Roderick Charpentier

In Le Crime est notre affaire the 2008 French adaptation by Pascal Thomas of 4.50 from Paddington, Roderick Charpentier is the parallel of Luther Crackenthorpe in the original novel. He is portrayed by Claude Rich.

Roderick lives with his daughter Emma Charpentier, a gardener and a cook. His other children (the family tree is simplified slightly in this adaptation) visit him over Christmas. Like Luther in the original novel, Roderick's father designed a will to skip over his generation. He lives in a chateau "La vallée des loups" (the Rutherford Hall equivalent) but has very little money and has the reputation of being miserly. Like Luther also, Roderick is a collector of antiques and archaeological artefacts which he keeps in an building in the chateau grounds known as "the museum".