John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

The film which starred Chapman as the eponymous pirate also featured appearances from Peter Cook Marty Feldman Cleese Idle Spike Milligan and Cheech & Chong. Chapman met Tomiczek when the teenager was a runaway from Liverpool. In 1988 he appeared in the Iron Maiden video Can I Play with Madness.