Michael Praed ( /ˈpreɪd/ PRAYD; born Michael David Prince, 1 April 1960 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire) is a British actor, is probably best known for his role as Robin of Loxley (Robin Hood) in the British television series Robin of Sherwood, which attained cult status worldwide in the 1980s. However, the actor is also recognized for his role as Prince Michael of Moldavia on the American primetime soap Dynasty, Phileas Fogg in The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, and various films. Additionally, Praed is known in his native Britain for his stage work (both in musicals and straight drama) and lately for his narrations. He has been the regular narrator for BBC's history programme Timewatch since 2003. Starting from July 2009, he will be starring as Captain Von Trapp in the UK National Tour of The Sound of Music. He was educated at the independent school Eastbourne College.

"Praed" is an old Cornish word for "meadow". Praed picked it out of a telephone book and selected it as a stage name after discovering that the UK actors' trade union Equity already had a "Michael Prince" among its members.

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948), born Zelda Sayre ("Sayre" is pronounced to rhyme with "fair") in Montgomery, Alabama, was an American novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband "the first American Flapper". After the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), the Fitzgeralds became celebrities. The newspapers of New York saw them as embodiments of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties: young, seemingly wealthy, beautiful.

Even as a child her audacious behavior was the subject of Montgomery gossip. Shortly after finishing high school, she met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a dance. A whirlwind courtship ensued. Though he had professed his infatuation, she continued seeing other men. Despite fights and a prolonged break-up, they married in 1920, and spent the early part of the decade as literary celebrities in New York. Later in the 1920s, they moved to Europe, recast as famous expatriates of the Lost Generation. While Scott received acclaim for The Great Gatsby and his short stories, and the couple socialized with literary luminaries like Ernest Hemingway, their marriage was a tangle of jealousy, resentment and acrimony. Scott used their relationship as material in his novels, even lifting snippets from Zelda's diary and assigning them to his fictional heroines. Seeking an artistic identity of her own, Zelda wrote magazine articles and short stories, and at 27 became obsessed with a career as a ballerina, practicing to exhaustion.

Clive Mantle (born 3 June 1957) is a British actor.

Mantle was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire. He was a pupil at Kimbolton School, Cambridgeshire and a chorister in St John's College Choir for four years. He was also a member of the National Youth Theatre for five years, appearing in a total of eleven productions.

He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has worked steadily in films, plays and television, most notably in the cult 1980s fantasy series Robin of Sherwood, where, at 6' 5½" (1.97 m), he was cast as Little John. Mantle is also known for his role as general surgeon Mr. Mike Barrett in the TV series Casualty and later Holby City. Incidentally, he also played the brother of a patient in series 3 of Casualty. In 1992 he starred in CITV series Wysiwyg. He played a minor character in the film Alien 3 in 1992. In 2006 he guest starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Settling by Big Finish Productions.

He also portrayed Simon Horton, younger brother of David Horton in the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley for two episodes. He appeared as an electric meter reader in the One Foot in the Grave episode "The Return of the Speckled Band", as well as an irate husband whose wife is chatted up by Richie in the first episode of Bottom, Smells. He is also the voice heard on the audio editions of Andy McNab's Nick Stone thrillers.

Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes. The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from ballads or tales of outlaws.

Robin Hood became a popular folk figure in the medieval period continuing through to modern literature, films and television. In the earliest sources, Robin Hood is a yeoman, but he was often later portrayed as an aristocrat wrongfully dispossessed of his lands and made into an outlaw by an unscrupulous sheriff.

In popular culture, Robin Hood and his band of "merry men" are usually portrayed as living in Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, where much of the action in the early ballads takes place. So does the very first recorded Robin Hood rhyme, four lines from the early 15th century, beginning: "Robyn hode in scherewode stod." However, the overall picture from the surviving early ballads and other early references suggest that Robin Hood may have been based in the Barnsdale area of what is now South Yorkshire (which borders Nottinghamshire).