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Currently, these lists are NOT in alphebetical order. That will soon change.

Here is how the lists are defined:

a. First, the Character Name,

b. Then, the actor(s) that have portrayed them in film,

c. Then, Literature they have appeared in

d. Then, the Movie(s) they have appeared in

e. Then, a short description of them.

 

 

D'ARTAGNAN, CHARLES DE BATZ-CASTELMORE

b. Douglas Fairbanks; Gene Kelly; Chris O'Donnell; Louis Jordan

c. Memoirs of D'Artagnan by Gatien Courtilz Sandras; The Three Musketeers by Dumas; D'Artagnan, sequel to TTM by Beford Jones; Twenty Years After by Dumas

d. The Three Musketeers; Return of the Musketeers; The Man in the Iron Mask

e. The most famous of all Musketeers, was in fact a real person in life who served under King Louis XIII starting in 1640, then under Cardinal Mazarin, then under King Louis XIV.

 

 

ATHOS

b. Van Heflin, Keifer Sutherland

c. The Three Musketeers; D'Artagnan, sequel to TTM; Twenty Years After;

d. The Three Musketeers; Return of the Musketeers; The Man in the Iron Mask

e. The Famous Musketeer who existed in real life, was in fact related to both Treville (Captain of the Musketeers) and to Aramis. Athos died in a duel in 1642 in France in his early twenties. Athos was from Gascony, France.

 

 

ARAMIS

b. Robert Coote, Charlie Sheen

c. The Three Musketeers; D'Artagnan, sequel to TTM; Twenty Years After;

d. The Three Musketeers; Return of the Musketeers; The Man in the Iron Mask

e. Aramis may indeed have been a religious man, also he lived longer than perhaps his three other friends, had a wife and several kids after retiring from the army.

 

 

 

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

b. Richard Burton

c.

d. Alexander the Great

e. The brilliant young leader who, by his early thirties in the 300's B.C., had taken over most of the known world.

 

 

CEASAR, JULIUS

b.

c.

d. Cleopatra; Spartacus

e. The first emporer of a then firm Rome.

 

 

DAVID, KING

b. Gregory Peck

c. Old Testament:

d. King David; David

e. Famous warrior King of the Old Testament; Perhaps the most famous King in the Bible, besides Jesus Christ, of course.

 

 

DAVID'S MIGHTY THREE

b.

c. Old Testament:

d.

e. The Three Mighty Men of Valour of King David's personal bodyguard. Perhaps the strongest team in history.

 

 

JOHN, PRINCE then KING

b. Richard Lewis

c. Ivanhoe; Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

d. Ivanhoe; Adventures of Robin Hood

e. King Richard the Lionheart's evil brother, who later became King of England, and who signed the famous Magna Carta.

 

 

HOOD, ROBIN (ROBYN or ROBERT HODE)

b. Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, Cary Elwes

c. A Gest of Robyn Hood; Merry Adventures of Robin Hood; Men in Tights

d. Ivanhoe, Adventures of Robin Hood; Robin and Marion

e. The original man in tights who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. There may have actually been two different men in history who contributed to the one famous character.

 

 

ARTHUR, KING

b.

c. Le Morte de Arthur;

d. Camelot; King Arthur

e. The first King of the Brits that more than likely really existed in the 500's A.D.

 

 

COOKE, CAPTAIN

b.

c.

d.

e. The Famous Sea Explorer.

 

 

CLEOPATRA

b. Elizabeth Taylor

c.

d.

e. The famous Greek Queen who sat on the throne of Egypt, had a son by Julius Ceasar himself, and had a fobidden love with Antony.

 

 

ELIZABETH I.

b. Bette Davis

c.

d. The Sea Hawk; Elizabeth and Essex; Elizabeth

e. The Daughter of King Henry the Eigth of England. She is perhaps the most famous queen in history.

 

 

ANTONY, MARK

b. Richard Burton

c.

d. Cleopatra

e. The love of Cleopatra

 

 

ARCHILLES

b. Brat Pitt

c.

d. Troy

e. The famous undefeatable warrior of Greek myth.

 

 

IVANHOE

b. Robert Taylor

c. Ivanhoe

d. Ivanhoe

e. By only one mention in a historical poem, Sir Walter Scott created a whole story of Knighthood and chilvary. This story even has the very first mention of Robin Hood in novel form.

 

 

BERGERAC, CYRANO DE

b. Jose Ferrer

c. Cyrano de Bergerac; Years Between Series by Feval

d. Cyrano de Bergerac; Return of the Musketeers; Roxanne

e. The real life poetic swordsman with a large nose. In real life the nose wasn't as big as legend says, but it  was pretty big nonetheless. The real Cyrano actuall fought duels over insults concerning his nose. Legend also has it that even crossed swords with the playwrite Moliere.

 

 

CYRANO (SEE BERGERAC)

 

 

GISBOURNE, GUY OF

b. Basil Rathbone

c.

d. Adventures of Robin Hood

e.

 

 

HENRI OF NAVARRE AND FRANCE, KING

 

 

HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND, KING

b.

c. Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

d. Prince and the Pauper

e. Father of Elizabeth the First who was known to have beheaded his wives for not giving him a son for the throne.

 

 

BLOOD, CAPTAIN

b. Errol Flynn; Louis Hayward

c. Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini; Fortunes of Captain Blood also by Sabatini.

d. Captain Blood

e. The Pirate Captain who may have possibly existed in real life in the 1600's.

 

 

CHRISTIAN, FLETCHER

b. Clark Gable; Mel Gibson; Errol Flynn

c. Mutiny on the Bounty by Captain Bligh

d. Mutiny on the Bounty

e. The real life officer on board the H.M.S. Bounty who started a mutiny.

 

 

BLIGH, CAPTAIN

b. Sir Anthony Hopkins; Charles Laughton

c. Mutiny on the Bounty by Captain Bligh

d. Mutiny on the Bounty

e. The Captain who caused the famous mutiny to occur.