Captain Haddock Hergé thought this was a perfect name for Tintin’s new mariner friend, and so Captain Haddock was born. There was a real 20th-century ship's master bearing this unlikely but appropriate surname: Captain Herbert Haddock had been the skipper of the famous White Star Line's passenger vessel "Olympic". He had also been temporarily at the helm of Olympic's even more famous sister ship "Titanic" before "Titanic" was officially handed over to White Star for her doomed 1912 maiden voyage. Another famous namesake, and a possible inspiration for the Captain's ancestor Sir Francis, was the English admiral Richard Haddock, a veteran of
Gray Haddock Gray Haddock Gray G. Haddock (born August 11, 1972) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for voice roles such as Locus in "Red vs. Blue", Roman Torchwick in "RWBY", Sanosuke Sagara in the "Rurouni Kenshin" series, and Oreldo in "Pumpkin Scissors". He is also the head of animation at Rooster Teeth, a production studio in Austin, Texas. Gray Haddock was born on August 11, 1972 in Austin, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. Haddock received his first voice acting credit in 1995. He acted for many years, primarily as a