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Amongst hordes of movie Windys the most prolific was George ‘Gabby’ Hayes as Windy Halliday.

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Is Kimbro Matt Dillon’s mentor Adam Kimbro?

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My favourite bit was him walking into the detective room and introducing himself to Harris:

Scanlon: Scanlon, Internal Affairs.
Harris: Harris, human race.

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**Animal ** is an oft used nickname in many movies. The one I usually think of first is one of the pisoners in Stalag 17.

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Is ‘J’ the first partner in Men in Black?

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No, a different J.

Clue - he followed the instructions in the movie’s title.

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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.

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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)
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  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.

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Paula Von Gunther was a Nazi baroness opponent of Wonder Woman who eventually reformed and became an Amazon.

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aka Dodo, another Doctor Who companion, she travelled with William Hartnell’s Doctor.

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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”)

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‘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.

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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.

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NDP 3) Hollis Mulwray, the Water Commissioner, was killed by Noah Cross in “Chinatown.” He was Evelyn Mulwray’s husband.

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  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
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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.

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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. :smiley:

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!. 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

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Since this thread seems to have died, and nobody answered it, ‘J’ was the faceless assassin that Got Carter