonid Gayev in 'The Cherry Orchard', King Philip in 'King John', Dr. Yealland in 'Regeneration', Parsons in '1984', Bishop of Ely in 'Richard III', Norman Tate in 'Donkeys Years', Philinte in 'The Misanthrope', Sir Epicure Mammon in 'The Alchemist', Friar Lawrence in 'Romeo and Juliet', Cleante in 'Tartuffe', Sir Andrew Charleson in 'Plenty', Colonel Hennings in 'The Prince of Homburg', Captain Anson in 'Arthur and George', Beralde in 'The Hypochondriac', Max in 'The Real"
"(again) in ""Professor Harold and the Trustees"", L. Ron Hubbard's setting from ""The Case of the Friendly Corpse"" and L. Frank Baum's land of Oz in ""Sir Harold and the Gnome King"", the classical Chinese epic novel ""Journey to the West"" in ""Sir Harold and the Monkey King,"" the romantic fantasies of Miguel de Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"" (with the unique twist of its being ""Quixote's"" version of reality rather than Cervantes') in ""Knight and the Enemy"", Virgil's Graeco-Roman epic the ""Aeneid"" in ""Arms and the Enchanter"", the old Russian ""Tale of Igor's Campaign"" in ""Enchanter Kiev,"" Bhavabhuti's ""Baital Pachisi"" (or"
"Prig was the same as Walpole becoming a Great Whig: theft and the Whig party were never so directly linked. The figures of Peachum and Macheath were picked up by Bertolt Brecht for his updating of Gay's opera as ""The Threepenny Opera"". The Sheppard character, Macheath, is the ""hero"" of the song ""Mack the Knife"". In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear, the arch-villain Professor Moriarty is referred to as a latter-day Jonathan Wild by Holmes: In 1969, James Clavell's screenplay for the film ""Where's Jack?"" told the story of Jack Shepherd (played in the"
"to star Hugh Sinclair as Simon Templar. Among the changes made for the film adaptation is that Rudolf now works for Nazi Germany (Hitler was not yet in power when the original book was published) and the character of Patricia Holm is absent. Getaway (The Saint) Getaway is a mystery novel by Leslie Charteris first published in the United Kingdom in September 1932 by Hodder and Stoughton. This was the fifth full-length novel featuring the adventures of the modern day Robin Hood-inspired crimebuster Simon Templar, and the ninth Saint book published overall since 1928. When first published in the United"
"complex, which the Minderbinder character well represents. According to Heller, he modeled the character traits of Minderbinder — fast-talking, self-promoting, thoroughly conscienceless — on his Coney Island childhood friend Marvin Winkler (or Beansy to friends). Winkler is described at length in Heller's 1998 memoir ""Now and Then"". Milo Minderbinder has become the archetypal unabashed war profiteer in the American novel, better known than the first example of the species, the character Charles Holt in the 1863 novel ""The Days of Shoddy"" by Henry Morford, and the later characters Marcus Hubbard in the play ""Another Part of the Forest"", Joe Keller"
"He also played Benjamin's father in the London run of The Graduate. Birchard's more recent roles have been in Spooks as a rogue CIA operative, in Inherit the Wind at the Old Vic in London, where he played the town mayor and was understudy to Kevin Spacey, and in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. He provided the voice over for 1998 computer game Plane Crazy as well as voice of one of the main characters in Crysis 2 in 2011. Birchard produced, directed and appeared in the feature-length documentary film , which"
"the eponymous series. He also enjoyed fame in the United States as British film director Don Lockwood in ""Dallas"" and as a British cockfighting aficionado in ""Roots"". Even before ""Lovejoy"", he was a pin-up as a result of appearances in television series, such as ""Wuthering Heights"" (1967, as Heathcliff), ""If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium"" (1969, as Charlie), ""Jesus of Nazareth"" (1977, as Judas Iscariot), and ""Disraeli"" (1978)—as well as films like ""Sky West and Crooked"" (1965) and ""Battle of Britain"" (1969). In the United States, he is perhaps best known for the role of historical figure Al Swearengen"
"Radcliffe from Harry Potter movies, Skandar Keynes, of ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" film series, and Harry Michell of ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" and ""Feather Boy"". Jack Crawford is a British born American football player who was drafted with the 158th overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders. Jonathan Keates, a prize-winning writer, was an English master at the school. Sheila Gallagher MBE was honoured for her service as a lollipop lady at the crossing to the school on Queen Victoria Street, in 2002.Horace Brearley, father of Cricketer Mike Brearley, was also a master at the school. Old"
"hindrance to Banford and March, but March finds she cannot hunt it, and rather, she becomes entranced by it. Shortly after this, Henry, a young man, comes to stay with the women, and a link is established between the fox and Henry. This intriguing novella explores gender roles, sexuality, femininity, and the pity of war, as do two other Lawrence novellas written at the same time, ""The Ladybird"" and ""The Captain's Doll"". A 1967 film was made from ""The Fox"", starring Sandy Dennis as Jill Banford, Anne Heywood as Ellen March, and Keir Dullea as Paul (not Henry) Grenfield. The"
"Arts. In 1996, ""Star Hatchling"", a middle grade novel about first contact, received the Eleanor Cameron Award, a Golden Duck Award for Excellence in Children's Science Fiction. ""Hanging on to Max"", a story about a teenage father, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and School Library Journal Best Book of the Year in 2004. Margaret Bechard Margaret Bechard (born 1953) is an American author of contemporary and science fiction for children and young adults. Bechard was born in 1953 in Chico, California. She received her bachelor's degree in English literature from Reed College in 1976. She is married"
"characters whose adventures unfolded over multiple books. Exceptions include Max Stafford (a security consultant featured in ""Flyaway"" and ""Windfall)"", Slade (a spy who appeared in ""Running Blind"" and ""The Freedom Trap""), Metcalfe (the smuggler/mercenary in ""The Golden Keel"" and ""The Spoilers""). His work yielded five relatively unremarkable adaptations: ""The Freedom Trap"" (1971), released in 1973 as ""The Mackintosh Man"" by Warner Brothers, directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman and Dominique Sanda; ""Running Blind"", adapted for television by the BBC in 1979; ""Landslide"", made for television in 1992; ""The Vivero Letter"", filmed in 1998; and ""The Enemy"", starring Roger"
"Iain Sinclair's novel, ""Downriver"" (1991) and appeared in Iain Sinclair and Christopher Petit's Channel 4 film, ""The Cardinal and the Corpse"" (1992), alongside Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), Emanuel Litvinoff and Martin Stone. He has appeared many times on radio and television and was featured in May 2009 on the BBC Poetry Season discussing Tennyson in BBC Four's ""Changing of the Bard"", presented by Ian Hislop. This programme was repeated on BBC Two. Hinton has played the character, Randolph Minton M.P., in the internet drama serial, Middle Ditch, since 2007, starring among others: David Caddy and Gordon Haskell. Brian Hinton Brian"
"Monty Hayward (Arthur Macrae), with Inspector Teal (Gordon McLeod) of Scotland Yard. In June 1939 it was announced John Farrow would direct the film. Several characters from ""Getaway"" do appear in the film adaptation, most notably Templar's friend Monty Hayward (the only time this recurring character from the early novels appeared on film). The villain of the film, Rudolf Hauser (played by Cecil Parker) is an adjustment of the book's villain, Prince Rudolf, who had also been the villain in the early Saint novels ""The Last Hero"" and ""Knight Templar"". One notable omission from the character list is Templar's literary"
"which told the story of their lives up until Rachel's death. The novel was the basis for the 1953 film of the same name starring Charlton Heston as Jackson and Susan Hayward as Rachel. Jackson has been a supporting character in a number of historical films and television productions. Lionel Barrymore played Jackson in ""The Gorgeous Hussy"" (1936), a fictionalized biography of Peggy Eaton starring Joan Crawford. ""The Buccaneer"" (1938), depicting the Battle of New Orleans, included Hugh Sothern as Jackson, and was remade in 1958 with Heston again playing Jackson. Basil Ruysdael played Jackson in Walt Disney's 1955 ""Davy"
"feature film of the same name. Released in 1999, the film was directed by Darabont and starred Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecombe and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey. The setting is changed from 1932 to 1935 in order to include the film ""Top Hat"", which does not appear in the book. The Green Mile (novel) The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in"
"Jack Whitehall's character Alfie. In October 2014, Enfield and Paul Whitehouse returned to the characters of Frank and George in a sketch for Channel 4's testicular cancer awareness comedy show ""The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night"". In August 2015 Enfield, alongside Whitehouse, in celebration of their 25-year partnership, presented ""An Evening With Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse"" In 2016 he appeared as John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare, in the sitcom ""Upstart Crow"". In May 2016 Enfield appeared as Prince Charles in the Channel 4 sitcom ""The Windsors"". In 2000, Enfield appeared in his first leading film role playing Kevin alongside"
"Andrew McCarthy. Bruce Willis. And Top. Carrot Top. These are The Legends. A catch-all chapter documenting ""The Craft"", ""Date with an Angel"", ""My Demon Lover"", ""Patch Adams"", ""Spring Break"", ""Ishtar"", and ""Waterworld"". The final chapter only has two entries: ""The Blair Witch Project"" and """". Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese is the first book by Michael J. Nelson, published in 2000 by HarperEntertainment, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers. The book is a series of essays about ""cheesy"" films. Some of the essays originally appeared in Home Theater and Entertainment@Home magazines. Prior to the book, Nelson was head"
"Shylock in ""Merchant of Venice"", Orsino in ""Twelfth Night"", Atticus Finch in ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", Jack Tanner in ""Man and Superman"", Christy Mahon in ""The Playboy of the Western World"", Young Man in ""Summertree"", Cusins in ""Major Barbara"", Jerry in ""The Zoo Story"", Algernon in ""The Importance of Being Earnest"", Arthur in ""Camelot"", Higgins in ""My Fair Lady"", Matt Friedman in ""Talley's Folly"", David in ""Social Security"", Andrew in ""Love Letters"", Jamie in ""Moon for the Misbegotten"", Victor in ""The Price"", Jaques in ""As You Like It"", the Dauphin in ""King John"", and Shaw in Dear Liar. He has"
"and in cooperation with the Karl May Foundation and the Karl May Press, the KMG has published the critiqued edition of ""Karl Mays Werke"". This project was initiated by Hans Wollschläger and Hermann Wiedenroth in 1987. Karl May Karl Friedrich May ( ; ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German writer best known for his adventure novels set in the American Old West. His main protagonists are Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. May set similar books in the Orient and Middle East (in which the main protagonists were Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar), Latin America"
"purchased"". He was imprisoned for ""having deserted his wife"". The return of a wife after 18 years results in Michael Henchard's downfall in Thomas Hardy's novel ""Mayor of Casterbridge"" (1886). A bad-tempered, impulsive and cruel husband, feeling burdened by his wife, Henchard sells her to a stranger for five guineas. He becomes a successful businessman and rises to the position of mayor, but the return of his wife many years later prompts his fall back into penury. The custom was also referred to in the 19th-century French play, ""Le Marché de Londres"". Commenting on the drama and contemporary French attitudes"
"Magic Christian"". He has appeared in numerous British Shakespearean productions, notably ""Richard II"", as Rosencrantz in ""Hamlet"", and on radio in the marathon series, ""Vivat Rex"". He also appeared as Piers Gaveston in the 1970 production of Christopher Marlowe's ""Edward II"", opposite Ian McKellen who later recalled that kissing Laurenson ""was a bonus throughout the run"". Other costume roles included a French courtier in ""Elizabeth R"" and the Earl of Lincoln in ""Shadow of the Tower"" (1972). In the same year, he took on a more modern role starring as Det. Inspector Napoleon """"Boney"""" Bonaparte in the Australian TV drama"
"his future wife when he sees her playing in an early production of ""Pinafore"". A 1953 biopic, ""The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"", uses music from ""Pinafore"". Characters also sing songs from ""Pinafore"" in such popular films as ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (1981) and """" (1998), where Captain Picard and Lt. Commander Worf sing part of ""A British Tar"" to distract a malfunctioning Lt. Commander Data. ""The Good Shepherd"" (2006) depicts an all-male version of ""Pinafore"" at Yale University in 1939; Matt Damons character plays Little Buttercup, singing in falsetto. Judy Garland sings ""I Am the Monarch of the"
"they begin to flesh out the plan, it becomes clear that they need some ""professional assistance"" and a chance encounter with Chib Calloway, a local gangster who Mike went to school with, fulfils that need. A television film of the book has been produced, starring Douglas Henshall as Mike Mackenzie, Ken Collard as Allan Cruickshank and Stephen Fry as Robert Gissing. Filming started in Edinburgh in April 2012, and the programme was aired on Boxing Day on ITV. Rankin's 2002 collection of short stories, Beggars Banquet, includes a story ""Herbert in Motion"" (originally published 1996, 1997) whose plot is also"
"science and logic have abandoned. Ionesco's recurring character Berenger, for example, faces a killer without motivation in ""The Killer"", and Berenger's logical arguments fail to convince the killer that killing is wrong. In ""Rhinocéros"", Berenger remains the only human on Earth who hasn’t turned into a rhinoceros and must decide whether or not to conform. Characters may find themselves trapped in a routine, or in a metafictional conceit, trapped in a story; the title characters in Tom Stoppard's ""Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"", for example, find themselves in a story (""Hamlet"") in which the outcome has already been written. The"
"back to a medieval or imperialist past, or a misty Celtic world. Francis' work is embedded in a realistic exploration of Wales, its language and identity, in films such as ""Milwr Bychan"" (Boy Soldier) and ""The Mouse and the Women"". Weeks came to prominence after directing I, Monster, an adaptation of ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Weeks would later film two versions of the Arthurian myth of ""Gawain and the Green Knight"". First as ""Gawain and the Green Knight"" (1973) featuring Murray Head in the lead role and again as ""Sword of the Valiant"""
"Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's novel ""Wuthering Heights"". Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured anti hero whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him. He is better known for being a romantic hero due to his youthful love for Catherine Earnshaw, than for his final years of vengeance in the second half of the novel, during which he grows into a bitter, haunted man, and for a number of incidents in his early life that suggest that"
"The Lime Twig The Lime Twig (1961) is an experimental novel by American writer John Hawkes. In England after World War II, a sedate, bored lower-class couple—Michael and Margaret Banks—are lured into fronting a racehorse scheme. Michael is befriended by William Hencher, a well-meaning but lost soul who fell into association with a ruthless gang during the war. After his mother's death, Hencher wants to repay the Bankses for their allowing him to rent a room in their home, where he had lived with his mother for twenty years. Knowing Michael likes horses, Hencher invites him to the heist of"
"Old Shatterhand Old Shatterhand is a fictional character in Western novels by German writer Karl May (1842–1912). He is the German friend and blood brother of Winnetou, the fictional chief of the Mescalero tribe of the Apache. He is the main character in the Eurowestern by the same name from 1964, starring Lex Barker. Old Shatterhand is the alter ego of Karl May, and May himself maintained that he experienced all the adventures in person, even though in fact he did not visit America until after he wrote most of his well-known Western stories, and never traveled west of Buffalo,"
"(1844), Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847), and Rochester from Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" (1847) are other later 19th-century examples of Byronic heroes (McCarthy, 557). In later Victorian literature, the Byronic character only seemed to survive as a solitary figure, resigned to suffering (Harvey, 306). However, Charles Dickens' representation of the character is more complex than that. Steerforth in ""David Copperfield"" manifests the concept of the ""fallen angel"" aspect of the Byronic hero; his violent temper and seduction of Emily should turn the reader, and indeed David, against him. But it does not. He still retains a fascination, as"
"roles included Walter Greenhalgh from ""Coronation Street"" (1961–69), Albert the Clerk from ""Rumpole of the Bailey"" (1978–80), ""Breakaway"" (1980) and ""First of the Summer Wine"" (1988). His film credits include small roles in ""Crossplot"" (1969), ""I Don't Want to Be Born"" (1975) and ""Lifeforce"" (1985). His plays included the farces ""Post Horn Gallop"" and ""Wild Goose Chase"", both about the fictional exploits of the eccentric Lord and Lady Elrood and visitors to their castle. He also appeared with Colin Baker as John Hallam in the ""Doctor Who"" audio play ""Catch-1782"" produced by Big Finish Productions. Benfield was married to Susan,"
"The television adaptation significantly truncates the plot of Lovecraft's 1933 short story. It also sets the story in contemporary times, updating small details while remaining relatively faithful to the original plot. For example, whereas in the Lovecraft story the protagonist is a student of quantum mechanics, in the television adaption he studies string theory. The TV adaptation features the rat-like creature with a human face, Brown Jenkin, from Lovecraft's original tale., and also the witch Keziah Mason. In a nod to Lovecraft's original inspiration for Miskatonic University, the protagonist of the television adaptation wears a Miskatonic University T-shirt featuring a"