Hello, and welcome to my web pages. Here you can learn about me and my activities, more than you want to know, probably. I'm Dick Wightman. I was known for many years as "Captain Dick", and I'm sure that name will stick with me for a long time. This was the name that I performed under.
I was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1938. With my wife of over 50 years, Ann, otherwise knows as "Mrs. Captain", I attended and graduated from Shaw High School in East Cleveland, Ohio and then from the University of Miami (Fla.). We moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1966, living in Portland, Ore. for 6 years, then moving to Seattle, WA in 1972. We've been in Seattle ever since.
Aside from my performing, I had a "steady job". I am retired from the government after working for many years in the fields of psychology, administration and public relations.
I became active in entertaining as a second career in the 1960's, as a folk singer, storyteller and ventriloquist. I retired from performing in 1994, made a bit of a comeback in 1998 as "Doc Wightman" with a traveling medicine show, but rarely perform any more... mostly charity gigs.
It has been said that my hobby is hobbies I do a lot of stuff. Most of it I taught myself from books. There is a saying in our church, "Never give Dick a book on brain surgery"
Captain Dick & the Old Salt in our performing days. This picture was on the cover of "Laughmakers", the national magazine for variety entertainers.
My wife, Ann, harping on something, as usual