Caractacus Pott Caractacus Pott Caractacus Potts is one of the main characters in Ian Fleming's novel "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" and its film adaptation. The film version of the story makes several changes to Pott's character. In the original 1964 book, "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car", Pott is a Royal Navy Commander and eccentric inventor who lives with his wife Mimsy and their twin eight-year-old children, Jeremy and Jemima, on their hilltop farm. The filmmakers, including screenwriter Roald Dahl, altered a good deal of the book's details when crafting the 1968 film musical version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", in which Caractacus is portrayed by Dick
Sally Ann Howes Goulet, Peter Falk, and some of her Broadway cast; it won six Emmy Awards. In 1967, Howes began the long shooting schedule for what would become a classic children's film, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968). She starred as Truly Scrumptious, the beautiful aristocratic daughter of a confectionery magnate. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" did not, however, restart her film career or launch a career for her in episodic television despite several guest-starring roles in "", "Marcus Welby, M.D.", "Branigan", and "The Men From Shiloh". Even the pilot "Prudence and the Chief", which was a spoof on "The King and I", did