Delmar O’Donnell

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Delmar O’Donnell is a naive but good-hearted escaped convict and one of the three central companions in the Coen brothers’ film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".

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Predicate Object
instanceOf escaped convict
fictional character
film character
supporting protagonist
appearsIn O Brother, Where Art Thou?
associatedWithDirector Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
associatedWithGenre adventure film
comedy film
crime film
musical film
associatedWithMusicStyle American folk music
bluegrass
basedOn a character archetype from Homer’s Odyssey (loosely)
believesHeIsForgivenFor his sins after baptism
countryOfFictionalResidence United States of America
surface form: United States
createdBy Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
escapesFrom chain gang
escapesWith Pete Hogwallop
Ulysses Everett McGill
filmReleaseYearContext 2000
hasFullNameSpellingVariant Delmar O'Donnell NERFINISHED
hasMoralAlignment good
hasNotableScene baptism scene at the river
singing and traveling with Everett and Pete
hasOccupationInStory convict
hasPersonalityTrait good-hearted
loyal
naive
trusting
languageOfCharacter English
memberOfGroup Ulysses Everett McGill’s gang
narrativeRole comic relief
companion to the protagonist
partOf O Brother, Where Art Thou? ensemble cast
portrayedBy Tim Blake Nelson
religiousExperience baptism in the river
settingOfActivity North Mississippi Delta
surface form: Great Depression-era Mississippi
speaksDialect Southern American English
stateOfFictionalResidence Mississippi
travelsWith Pete Hogwallop
Ulysses Everett McGill

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? mainCharacter Delmar O’Donnell