John Bull the past Navy blue, but more recently with the Union Jack colours). Britannia, or a lion, is sometimes used as an alternative in some editorial cartoons. As a literary figure, John Bull is well-intentioned, frustrated, full of common sense, and entirely of native country stock. Unlike Uncle Sam later, he is not a figure of authority but rather a yeoman who prefers his small beer and domestic peace, possessed of neither patriarchal power nor heroic defiance. John Arbuthnot provided him with a sister named Peg (Scotland), and a traditional adversary in Louis Baboon (the House of Bourbon in France). Peg
Peter Bull Bull was also the first actor to portray Pozzo in the English-language version of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" when it opened on 3 August 1955. Bull's performance as the Soviet Ambassador, Alexi de Sadesky, in "Dr Strangelove" (1964) is probably the best known of his many film and TV appearances. He was cast as Thwackum, one of Blifil's two tutors, in the 1963 film "Tom Jones". (The other tutor, Square, of contrasting build and character, was played by John Moffatt.) In the 1970s, he ran a small shop just off Notting Hill Gate, selling zodiac-related items. Bull wrote a