Talk:Hercules Grytpype-Thynne

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Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, a suave, well-educated impecunious homosexual cad. He often collaborates with Count Moriarty to swindle Neddie. As with Moriarty, his decline into disgrace was apparently a character development that was not deliberate - after all, in The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler, he was a police inspector. His homosexuality was never mentioned openly in the show, although it was alluded to on several occasions (e.g. Seagoon: Why don't you get married? Grytpype: I would, but Moriarty doesn't love me.), but "came out" in a biographical note in the book The Goon Show Scripts (1972). Sellers' characterisation was based on renowned British actor George Sanders.

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