Rather than using an off-camera narrator, they made Henry Fielding a full-fledged character, a wise, ironic host who steps before the camera, invisible to the other characters, offering commentary and setting up the next scene.

At first tentatively conceived as a "German Maigret", Reinecker's Kommissar Keller soon metamorphosed into a full-fledged character.

Jezebel, the role Ms. Davis played in the 1938 film of that title, has become a full-fledged character, not just an anecdotal reminiscence.

One thing John Lennon did was to sing from the perspective of a persona that was partly drawn from himself, then exaggerated into a full-fledged character.

On film, architecture is vivid, if often wildly exaggerated, and it can take on the presence of a full-fledged character - or more.

As imagined by Mr. Hagerfors, however, Shaw emerges as a full-fledged character, whose own descent into madness serves as an added metaphor for Stanley's journey.

Is the scenery a backdrop, or has it effectively become a full-fledged character?

Films and best-selling books portray horses as full-fledged characters, with their own personalities, emotions and wounded psyches.

Antonucci says the short arose out of his own frustration at having to work in children's film for so long, and to try his hand at creating a full-fledged character on film.

To bolster Akaash's back-story, his grandmother, Shanti, is now a full-fledged character.