The Wooster Papers

Cast

A. B. Filmer

Also called Filmer, Mr Filmer, Right Hon., the Right Hon., the Cabinet Minister, Cabinet minister, A man named Filmer, the Right Honourable A. B. Filmer

The Right Hon. A. B. Filmer, Cabinet Minister and president of the Anti-Tobacco League, marooned on the island at Woollam Chersey by Thos.

In each book 4 books
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    The Right Hon. A. B. Filmer, Cabinet Minister and president of the Anti-Tobacco League, marooned on the island at Woollam Chersey by Thos.
  • In Thank You, Jeeves
    The Cabinet Minister young Thos once marooned on an island with a swan.
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    A Cabinet Minister once treed with Bertie by a swan.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    The Cabinet Minister, treed with Bertie by a swan, who got Ginger the nomination.

Connections

dealings

Scenes they are in

  1. At the tennis party Bingo falls into his tennis trance and forgets Thomas, until a thunderstorm breaks.Chapter 1, the tennis lawn, as the Right Hon.
  2. Bertie rows to the island, is chased up the Octagon by a nesting swan to sit beside Filmer in the rain, until Jeeves disposes of the swan; Filmer then concludes Thomas set his boat adrift.Chapter 1, the island, as Filmer

Talked about, but not there

Very Good, Jeeves 8 scenes
  1. Aunt Agatha orders Bertie to impress the Cabinet Minister Mr Filmer and to give up smoking, drinking and frivolous talk.Chapter 1, Woollam Chersey, as Mr Filmer
  2. Bertie tells Jeeves the telegram was from Bingo and laments the ban on smoking and drinking.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as Filmer
  3. After days of golf with Filmer, Bertie hears Bingo confess he lost Rosie's housekeeping money on a horse and fears Thomas's planned revenge on Filmer will get him sacked.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as Filmer
  4. With a tennis party looming, Jeeves reports that Thomas has been reading Treasure Island and admiring Captain Flint, while fussing over Bertie's tie.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as the Right Hon.
  5. Filmer is missing from tea; Aunt Agatha sends Bertie out with a raincoat, and Jeeves reveals Thomas has marooned Filmer on the island.Chapter 1, the drawing room, as Mr Filmer
  6. Bertie reports Filmer's rescue and takes a hot bath, where Purvis says Aunt Agatha wants to see him.Chapter 1, Woollam Chersey, as the Right Hon.
  7. Jeeves reveals he saved Bingo by telling Filmer that Bertie set the boat adrift, which also scuppers Aunt Agatha's plan to make Bertie Filmer's secretary, and proposes escape down the waterpipe.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as Mr Filmer
  8. Bertie plans to goad Thos into an outrage on himself and gets Anstruther to agree such a prank would cost twenty marks.Chapter 8, the smoking-room, as a Cabinet Minister
Thank You, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Bertie stands rooted in despair until Jeeves coughs softly at his side.Chapters 14–16, Chuffnell Hall, as the Cabinet Minister
The Code of the Woosters 1 scene
  1. Bertie and a disapproving Jeeves enter Stiffy's vast bedroom, where the dog Bartholomew sends Bertie onto the chest of drawers and Jeeves onto the top of the cupboard.Chapters 7–8, Stiffy's room, as the Right Honourable A. B. Filmer
Much Obliged, Jeeves 3 scenes
  1. Bertie explains the Junior Ganymede and its club book, and his fear that his eleven pages might reach Aunt Agatha.Chapter 1
  2. Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's, as Filmer
  3. Walking home from lunch with Ginger and brooding on his engagement to Florence, Bertie drops his cigarette case, trips in front of a taxi and is pulled clear by Jeeves, to whom he breaks the news about Florence.Chapter 4, Curzon Street