Captain Feathersword

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

**Captain Feathersword** is a friendly pirate captain who owns The S.S Feathersword, and is Wags the Dog's best friend. Captain Feathersword also has a Friendly Pirate Crew that idolize and have the same bright and cheerful personality as their captain. He is primarily portrayed by Paul Paddick, although Anthony Field played him in the very early days.

He was introduced in 1993 on *The Adventures Of Captain Feathersword, The Friendly Pirate* EP. He was given a feathersword rather than a normal sword to make him less intimidating to children.

## Performers

### Primary

* Anthony Field (1993–1995, 1997, 2001, 2021)
* Paul Paddick (1993, 1995–present)

### Secondary

* Jeff Fatt (only occasionally on Sundays, circa 1993–1994)
* Paul Field (1995)
* John Field (1994–1995)
* Paul Rogers (early 1990s)
* Brad Carroll (2010–11, on Dorothy the Dinosaur Series 3, Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas)
* Lachlan Gillespie (2011, Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show!; select shows of Taking Off! tour when Paddick was unavailable)

### Tour Understudies

* Nick Hutchinson (2014)
* Dominic Field (2015–2019)
* Michael King (2019 tour, when former was filling in for Simon)

### Other

* Sam Moran (Celebrity Big Brother)
* Tony Henry (2003, drummer double for Cold Spaghetti Western)
* Ben Murray (The Dorothy the Dinosaur Show, 2004 UK Tour, some portions of The Wiggles Show!)
* Franco Torrelli (The Wiggles In Concert For Holly)
* John Martin (The Latin American Wiggles, 2005-06 tour understudy and 2007 ARIA Awards)
* Samuel McKeown (Sydney Mardi Gras 2021)
* Victor Valdes, Latin American Wiggles 2021 YouTube Playtime Videos and Fruit Salad TV Christmas Special)

### Audio

* Anthony Field (1993–2002, 2006)
* Paul Paddick (1996–present)
* Kaeng Chan (2006-07)
* John Martin (2006)
* Victor Valdes (2021)

## 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*.
* Captain was created because Anthony knew that kids liked pirates.
* One of Captain's favourite dances is the reindeer dance from "Here Come The Reindeer".
* Captain's favourite animals are ducks, roosters, horses and camels.
* Captain is the only human Wiggly Friend.
* Despite no longer performing the character after 1995, Anthony had briefly reprised the character on a few occasions, including some concerts in 1997, a couple of songs in the late 90s, audiobooks and PC games in 2001, Wiggly Fruit Salad and 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/

 **Selected Guest Stars** | Christine Anu (2000, 2016) • Morgan Crowley (2001, 2017) • Lee Hawkins (2014) • Paul the Cook (Paul Hester) (1998) • The Irwins - Steve, Terri, Bindi and Robert (2002, 2017) • Kylie Minogue (2009, 2017) • Robert Rakete (2014-2015, 2021) • Alfonso Rinaldi (2002-2006, 2012) • Al Roker (2011) • Leo Sayer (2008) • Daryl Somers (2011) • Ross Wilson (2003, 2017)