Name Game - Fictional Characters

[TailPipe]

Henry Wilcox

The wealthy widower who marries Margaret Schlegel (amidst ever so much class struggle and delicious drama) in E. M.Forster's novel Howards End (1910).

1992 film - played by Anthony Hopkins (with Emma Thompson as Margaret).

 

[Catchoftheday]

Wesley Crusher

 

[Northland]

Chester A. Riley

 

[TailPipe]

Regina Hubbard-Giddens

A force to reckon with in Lillian Hellman's 1939 play The Little Foxes, and in the 1946 prequel Another Part of the Forest.

Notable portrayals - The Little Foxes:
1939 play - Tallulah Bankhead
1941 film - Bette Davis
1967 play - Anne Bancroft
1981 play - Elizabeth Taylor
1997 play - Stockard Channing

Notable portrayals - Another Part of the Forest:
1946 play - Patricia Neal
1948 film - Ann Blyth
1972 PBS T.V. - Tiffany Bolling

 

[Catchoftheday]

Gladys Hotchkiss

 

[TailPipe]

Henrietta Hunter

Premiered in 2003 as a mutant with superhuman powers in Marvel Comic's X-Statix series.

 

[Catchoftheday]

Howard Hughes

Ever Decreasing Circles

 

[TailPipe]

Horace Vandergelder

The wealthy businessman in Thorton Wilder's stage plays The Merchant of Yonkers (1938) and The Matchmaker (1955-play, 1958-film), and in Jerry Herman's musical adaptation Hello, Dolly! (1964-play, 1969-film).

 

[Catchoftheday]

Vanessa Huxtable

the cosby show

 

[TailPipe]

Hollis (Holly) P. Flax

From the U.S. version of the T.V. series The Office; played by Amy Ryan.

 

[Catchoftheday]

Fiona Gallagher

shameless

 

[Northland]

George Jefferson

 

[Catchoftheday]

Jemima Puddle-Duck

 

[798686]

Peter Rabbit

 

[Northland]

Roger Rabbit

 

[TailPipe]

Roderick Hudson

Title character, law student and talented sculptor in the 1875 novel by Henry James.

 

[Catchoftheday]

Harry Callahan

 

[TailPipe]

Charles Bingley

The handsome, good-natured, and (more importantly) wealthy friend of Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose impending arrival kicks off Jane Austen's master tale of class, family, love, and the business of marriage, Pride and Prejudice (1813).

Notable portrayals:
1940 film - Bruce Lester (with Greer Garson & Laurence Olivier as Elizabeth & Darcy)
1995 TV serial - Crispin Bonham-Carter (with Jennifer Ehle & Colin Firth as Elizabeth & Darcy)
2005 film - Simon Woods (with Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen as Elizabeth & Darcy)

 

[Catchoftheday]

Bill Porter

2.4 children

 

[accemb]

Peter Rabbit (you know, from Beatrix Potter)