Alexander Worple

Alexander Worple
Alexander Worple
First appearance	Introduction on Broadway
Created by	P. G. Wodehouse
Portrayed by	Bill Bailey
Information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Manhattan millionaire and businessman in the jute business.
Spouse(s)	Muriel Singer
Children	one
Relatives	nephew Bruce Corcoran, a New York portrait painter turned cartoonist
Nationality	American

Alexander Worple is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a choleric Manhattan millionaire as well as a businessman in the jute business. In the 1990s television series Jeeves and Wooster he is portrayed by Bill Bailey .

He asks his nephew Bruce Corcoran, a New York portrait painter turned cartoonist, to enter the jute business along with him, but Corcoran refuses. Worple marries Muriel Singer and Corcoran has only to paint a portrait of Worple's child. But Worple dislikes Corky's abstract cartoonist portrait painting of his child and cuts off Corky's allowance. Aunt Agatha comes with NY Chronicle Art Critic Arthur Prysock, an art critic with whom she wants to start and run her own art gallery. She is enamoured of the Abstract Expressionist portrait painting by Bruce Corcoran ("Corky"), and asks NY Chronicle Art Critic Arthur Prysock to buy it for her art gallery.

References

Primary sources consulted

• Wodehouse, P. G. (1975) [1938]. The Code of the Woosters. New York: Vintage Books. pp. 221–222. ISBN 0-394-72028-8.
• Wodehouse, P. G. (1999) [1954]. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-028120-7.

Secondary sources consulted

• Usborne, Richard (2003) [2002]. Plum Sauce: A P. G. Wodehouse Companion. Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. pp. 137–207. ISBN 1-58567-441-9.