Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Christoph Waltz, among others. It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only a close-up of him stroking his white, blue-eyed Persian cat. Many of Blofeld's characteristics have become tropes in popular fiction, representing the stock character of the supervillain, with the stroking of his white cat often retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld's character, as seen in the "Austin Powers" film series with the character of Dr. Evil and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth, or in the cartoons "Inspector Gadget" with the character of Dr. Claw and "Danger Mouse" with the character of
The Woman in White (1997 TV series) started a cycle of abuse. Marian picks up her niece and prays that the cycle has ended. Simon Callow would later return to the role of Count Fosco in the 2004 musical version by Andrew Lloyd Webber. As well as playing "Mr Fairlie" in this version, Ian Richardson had also played the same character (named "Frederick Fairlie") in the 1982 BBC adaptation. The Woman in White (1997 TV series) The Woman in White (1997) is a BBC television adaptation very loosely based on the 1859 novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins. Unlike the epistolary style of the novel,