Indiana Jones is a fictional American adventurer

Dr.Henry Walton Indiana Jones,Jr.Ph.D.is a fictional American adventurer, OSS operative, professor of archaeology, and the central protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials. The character first appeared in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, to be followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles from 1992 to 1996, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008. Alongside the more widely known films and television programs,the character is also featured in novels,comics,video games, and other media.

Appearances

Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, was first introduced in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark,set in 1936. He is portrayed as an adventurous throwback to the 1930s film serial treasure hunters and pulp action heroes, with an alter ego of Doctor Jones,a respected archaeology professor at Marshall College named after producer Frank Marshall A fictional college in Connecticut. In this first adventure, he is pitted against the Nazis, traveling the world to prevent them from recovering the Ark of the Covenant see also Biblical archaeology. He is aided by Marion Ravenwood and Sallah. The Nazis are led by Jones's archrival, a Nazi-sympathizing French archaeologist named René Belloq,and Arnold Toht, a sinister Gestapo agent.
Television

From 1992 to 1996, George Lucas executive-produced a television series named The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, which was designed as an educational program for children, spotlighting historical figures and important events, using the concept of a prequel to the films as a draw.The show featured a standard formula of a 93-year-old Jones George Hall, wearing an eye patch, introducing a story, and then an adventure with either a 17-year-old Jones Sean Patrick Flanery or a 10-year-old Jones Corey Carrier, and even a baby Indy Neil Boulane. Historical figures featured on the show include Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,Leo Tolstoy Pancho Villa, Charles de Gaulle, Elliot Ness, Ernest Hemingway,Patrick Pearse,Vladimir Lenin, T. E. Lawrence,Winston Churchill,Herman GOring,Theodore Roosevelt,and John Ford,in such diverse locations as Egypt, Austria-Hungary, India,China,and the whole of Europe..........