Peter d'Alembord | |
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Richard Sharpe character | |
First appearance | Sharpe's Honour |
Last appearance | Sharpe's Waterloo |
Created by | Bernard Cornwell |
Portrayed by | Edward Atterton |
Information | |
Nickname(s) | "Dally" |
Occupation | British Army Officer |
Title | Major (highest rank achieved) |
Religion | Protestant (Hugenout) |
Nationality | British, of French descent |
Lucille Castineau, nee Lassan (novels), Lucille Castineau, nee Maillot (TV) | |
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Richard Sharpe character | |
First appearance | Sharpe's Revenge |
Last appearance | Sharpe's Devil |
Created by | Bernard Cornwell |
Portrayed by | Cecile Paoli |
Information | |
Occupation | Farmer |
Title | Madame la Vicomtesse de Seleglise |
Family | Comte de Lassan (father), Henri Lassan (brother) |
Spouse(s) | Xavier Castineau (deceased), Richard Sharpe |
Children | Patrick-Henri Lassan, Dominique Lassan |
Nationality | French |
William Dodd | |
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Richard Sharpe character | |
First appearance |
Sharpe's Triumph (novel) Sharpe's Challenge (TV) |
Last appearance | Sharpe's Fortress (novel) |
Portrayed by | Toby Stephens |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | East India Company Officer |
Title | Major (highest rank achieved) |
Nationality | English |
Pierre Ducos | |
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Richard Sharpe character | |
First appearance | Sharpe's Battle |
Last appearance | Sharpe's Revenge |
Created by | Bernard Cornwell |
Portrayed by | Féodor Atkine |
Information | |
Occupation | Spy |
Title | Major |
Nationality | French |
Joseph Ford | |
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Richard Sharpe character | |
First appearance | Sharpe's Waterloo |
Created by | Bernard Cornwell |
Information | |
Occupation | British Army Officer |
Title | Lieutenant Colonel |
Nationality | British |
William Frederickson | |
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Richard Sharpe character | |
First appearance | Sharpe's Enemy |
Last appearance | Sharpe's Revenge |
Created by | Bernard Cornwell |
Portrayed by | Philip Whitchurch |
Information | |
Nickname(s) | "Sweet William" |
Occupation | Army Officer |
Title | Captain |
Nationality | Half English, half German |
Jane Gibbons | |
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Richard Sharpe character | |
First appearance | Sharpe's Regiment |
Last appearance | Sharpe's Waterloo |
Created by | Bernard Cornwell |
Portrayed by | Abigail Cruttenden |
Information | |
Gender | Female |
Family | Christian Gibbons (brother, deceased), Henry Simmerson (uncle) |
Spouse(s) | Richard Sharpe (separated) |
Significant other(s) | Lord John Rossendale |
Nationality | English |
Bartholomew Girdwood | |
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Richard Sharpe character | |
First appearance | Sharpe's Regiment |
Created by | Bernard Cornwell |
Portrayed by | Mark Lambert (actor) |
Information | |
Occupation | British Army Officer |
Title | Lieutenant Colonel |
Religion | Protestant |
Nationality | British |
Daniel Hagman | |
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Sharpe character | |
First appearance | Sharpe's Prey |
Last appearance | Sharpe's Waterloo |
Created by | Bernard Cornwell |
Portrayed by | John Tams |
Information | |
Nickname(s) | Dan |
Occupation | Poacher, Rifleman |
Title | Sergeant (highest rank achieved) |
Obadiah Hakeswill | |
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Sharpe character | |
First appearance | Sharpe's Company (1982) |
Last appearance | Sharpe's Fortress (1998) |
Created by | Bernard Cornwell |
Portrayed by | Pete Postlethwaite |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Soldier |
Title | Sergeant |
Family | Biddy Hakeswill (mother) |
Children | Barabbas Hakeswill (TV series only) |
Nationality | English |
This is a list of characters in the Sharpe series.
Major Peter D'Alembord, nicknamed "Dally" joined the British Army after killing a man in a duel over a woman's favours. He is of French Hugenout extraction and enters the South Essex Regiment as one of Sharpe's many Light Company Subalterns. He becomes captain of the South Essex Light Company after Sharpe's promotion to major. After Napoleon's return from Elba, D'Alembord is also promoted to major as an inducement to rejoin the army. He is badly injured at the Battle of Waterloo and has to have his leg amputated. It remains unclear whether he survives the wound.
In the Sharpe television series, his only appearance is in Sharpe's Honour, where he is portrayed by Edward Atterton, who received no credit for the part.
Lucille Castineau was Richard Sharpe's third (common-law) wife. She was aged twenty-seven in June 1815, placing her birth date in 1788. She was born to the Lassan family of Normandy. Her father was the Comte de Lassan, a minor aristocrat in possession of a large estate house and farm fallen on hard times. Lucille herself bore the title of Vicomtesse. Her father was killed during the Revolution and was succeeded in his title by her older brother Henri Lassan. Her brother soon renounced his title in the face of further persecutions and later joined Napoleon's army as an officer. This left Lucille and her mother, the Dowager Countess, to run the estate.
During the Napoleonic wars, Lucille married the son of a French general, a cavalry officer named Xavier Castineau. However, he soon after died in Russia, forcing Lucille to move back into the Lassan home. After Napoleon's defeat by the British, Henri also returned home and made arrangements to marry. Unfortunately, both Henri and her mother were murdered soon afterwards by thugs of French spymaster Pierre Ducos, trying to prevent Lassan from revealing Ducos's own treachery to Richard Sharpe. Lucille was left alone on the farm.