Beauregarde

Beauregarde, (off-stage name Larry Pitchford, born c. early 1940s) is a former pro wrestler and musician from Portland, Oregon in the United States.

Career

His wrestling career began in 1963, and by 1970 he had become one of the biggest names on the Pacific Northwest Wrestling circuit. He was renowned for his unique wrestling moves (and finishing move "The Thumb") and crazy characters he created for himself. On match days, he would find a historic figure whose date of birth fell on that day and pretend to be them during the match and in interviews.

In 1971, he released an album bearing his stage name, Beauregarde, featuring Greg Sage of the Wipers on guitar. Beauregarde enlisted Sage (then 17) after overhearing him playing guitar for a friend's band at Sound Productions studio in Portland.

In 1973, he managed the tag team of Brute Bernard and Jay York in Jim Crockett's "Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling" promotion.

After retiring from wrestling, he bought a sheet-rock company in Florida where he lives and spends most of his time fishing.

List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters

The following is a list of characters in the Roald Dahl children's books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the former's film adaptations, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Willy Wonka

In the novels and films, Willy Wonka is the eccentric owner of an extremely prosperous chocolate factory. The inciting action of the story occurs when Wonka holds a contest, hiding five Golden Tickets within the wrappers of candy bars, promising their discoverers a tour of his factory and a lifelong supply of his creations. Implications stand in all three versions that he allows four of his five finalists to disgrace themselves, in hope that one does not.

In the book, Wonka is described by Roald Dahl as having a goatee and "marvelously" bright eyes, a high and "flutey" voice, a face "alight of fun and laughter", and quick little jerky movements "like a squirrel". He is enthusiastic, talkative, and friendly, but given to glossing criticisms of himself.

Violet

Violet may refer to:

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Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka is a character in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the film adaptations of these books that followed.

The book and the film adaptations both vividly depict an odd Wonka, a phoenix-like man arising from his creative and eccentric genius. He bewilders the other characters with his antics, but Charlie enjoys Wonka's behavior. In the 2005 film adaptation, Willy Wonka's behavior is viewed more as a sympathetic character flaw.