Name Game - Fictional Characters

[dannyrankin]

F.F. Woodycooks
The crime stick!

Who got that reference?

 

[Scroggyou]

Frank Burns MASH

 

[Catchoftheday]

Frank Burns MASH

Burning mash must be quite difficult
getting back on track..

Percy the small Engine

 

[TailPipe]

Catchoftheday - Thanks for leading all of us lost lambs back to the rules of the game: Use the first letter of the last name to begin the first name of the new character. Please state where your character comes from. e.g., name the book the film, the song etc.

So I guess it's OK to take the E in Engine (which is as close to a last name as there is) to get...

Eleanor Rigby

Title character in the Lennon-McCartney song on The Beatles' 1966 album Revolver.

 

[Catchoftheday]

Roy Race

 

[TailPipe]

Captain Robert Walton

The character who bookends Mary Shelley's 1818 gothic novel FRANKENSTEIN; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Film/TV productions do not always feature the character with the same prominence, but in the 1994 Kenneth Branagh adaptaion, the character was played by Aidan Quinn.

 

[Catchoftheday]

Wilma Deering

 

[TailPipe]

Dorothy Wynant

The not-so-naive daughter of missing inventor Clyde Wynant, who kicks into gear Dashiell Hammett's classic 1933 detective novel The Thin Man, featuring Nick and Nora Charles (and little Asta, too).

Played by Maureen O'Sullivan in the 1934 fim adaptation.

 

[Northern_K]

Walter Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty--short story and film)

 

[ksupimp]

Race Bannon - Johnny Quest

 

[Catchoftheday]

Melody Angel


Captain Scarlet

 

[TailPipe]

(Catchoftheday: Thanks for picking up the trail again.)

Abner Kravitz

The husband of nosy Gladys Kravitz, the couple across the street from Darrin and Samantha Stephens on the sit-com Bewitched (1969-1972).

TV: played by George Tobias.
2005 Film: played by Richard Kind.

 

[Northern_K]

King Vultan--character from Flash Gordon

 

[Catchoftheday]

Vicky Pollard

 

[Northland]

Papa Smurf

 

[Catchoftheday]

Samantha Moulder


X-Files

 

[TailPipe]

Margaret "Marmee" March

Mother of the four girls featured in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (Part 1 in 1868, Part 2 in 1869; both parts in a single volume in 1880).

Notable portrayals:
1933 film - Spring Byington (with Katherine Hepburn as Jo)
1949 film - Mary Astor (with June Alyson as Jo)
1994 film - Susan Sarandon (with Winona Ryder as Jo)
2005 Broadway musical - Maureen McGovern (with Sutton Foster as Jo)

 

[Northland]

Moe Syzlak




-heftily endowed barowner on The Simpsons

 

[Novaboy]

Steve Macdonald - Coronation Street

 

[accemb]

Miss Havisham (Great Expectations)