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Events with high posterior probability

Donald Mackay (anti-drugs campaigner)	Australian actor Andrew McFarlane portrayed him in the 2009 television series Underbelly : A Tale of Two Cities.
E. Lee Spence	On April 4, 1989, Spence announced his discovery that Margaret Mitchell, who had claimed her Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gone with the Wind was pure fiction, had actually taken much of her compelling story of love, greed and war from real life and that Mitchell had actually based Rhett Butler on the life of George Alfred Trenholm, a tall, handsome, shipping magnate from Charleston, South Carolina, who had made millions of dollars from blockade running and was accused of making off with much of the Confederate treasury and had been thrown in prison after the Civil War.
Ralph Cox	A more accurate portrayal of Cox is presented by Canadian actor Kenneth Mitchell in the 2004 Disney film Miracle.
Muddy Waters	In 2008, Jeffrey Wright portrayed Muddy in the biopic Cadillac Records, a film about the rise and fall of Chess Records and the lives of its recording artists.
Rex Stout	In an interview printed in Royal Decree (1983), Rex Stout's official biographer John McAleer asked the author if there were any chance of Hollywood ever making a good Nero Wolfe movie.''
Charles Joughin	Joughin was portrayed by George Rose in A Night to Remember, and by Liam Tuohy in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic.
Mike Wallace	Wallace was played by actor Christopher Plummer in the 1999 feature film, The Insider.
Michael P. Murphy	In the 2013 film Lone Survivor, Murphy is portrayed by actor Taylor Kitsch.
Margaret Dryburgh	The film Paradise Road, made in 1996, told the story of life at the camp, with the role of Dryburgh played by Pauline Collins.
Huntington Hartford	He himself was portrayed by John McMartin in the 2004 film Kinsey, directed by Bill Condon.
Laurie Holden	She also played Mabel Dunham in the TV Movie The Pathfinder (1996) (based on the novel of James Fenimore Cooper).
Charles Frohman	He was played by William Hootkins in the BBC mini-series The Lost Boys in 1978.
Thomas Hardy	With some notable exceptions -- for example the 1979 Roman Polanski film Tess, an adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- and unlike the novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot, Hardy's novels do not beg to be filmed or to be adapted for the stage.
Otto Jespersen	He appears as a character in Joseph Skibell's 2010 novel A Curable Romantic.
Minnie Dean	In 1985, Dean's trial was the subject of nzonscreen.
James Mitchell Ashley	Ashley is played by actor David Costabile in the 2012 Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln.
Noah Dietrich	Nonagenarian actor Eli Wallach played Dietrich in the 2006 movie'' The Hoax'', about author Clifford Irving's faked Howard Hughes autobiography.
Aubrey Beardsley	In the BBC 1982 Playhouse drama Aubrey, written by John Selwyn Gilbert, Beardsley was portrayed by actor John Dicks.
Rudolph Valentino	One of these biopics is Ken Russell's 1977 film, Valentino, in which he is portrayed by Rudolf Nureyev.
John Willie	He was portrayed by Jared Harris in the 2006 movie The Notorious Bettie Page, which featured a (fictional) meeting between Willie and Page.
John Bell Hood	The 2009 novel A Separate Country, by Robert Hicks, focuses on Hood's life after the Civil War.
Red Barber	In the 2013 film 42, Barber is played by John C. McGinley.
James Costigan	His third Emmy win was for 1976's Eleanor and Franklin, a two part, four hour long television drama focusing on the lives of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel	Brunel was the subject of Great, a 1975 animated film directed by Bob Godfrey.
Bunny Austin	A biographical novel was published about Austin in October, 2012, by Gregory Wilkin, entitled The Rabbit's Suffering Changes : Based on the True Story of Bunny Austin, the Last British Man -- Until Murray -- to Play in the Finals of Wimbledon.
Pam Ling	In Pedro, Nick Oceano's 2008 film dramatizing Pedro Zamora's life, Ling is portrayed by Jenn Liu.
Bill W.	Over the years, Bill W., the formation of AA and also his wife Lois have been the subject of numerous projects, starting with My Name Is Bill W., a 1989 CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame television film, starring James Woods as Bill W. and James Garner as Dr. Bob.
Timothy Sullivan	He was portrayed by Joseph Sullivan in the 1914 silent film The Life of Big Tim Sullivan ; Or, From Newsboy to Senator, one of the earliest people to be the subject of a biographical film.
Lawrence M. Judd	Judd's service running Kalaupapa was a subject in the 2003 historical novel and national bestseller called Moloka'i by Alan Brennert as well as the historical account, The Colony : The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman.
Alice Paul	Hilary Swank, in the HBO 2004 movie Iron Jawed Angels, portrayed Paul during her struggle for passage of the 19th Amendment.
Florence Foster Jenkins	Another play based on Jenkins's life, Souvenir by Stephen Temperley, opened on Broadway in November 2005 starring Judy Kaye.
Edward Carson, Baron Carson	The fictional barrister, Morton, is a somewhat different character from Carson, younger and more lively (at least as played by Robert Donat in the 1948 film version, although other actors may have played the part differently).
Floyd Little	He was portrayed in the 2008 Ernie Davis biopic The Express by Chadwick Boseman.
John Tunstall	Tunstall was portrayed by the actor Murray Matheson in the episode'' The Reversed Blade'' (February 4, 1961) of the NBC television series, The Tall Man.
Stephen A. Douglas	In 1940, Canadian actor Gene Lockhart portrayed Douglas in the RKO film Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
Gary Gray (actor)	In the 1944 short feature I Am an American he played Thomas Jefferson Kanowski, son of fictional Polish immigrant Fydor Kanowski.
Wilm Hosenfeld	In 2002, The Pianist, a film based on Szpilman's memoirs of the same name, portrayed Hosenfeld's rescue of Władysław Szpilman.
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)	She was portrayed by Helen Hayes in the London production of the play Anastasia and in the 1956 film based on the play.
Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)	An hour long documentary,'' Elizabeth Smart : On the Side of the Angels'' (1991) by Maya Gallus starred renowned actor Jackie Burroughs as Elizabeth Smart and was narrated by author Michael Ondaatje.'
Zvi Zamir	Zamir was played by Ami Weinberg in Steven Spielberg's 2005 movie Munich.
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Clement Scott	Film maker John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Mrs. Brown, Captain Corelli's Mandolin) made his first feature film for the BBC, Poppyland (1985), around the story of Scott's visit to Poppyland.
Henry Tingle Wilde	In the 1979 television film S. O. S. Titanic, he was portrayed by Tony Caunter of EastEnders fame.
Leo Durocher	In the 2013 film 42, Durocher is played by Christopher Meloni.
Branch Rickey	In the 1996 HBO movie Soul of the Game Rickey is played by Edward Herrmann.
Fred W. Friendly	In 2005, actor George Clooney portrayed Friendly in the film Good Night, and Good Luck.
Lyman Lemnitzer	Lemnitzer was played by John Seitz in the 1991 Oliver Stone film, JFK.
Jeannie Seely	Today, Seely greatly misses West, and she was played by Cathy Worthington in the TV-movie about West's life in 1995, titled Big Dreams and Broken Hearts : The Dottie West Story, starring Michele Lee.
Doris Duke	In 1999, a four-hour made-for-television mini-series, based on Mansfield's book, (starring Lauren Bacall as Duke and Richard Chamberlain as Lafferty) was aired with the title, Too Rich : The Secret Life of Doris Duke.
Anthony Salerno	In the 2011 gangster movie Kill the Irishman, Salerno was portrayed by Paul Sorvino.
Vithal Balkrishna Gandhi	Biographical Works V. B Gandhi's 2013 biography was written by his granddaughter, Leena Gandhi Tewari, and titled Beyond Pipes and Dreams.
Louis Couturat	He appears as a character in Joseph Skibell's 2010 novel, A Curable Romantic.
Henry Morton Stanley	Pirbright, -LSB- -LSB- Surrey -RSB- -RSB- In 1939, a popular film called Stanley and Livingstone was released, with Spencer Tracy as Stanley and Cedric Hardwicke as Livingstone.
Beatrix Potter	In 2006 Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biopic of Potter's life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne.
Camille Claudel	Directed by Bruno Nuytten, co-produced by Isabelle Adjani, starring herself as Claudel and Gérard Depardieu as Rodin, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1989.
Dick Howser	In the 2007 ESPN produced mini-series The Bronx Is Burning, Howser was portrayed by actor Max Casella.
Anita Pallenberg	Monet Mazur played a young Pallenberg in the 2005 film Stoned, a biographical film about the last year of Brian Jones' life.
Elaine C. Smith	From March 2012, she played Scottish singer Susan Boyle in the musical I Dreamed a Dream, based on Boyle's life and rise to fame.
TJ Goree	Goree was portrayed by Ivan Kane in Gettysburg the 1993 film version of Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels.
Ian Curtis	In 2007 a British Ian Curtis biographical film called Control was released, based on material from Deborah Curtis' book Touching from a Distance.
Franklin Pierce Adams	Adams was portrayed by the actor Chip Zien in the film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994).
Henry Mucci	-LSB- source Hampton Sides book Ghost Soldiers ; p332 -RSB- The raid on Cabanatuan was depicted in the 2005 film The Great Raid, which featured actor Benjamin Bratt as Mucci, Bratt bearing a remarkable facial resemblance to Mucci.
Richie Roberts	The story of Roberts' investigation and prosecution of Frank Lucas was adapted into the 2007 film'' American Gangster'', starring Academy Award-winning actors Denzel Washington portraying Lucas and Russell Crowe portraying Roberts.
Anton Bruckner	The life of Bruckner was portrayed in Jan Schmidt-Garre's 1995 film Bruckner's Decision, which focuses on his recovery in the Austrian spa.
Don Hollenbeck	He was later played by Ray Wise in the 2005 motion picture Good Night, and Good Luck, which was centered around Murrow and CBS News in their 1950s campaign against McCarthy.
Waller T. Patton	Media mogul Ted Turner made a cameo appearance in the 1993 film Gettysburg, playing Patton.
Francis Dickens	Francis Dickens is a character in Matthew Pearl's 2009 novel, The Last Dickens.
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)	NBC-TV 1986 miniseries Anastasia : The Mystery of Anna, in which Olivia de Havilland portrays the Dowager Empress, represents her as considering a personal meeting with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia.
Vladimir Chertkov	Actor Paul Giamatti portrayed Chertkov in the 2009 film The Last Station.
Tony Serra	He was the subject of the 1989 movie True Believer about a Chinatown (San Francisco) murder case in which he won an acquittal for Chol Soo Lee, the defendant.
John George Nicolay	In the 1988 NBC mini-series'' Gore Vidal's Lincoln'', Nicolay is portrayed by Richard Travis.
Elijah Muhammad	Elijah Muhammad was notably portrayed by Al Freeman, Jr. in Spike Lee's 1992 motion picture Malcolm X.
Bill Foulkes	In April 2011, he was portrayed by actor James Callas Ball in the BBC TV drama United, the storyline of which was centred around the Munich air disaster.
Roy DeMeo	Ray Liotta plays DeMeo in the 2012 film adaptation of Anthony Bruno's book about DeMeo's associate Richard Kuklinski, The Iceman : The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer.
Ernst Biberstein	Biberstein was portrayed in the 1978 NBC Holocaust television miniseries by Edward Hardwicke.
Helen Churchill Candee	This story, based on a possibly romanticized manuscript of Candee's, is believed to have inspired the famous'' sunset'' love scene between characters Jack and Rose in the earlier motion picture Titanic (1997).
James Muirhead	In the 1988 film Evil Angels, which was based on the events surrounding the trial, Muirhead is portrayed by the actor Charles' Bud' Tingwell.
Robert Bolt	Bolt's final produced script was Political Animal, later made into the TV movie Without Warning : The James Brady Story (1991), about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan and the struggles of his press secretary, James Brady, to recover from a near-fatal gunshot injury he received in the process.
J. Christopher Flowers	Flowers's role in the crisis was portrayed by Michael O'Keefe in the 2011 HBO film Too Big to Fail.
Henry Methvin	Garrett Kruithof will portray Henry Methvin in the upcoming mini-series, Bonnie and Clyde which will air on Lifetime, the History channel and A&E on December 8 & 9 2013.
William M. Tweed	In the 1948 film version, Tweed is played by Vincent Price.
Dorothy Gibson	The character of Susan Alexander in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) may have been partly based on Dorothy Gibson, along with other real-life figures Marion Davies, Hope Hampton, and Ganna Walska.
Bill Tilghman	Tilghman was played by Rod Steiger in the 1981 film Cattle Annie and Little Britches.
Theodore Roosevelt	He was also portrayed by actor Tom Berenger in 1997 for the TNT movie Rough Riders, a made-for-cable film about his exploits during the Spanish -- American War in Cuba.
Zengo Yoshida	In the 1970 film Tora, Tora, Tora, Yoshida was portrayed by Japanese actor Junya Usami.
Robert Hichens (RMS Titanic)	Hichens's conduct was also depicted in the 1996 miniseries Titanic, in which he was played by Martin Evans.
Paulette Frankl	Frankl has authored a biography titled Lust for Justice about J. Tony Serra, a radical civil rights, criminal defense attorney and tax resister, about whom the 1989 film True Believer starring James Woods and Robert Downey, Jr. was based.
Kaspar Hauser	In 1963, Marianne Hauser gave a fictional account of Kaspar Hauser's life in her novel Prince Ishmael.
Lavrentiy Beria	He was portrayed by Roshan Seth in the 1992 film Stalin and, with an Irish accent, by David Suchet in Red Monarch.
Nora Bayes	The novel serves as the inspiration for the 2012 television series Smash, although the subject of the show's fictional musical is not Bayes but Marilyn Monroe.
Dave Christian	In the 1981 TV movie about the gold medal-winning hockey team entitled Miracle on Ice, Christian is played by Thomas F. Duffy.
John Surratt	In 2011, Surratt was portrayed by Johnny Simmons in the Robert Redford film The Conspirator.
Marion Davies	Davies was portrayed by Virginia Madsen in the telefilm The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985) with Robert Mitchum as Hearst.
Margaret Livingston	In the Peter Bogdanovich film The Cat's Meow (2001), Livingston, played by Claudia Harrison, is depicted as having an affair with Ince at the time of his death.
Adolf Daens	This book served as basis for Stijn Coninx's film Daens in 1992 (with Jan Decleir as Adolf Daens).
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter	Actor Leon Russom played him in an episode of Dark Skies, a 1996 conspiracy theory television series.
Elfego Baca	In 1958, Walt Disney Studios released a television miniseries entitled The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca and starring Robert Loggia in the title role.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky	An Eagle Award - winning TV series directed by Vladimir Khotinenko about Dostoyevsky's life was screened in 2011.
Norman Bethune	Saskatchewan playwright Ken Mitchell's one-man play, Gone The Burning Sun (1991), is about Bethune's life and time in China.
Margaret Laurence	The Stone Angel, a feature-length film based on Laurence's novel, written and directed by Kari Skogland and starring Ellen Burstyn premiered in Fall 2007.