List of Doctor Dolittle characters
This is a list of characters from the Doctor Dolittle series of children's books by Hugh Lofting and movies based on them.
He first appears in the 1922 novel The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle and acts as the narrator in all the books that take place after his arrival.
He was originally supposed to appear in the 1967 film intact, but casting problems eventually led to his character being considerably softened and renamed as "William Shakespeare the Tenth", played by Geoffrey Holder.
[3] Colonel Bellowes is a snobbish old man in Puddleby who appears briefly in The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.
In the 1967 film, he became General Bellowes, a retired military commander and a magistrate, played by Peter Bull.
He loathes any sort of new, unusual, or odd ideas, including veterinary science; he rejects that a veterinarian can talk to animals.
By the end of the film, General Bellows decides to pardon Doctor Dolittle when all the local animals go on strike.
Emma is portrayed in the 1967 film by Samantha Eggar, as the niece of General Bellowes, for a romantic interest to The Doctor.
She is described as an adventurous explorer who shared Dolittle's love for animals, and the daughter of Rassouli, king of pirates.
He is the world's greatest naturalist, specializing in botany and traveling through the mountains of Peru and Spider Monkey Island.
William Shakespeare the Tenth is the tribal leader of Sea Star Island, a floating tropical paradise.
He and his tribe are well educated in literature and history and each citizen is able to speak several languages ever since different books have washed up on Sea Star Island.
She persuades her brother to use the alias "John Smith" while appearing in the circus (so as to not embarrass Sarah if her new social circle learn she is related to a 'circus showman').
Along with Chee-Chee and the crocodile, she decided to stay in Africa at the end of the original book, but returned in later stories.
In the 2020 film, he appears as an Irish Wolfhound and wears glasses, and is voiced by Tom Holland.
In the 1998 movie and all four of its sequels, Dolittle has a different dog named Lucky (voiced by Norm MacDonald).
The 1998 Eddie Murphy film has a brief scene where a pushmi-pullyu is walking in the background while Dr. Dolittle talks to the tiger in the cage.
This enormous undersea mollusk with a transparent airtight shell is injured when the mysterious floating Spider Monkey Island finally comes to rest in The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.
In the 1967 film, Dolittle resigns himself to living abroad for the rest of his life due to the price on his head issued by General Bellowes.
The doctor is released from jail by the local magistrate, Sir William Peabody, who is an old school friend.
The animals catch wind of it and help Dolittle hightail it out of town before he can be incarcerated, embarking upon a series of worldwide adventures on the open sea.
When Doctor Dolittle gets good news from England that the animals have gone on strike and General Bellows has decided to pardon Doctor Dolittle, he ends his exile on Sea Star Island by persuading the moth to make a slight detour and drop him off in Puddleby.
