Gogol's namesakes

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear colleagues:

In popular American and British movies, Nikolai Vasil'evich's name has been applied to 
some rather different people.

1.  In over half a dozen of the best-selling "James Bond" series, 1977-92,  a character 
called "General Anatol Gogol" is played by actor Walter Gotell.

2. Back in 1935,  newly arrived in Hollywood, the Hungarian-German actor Peter Lorre 
[ Laszlo Loewenstein ] starred in a prestigeous horror film, "Mad Love."  For this, his 
U.S. debut, Lorre's character was a murderous mad doctor named "Gogol" !  Lorre 
followed that role by playing Raskolnikov in the '35 U.S. film version of "Crime and 
Punishment." (Edward Arnold was Porfirii.)

I leave it to the counters of "web hits" to determine whether these much-discussed 
films would have any noticeable effect on the Gogol statistics. 

Best regards to all,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.  

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