- "Feast your eyes, captain. All of them, faithful hands before the mast. Every man worth his salt. And crazy to boot."
- ―Joshamee Gibbs
Ladbroc was a pirate operating in the 1720s around Tortuga. In 1728, he was recruited in Tortuga by Captain Jack Sparrow prior to the pursuit of the Black Pearl as part of his motley crew, assembled to go after Sparrow's enemy Hector Barbossa. Ladbroc sailed the HMS Interceptor to Isla de Muerta during Will Turner's attempt to rescue Elizabeth Swann from Hector Barbossa's cursed crew, but was soon imprisoned with the other crewmen in the brig of the Black Pearl. After taking the Black Pearl, Ladbroc served under Jack Sparrow's command, embarking on several misadventures until the crew eventually began to doubt Sparrow's leadership.
Biography
In 1728, Ladbroc joined the crew of the commandeered British Royal Navy vessel HMS Interceptor under Jack Sparrow. He had been hired by Joshamee Gibbs in Tortuga. They sailed through a storm, during which Ladbroc and the other crewmen were soaked in the rain. He looked over the rail of the Interceptor into the sea as the ship passed through a dangerous passageway the next day. They later arrived at their destination, Isla de Muerta, where Jack Sparrow and William Turner went into the island alone. Will later came out without Jack, but the crew kept to the Pirate's Code and went on without him. When the Black Pearl attacked the Interceptor, Ladbroc loaded and manned the cannons on the main deck as the Pearl chased their ship. The Interceptor later turned around to fight the Pearl and its crew, and the ships opened fire on each other. He survived and was taken prisoner with the other crewmen. They were imprisoned, left in the command of two cursed pirates. However they were later freed from their cell by Elizabeth Swann and took over the Black Pearl. Though refused to help her rescue Will and Jack from Isla De Muerta, they later rescued Jack from the gallows and he became captain once more.[1] His further fate is unknown.
Behind the scenes
Ladbroc was portrayed by actor Christopher Sullivan in 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.[1] Sullivan was credited the role for the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.[2]
By August 2011, Ladbroc's name appears in the Black Pearl crew roster book at Walt Disney World's Tortuga Tavern restaurant.[3]
Ladbroc was Christopher Sullivan's second role as a pirate. He previously played the pirate Vyse in the video game Skies of Arcadia.[4]
"Ladbroc" is an English name meaning "lives by the path by the brook".[citation needed]
Appearances
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (First appearance)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
