# Identify these characters' stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156 "2005-08-29T21:03:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/21 "2005-09-01T13:16:38Z")
Amongst hordes of movie **Windy** s the most prolific was George ‘Gabby’ Hayes as Windy Halliday. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/22 "2005-09-01T15:07:32Z")
Is Kimbro Matt Dillon’s mentor Adam Kimbro? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/23 "2005-09-01T15:56:52Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Lugar was the harmless character who came in to bend everyone’s ear. Scanlon always assumed someone in the 12th Precinct wasn’t doing his job right–he was always looking for something to find fault with. My favourite bit was him walking into the detective room and introducing himself to Harris: Scanlon: Scanlon, Internal Affairs. Harris: Harris, human race. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/24 "2005-09-01T16:32:48Z")
\*\*Animal \*\* is an oft used nickname in many movies. The one I usually think of first is one of the pisoners in **Stalag 17**. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/25 "2005-09-01T16:51:45Z")
Is ‘J’ the first partner in Men in Black? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/26 "2005-09-01T19:54:39Z")
No, a different J. Clue - he followed the instructions in the movie’s title. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/27 "2005-09-01T21:58:32Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Zelmo Zale was one of the enlisted men on M_A_S\*H who wasn’t Radar or Klinger. He ran the motor pool. At least any time I can think of that his actual duties were mentioned. I can’t ID anyone else who hasn’t already been. (Actually, Will Scarlet was the only other one I knew.) Random one from me: ‘Elna’ Hint - That’s not the character’s real name, and used only in first appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/28 "2005-09-01T22:19:20Z")
Okay, I’ll toss out a few - 1. Paula Von Gunther 2. Aunt Fanny 3. Babu Botts 4. Elvira Gulch 5. Dorothy Chaplet (hint - better known by her preposterous nickname) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/29 "2005-09-01T23:43:23Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Okay, I’ll toss out a few - > > 1. Aunt Fanny > 2. Elvira Gulch 1. I doubt you’re referring to the Aunt Fanny of Aunt Fanny’s Cabin - a legendary restaurant in Atlanta that’s been gone for thirty-plus years, so you must be referring to the character in Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificient Ambersons.” 2. Elvira Gulch was the nasty bicycle-riding woman we see at the beginning of “The Wizard of Oz,” who looks a lot like the Wicked Witch of the West. Both characters were played by Margaret Hamilton. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/30 "2005-09-02T01:54:34Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Okay, I’ll toss out a few - > > 1. Paula Von Gunther Paula Von Gunther was a Nazi baroness opponent of Wonder Woman who eventually reformed and became an Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/31 "2005-09-02T05:23:42Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Okay, I’ll toss out a few - > 5. Dorothy Chaplet (hint - better known by her preposterous nickname) aka Dodo, another Doctor Who companion, she travelled with William Hartnell’s Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/32 "2005-09-02T06:29:23Z")
Here’s a few of mine: NDP 1) Fred Fenster. NDP 2) Gavin Elster. NDP 3) Hollis Mulwray. NDP 4) Harry Buttle. NDP 5) “Mulva” (a.k.a., “Delores”) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/33 "2005-09-02T06:44:12Z")
‘Mulva’/Delores is the character from Seinfeld whose name Jerry couldn’t remember her name…only that it sounded like a female body part. I’m ashamed that I know that. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/34 "2005-09-02T08:08:17Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > Is Kimbro Matt Dillon’s mentor Adam Kimbro? The Kimbro I referred to was the foreman at the paint factory in Ralph Ellison’s _Invisible Man._ The “Windy” I referred to, was Frank McHugh’s character in the 1949 movie _Mighty Joe Young_–he played O’Hara’s press agent. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/35 "2005-09-02T12:03:25Z")
NDP 3) Hollis Mulwray, the Water Commissioner, was killed by Noah Cross in “Chinatown.” He was Evelyn Mulwray’s husband. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/36 "2005-09-08T18:52:57Z")
1. Available Jones 2. Rose of Sharon Joad 3. Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. 4. Professor John Frink 5. Beezus Quimby 6. Yahoodi 7. Fronk 8. Lance Crossfire 9. Belker 10. Pete Ross ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/37 "2005-09-08T19:15:02Z")
2.) Rose of Sharon Joad = “Rosasharn” Joad. One of the daughters in Steinbeck’s “Grapes og Wrath” 4.) Prof. John Frink – from The Simpsons 6.) Yehoodi – two possibilities. He was a character on a 1940s radio show, and he was “The Man Who Wasn’t There” in a Fredric Brown fantasy short story “The Yehoodi Principle”, inspired in part by that character and the poem "The Man Who Wasn’t There. 10.) Pete Ross – Superboy’s boyhood friend, who knew his identity as Clark Kentm, although Supes wasn’t aware of this. He was able to save Superman’s life later on because of this. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/38 "2005-09-08T19:17:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 6.) Yehoodi – two possibilities. He was a character on a 1940s radio show, and he was “The Man Who Wasn’t There” in a Fredric Brown fantasy short story “The Yehoodi Principle”, inspired in part by that character and the poem "The Man Who Wasn’t There. The radio show character is ther one I meant. He was invented, apparently, by Bob Hope’s second banana Jerry Colonna–he of the ridiculous pop-eyes and handlebar mustache. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/39 "2005-09-08T22:01:30Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Available Jones > > 2. Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. > > 3. Beezus Quimby !. Was a character in _Lil’ Abner_. Also lent his name to a real-life baseball picher whose last name was Jones. 1. Before my time, but my parents mentioned him several times when i was growing up. I believe he was the rich guy on _The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis_. 2. Sister of Ramona in several Beverly Clearly books, such as _Ramona the Pest_ and _Beezus and Ramona_. “Beezus” is a corruption of “Beatrice”, her real name. Appropriately enough, Babu (his last name was actually Bhat\*) was the restaurant owner who called Jerry Seinfeld a “bad, bad man” on the show that featured the inspiration for the screen name of **Art Vandelay, Architect**. Jerry somehow screwed up Babu’s attempt to become a USA citizen (I believe Seinfeld was taking in Babu’s mail, and was out of town when the papers were delivered). \*not sure of the spelling, as I’m typing without Googling ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/40 "2005-09-23T02:31:51Z")
Since this thread seems to have died, and nobody answered it, ‘J’ was the faceless assassin that [Got Carter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067128/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156.md?page=3)