Aloysius Parker Aloysius Parker Aloysius "Nosey" Parker is a fictional character introduced in the British mid-1960s Supermarionation television series "Thunderbirds", who also appears in the film sequels "Thunderbirds Are Go" (1966) and "Thunderbird 6" (1968) and the 2004 live-action adaptation "Thunderbirds". The puppet character of the TV series and first two films was voiced by David Graham. In the live-action film, Parker is portrayed by Ron Cook. Graham reprised his role for the part-computer-animated, part-live-action remake series "Thunderbirds Are Go!", which first aired in the UK on 4 April 2015. Parker is employed at Creighton-Ward Mansion by Lady Penelope, serving as her
Sophia (given name) (Polish and Czech-Slovak) introduced a voiced sibilant, "Zofia, Žofia, Žofie". French has the (disyllabic) hypocoristic "Sophie", which was also introduced in German, Dutch/Flemish, English and Scandinavian in the spelling "Sofie". A Dutch hypocoristic is "Sofieke". Russian has the hypocoristic Соня ("Sonya"), which in the late 19th century was introduced to Western languages, in the spellings "Sonya", "Sonia" and "Sonja", via characters with this name in the novels "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866, English translation 1885) and "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy (1869, English translation 1886). Turkish Safiye is from the unrelated Arabic Safiyya ( "pure"). Sophia (given