Captain Pugwash
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Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate who appears in a series of British children's comic strips, books and television shows created by John Ryan.
Captain Pugwash, from the title sequence of the 1974–75 series
A screen-used hand-painted Pugwash card "puppet" from the 1950s when the series was filmed in black-and-white
Peter Hawkins
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Peter John Hawkins was a British actor whose career spanned from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. Following his breakthrough in Royal Navy theatre performances subsequent to his survival of the sinki
Captain Pugwash
…made using "captions". This was a form of cutout animation that involved levers attached to the back of characters. All the voices were provided by Peter Hawkins, who had to be hidden behind a monitor due to his facial expressions made while recording being too distracting for the animators. What this did mean…
Hawkins in 1996