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2 unusual facts about stock character


Stock character

A fifth type, in the form of the additional character Manducus, the chattering jawed pimp, also may have appeared in the Atellan Farce, possibly out of an adaptation of Dossennus.

Circa 212 BC, Ariston’s discourse on morality included several proud Character types and mimicked the Theophrastan style.


Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

At the same time, co-star billing is given to Anne Gwynne, Universal ingenue whose role does not develop until the middle of the serial.

Jill Dennett

She next depicted an ingenue (stock character) in the The Tinsel Girl (1932), a film directed by Michael Curtiz.

Peter Rowley

He is best known for his television roles, where he has played in numerous popular television series as comic foil and straight man to comedians such as Billy T. James, David McPhail, and Jon Gadsby.

Rin Rin the tadpole

Rin Rin the tadpole (Spanish: Rin Rin Renacuajo), also known as the tripping tadpole (El renacuajo paseador) (1884) is a stock character created by Colombian poet Rafael Pombo.


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Ramon Zamora

Zamora's most popular stock character in the show was a military-clad figure that bore an unmistakable physical resemblance to Adolf Hitler, who spoke in bastardized German and spouted catchphrases such as "Isprakenheit".

Sukiyaki Western Django

It also takes inspiration from the "Man with No Name" stock character variously used in the spaghetti western genre but most notably in the Dollars trilogy by Sergio Leone (initially inspired by Akira Kurosawa's jidaigeki film Yojimbo).