Poll Suggestion: Fictional Characters With a Disability

Might you include Micah Fowler, the kid who played JJ in the sitcom Speechless? He was truly the heart of that successful program.

 
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Treasure Island (1934)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025907/reference
Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors
and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver
in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.

Wallace Beery ... Long John Silver
Jackie Cooper ... Jim Hawkins


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Hook (1991)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102057/reference
When Captain James Hook kidnaps his children,
an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland
and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.

Dustin Hoffman ... Captain Hook
Robin Williams ... Peter Banning 


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Other titles with Captain Hook and Peter Pan
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Poll Suggestion: Physically Disabled Characters
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-physically-disabled-characters
  
Which of these physically disabled characters is your favorite?
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls042474515/

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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162661/reference
Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow
to investigate the decapitations of three people,
with the culprit being the legendary apparition,
The Headless Horseman. 
  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162661/mediaviewer/rm2999340800
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Children of a Lesser God (1986)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090830/reference
A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf
falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
Marlee Matlin ... Sarah
Linda Bove ... Marian Loesser  
 
According to the book
"Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry" (1999)
by John S. Schuchman,
the film was the first major motion picture since
the 1926 silent film You'd Be Surprised (1926)
to cast a deaf / hearing impaired actor in a major role.  
   
Marlee Matlin
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559144/
Marlee lost much of her hearing at the age of eighteen months.
That did not stop her from acting ...
 
Linda Bove
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0100581/
Born deaf, she was a founding member of the National Theater of the Deaf in 1963

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090830/mediaviewer/rm2167032832
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The Miracle Worker (1962)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056241/reference
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach
the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate. 
Anne Bancroft ... Annie Sullivan
Patty Duke ... Helen Keller


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056241/mediaviewer/rm1513852161
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At First Sight (1999)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132512/reference
Val Kilmer ... Virgil Adamson
Mira Sorvino ... Amy Benic
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight
at the urging of his girlfriend
and must deal with the changes to his life.
 
Trivia:
Virgil (Val Kilmer) says he is blind as a bat.
He played Batman a few years before this one. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132512/mediaviewer/rm2554566912
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Not Sleepy Hollow (1999)  with Johnny Depp ... Ichabod Crane 

Howabout ...
  
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/reference
Johnny Depp ... Edward Scissorhands
Winona Ryder ... Kim
An artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands,
leads a solitary life.
Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/mediaviewer/rm2189138176
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Rear Window (1954)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/reference
A wheelchair-bound photographer 
spies on his neighbors from his apartment window 
and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies breaks his leg 
while getting an action shot at an auto race. 
Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window
James Stewart...L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/mediaviewer/rm2589113345
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Rear Window (1998)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166322/reference
A recently paralyzed architect, Jason Kemp, 
believes he has witnessed a murder from his apartment window. 
Christopher Reeve...Jason Kemp
  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166322/mediaviewer/rm2760658176
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Fictional Characters With a Real Disability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve
Christopher Reeve
(September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) 
He was best known for playing superhero Superman,
On May 27, 1995, Reeve was left quadriplegic 
after being thrown from a horse 
during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Virginia.
He used a wheelchair and needed a portable ventilator to breathe 
for the rest of his life.


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Star Trek: The Original Series (TV Series)
The Menagerie: Part I (1966)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394904/reference
While visiting Starbase 11, the Enterprise is hijacked by Mr. Spock,
leaving Captain Kirk behind 
while abducting the recently crippled Captain Christopher Pike,
former commander of the Enterprise. 
Pike has recently had a serious accident, 
rendering him unable to speak and confining him to an automated chair. 

Leonard Nimoy...Mr. Spock
Jeffrey Hunter...Captain Christopher Pike



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394904/mediaviewer/rm831860480
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Transformers 1984 - Chip Chase, a wheelchair-bound paraplegic and Autobot ally.

Zatoichi - a blind samurai, who has had a host of films.

Harry Potter - Mad-Eye Moody, a one-eyed one-legged Wizard Nazi hunter.

Thor - The Norse god from the Marvel Cinematic Universe lost his eye.

SCENT OF A WOMAN - Colonel Frank Slade, a blinded and suicidial army vet who regains his honor.

Daredevil - Matthew Murdock from Marvel Comics, who lost his sight but had his other senses enhanced to become a superhero.

Cyborg - Victor Stone from DC Comics, who was grievously injured but had his body rebuilt with technology. 

Darth Vader - after suffering nightmarish burns, his whole body was covered with a shell of armor that kept him barely alive.

Frodo Baggins - he loses his ring finger in the course of his quest.

A SILENT VOICE - Shoko Nishimiya, a deaf girl and bully victim.

GAME OF THRONES - Jaime Lannister loses one hand. (There was this other guy who lost his manhood too...)

THE BONE COLLECTOR - Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme.

  
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Moby Dick (1956)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049513/reference
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship 
relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession 
to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, 
leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg
Gregory Peck ... Captain Ahab


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The Man Who Laughs (1928)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019130/reference
Forever disfigured by a wide and mirthless grin on his face, 
the orphaned son of a nobleman,
Gwynplaine rescues the blind baby-girl, Dea, in cold seventeenth-century
Conrad Veidt...Gwynplaine
  
Trivia
Gwynplaine's fixed grin and disturbing clown-like appearance 
was a key inspiration for comic book talents 
writer Bill Finger and artists Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson 
in creating Batman's greatest enemy, The Joker.



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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016220/reference
A disfigured former composer haunts the Paris Opera House 
and several people have seen the cloaked, shadowy figure.
Lon Chaney...The Phantom


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Recent Windows update to my computer
I can not copy large photos from IMDb to GS ?!?!?!?!?
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Dr. No (1962)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055928/reference
James Bond 007 is Britain's top agent, 
and is on an exciting mission, 
to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent
Dr. No, a half-Chinese man with mechanical hands
that replaced his own after a radiation experiment when awry
Sean Connery...James Bond
Joseph Wiseman...Dr. No


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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/reference
At the end of World War II, a soldier, a sailor and an airman 
return to their home town of Boone City 
and must re-adjust to the society they had left several years before.
... there is Homer Parrish who lost both of his hands in a shipboard fire.
He's become quite adept at using the prosthetics the Navy has provided him
but resents the pity he sees in others eyes.
Harold Russell...Homer Parrish


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/mediaviewer/rm2969350912
  
Fictional Characters With a Real Disability
  
Harold Russell  (1914–2002)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751174/
He was training paratroopers at Camp MacKall NC on June 6, 1944
when some TNT he was using exploded in his hands.
He lost both hands. 
After receiving hooks, and training on them,
he was chosen to make an Army training film...
  
Salary
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) $10,000
  
Academy Awards, USA
1947 Winner
Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Winner
Honorary Award The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
For bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans 
through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives
  
Golden Globes, USA
1947 Winner
Special Award The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
For best non-professional acting.
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