Sunburned sailor

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Biographical information
Gender	Male
Eye color	Blue-green
Hair color	Grey
Title(s)	Sailor
Also known as	Weathered sailor Sunburned sailor
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Dead Man's Chest
Latest appearance	Dead Man's Chest
Portrayer	Moray Treadwell

"Captain Jack Sparrow? Owes me four doubloons. Heard he was dead."

―Sunburned sailor to William Turner

This man was a sunburned and weathered sailor in the Caribbean. He was the first known person Will Turner talked to about the whereabouts of Captain Jack Sparrow, a search started after Lord Cutler Beckett's arrival in Port Royal, which started in various island ports in or near Tortuga. On a dock, the sunburned sailor alleged that Jack Sparrow owed him four doubloons, but also heard a rumor that Sparrow was dead.

Biography

Not much is known of this man's life, other than he became a sailor that owned a small fishing boat and was in charge of a small crew. The weathered sailor also developed a tan that led to sunburn. At some point prior to 1729, the sailor had dealings with Captain Jack Sparrow, with the notorious pirate owing the sailor four doubloons. He also heard a rumor that Sparrow was dead. Following Lord Cutler Beckett's arrival in Port Royal, the sunburned sailor was on a dock when he was the first known person approached by Will Turner regarding the whereabouts of Jack Sparrow, a search which started in various island ports in or near Tortuga and with a thousand tales told about Sparrow's whereabouts. The leather-skinned sailor remarked that Sparrow owed him four doubloons, but also heard a rumor that he was dead.

Behind the scenes

The sailor first appeared, identified as "weathered sailor", in the junior novelization for the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, where the credited "Sunburned Sailor" was portrayed by Moray Treadwell. In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for Dead Man's Chest, the character was referred to as a "sunburned leather-skinned SAILOR". One of six instances in Dead Man's Chest that foreshadowed Jack Sparrow's death at the end of the film was the sailor telling Will Turner in his search for Jack Sparrow, "I heard he was dead."

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization) (First appearance)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: The Movie Storybook
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (comic)