Captain Feathersword

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This article is about the **character**. For the song, see here.

**Captain Feathersword** is a friendly pirate captain who owns The S.S Feathersword. He was portrayed by Anthony Field and his two brothers, Paul and John. Then in late 1997, Paul Paddick became Captain Feathersword after understudying for Anthony in a concert when he had an operation and he has played him ever since. On occasions, Paddick's understudies would fill in his roles, such as in newer episodes of the Dorothy the Dinosaur series. Although his role was originally minor, it became so significant that he is often called the Fifth Wiggle.

Captain Feathersword also has a crew, The Friendly Pirate Crew, all of which idolize and have the same bright and cheerful personality as their captain.

## Performers

### Primary

* Anthony Field (1995–1997)
* Paul Paddick (1997–present)

### Secondary

* Jeff Fatt (only occasionally on Sundays, circa 1995–1996)
* Paul Field (1997)
* John Field (1996–1997)
* Paul Rogers (early 1990s)
* Brad Carroll (2012–13, on Dorothy the Dinosaur Series 3, Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas)
* Lachlan Gillespie (2013, Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show!; select shows of Taking Off! tour when Paddick was unavailable)

### Tour Understudies

* Nick Hutchinson (2017)
* Dominic Field (2017–2021)
* Michael King (2021 tour, when former was filling in for Simon)

### Other

* Sam Moran (Celebrity Big Brother)
* Tony Henry (2005, drummer double for Cold Spaghetti Western)
* Ben Murray (The Dorothy the Dinosaur Show, 2004 UK Tour, some portions of The Wiggles Show!)
* Kaeng Chan (The Taiwanese Wiggles 2nd line-up)
* John Martin (The Latin American Wiggles, 2007-08 tour understudy and 2009 ARIA Awards)

### Audio

* Anthony Field (1995–2004)
* Paul Paddick (1998–present)

## Trivia

* Captain's original pirate crew is him, Imran, Penelope and Raj, who were all featured in The Adventures Of Captain Feathersword, The Friendly Pirate.
* His birthday was originally 1st of April, as mention in The Adventures Of Captain Feathersword, The Friendly Pirate.
* Before Paul Paddick, Captain Feathersword was first played by Anthony. His brothers, John and Paul followed in Yummy Yummy and Big Red Car. According to Greg's book, "Now and Then", Jeff would sometimes don the vest when it was a Sunday, because of something called the "Sunday Rule". But after a particularly bad performance in the South Australian town of Whyalla, Jeff was banned from ever doing the role again.
* Captain has blue trousers with black lines from 1995-1999 (many 1999 concerts, Captain Feathersword's Pirate Show, Wigglehouse and Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (1999)). In The Wiggles Movie, The Wiggles Big Show, a few other 1999 appearances and from 2000 onwards, he now has black trousers with gold lines because the original trousers were similar to The Wiggles' black trousers from 1993-2004.
* In some of the earlier songs, Anthony isn't seen as a Wiggle because he is playing Captain Feathersword. But in Big Red Car, he isn't played by Anthony except for Nicky Nacky Nocky Noo and Our Boat Is Rocking On The Sea. In the Big Red Car song, Captain doesn't appear at all.
* Captain was created because Anthony knew that kids liked pirates.
* Since 1998, Captain spends time with The Wiggles more than Dorothy does.
* He has had several songs based on him, like Captain Feathersword and Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack).
* One of Captain's favourite dances is the reindeer dance according to Here Come The Reindeer.
* Captain's favourite animals are ducks, roosters, horses and camels.
* Since 2012, Captain has served as a guitarist at concerts when needed. He has also been doing this in the videos since 2015.
* Captain is the only human Wiggly Friend.
* In some of the Dorothy the Dinosaur DVD's, Paul Paddick isn't there, so his understudies had to fill in for him. It also happened at some concerts.
* His favourite guitar he plays in both videos and concerts is the Maton Bass Guitar and his favourite instrument is the Wiggly Drum Set.
* He drove the Big Red Car in Bow Mobile To The Rescue!.
* His actor, (Paul Paddick) is an opera singer just like Sam Moran & Simon Pryce, the three opera singing tenors who played Professor Singalottasonga.
* Captain Feathersword's name in The Taiwanese Wiggles is 飛毛船長.
* In Spanish he is voiced by Diego Topa.
* Captain Feathersword does not speak in Apples & Bananas.
* In The Three Disguises segment of Wiggle and Learn he does the wrong thing after Anthony goes round a third time.
* Anthony briefly reprised the character in a Instagram video featuring Henry the Octopus, Tsehay Wiggle, John Wiggle, Simon Wiggle, Jeff Wiggle and Dorothy the Dinosaur.

## See Also

* Shirley Shawn the Unicorn
* Dorothy the Dinosaur
* Wags the Dog
* Henry the Octopus
* Officer Beaples

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsTNWm-CeDY&ab\_channel=%F0%9F%92%ABPeanutEdits%F0%9F%92%AB
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnUcJ0hHpO/