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
Roald Dahl bibliography several of his stories. His first children's novel, "James and the Giant Peach", was published in 1961, which was followed, along with others, by "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (1964), "Fantastic Mr Fox" (1970), "Danny, the Champion of the World" (1975), "The BFG" (1982) and "Matilda" in 1988. Dahl's first script was for a stage work, "The Honeys", which appeared on Broadway in 1955. He followed this with a television script, "Lamb to the Slaughter", for the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" series. He also co-wrote screenplays for film, including for "You Only Live Twice" (1967) and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968).