Characters who appear in An American Werewolf in London and An American Werewolf in Paris
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Main Characters in London
David Kessler
Played By: David Naughton
- Alternate Identity Amnesia: David doesn't remember what he does in wolf form.
- Bring My Red Jacket: David is introduced wearing a red jacket, and he ends up being violently injured by the werewolf that kills his friend Jack and getting cursed into becoming a werewolf himself until he is gunned down.
- Evil Feels Good: David awakens from his first transformation feeling fantastic and re-energized, thinking he's just going crazy. Until he learns about the 6 people who were murdered, that is...
- Nice Jewish Boy: David definitely qualifies as this.
Jack Goodman
Played by: Griffin Dunne
- Afterlife Angst: As a ghost, Jack claims that he's undead and forced to roam the Earth until David dies to break the werewolf's bloodline. He hates being undead and finds conversing with other undead people "boring". On a more serious note, it definitely isn't fun looking at your own appearance getting progressively more rotting and being unable to converse with your grieving family and other friends.
- Body Horror: Jack's ghost starts out resembling his freshly dead, mutilated corpse and then decays even further whenever he appears; when he shows up at the porn theater, he's practically just a skeleton with eyes and hair.
- Deadpan Snarker: Jack is without a doubt the most irreverent character in the movie. Even as a tormented ghost that is only halfway through the afterlife he merely complains that he is "not havin' a nice time here".
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In spite of his snarky attitude and banter he has with David, Jack still has sympathy for his friend's situation and stands up to Ted's ghost wishing David to choke to death when they discuss methods of suicide, and he claims that at his own funeral in New York a lot of people came to mourn his death.
- Stalker with a Crush: He comes off as this when he expressed how dead-set he is on conquering Debbie Klein's heart, and is quite disappointed that after she wept at his funeral she had Sex for Solace with Mark Levine.
Alex Price
Played by: Jenny Agutter
- Florence Nightingale Effect: How she falls in love with David. She finds him handsome and "sad." There's also hints that David being a werewolf may be inspiring those types of feelings also, if subconciously.
- Hospital Hottie: Price is a nurse played by a foxy Jenny Agutter who David easily develops feelings for and they both flirt with each other whenever she checks on him before inviting him to stay at her place once he's healed.
- Really Gets Around: Price hints at this, abruptly describing her sexual history to David.
Dr. Hirsch
Dr. J.S. Hirsch
Played by: John Woodvine
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Doctor Hirsch tries to get to the bottom of David's mystery; when he finds out that Alex is in a relationship with David, he doesn't scold her for it, just wants to make sure that she is kept safe from harm.
- Retired Badass: Dr. Hirsch references being a World War II veteran.
Inspector Villiers and Sergeant McManus
Played by: Don McKillip (Villiers) and Paul Kember (McManus)
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Sergeant McManus to Inspector Villiers. Although he's incredibly clumsy, McManus is more imaginative than the Inspector and is the first one to start believing David, only for Villiers to pretty much ignore him. He's also way less abrasive. And after Villiers' death outside the porno theater, it is McManus who takes command.
- Mean Boss: Villiers is always glaring at or cutting off McManus when he tries to ask the questions or voice an opinion, and also refuses to let him drink any of Dr. Hirsch's tea.
- Off with His Head!: Bye bye, Inspector Villiers.
- The Peter Principle: Inspector Villiers is far less competent than the men under his command.
David's Victims
Harry Berman and Judith Browns
Played by: Geoffrey Burridge (Harry) and Brenda Cavendish (Judith)
- Easily Forgiven: They are both oddly forgiving toward David, who mauled them to death as a werewolf, when their spirits visit him in the movie theater.
- Nice Guy: They are both very friendly and cheerful individuals, even in undeath; unlike the other victims, who are all understandably very angry at David for killing them as a werewolf, they display absolutely zero ill-will and act pleasant toward him. Even when they offer David suggestions on how to commit suicide, there's clearly no actual malice behind it.
Alf, Ted and Joseph
Played by: Syndey Bromley (Alf), Frank Singuineau (Ted), Will Leighton (Joseph)
- Disposable Vagrant: Averted; although the three men are homeless, their deaths are reported in the papers along with everyone else's, and their ghosts join David's other victims' in haunting him.
Gerald Bringsley
Played by: Michael Carter
Main Characters in Paris
Andy McDermott
Played by: Tom Everett Scott
Serafine Pigot
Played by: Julie Delpy
Amy Finch
Played by: Julie Bowen
- Body Horror: As a ghost her body is horribly mutilated, with her eye popping out at one point
- Good Bad Girl: She seems to be this when she's alive. She wants to have sex with Andy despite just meeting him, but is pretty nice in general.
- Vengeful Ghost: What she becomes after Andy kills her in werewolf form.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: She just disappears after her first couple ghost scenes, although it's implied that when Claude died she moved on along with the the other ghosts.
