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  2. Lists of works of fiction made into feature films - Wikipedia

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    These are lists of works of fiction that have been made into feature films. The title of the work and the year it was published are both followed by the work’s author and the title of the film, and the year of the film.

  3. List of fictional detectives - Wikipedia

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    They are often popularized as individual characters rather than parts of the fictional work in which they appear. Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters. The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1]

  4. List of fictional secret agents - Wikipedia

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    James Bond in the movies based on Ian Fleming's novels, which also include CIA agent Felix Leiter. See List of James Bond allies for a complete list of 00 agents and secret agents found throughout the movies. Jason Bourne from Bourne trilogy based on the novels by Robert Ludlum; Jason Monk from the 2005 film Frederick Forsyth's Icon

  5. List of fictional nobility - Wikipedia

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    An English sailor who travels to Japan and is given the titles of samurai and hatamoto based on the real life story of William Adams. Date masamune: Sengoku Basara: A fictional samurai loosely based on the real historical figure Date Masamune. Jack Fletcher Young Samurai: An English boy shipwrecked in Japan who eventually becomes a samurai ...

  6. List of fictional doctors - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]

  7. List of fictional private investigators - Wikipedia

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    (1985); English translation: Happy Birthday, Turk! (1994) Arthur Lemming: Monty Python: Monty Python's Flying Circus - "Owl Stretching Time" (TV) (1969) Miss Madelyn Mack: Hugh C. Weir "The Problem of the Eliminated Bridegroom" (1909) [13] Trent Malloy Carlos Sandoval: Albert S. Ruddy & Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis and Christopher Canaan

  8. List of fictional professors - Wikipedia

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    English literature: Some Kind of Beautiful (2014) Pierce Brosnan: Dr. Richard Haig: English literature Spider-Man 2: Dylan Baker: Dr. Curtis Connors: physics Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Kathryn Hahn: Dr. Olivia Octavius: physics Still Alice (2014) Julianne Moore: Professor Alice Howland: linguistics Tarzan (1999) Nigel Hawthorne ...

  9. List of short fiction made into feature films - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of short stories and novellas that have been made into feature films. The title of the work is followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.