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Character name: Dr Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald
Appears in:Cracker
Date(s):1993-2006
Award(s):16 Bafta tv wins & 7 nominations
including best actor & best drama series
| Character back story:Fitz is a criminal psychologist who works with the greater manchester police force to help them catch & convict criminals.
He married to his long suffering wife Judith and he has a teenage son Mark & daughter Katy.
He is regarded as one of the best in the country at getting into the heads of criminals & making them confess to their crimes | Inspiration for character:based on old episodes of columbo
the series was created as a reaction to tv show Prime Suspect,the writer Mcgovern wanted to do a police show that was'nt focused on police procedure but on emotional and psychological truth | Age/Occupation:40s-50s
doctor-criminal psychologist | Personality type:alcoholic,addicted to gambling,womanizer,sarcastic,manic,
foulmouthed & highly intelligent | | Signature look: | | Resides:south manchester,later he & his father moved/lived in australia before returning back to the uk | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:Robert Lindsay was the original choice for Fitz but turned it down.
Fitz is never seen driving and is always driven by others. The reason is never explained in the series. But in the book "Cracker: The Truth Behind the Fiction", it says that "He's never trusted himself behind the wheel of a car - its just too tempting to put your foot down and close your eyes and gamble that you won't hit anything before you've counted to twenty". |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | [on two Skinheads' urinary habits]
Fitz: You're the artistic kind - it goes everywhere. You're the Luke Skywalker type - straight like a lazer beam. I can't help but take a look - people usually find it disgusting ...
Skinhead: You looking for a broken nose, pal?
Fitz: Yeah, You know someone who can give me one, pal?
Teacher: Please don't smoke sir, this is a school.
Fitz: That's where I started.
[to a waiter at a restaurant where Judith and Graham are on a date]
Fitz: It's really very sad - see, I'm a psychologist, and she's one of my patients.
Judith: I'm NOT your patient, Fitz! I'm your wife!
Fitz: Oh yeah! Hi there - didn't recognize you without your straight jacket!
Fitz: I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. I *am* too much.
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Character name: Rubeus Hagrid
Appears in:Harry Potter films 1-8
Date(s):2001-2011
Award(s):nominated for saturn award & bafta film award for harry potter & philosphers stone
| Character back story: Hagrid is of mixed human and giant parentage, his mother is the giantess Fridwulfa and his father who was a tiny wizard.
When Hagrid was about 3 his mother left him and his father. Hagrid could pick up and carry his father by the age of 6.
Since giants have a reputation for being horribly brutal, and were once allies of Lord Voldemort,
Hagrid keeps his parentage secret and allows people to imagine other reasons for his great size.
Rubeus Hagrid was born December 6, 1928), familiarly known by only his surname, "Hagrid,"
He is a passionate supporter of Albus Dumbledore, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, and also a friend of Harry Potter.
He is a former pupil who left due to 'personal reasons', but who has returned to maintain the school grounds out of loyalty to Dumbledore. He has a passion and gentle affection for Dragons, beasts and the sort of magical creatures others might find terrifying! Despite his rough edges and lumbering appearance, Hagrid is both unquestionable loyal and honest and is incredibly protective of Harry. | | Inspiration for character:according to j.k rowling Hagrid is physically "modelled on the Welsh chapter of Hells Angels who'd swoop down on the town and hog the bar, 'huge mountains of leather and hair'. | Age/Occupation:70s
keeper of keys/grounds, gamekeeper & care of magical creatures teacher | | Personality type:friendly,softhearted,very loyal to his peers, | Signature look:look beard & hair
height 8 foot 6 | | Resides:on the grounds of Hogwarts school (somewhere in scotland) | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:The hut used during the filming as Hagrid's hut has since been demolished in case fans of the film swamped it.
Robbie Coltrane was also handpicked by J.K. Rowling to play Hagrid.
Robbie Coltrane's 6'10" body double for Hagrid is former England rugby international, Martin Bayfield.
During filming, Daniel Radcliffe changed the screen on Robbie Coltrane's cellphone to Turkish. Coltrane had to phone hair designer Eithne Fennel's Turkish father in order to find out Turkish for "Change Language".
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| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | [Hermione screams as Grawp grabs her and lifts her up]
Rubeus Hagrid: Grawpy, that is not polite!
Ron Weasley: Hagrid, do something!
Rubeus Hagrid: We talked about this! You do not grab, do you? That is your new friend, Hermione!
[Ron swings a tree branch at Grawp's foot. Grawp looks down, puzzled, and shifts his foot slightly, knocking Ron back]
Hermione Granger: Grawp! Put-me-down!
Rubeus Hagrid: It's changing out there. Just like last time. There's a storm coming, Harry. And we all best be ready when she does.
Hermione: He called me a mudblood.
Hagrid: He did not!
Harry: What's a mudblood?
Hermione: It means dirty blood. Mudblood's a really foul name for someone who's muggle born. Someone with non-magic parents. Someone like me. It's not a term one usually hears in civilized conversation.
Hagrid: See the thing is, Harry, there are some wizards, like the Malfoy family, who think they're better than others because they're what people call "pure blood."
Harry: That's horrible!
Ron: [burps up another slug] It's disgusting.
Hagrid: And it's codswallop to boot. "Dirty blood." Why, there isn't a wizard alive today who's not half-blood or less. More to the point, they've yet to think of a spell that our Hermione can't do. Don't you think on it, Hermione. Don't you think on it for one minute.
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Character name: Valentin Zukovosky
Appears in:Goldeneye/The World is Not Enough
Date(s):1995/1999
Award(s):
| Character back story: Zukovsky is an ex-KGB agent turned Russian mafia head who runs a bar, a casino, and a caviar factory. When he was younger (and a KGB agent), a conflict with James Bond ended with Valentin being shot in the leg, as well as Bond stealing his car and "his girl". Eventually, Valentin set up a meeting for Bond with Janus, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
After leaving the KGB, Valentin Zukovsky initially held a grudge against James Bond , but this disappeared when dealing with Bond could make him a profit.
He later made a fortune out of a beluga caviar factory. Bond figured a way to talk the information right out of Valentin: use Christmas Jones as a distraction. When Zukovsky saw Bond, he asked: "Can't you just say hello, like a normal person"?
His personal assistant and driver named Bullion debuts. Later, after Bullion was revealed to have worked with Elektra King, and set off a bomb in Valentin's radio facility and former KGB safe house in Istanbul, Turkey (which he uses to try to contact his nephew Nikolai, whom is running a Victor 3 class submarine), Valentin shoots Bullion.
Valentin Zukovsky is shot and mortally wounded by Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough after Valentin told Elektra King to give him the submarine key by saying "I'm looking for a submarine, it's big, black, and the driver is a very good friend of mine! Bring it to me!", but instead, she shoots Valentin through his nephew Nikolai's hat. He lives long enough after being shot to execute a trick shot using a secret gun hidden within his own cane that allows James Bond to escape Elektra King's trap.
It is not clear if he lives or dies,there are a couple of deleted scenes showing him only being shot in the ribs & having the bullet removed | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:40s
ex-kgb spy,businessman,mob boss
nightclub owner,casino owner
caviar manufacturer | | Personality type:corrupt,minipulative,quick witted | | Signature look: | | Resides:moscow,istanbul | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:The song sung by Zukovsky's girlfriend Irina (Minnie Driver) in the nightclub was "Stand By Your Man" by Tammy Wynette.
Robbie Coltrane's scenes were shot on the first day of production, 16 January 1995.
world is not enough-Much of Valentin Zukovsky's (Robbie Coltrane) dialogue was extracted almost verbatim from GoldenEye (1995), such as his "extending the same courtesy" to Elektra (cf. Bond), and his ranting about the free market economy.
The scene where Zukovsky is splashing around in a pool of his own caviar was filmed on actor Robbie Coltrane's birthday.
The name of Valentin Zukovsky's (Robbie Coltrane) casino was L'Or Noir Casino. The name of the card game that Elektra plays at the casino was One Card High Draw.
The product that Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane) manufactures at his Caspian Sea Plant was Beluga Caviar. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | (As Zukovsky hears the click of Bond cocking his gun)
Zukovsky: Walther PPK, 7.65 millimetre. Only three men I know use such a gun...[smirks] I believe I've killed two of them.
Bond: Lucky me.
(Another man cocks his gun and puts it to Bond's head)
Zukovsky: I think not.
Zukovsky: I'm looking for a submarine. It's big and black, and the driver is a very good friend of mine.
Zukovsky: Oh, look. We have no roof, but at least we have four good walls.
[the factory falls apart]
Zukovsky: The insurance company is NEVER going to believe this!
Zukovsky: [to Bull] You! Where have you been, you gold encrusted buffoon?
Bull: Sorry, boss, I must have bumped my head.
Zukovsky: Oh, really? Get me out of here. I'll show you what a bumped head feels like.
[Bond finds Zukovsky, Bull, and two women in the casino office]
Zukovsky: Bull, give them an inch.
[Bull gives each woman an inch-thick stack of cash, and the three of them start to leave]
Zukovsky: Make sure they lose it in this casino, huh?
Bull: I'll see you later, Mr. Bond.
[Bond sees that Bull has a mouthful of gold teeth]
Bond: I see you put your money where your mouth is.
Zukovsky: Mr. Bullion does not trust banks.
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Character name: Charlie McManus/Sister Enviolata
Appears in:Nuns on the Run
Date(s):1990
Award(s):
| Character back story: Charlie McManus (Coltrane) and Brian Hope (Idle), who decide to part company with their criminal gang because of its new-found propensity for violence, and are especially fed-up with their new brash young boss.
By a farcical turn of events, they end up with the loot from their last job but unfortunately botch their escape attempt and end up with the rest of their gang, the police as well as Chinese Triad gangsters on their tail.
The only place they can find to hide is a nearby convent, which also houses a teacher training college, and they dress up as nuns and pretend to be new teachers. | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:30s-40s
criminal,gang member,get away driver | Personality type:a thief,corrupt
hates violence,wants to give up a life of crime & go straight | | Signature look: | | Resides:london | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:Michael Palin was offered the role of Charlie McManus but was unavailable due to other work commitments.
Brian is from London and Charlie is from Liverpool. In the Japanese subtitled version, Brian's dialogue is subtitled in Tokyo dialect and Charlie's in Osaka dialect.
Corinthians 13:13 in the King James Bible says, "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." The three principal characters are named Faith (Thomas), Brian Hope, and "Charlie" McMannus (and the greatest of these is Charlie). |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Father Seamus: Tell me. Is celibacy just as difficult for a woman as it is for a man?
Charlie McManus: I wouldn't know... I must come clean, though, I, I had a man in my bed last night. All night. You see, the way I see it, sex is allowed.
Father Seamus: Ah, ha... ha!
Charlie McManus: No. No, it's the doctrine of original sin. You see, we're all born sinful, except for Jesus who was perfect of course. And he was sent to save us. But how could he save us unless we're sinning? So we have to go on sinning in order to be saved and go to Heaven. That's how Christianity works. That's why it suits so many people.
Charlie McManus: You've got the Father, the Son and the holy ghost. But the three are one - like a shamrock, my old priest used to say. "Three leaves, but one leaf." Now, the father sent down the son, who was love, and then when he went away, he sent down the holy spirit, who came down in the form of a...
Brian Hope: You told me already - a ghost.
Charlie McManus: No, a dove.
Brian Hope: The dove was a ghost?
Charlie McManus: No, the ghost was a dove.
Brian Hope: Let me try and summarize this: God is his son. And his son is God. But his son moonlights as a holy ghost, a holy spirit, and a dove. And they all send each other, even though they're all one and the same thing.
Charlie McManus: You've got it. You really could be a nun!
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