Child Catcher was voted "the scariest villain in children's books", despite not actually featuring in the original book. He was created for the film by co-screenwriter Roald Dahl, who specialized in creating colorful villains in his books. In 2008, "Entertainment Weekly" called Helpmann's depiction of the Child Catcher one of the "50 Most Vile Movie Villains." Child Catcher The Child Catcher is a character in the film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and in the later stage musical adaptation. The character did not appear in the original Ian Fleming book. The Child Catcher is employed by Baron Bomburst and Baroness Bomburst to snatch
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky, FBA (born 25 April 1939) is a British economic historian of Russian origin and the author of a major, award-winning, three-volume biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). He read history at Jesus College, Oxford and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy in the University of Warwick, England. Skidelsky's parents, Boris Skidelsky and Galia Sapelkin, were British subjects of Russian ancestry, Jewish on his father's side and Christian on his mother's. His father worked for the family firm, L. S. Skidelsky, which leased the Mulin coalmine from the Chinese government.