Basis for Rygel in Farscape?

[propita]

So I'm watching the 1954 version of "The Student Prince," and when I see Edmund Gwenn, all I can think of is Rygel. Gee, even the same moustache and haircut! Kind funny.

Was there ever anything written as to what inspired Rygel's looks? Or the others?

Or characters for other shows?

 

[TemporalFlux]

The most infamous thing like this is probably Contad Veidt's character in the 1928 film "The Man Who Laughs". The imagery is said to have inspired Batman's Joker; and the artistic similarities are a bit uncanny.

http://filmmakeriq.com/2011/08/the-1928-film-that-inspired-the-joker-the-man-who-laughs

 

[Nerys Myk]

In the Batman comics they actually redesigned Alfred to look like the actor who played him in the Batman serials.

 

[Mistral]

I always thought Oscar the Grouch was the basis for Rigel...

 

[JD]

The most infamous thing like this is probably Contad Veidt's character in the 1928 film "The Man Who Laughs". The imagery is said to have inspired Batman's Joker; and the artistic similarities are a bit uncanny.

http://filmmakeriq.com/2011/08/the-1928-film-that-inspired-the-joker-the-man-who-laughs

I'd never heard about that before.

 

[publiusr]

Veidt was a great actor. He is perhaps best known from Casablanca.

 

[Greg Cox]

Veidt was a great actor. He is perhaps best known from Casablanca.

Or perhaps "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," in which he played Cesare the murderous sleepwalker.

 

[DonnaEdwards]

The imagery is said to have inspired Batman's Joker.

 

[Neroon]

The imagery is said to have inspired Batman's Joker.

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[Mistral]

After giving it more thought, I've determined that Fish from Barney Miller is the true inspiration for Rygel.