Ichabod Crane Ichabod Crane Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in Washington Irving's short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", first published in 1820. In popular culture, this story is sometimes retitled as "The Headless Horseman." Crane is invariably portrayed, in the original work and in most adaptations as a tall, lanky individual with a scarecrow affect. Ichabod -- meaning "without glory" -- comes from the biblical name of the grandson of Eli the High Priest and son of Phinehas. Irving might have borrowed the name from that of Ichabod Crane, a colonel in the US Army during the
Johnny Depp has gained cult classic status. Depp had no film releases in the following two years, with the exception of a brief cameo in "" (1991), the sixth installment in the "A Nightmare of Elm Street" franchise. He appeared in three films in 1993. In the romantic comedy "Benny and Joon", he played an eccentric and illiterate silent film fan who befriends a mentally ill woman and her brother; it became a sleeper hit. He then starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Juliette Lewis in Lasse Hallström's "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", a drama about a dysfunctional family. In his review of the