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Composite character

Index Composite character

In a work of media adapted from a real or fictional narrative, a composite character is a character based on more than one individual from the story. [1]

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  1. 115 relations: Abraham Bankier, Accountant, Alastair Reid (poet), Amon Göth, Apollo 13 (film), Arthur Penn, Barrow Gang, BBC Online, Ben Kingsley, Bible, Bill Ash, Bombshell (2019 film), Bonnie and Clyde, Bonnie and Clyde (film), Boston.com, Catch Me If You Can, Character (arts), Charlotte Gray (film), Chernobyl (miniseries), Christopher Nolan, Collider (website), Conservatism, Counterfeit, Craig Borten, Dallas Buyers Club, David M. Jones, Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS, Docudrama, Dunkirk (2017 film), Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fictional location, Frank Abagnale, Fulton Fish Market, Henry Methvin, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS activism, Itzhak Stern, James Campbell Clouston, Jared Leto, Jay Roach, Jeff Ma, Jennifer Garner, Jews, Jim Lovell, Jim Sturgess, John Hersey, John Lithgow, John Sturges, Joseph Mitchell (writer), Joseph Shea (FBI agent), ... Expand index (65 more) »

  2. Fictional characters by role in the narrative structure
  3. Journalism ethics
  4. Literary motifs

Abraham Bankier

Abraham Bankier (May 5, 1895 – 1956) was a Polish businessman and Holocaust survivor who assisted Oskar Schindler in his rescue activities and worked as his factory manager.

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Accountant

An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy.

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Alastair Reid (poet)

Alastair Reid (22 March 1926, in Whithorn – 21 September 2014, in Manhattan) was a Scottish poet and a scholar of South American literature.

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Amon Göth

Amon Leopold Göth (alternative spelling Goeth; 11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946) was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal.

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Apollo 13 (film)

Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan.

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Arthur Penn

Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer.

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Barrow Gang

The Barrow Gang was an American gang active between 1932 and 1934.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τá˝° βιβλÎŻα,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Bill Ash

William Franklin Ash MBE (30 November 1917 – 26 April 2014) was an American-born British writer, broadcaster and Marxist, who served as a fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II.

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Bombshell (2019 film)

Bombshell is a 2019 American drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph.

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Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow (March 24, 1909May 23, 1934) were American bandits and multiple murderers who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression.

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Bonnie and Clyde (film)

Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical neo-noir crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.

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Boston.com

Boston.com is a regional website that offers news and information about the Boston, Massachusetts, region.

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Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams, and James Brolin in supporting roles.

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Character (arts)

In fiction, a character or personage, is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game).

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Charlotte Gray (film)

Charlotte Gray is a 2001 drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong.

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Chernobyl (miniseries)

Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed.

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Christopher Nolan

Sir Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker.

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Collider (website)

Collider is an online entertainment publication, with a focus on the film industry and television series.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.

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Counterfeit

To counterfeit means to imitate something authentic, with the intent to steal, destroy, or replace the original, for use in illegal transactions, or otherwise to deceive individuals into believing that the fake is of equal or greater value than the real product.

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Craig Borten

Craig Borten (born September 16, 1965) is an American screenwriter.

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Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.

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David M. Jones

David M. Jones (December 18, 1913 – November 25, 2008) served with distinction as a pilot and general officer, first with the U.S. Army Air Corps (he entered pilot training in June 1937) and later with the United States Army Air Forces and, after September 18, 1947, the United States Air Force.

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Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS

Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS or serophobia is the prejudice, fear, rejection, and stigmatization of people with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV people living with HIV/AIDS).

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Docudrama

Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events.

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Dunkirk (2017 film)

Dunkirk is a 2017 epic historical war thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea, and air.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Fictional location

Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality, such as the Negaverse or Planet X. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as a backdrop for their fictional works.

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Frank Abagnale

Frank William Abagnale Jr. (born April 27, 1948) is an American security consultant, author, and convicted felon who committed frauds that mainly targeted individuals and small businesses.

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Fulton Fish Market

The Fulton Fish Market is a fish market in Hunts Point, a section of the New York City borough of the Bronx, in New York, United States.

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Henry Methvin

Henry Methvin (April 8, 1912 – April 19, 1948) was an American criminal, a bank robber, and a Depression-era outlaw.

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HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.

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HIV/AIDS activism

Socio-political activism to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS as well as to advance the effective treatment and care of people with AIDS (PWAs) has taken place in multiple locations since the 1980s.

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Itzhak Stern

Itzhak Stern (25 January 1901 – 30 January 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for Sudeten-German industrialist Oskar Schindler and assisted him in his rescue activities during the Holocaust.

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James Campbell Clouston

James Campbell Clouston (31 August 1900 – 3 June 1940) was a Canadian officer in the British Royal Navy, who acted as pier-master during the Dunkirk evacuation.

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Jared Leto

Jared Joseph Leto (born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician.

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Jay Roach

Mathew Jay Roach (born June 14, 1957) is an American filmmaker.

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Jeff Ma

Jeff Ma or Jeffrey Ma (born 1973) is a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the mid-1990s.

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Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Jim Lovell

James Arthur Lovell Jr. (born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer.

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Jim Sturgess

James Anthony SturgessBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com (born 16 May 1978) is an English actor and singer-songwriter.

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John Hersey

John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist.

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John Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow (born, 1945) is an American actor.

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John Sturges

John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director.

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Joseph Mitchell (writer)

Joseph Quincy Mitchell (July 27, 1908 – May 24, 1996) was an American writer best known for his works of creative nonfiction he published in The New Yorker.

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Joseph Shea (FBI agent)

Joseph Gerald Shea (September 20, 1919– August 4, 2005) was an American law enforcement official who was a Special Agent for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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Kathleen Quinlan

Kathleen Denise Quinlan (born November 19, 1954) is an American film and television actress.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker.

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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor.

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Kraków-PĹ‚aszów concentration camp

PĹ‚aszów or Kraków-PĹ‚aszów was a Nazi concentration camp operated by the SS in PĹ‚aszów, a southern suburb of Kraków, in the General Governorate of German-occupied Poland.

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer.

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Liam Neeson

William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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Linda Laubenstein

Linda Jane Laubenstein (May 21, 1947 – August 15, 1992) was an American physician and early HIV/AIDS researcher.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Margot Robbie

Margot Elise Robbie (born 2 July 1990) is an Australian actress and producer.

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Marie Claire

Marie Claire (stylized in all lowercase) is a French international monthly magazine first published in France in 1937, followed by the United Kingdom in 1941.

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Matthew McConaughey

Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor.

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McGill University

McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Melisa Wallack

Melisa Wallack is an American screenwriter and film director.

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Michael J. Pollard

Michael J. Pollard (born Michael John Pollack Jr.; May 30, 1939 – November 20, 2019) was an American character actor.

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Mietek Pemper

MieczysĹ‚aw "Mietek" Pemper (24 March 1920 – 7 June 2011) was a Polish-born German Holocaust survivor.

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Mohr Siebeck

Mohr Siebeck Verlag is a long-established academic publisher focused on the humanities and social sciences and based in Tübingen, Germany.

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Nancy Wake

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a post-war career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Odette Hallowes

Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes, (née Brailly; 28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995), also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Sansom, code named Lise, was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during the Second World War.

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Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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Pearl Witherington

Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley, (24 June 1914 – 24 February 2008), code names Marie and Pauline, was an agent in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.

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Personal assistant

A personal assistant, also referred to as personal aide (PA) or personal secretary (PS), is a job title describing a person who assists a specific person with their daily business or personal task.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Pocket Books

Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.

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Public relations

Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception.

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Race traitor

Race traitor is a phrase that describes someone who is perceived to have betrayed their own race, primarily by other members of their race or ethnic group.

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Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director.

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Ranker

Ranker.com is a website that features polls on entertainment, brands, sports, food, and culture.

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Robert Luketic

Robert Luketic (born 1 November 1973) is an Australian film director.

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Roger Ailes

Roger Eugene Ailes (May 15, 1940 – May 18, 2017) was an American television executive and media consultant.

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Ron Howard

Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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Ron Woodroof

Ronald Dickson Woodroof (February 3, 1950 – September 12, 1992) was an American man who created what would become known as the Dallas Buyer's Club in March 1988, one of several such AIDS buyers clubs that sprang up at the time.

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Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.

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Screen Rant

Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.

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Secretary

A secretary, administrative assistant, executive assistant, personal secretary, or other similar titles is an individual whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, program evaluation, communication, and/or organizational skills within the area of administration.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II.

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Steve McQueen

Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor and racing driver.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Steven Zaillian

Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Ted Kennedy

Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Gazette (Montreal)

The Gazette, also known as the Montreal Gazette, is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network.

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The Great Escape (film)

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton and Angus Lennie.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Trans woman

A trans woman (short for transgender woman) is a woman who was assigned male at birth.

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Violette Szabo

Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross.

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Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick (born June 14, 1935) is an American radical feminist critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist.

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W. D. Jones

William Daniel ("W.D.", "Bud", "Deacon") Jones (May 12, 1916 – August 20, 1974) was a member of the Barrow Gang, whose crime spree throughout the southern Midwest in the early years of the Great Depression became part of American criminal folklore.

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White House Office of Public Engagement

The White House Office of Public Engagement (OPE) is a unit of the White House Office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

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Whitewashing in film

Whitewashing is a casting practice in the film industry in which white actors are cast in non-white roles.

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William Tennant (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir William George Tennant (2 January 1890 – 26 July 1963) was a British naval officer.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Xander Berkeley

Alexander Harper Berkeley (born 1955) is an American actor.

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21 (2008 film)

21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.

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See also

Fictional characters by role in the narrative structure

Journalism ethics

Literary motifs

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_character

Also known as Amalgamation (fiction), Composite characters, Composite figure.

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