Overjoyed, he enlists the services of the Great Lunar Moth to help him return to Britain. Parents name their children after their favorite authors, hence his name. She always says she can never remember how old she is, but she remembers that when she came to England, she saw Charles II of England, hiding in an oak tree from the Roundheads: "he looked very frightened". Along with Chee-Chee and the crocodile, she decided to stay in Africa at the end of the original book, but returned in later stories. She is able to speak English and was the one who first taught Doctor Dolittle the language of animals. He is notorious for using bad language. [1], Doctor John Dolittle is an English physician who became a doctor for animals after his parrot, Polynesia, taught him to speak animal languages. In the book this is the last we hear of Sophie, and it is presumed she makes it back to Alaska. A physician who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets. His name apparently means "ginger" in monkey language.

Tommy Stubbins is a boy from Puddleby who, after taking an injured squirrel to Doctor Dolittle, becomes the doctor's friend and assistant. The doctor is released from jail by the local magistrate, Sir William Peabody, who is an old school friend. He loathes any sort of new, unusual, or odd ideas, including veterinary science; he rejects that a veterinarian can talk to animals. Most of the characters were introduced in the first book, the 1920 novel The Story of Doctor Dolittle. Cheapside and his wife Becky live at St. Paul's, in the statue of St. Edmund's left ear. Colonel Bellowes is a snobbish old man in Puddleby who appears briefly in The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.

Matthew Mugg is the cat's-meat-man from Puddleby. He owns several dogs, horses and other animals, all of whom betray their owner when Dolittle queries them at his trial about their owner's excesses of food, drink and female companionship. The Murphy films bear little resemblance to Lofting's character or plots.

Directed by Stephen Gaghan. She appeared in the 2020 film voiced by Octavia Spencer.

This enormous undersea mollusk with a transparent airtight shell is injured when the mysterious floating Spider Monkey Island finally comes to rest in The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. He was originally supposed to appear in the 1967 film intact, but casting problems eventually led to his character being considerably softened and renamed as "William Shakespeare the Tenth", played by Geoffrey Holder.[3]. Prince Bumpo is an African prince from the kingdom of Jolliginki, who has been sent to study at Oxford University by his father, and becomes a friend of the Doctor's. He has very few human friends and spends most of his time treating animals, travelling the world with his animals and conducting research into new animals and new forms of animal languages.[1]. In The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle she is described as grey and scarlet. Dolittle's most important ally and oldest friend in the film is a macaw named Polynesia, AKA Poly, and she's voiced by the two-time Oscar-winner. He has a very keen sense of smell.

He is portrayed by William Dix in the 1967 film, and by Harry Collett in the 2020 film. The deceased wife of the Doctor in the 2020 film, who is played by Kasia Smutniak. Jip is Doctor Dolittle's dog. The doctor can immediately speak to the pushmi-pullyu, knowing that llamas speak a dialect of camel language. As the Great Pink Sea Snail leaves with his human and animal cargo, Sophie along with her husband and pups informs him that every animal in Puddleby has gone on strike to protest the treatment of Dolittle by General Bellows. Gub-Gub is Doctor Dolittle's pet pig. The 1998 Eddie Murphy film has a brief scene where a pushmi-pullyu is walking in the background while Dr. Dolittle talks to the tiger in the cage. His name apparently means "ginger" in monkey language. The climax of Dolittle is LITERALLY him pulling bagpipes out of a dragon’s clogged asshole, after which a polar bear voiced by John Cena exclaims “teamwork makes dreams work!” He added:

The pushmi-pullyu usually only uses one of its heads to talk, reserving the other for eating (thus allowing it to eat while speaking without being rude) and claims that its great-grandfather was the last unicorn.

This is the version that appears in the TV series where he is voiced by Don Messick.

He often visits the doctor, to gossip or bring important news.

He has learned the language of eagles and thus is able to communicate with Dr. Dolittle. He is the world's greatest naturalist, specializing in botany and traveling through the mountains of Peru and Spider Monkey Island. He and his tribe are well educated in literature and history and each citizen is able to speak several languages ever since different books have washed up on Sea Star Island. In the film, he is owned by General Bellowes. He never appeared in any of Lofting's original books and is loosely based on Prince Bumpo. She also relays messages between Long Arrow and Doctor Dolittle. Movie: Dolittle Franchise: Doctor Dolittle Dab-Dab is Doctor Dolittle's pet duck. General Bellowes deals harshly with Dolittle, who then flees the country before he can be committed to an asylum. Gub Gub's Book: An Encyclopedia of Food is written as if it were a record of conversations with Gub-Gub on its contents. In the second book The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Miranda is the purple bird of paradise. Dolittle disguises her as a woman and takes her to the sea, but a villager in Brighton witnesses Dolittle throwing her off a cliff and gets him arrested for murder.

Directed by (1) Writing credits (5) Cast (82) Produced by (9) Music by (1) Cinematography by (1) Film Editing by (1) Casting By (1) Production Design by (1) Art Direction by (13) Set Decoration by (1) Costume Design by (1) Makeup Department (46) The pushmi-pullyu (pronounced "push-me—pull-you") is a "gazelle/unicorn cross" with two heads (one of each) at opposite ends of its body. Too-Too is the doctor's pet owl.