New York Jets offensive lineman D'Brickashaw Ferguson is named after Father Ralph De Bricassart, the main male character in the book.
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He is best known to American television audiences for his Golden Globe and Emmy nominated role as Luke O'Neil in The Thorn Birds (1983), starring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward, whom he later married.
The Thorn Birds – made into a TV miniseries in 1983 starring Richard Chamberlain
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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years – made into a TV miniseries in 1996 starring Richard Chamberlain.
Other notable roles include Macbeth on Broadway and Dane O'Neill, the ill-fated love child who grew up to follow in his unknown father's footsteps on the path to the priesthood, in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds.
Born in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, Burns is best known for playing 'Pete Stancheck' in Herbie Goes Bananas and 'Jack Cleary' in the The Thorn Birds mini-series.