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Joseph
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Leo G Carroll from the 1939 film |
Aubrey Woods from the 1970 film |
Brian Wilde from the 1978 TV drama | Robert Demeger from the 1992 film |
Tom Georgeson from the 1998 TV drama |
The lifelong servant at Wuthering Heights, to the Earnshaws and then Heathcliff. Fanatically Calvinist and self-righteous, he is unpleasant and unkind. He speaks in a broad Yorkshire accent. |
| Parents: unknown | Siblings: unknown |
| Date of birth: unknown, probably around 1730. As he is considered 'very old' in 1801, he would have been born in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was an important servant to Mr Earnshaw in 1771 and had been serving the family for "sixty years" in 1802. | Place of birth: unknown |
| Married: apparently never | Children: none known |
| Physical description: "vineger-faced", hale and sinewy | |
Quotes
He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
(1801, aged about 71) Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy. 'The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.
(1801, aged about 71) Vinegar-faced Joseph projected his head from a round window of the barn.