Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding is a fictional character in the Broadway musical Animal Crackers and the film of the same name.

[2] Spaulding is a famous explorer on return from a trek across Africa to be the guest of honour at a high-society party given by the wealthy dowager Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont).

At the party, which is taking place over a weekend, a valuable painting is stolen, and he, along with the police and his secretary Jamison (Zeppo Marx), try to recover it.

How he got in my pyjamas I don't know.In the 1939 Marx Brothers' film At the Circus, J. Cheever Loophole (also played by Groucho Marx) sings a rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" and one line references Lydia having a tattoo of Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon.

Calvin Spaulding from the television show M*A*S*H, played by Loudon Wainwright III, was named after the Marx character.