The Ghostbusters
The team that founds and runs the business is made up of four members. Three are scientists who lose their university research posts and go into business catching ghosts; the fourth joins after the firm starts hiring.
Supporting characters
These characters work alongside the Ghostbusters or are drawn into their cases.
- Janine Melnitz, the firm's receptionist, who fields calls at the firehouse and manages the front desk.
- Dana Barrett, a cellist whose apartment becomes a focal point of the first film's haunting.
- Louis Tully, Dana's neighbor, an accountant whose pursuit of her ties him into the larger supernatural events.
- Walter Peck, an Environmental Protection Agency official who pushes to shut the Ghostbusters down.
Ghosts and villains
The entities and antagonists the team confronts across the films.
- Gozer, the ancient, shape-shifting deity summoned atop Dana's apartment building as the first film's central threat.
- Zuul, the Gatekeeper, a demonic minion of Gozer who possesses Dana.
- Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster, Zuul's counterpart, who takes over Louis Tully.
- Slimer, the green, food-obsessed ghost first caught at a hotel and later a recurring presence in the wider Ghostbusters franchise.
- Library Ghost, the apparition the team encounters at the New York Public Library in the film's opening case.
When Gozer manifests, it takes the form of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the destructor that stomps through Manhattan in the first film's climax.
Related pages
The principal cast of the original film is documented in the film's released credits.1
References
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Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman (Columbia Pictures, 1984), end credits.