Commander Caractacus Pott is an inventor who buys and renovates an old car after gaining money from inventing and selling whistle-like sweets to Lord Skrumshus, the wealthy owner of a local confectionery factory.

* Caractacus Pott – eccentric inventor and former commander in the Royal Navy

* Mimsie Pott – Caractacus ' wife

* Jeremy and Jemima Pott – Caractacus and Mimsie's twin eight-year-old children

The name " Caractacus Pott ( s )" is also similar to " crackpot ", a derogatory term for someone who is eccentric, particularly a scientist or inventor.

She does not appear in the original book, in which Caractacus is married to Mimsie Pott ( the surname used in the book ).

* Caractacus is referenced in a line of the " Modern Major General's Song ", the well-known libretto from Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance.

* Caractacus is the title of a cantata by Edward Elgar in 1897-8 devoted to the defeat and capture of the king by the Romans.

* Caractacus is the subject of a Victorian poem called Caractacus the Briton by William Stewart Ross, published 1881 in a collection titled Lays of Romance and Chivalry, and distinguished by the refrain, " Caractacus the Briton, the bravest of the brave!

* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) — includes a sequence near the beginning of the film where breakfast is " made " by eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts.

The area seems to have been settled by the Ordovices, an Iron Age tribe of people in the last millennium BC, and was a stronghold of the Celtic chieftain Caractacus ( Caer Caradoc is said to be named after him ).

Inevitably, Knighton's earliest history is obscure but there are local clues: Caer Caradoc ( an Iron Age hillfort associated with Caradoc or Caractacus ) is away and just off the road towards Clun.

Michael Ashley Ball, born 27 June 1962 ) is a British actor, singer, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song " Love Changes Everything " and musical theatre roles such as Marius in Les Misérables ( which he originated in the London production ), Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray for which he won the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

Caractacus is an inventor who sells a candy invention, Toot Sweets, to candy magnate Lord Scrumptious.

In the original 1964 book, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car, Caractacus Pott's wife and the mother of his children is alive and a part of the story ; her name is Mimsie.

Caractacus is a Commander in the Royal Navy, which is reflective of Fleming's own history as well as that of Fleming's James Bond character.

Jeffries built a successful career in British films mainly in comic character roles and as he was prematurely bald he often played characters older than himself, such as the role of father to Caractacus Potts ( played by Dick Van Dyke ) in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ), although Jeffries was actually six months younger than Van Dyke.

* Ian Fleming, in his novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, named the family patriarch " Caractacus Potts ", and in the story, explains the significance of the name to his readers.

The film starred Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious, an additional character who was not in Fleming's novel.

* Caractacus briefly appears as a minor character in the Robert Graves novel, Claudius the God.

A one-hour adaptation of the novel by Sherry Ashworth was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra ( formerly BBC Radio 7 ) on 3 April 2011, starring Imogen Stubbs as the voice of Chitty and Alex Jennings as Caractacus Potts.

The tower not only evoked the past visually through its medieval design but it also had strong historical associations of other kinds: for instance, it was intended to house a statue of Caractacus and was sited on the spot traditionally associated with the king raising the standard before the Battle of Edgehill.

In the musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Caractacus Potts's father was Lord Scrumptious's batman.

The pair approached Honda with a rough, low-budget 30-second trial film inspired by the children's board game Mouse Trap, Caractacus Potts ' breakfast-making machine in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and a 1987 Swiss art film by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge ( The Way Things Go ).

It was also used as Caractacus Potts ' workshop in the 1968 film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and seen in The New Avengers ( TV series ) episode, The House of Cards.

In 1968 he designed the elaborate inventions of Caractacus Potts ( played by Dick Van Dyke for the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Caractacus ' film character was written as a widower who develops a romantic relationship with Truly Scrumptious, the daughter of the candy magnate.

A stage musical based on the film premiered in London's West End in 2002, with Caractacus Potts played by Michael Ball.

The filmmakers felt that a romantic relationship would serve the film better than the marriage relationship in the book, and so Caractacus was portrayed as a widower.

In the film, Truly sings the Sherman Brothers ' song " Lovely Lonely Man " about Caractacus Potts.

* In the film, Caractacus Potts does the dance to escape an angry victim of his malfunctioning hair-cutting machine.

In the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Caractacus ' father refers to the " Fuzzy-Wuzzys " when speaking of his time in the army.

When the British general Caractacus was captured in 50, Claudius granted him clemency.

Caractacus lived out his days on land provided by the Roman state, an unusual end for an enemy commander.

Caratacus ( Brythonic * Caratācos, Greek Καράτακος ; variants Latin Caractacus, Greek Καρτάκης ) was a first century British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who led the British resistance to the Roman conquest.

Caratacus ' name appears as both Caratacus and Caractacus in manuscripts of Tacitus, and as Καράτακος and Καρτάκης in manuscripts of Dio.

Older reference works tend to favour the spelling " Caractacus ", but modern scholars agree, based on historical linguistics and source criticism, that the original Brythonic form was * Caratācos, pronounced, which gives the attested names Caradog in Welsh, Karadeg in Breton and Carthach in Irish.

* The name Caractacus appears under a poem in The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

* " Caractacus Seagoon " was the name given to Harry Secombe's Ancient Briton character (" He's up early.

* Australian singer Rolf Harris recorded a song called " The Court Of King Caractacus " in 1964 ; it was a hit in Australia and also charted in the US and UK.

* The third track of Mandalaband's ( see David Rohl ) 2011 album AD-Sangreal, titled Palatium Britannicum, refers to Caractacus extensively in the lyrics.

* Caractacus at resourcesforhistory. com

The original cast included Michael Ball as Caractacus Potts, Emma Williams as Truly Scrumptious, Nichola McAuliffe as Baroness Bomburst, Brian Blessed as Baron Bomburst and Richard O ' Brien as The Child Catcher.

Basil criticised Rolf about wanting to tie a kangaroo down, leading to a montage of clips from Animal Hospital, then they performed a duet of the song ' In The Court Of King Caractacus ' together.

Ancient folklore has it that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand against the Romans at the British Camp, a site of extensive Iron Age earthworks on a summit of the Malvern Hills close to where Malvern was to be later established.

He sang Elgar roles in exemplary fashion, too, including " Oh My Warriors " and " The Sword Song " (" Leap, Leap, to the Light ") from Caractacus.

From 3 July until 30 August 2008 Jones played the lead role of Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.