15 Facts About Bulldog Drummond

Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is a fictional character, created by H C McNeile and published under his pen name "Sapper".

Bulldog Drummond is a First World War veteran who, fed up with his sedate lifestyle, advertises looking for excitement, and becomes a gentleman adventurer.

Bulldog Drummond is a First World War veteran, brutalised by his experiences in the trenches and bored with his post-war lifestyle.

Several other Bulldog Drummond films followed, either based on McNeile's stories or with unique storylines.

Bulldog Drummond is a member of "the Breed", a class of Englishman who were patriotic, loyal and "physically and morally intrepid".

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Bulldog Drummond is a wealthy gentleman, formerly an officer in the fictional "Royal Loamshire Regiment", who, after the First World War, spends his new-found leisure time looking for adventure.

McNeile first wrote the Bulldog Drummond character as a detective for a short story in The Strand Magazine, but the portrayal was not successful and was changed for the novel Bull-dog Bulldog Drummond, which was a thriller.

Bulldog Drummond was proficient in jujutsu and boxing, was a crack shot, played cricket for the Free Foresters, and was an excellent poker player.

Bulldog Drummond is characterised as large, very strong, physically unattractive and an "apparently brainless hunk of a man", He is six feet tall, weighs around 14 stone, and has a "cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner".

Novel Bulldog Drummond begins when Drummond places an advertisement in a newspaper looking for adventure to lift the ennui of his life in post-war London.

Bulldog Drummond'spreferred drink is beer although he enjoys drinking martinis and is knowledgeable about wines.

The rights to the character of Bulldog Drummond were then held by British International Pictures, who would not sell the rights to use the characters for Bennett's screenplay.

Bulldog Drummond was initially portrayed by George Coulouris, before being taken over by Santos Ortega and Ned Wever after 1942; Cedric Hardwicke took over in 1954.

Bulldog Drummond was played by Robert Beatty; he was aided by Kelly, played by Michael Ripper.

Drummond series proved popular with contemporary audiences, with Bulldog Drummond selling 396,302 copies between 1920 and 1939, exceeding the 100,000-copy benchmark for "best-sellers".