Famous Fans of Tintin: Test Your Knowledge
Below is the BEGINNING of a list of famous people who love Tintin (not in alpha order). If there are famous and lesser-known celebrities who love Tintin and who are NOT on this list, please let me know!
- Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit
- Satyajit Ray – see comment below for more information…
- Patrick McDonnell
- Keith Haring, and Directors Roman Polanski and Alain Resnais – according to a fan in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Roger Federer
- Andy Murray
- John Hodgman
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- Anthony Horowitz
- Fabien Cousteau
- Stephen Petronio. The choreographer whose 2009 collaboration with Cindy Sherman was partly inspired by Captain Haddock.
- Ian Falconer
- Guy Delisle
- Hugh Grant
- Paul Giamatti
- Charles de Gaulle – he said: “Tintin is my only international rival. Nobody notices, because of my height. We are both little fellows who won’t be got at by big fellows.”
- Andy Warhol
- Roy Lichtenstein – drew two studies of Tintin for the book “Tintin in the New World” by Frederic Tuten.
- Wim Wenders
- Francoise Sagan Warhol
- Matt Groening. The Simpsons has had numerous Tintin references.
- Chiang kai’shek was also a fan after he read The Blue Lotus post-WWII. In appreciation for the Blue Lotus, Chiang invited Herge to visit China during the Second World War, but Herge did not take up the invitation until some thirty years later, in 1973 (two years before Chiang’s death).
- Terry Gilliam
- The ‘80’s Band: The Thompson Twins – or was it The Thomson Twins?
- Steven Spielberg
- Former Indian Prime Ministers Rajeev Gandhi and Atal Behari Vajpayee
- Dustin Hoffman is one; there’s a very brief scene in his movie Kramer vs Kramer (1979) where he’s reading Red Rackham’s Treasure to his son in bed (you can’t really see the cover, but you could hear the dialogue word for word).
- Robin Williams
- Peter Jackson
- Sting: in the award-winning music video for his hit song “We’ll be together” (1988), Sting is wearing a Tintin sweater.
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio: French 2008 Nobel Prize winner for literature.
- Atiq Rahimi: Afghan writer and winner of the 2008 Prix Goncourt.
- Stephen Anthony James Duffy, also known as ”Tintin”. For those who don’t know him, he is a British songwriter famously connected to Duran Duran and known for the hit Kiss Me, which you can watch below.
YA and screen writer Anthony Horowitz (http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/).
I am a fan of Tintin I was a girl of 8 years old.
My first Tintin was Pharaon cigars. Snowy is a fox
terrier like my dog was.
I think that Keith Haring was also a fan (there is a drawing of Tintin in a collective book). You can add also Directirs Roman Polanski and Alain Resnais who were involved in various film projects of adapting Tintin on the Big Screen.
Arno, Sofia, Bulgaria
My name is Gabriela Dapueto and I’m a fan of Tintin. I’m 17 years old and I’d love to write to Jean-Pierre Talbot, who is the actor that acted as Tintin. Could you please help me to find his e-mail? I couldn’t find it!
We wish we could help… We are glad to meet you, though!
I am 43 years old and like Tintin since I was a little boy of about 9 years old. I have many things associated with Tintin – keyrings, mugs, figurines, the whole hard-cover Tintin book series (including Land of the Soviets and the ‘controvercial’ Tintin in the Congo’), posters ect ect. But recently someone stole my Tintin watch! They are hard to come by in South Africa, so I am really gutted.
You should also add Satyajit Ray – he was a very famous movie director from India (West Bengal). He was a HUGE HUGE Tintint fan (a self confessed Tintin addict to be exact) and made a series of movies based on a similar ‘detective’ which he named Felu along with other serious movies. He wrote numerous books, plays, short stories and he was also an artist and a musician.
In most of the ‘Adventures of Feluda’ movies, one character is always seen reading Tintin books or there are scenes where there are a few Tintin books somewhere in the background (but still prominent on camera).
Satyajit Ray was a many of many talents and I believe he even wrote to Herge at one stage. I know for a fact that he was friends with Akiro Kurosawa back then.
There is also a consipiracy theory that E.T (yes, the ET by Spielberg) was based on a story he wrote about 20 years before ET came out. He was working with Columbia pictures to make a movie about a stranded ‘alien’ on earth but then the idea was scrapped. It was 1967 and then ET came out years later.
Plus He was voted the 25th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly
Here are some links –
http://www.satyajitrayworld.com
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006249/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Tintin-in-India-The-epic-that-wasnt/articleshow/2094744.cms
Please free to email me if you need any more info.
Love your Blog.
Regards,
Rajpal
I heard radio1 DJ Vernon Kay talk about TinTin, he loves TinTin also
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I’m 23, flew from australia to belgium over christmas to check out the Herge Museum (which was fantastic btw) and have collected all the books so far since i was 10.
Can’t wait for the movie – the secret unicorn & red rackham’s treasure are my favourite books.
I am a great lover of Tintin since I was 9 years old. Now I am almost 23 and still spend my nights reading those comic strips. I am working in an NGO called ‘Shukrachakra’ which publishes a monthly magazine called ‘Shukrachakra Samachar’. For the current issue of that I am required to write an article on Tintin. This website assisted me undoubdtedly. Thanks to the authority.
Please change “Tintin” to “TinTin” and “undoubdtedly” to “undoubtedly”. They were mere spelling mistakes.
Well, we are going to have to disagree on how to spell “Tintin”.
Hi My name is Fabrice Rousselot and I am the New York Bureau Chief for the French newspaper Liberation. I am currently working on a story about Tintin in the US before Steven Spielberg’s movie comes out in Europe next week. I would be happy to talk to any US based fan of Tintin.
Thank you
Fabrice
Big Tintin fan from since I was a young kid. Thought you might all find it interesting to read my article on WHO IS TINTIN at http://blog.inetvideo.com/2011/10/25/who-is-tintin-a-beginners-guide-to-tintin/
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A long-time Tintin fan, I’ve been following Robert Lloyd’s columns on Tintin in the Los Angeles Times preparing for the movie. Here is the first. http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/11/17/tintin-a-fan-faces-his-hopes-and-fears-with-spielberg-film/#/0
you rock I m a big fannnn of tintin,tintin is like my bro.