Captain Haddock thundering typhoons!"" (""Tonnerre de Brest!""; lit.: ""Thunder of Brest""). Haddock uses these two expressions to such an extent that Abdullah actually addresses him as "Blistering Barnacles" (""Mille sabords"" - ""A thousand portholes"" - in the original version). Émile Brami, biographer of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, claimed in a 2004 interview with the French book magazine "Lire" that Hergé took his inspiration from Céline's anti-Semitic pamphlet "" (1937) to create some of Haddock's expressions, as some of them ("aztec," "coconut," "iconoclast," "platypus") appeared explicitly in Céline's book. Captain Haddock was portrayed by Georges Wilson in "Tintin and the Golden Fleece", by Jean Bouise
Nestor (comics) employer as he states that Sakharine does not pay him at all. At the end of the film he becomes Haddock's butler. Nestor (comics) Nestor is a fictional character in "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is the long-suffering butler of Marlinspike Hall. Nestor is the epitome of a butler (or, in French, "majordome") of French society. Noble, loyal, always the domestic servant, Nestor serves his master Captain Haddock and any house guests such as Tintin, Professor Calculus, or Bianca Castafiore. Nestor made his first appearance in "The Secret of the Unicorn". In this