Captain Cutler

Captain Cutler
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Sailor
Father	Not mentioned
Mother	Not mentioned
Marital status	Husband to Mrs. Cutler
First appearance	WAY: "A Clue for Scooby-Doo" (1969)
Played by	James Bamford (2004) Matthew Lillard (2015, 2022) Jeff Bennett (2018)
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Captain Cutler was one of the original villains in the Scooby-Doo animated franchise. His voice was originated by Matthew Lillard some 40 years after Captain Cutler's original appearance, as he didn't speak then.

Character description

Cutler wears his scuba diving suit.

Appearances

TV series

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
  • 1.2 "A Clue for Scooby-Doo"
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
  • 1.1 "Beware the Beast from Below" (costume exhibit stand only)
  • 1.16 "Where Walks Aphrodite" (costume exhibit stand only)
  • 2.13 "Wrath of Krampus" (costume exhibit stand only)
  • 2.16 "Aliens Among Us" (costume exhibit stand only)
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold
  • 2.25B "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!" (costume only)
• Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
  • 1.2 "Game of Chicken" (ghost disguise only)
  • 1.26 "The People vs. Fred Jones" (ghost disguise only, no lines)
  • 2.24B "The Curse of Half-Beard's Booty" (ghost disguise only)
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
  • 1.16 "One Minute Mysteries!" (no lines)
  • 1.23 "The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!" (ghost disguise only, no lines)
  • 2.2 "The Last Inmate!" (ghost disguise only, no lines)
• Velma
  • 1.6 "The Sins of the Fathers and Some of the Mothers" (ghost disguise only, no lines)

Movies

• Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (ghost disguise only)
• Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (ghost disguise only, no lines)
• Scoob! (ghost disguise only, no lines)
• Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob! (no lines)
• Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo!

Shorts

• Scooby-Doo! Mini Mysteries
  • 1.2 "The Line Up"

Books

• Scooby-Doo Solves It with S.T.E.M.
  • Revenge from the Watery Grave

Comics

• Scooby-Doo... Where Are You!
  • Issue #4A: "The Ghostly Sea Diver"
• Scooby-Doo
  • Issue #50: "Big House Brouhaha" (ghost disguise only, cover)
  • Issue #74: "Who's Who in Scooby-Doo"
  • Issue #135A: "Those Meddling Kids"
• Scooby-Doo! 50th Anniversary Giant
  • Issue #1B: "Now You See Them..."

Video games

• My Friend Scooby-Doo!
  • Episode 1: "A Clue for Scooby-Doo" (no lines)

Behind the scenes

• In the video games, Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights and Scooby-Doo! Unmasked, there are variations of him as a boss and minion, respectively.
• The Ghost of Captain Cutler inspired the Ghost of Monsoon Max from Scholastic's book Scooby-Doo! and the Deep-Sea Diver.
• In the DTV Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!, Captain Crothers disguised herself in a scuba diving suit that resembled Captain Cutler's suit.
• In the book Scooby-Doo! and the Tank of Terrors, Barry Barracuda dressed up as the ghost diver, which was based on the suit of Captain Cutler's.
• In the Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? episode "A Haunt of a Thousand Voices!," Grey Griffin dressed up in Captain Cutler's scuba diving suit to scare the gang.

In popular culture

• In the Saturday Night Live episode "Rob Lowe/Eminem," there is a skit about a fictional Crime TV program called Pros & Cons, which reports on Mr. Montgomery, a jailed felon, who allegedly dressed up as a ghost to scare people away from a run-down amusement park that had pirate treasure underneath. He was stopped by a group of "amateur detectives," who according to Warren "Shaggy" Shagowski, decided while in a malt shop that the law had gone soft and it was time to do something about it, especially after "dirtbags who get their jollies dressing as ape men or glowing deep sea divers."
• In the Johnny Test episode "Johny Dukey Doo," one of the fake ghosts is dressed like a glowing scuba diver based on the ghost of Captain Cutler.
• In the The Big Bang Theory episode "The Tangerine Factor," Leonard is worried he will ruin his date with Penny, so Sheldon makes the wild theory that if this is the case and Penny's the only woman for him, he could end up becoming a "lonely, bitter old man with no progeny. The image of any lighthouse keepers from Scooby-Doo cartoons comes to mind," indirectly referring to the original episode that Captain Cutler appeared in.
• When the Doctor wore a scuba diving suit in the Doctor Who book Dark Horizons, he said he would terrorize Scooby-Doo in reference to the ghost of Captain Cutler.
• In Harley Quinn #64, Harley reads a comic book to her comatose mother in which the Justice League Dark has taken on the personas of Mystery Inc. as they investigate Rocky Point Beach in search of the ghost of Captain Cutler, which is interrupted by Harley trying to escape Lex Luthor, who reveals himself to be Captain Cutler's ghost.