Captain Walker

Captain Walker can mean:

  • Captain Frederic John Walker. a British Royal Navy Officer during World War II
  • Captain Walker, a fictional character from The Who's Tommy
  • Captain Walker, a fictional character alluded to in the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, whom Mel Gibson's character Max Rockatansky is mistaken for. Like the character in The Who's Tommy, this Captain Walker didn't come home either.

Famous quotes containing the words captain and/or walker:

    “Colonel “Bat” Guano: Okay, I’m going to get your money for you. But if you don’t get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what’s going to happen to you?
    Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What?
    Colonel “Bat” Guano: You’re going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    “I believe in the total depravity of inanimate things ... the elusiveness of soap, the knottiness of strings, the transitory nature of buttons, the inclination of suspenders to twist and of hooks to forsake their lawful eyes, and cleave only unto the hairs of their hapless owner’s head.”
    —Katharine Walker (1840–1916)