Mr Russell

Mr Russell was a non-canonical character who was created for the film adaptation of Problem at Sea in Season 1 of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot. Mr Russell was an elderly passenger who told Poirot that John Clapperton would be fully justified in "taking a hachet to" his wife Adeline. Mr Russell had known one such diagreeable woman in India. However, in that case, one one took a hachet to her. When he last met her, she was on her third husband.

Mr Russell was played by James Ottaway. There is no Mr Russell in the original story but there is an unnamed elderly passenger who was known to everyone as "The Grandfather of All the Tea Planters". He made the same remark to Poirot about "taking a hatchet" to Mrs Clapperton.