Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks

Lieutenant General Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks is a fictional character from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. He first appeared in the Annie strip on September 27, 1924. His age in the series is around 52 years old. He was born about 1894, near the small town of Supine. (In the movie musical, he says he was born in Liverpool.) His father, a section boss on the railroad, was killed when he was a month old. His mother was left with only "gumption" and a house in which she was able to keep boarders. His early youth in Supine involved cornering all the marbles in town at age nine, serving as a messenger for the telegraph company, having a girlfriend named Millie, fishing, swimming and raiding melon patches with Spike Spangle and beating up...