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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.

 

 

 

PORTHOS

b. Gig Young; Alan Hale Sr.; Alan Hale Jr.; Oliver Platt

c. The Three Musketeers; Twenty Years After; Le Vicomte de Bragaloone (which contains: Ten Years Later; Louise de La Valliere; and The Man in the Iron Mask); D'Artagnan: sequel to the Three Musketeers.

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

e. In Real life, Porthos, named Issac de Portau, came from Pau, Gascony.

 

 

 

MONTE CRISTO, COUNT OF

b. Robert Donat

c. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

d. The Count of Monte Cristo

e. The fictional character created by Dumas.

 

 

 

MORGAN, SIR HENRY

b.

c. The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini

d. The Black Swan

e. The real life Privateer, Buccaneer who was knighted by King Charles the Second to clean up the seas of     Pirates, and who became Governor of Jamaica.

 

 

 

MACGREGOR, ROBERT ROY (ROB ROY)

b. Richard Todd; Liam Neeson

c. Rob Roy the Highland Rogue by Daniel Defoe; Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott

d. Rob Roy the Highland Rogue; Rob Roy

e. The Highlander who led a revolt against tyranny in 1700's Scotland.

 

 

 

MAZARIN, CARDINAL JULES

b.

c. Twenty Years After; Le Vicomte de Bragaloone; The Years Between Series, consisting of: The Mysterious Cavalier; Martyr to the Queen; The Secret of the Bastille; and Heir to Buckingham.

d. Return of the Musketeers

e. The protege of Cardinal Richelieu who became Cardinal after Richelieu's death. D'Artagnan became a personal convoy for him in the 1650's.

 

 

 

ROCHEFORT, COUNT DE

b. Ian Keith (1948); Michael Wincott

c. The Memoirs of Rochefort by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras; The Three Musketeers & Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas.

d. The Three Musketeers; The Four Musketeers; Return of the Musketeers

e. Rochefort may indeed have existed, but who Dumas gave us is only a shadow of the real man.

 

 

 

RICHARD THE LIONHEART, KING

a. Patrick Stewart; Sean Connery

b. Ivanhoe; The Talisman

c. Ivanhoe; King Richard and the Crusaders; Robin Hood, Men in Tights; the Adventures of Robin Hood

e. The Norman King who united the Normans and Saxons of Great Britian to make a united England.

 

 

LOCKSLEY (SEE HOOD, ROBIN)

 

 

LANCELOT, SIR

b. Robert Taylor; Richard Gere

c. Knights of the Round Table

d. Camelot; First Knight; Knights of the Round Table

e. The Best Swordsman of King Arthur more than likely existed in real life.

 

 

(Lady Margaret, Jamie Waring, Captain Leech)

 

 

LEECH, CAPTAIN

b. George Sanders

c. The Black Swan

d. The Black Swan

e. The treacherous Pirate who, according to Rafael Sabatini's book "The Black Swan," disobeyed Sir Henry Morgan's orders to stay away from Piracy. Leech, with a handful of other Pirate Captain's, sailed the carribean anyways. Morgan therefore sent his right hand man, Jamie Waring, to stop him!!

 

 

KIDD, CAPTAIN

b. Charles Laughton

c.

d. Captain Kidd

e. Privateer

 

 

POMPEY

b.

c.

d. King of Kings; Cleopatra

e. A general of Ceasar who conquored Jerusalem, eventually found his death in Egypt, at the hands of Cleopatra's brother.

 

 

 

NOTTINGHAM, SHERIFF OF

b.

c.

d. Adventures of Robin Hood

e.

 

 

LOUIS XIII

b.

c. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

d. The Three Musketeers; The Four Musketeers

e. Son of Henri IV of Navarre and France, and came to the throne in 1610. Louis took his dad's personal bodyguard, re-armed them from the carbine to the new flintlock musket, and named them the famed Musketeers.

 

 

 

LOUIS XIV

b. Leonardo de Caprio; Louis Hayward

c. The Vicomte de Bragalonne; Louise de La Valliere; & The Man in the Iron Mask  by Alexandre Dumas

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

e. Son of Louis XIII and grandson of Henri IV of France. Louis XIV had become the most powerful king in France's history, called the Sun King, who is reputed to have screamed in a moment of passion "I am the state!" Louis gave the captainacy of his Musketeers to the famous Charles d'Artagnan (of The Three Musketeers).

 

 

LOUIS XV

b.

c. 

d.

e.

 

 

ROTTINGHAM, SHERIFF OF

b.

c. 

d. Robin Hood: Men in Tights

e. The cooky counterpart to the Sheriff of Notingham, created by Mel Brooks.