Dick Van Dyke's character was named for Caractacus, the last independent ruler of England before the Roman conquest of southern England. Lionel Jeffries played Dick Van Dyke's father, despite the fact that Dick Van Dyke is actually seven months older than Jeffries. Phil Collins claims he was one of the children storming the castle at the end of the film but was edited out because of a rather large and unsightly bandage on his head that was covering a cyst. The first non-Disney film to ...[Read Story ]