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
William F. Haddock William F. Haddock William F. Haddock (November 27, 1877 - June 30, 1969) was one of the earliest film directors of the silent film era. Haddock was born William Frederick Haddock in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and directed his first film in 1909, titled "The Boots He Couldn't Lose". His next film was in 1911, when he directed "The Immortal Alamo", which is the earliest known film version of the events surrounding the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and which starred Francis Ford. No copy of that film exists today, and it is considered to be a lost film, as are