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Real name le capitaine Haddock
Captain Archibald Haddock (French: Capitaine Haddock) is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is Tintin's best friend, a seafaring Merchant Marine Captain.
Haddock is initially depicted as a weak and alcoholic character under the control of his treacherous first mate Allan, who keeps him drunk and runs his freighter. He regains his command and his dignity, even rising to president of the Society of Sober Sailors (The Shooting Star), but never gives up his love for rum and whisky, especially Loch Lomond. In the adventure Secret of the Unicorn (and continuing in Red Rackham's Treasure) he and Tintin travel to find a pirate's treasure captured by his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock (François de Hadoque in French). With newfound wealth and regaining his ancestral home Marlinspike Hall, Captain Haddock becomes a socialite; riding a horse, wearing a monocle, and sitting in a theatre box seat (The Seven Crystal Balls).
He then evolves to become genuinely heroic, volunteering to sacrifice his life to save Tintin's own in the pivotal Tintin in Tibet. In later volumes he is clearly retired.
Throughout it all, the Captain's coarse humanity and sarcasm act as a counterpoint to Tintin's often implausible heroism. He is always quick with a dry comment whenever the boy reporter gets too idealistic.
Captain Haddock remained without a first name until the last completed story, Tintin and the Picaros.
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(1964)
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Filmography of Captain Haddock (6 films)
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, 2h6Directed by Peter Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Tintin films
Actors Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Toby Jones, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Enn Reitel
Le film devait initialement reprendre la trame des albums Les Sept Boules de Cristal - Le Temple du Soleil, avec une transition par Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge pour l'introduction du professeur Tournesol qui ferait normalement son entrée dans la série, mais rien n'est actuellement confirmé.
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
, 1h47Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about alcoholism, Films about animals, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about dogs, Tintin films, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Cary Elwes, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg
Rating72%
Young journalist Tintin and his dog Snowy are browsing in an outdoor market in Brussels, Belgium. Tintin buys a miniature model of a ship, the Unicorn, but is then accosted by Barnaby and Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, who both unsuccessfully try to buy the model from Tintin. Tintin takes the ship home, but it is accidentally broken, resulting in a parchment scroll slipping out of the model and rolling under a piece of furniture. Meanwhile, detectives Thomson and Thompson are on the trail of a pickpocket, Aristides Silk. Tintin, later finds that the Unicorn has been stolen. He then visits Sakharine in Marlinspike Hall and accuses him of the theft when he sees a miniature model of the Unicorn, but when he notices that Sakharine's model is not broken, he realizes that there are two Unicorn models. Once Tintin returns home, Snowy shows him the scroll. Moments later, Barnaby arrives at Tintin's residence, but is fatally shot and killed. After reading an old message written on it, Tintin puts the scroll in his wallet, but it is stolen by Silk the next morning.
, 1h13Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Monde imaginaire, Films about dogs, Tintin films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jacques Balutin, Georges Atlas, Claude Bertrand, Pierre Collet, Micheline Dax, Nadine Basile
Rating61%
One night, in Brussels, Belgium, a pair of crooks discreetly break into the aquarium and steal a priceless pearl. As soon as the security guards on duty see the empty shell, they rush away to raise the alarm. The crooks take advantage of the guards' absence by putting a fake pearl, the same size as the real one, in the shell. When the guards return with the director and the director sees the fake pearl, he thinks the guards were making it up, but then has second thoughts about the incident as a similar case happened at another museum two weeks before.
, 1h17Origin Belgique
Genres Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Tintin films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Philippe Ogouz, Claude Bertrand, Alfred Pasquali, Guy Piérauld, Lucie Dolène, André Valmy
Rating65%
Des explorateurs sont atteints d'un mal mystérieux après un voyage en Amérique du Sud. À Moulinsart, Bergamote, le dernier des explorateurs, tombe en léthargie après une coupure de courant et le professeur Tournesol est enlevé en bateau par de mystérieux individus. Tournesol a en effet commis un sacrilège en ayant porté le bracelet de la momie Rascar Capac, ramené par l’expédition.
Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1964)
, 1h36Directed by Philippe Condroyer
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Comedy science fiction films, Films about dogs, Tintin films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Mise en scène d'une plante
Actors Jean-Pierre Talbot, Jean Bouise, Ángel Álvarez, Jean-Pierre Zola, Jenny Orléans, Félix Fernández
Rating48%
Professor Calculus on (B&W) TV broadcasts an appeal to help end world hunger. He receives many letters and parcels and among them a blue orange which can grow in desert conditions (and glows in the dark) from Professor Zalamea, but no letter of explanation. That night, two thieves break into Marlinspike Hall and steal the blue orange. With no other choice, Calculus with Tintin, the Captain and Snowy go to Valencia (filmed in Burjassot, in Simat de la Valldigna at the Monastery of Santa María de la Valldigna, Gandia and Xàtiva).
, 1h39Directed by Jean-Jacques Vierne
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about dogs, Tintin films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jean-Pierre Talbot, Georges Wilson, Charles Vanel, Marcel Bozzuffi, Serge Marquand, Darío Moreno
Rating60%
Captain Haddock (Georges Wilson) learns that an old shipmate, Paparanic, has died and left him a ship, the Golden Fleece. Tintin (Jean-Pierre Talbot), Snowy and the Captain travel to Istanbul only to find that it is an old cargo ship in a really dilapidated state. While on board the ship the trio meet the ships cook Clodion and Paparanic's pet parrot Romulus. while outside the ship. A businessman named Anton Karabine (Demetrios Yra) claims to be an old friend of Paparanic and offers to buy the boat for "sentimental" reasons, but the huge amounts that he offers makes Tintin suspicious and on his advice Haddock turns the offer down.