Hercules Grytpype-Thynne

Hercules Grytpype-Thynne was a character from the British 1950's comedy radio programme The Goon Show. He was voiced by Peter Sellers. Grytpype-Thynne is the smooth spoken and sophisticated principal villain on the show, and is usually accompanied by his companion in crime, Count Jim Moriarty. The main plot usually follows an impoverished Grytpype-Thynne thinking up a money making scheme which involves the (usually equally-impoverished) Neddie Seagoon being the fall-guy. In early scripts, however, Grytpype was often cast as a government official, and not necessarily a villain. For instance in "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea" he is a police inspector; in "The Whistling Spy Enigma" he is the secret Government agent who sends Neddie Seagoon to Hungary to booby-trap the boots of the national football team; and in "The Jet-propelled Guided NAAFI" he is Prime Minister Neddie"s butler and confidante, but also an undercover Soviet agent plotting with Moriarty to sell... full article at wikipedia