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:

    “The sisters, cousins, aunts, and niece,
    And widowed ma of Captain Reece,
    Attended there as they were bid;
    It was their duty, and they did.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.”
    —Alice Walker (b. 1944)