AS SEEN ON TV: FREDERICK SELOUS

Continuing with the topic from yesterday, we're also going to take a look at an historical figure who was the inspiration for a member of the Wold Newton Family.

FREDERICK SELOUS

AS SEEN IN:
'The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'

AS PLAYED BY:
Paul Freeman

From Wikipedia:
Frederick Courteney Selous DSO (31 December 1851 - 4 January 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in south and east of Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character. Selous was also a good friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was the older brother of ornithologist and writer Edmund Selous.

Frederick Courteney Selous' image remains a classic, romantic portrait of a proper Victorian period English gentleman of the colonies, one whose real life adventures and exploits of almost epic proportions generated successful Lost World and Steampunk genre fictional characters like Allan Quatermain, to a large extent an embodiment to the popular "white hunter" concept of the times; yet he remained a modest and stoic pillar in personality all throughout his life. As himself he was featured in the "Young Indiana Jones" and "Rhodes" series. He was widely remembered in real tales of war, exploration and big game hunting as balanced blend between a gentleman officer and epic wild man.

'The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles' (1992-1993)
played by Paul Freeman
"British East Africa, September 1909" (1992)
"Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom, German East Africa, November 1916" (1993)

In Toobworld, both Selous and Alan Quatermain would co-exist......

BCnU!