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 Rooster Teeth's animated series, "RWBY". He also took on the role of Locus in "Red vs. Blue", a character that debuted in Season 11. In 2014, Haddock co-starred in the two-hander play "Venus in Fur", opposite Molly Karrasch. In 2014, Haddock worked as a producer on the second season of "RWBY". In September 2014, Haddock became head of the newly formed Rooster Teeth Animation department. Since production started on its third season in 2015, Haddock has been a co-director and producer for "RWBY". In 2018, Haddock became writer of director for a mecha series on Rooster Teeth, "". Gray Haddock