Porthos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan (see D'Artagnan Romances). A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... DArtagnan and the Musketeers The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Alexandre Dumas redirects here. ... A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smooth-bore long gun. ... Athos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Aramis is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. ... Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte dArtagnan (c. ... The dArtagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas telling the story of the musketeer dArtagnan from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the siege of Maastricht in 1673. ...

Dumas never reveals Porthos' given name. In The Three Musketeers his family name is du Vallon. In Twenty Years After, after a successful wedding, he is first known as du Valon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds, then he earns the title of baron. A given name specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name. ... A family name, or surname, is the part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ... Baron is a specific title of nobility or a more generic feudal qualification. ...

Porthos is the extrovert of the group, enjoying wine, women and song. His eating abilities even impress King Louis XIV during a banquet at Versailles. As the story advances, he looks more and more of a giant, and his death is that of a titan. Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638–September 1, 1715), reigned as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death at the age of 77. ... Versailles: Louis Le Vau opened up the interior court to create the expansive entrance cour dhonneur, later copied all over Europe Monument of Louis XIV in the cour dhonneur Gardens, general view from behind the palace The Château de Versailles —or simply Versailles— is a royal ch... In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek Τιτάν, plural Τιτάνες) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. ...

The fictional Porthos is very loosely based on the historical musketeer Isaac de Portau. A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smooth-bore long gun. ...

Porthos is the name of playwright James M. Barrie's (Johnny Depp) dog in the film "Finding Neverland". Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bt. ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II, June 9, 1963) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Finding Neverland was a 2004 film, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. ...

Film and television

Actors who have played Porthos on screen include:

• Charles Martinelli, in Les trois mousquetaires (1921)
• Moroni Olsen, in The Three Musketeers (1935)
• Gig Young, in The Three Musketeers (1948)
• John Colicos, in The Three Musketeers (TV movie) (1960)
• Frank Finlay, in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), and The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
• Alan Hale Jr., in The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
• Oliver Platt, in The Three Musketeers (1993)
• Gérard Depardieu, in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
• John Rhys-Davies, in La Femme Musketeer (TV miniseries) (2003)