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Ghostbusters Characters

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The original Ghostbusters films center on a four-man team of paranormal investigators and the people and entities around them. This page is a directory of the principal characters from Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), grouped into the founding team, the supporting cast who orbit the firm, and the ghosts and villains they face. Follow any name to its full page.

Contents

  1. The Ghostbusters
  2. Supporting characters
  3. Ghosts and villains
  4. Related pages
  5. References
  6. Footnotes
View historyLast edited June 14, 2026 by GBFans Staff

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  • Ghostbusters (1984)

Related Pages

  • Cast
  • Filming Locations
  • Ghostbusters Books
  • Ghostbusters Crew
  • Ghostbusters Soundtrack
  • Ghostbusters cast and crew
  • Production Sketches
  • Special Effects Photos
  • Ghostbusters Comics by 88MPH Studios
  • Ghostbusters Score

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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.

  • Dr. Peter Venkman, played by Bill Murray. The fast-talking, skeptical front man of the group who handles clients and publicity.
  • Dr. Ray Stantz, played by Dan Aykroyd. The most enthusiastic believer of the founders and the team's hands-on gearhead.
  • Dr. Egon Spengler, played by Harold Ramis. The reserved scientific mind behind the team's equipment and theory.
  • Winston Zeddemore, played by Ernie Hudson. The everyman hire who joins the team once the workload grows.

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

  • Ghostbusters (1984)
  • Ghostbusters II (1989)
  • Ghostbusters II Characters
  • The Real Ghostbusters (1986-1991)

The principal cast of the original film is documented in the film's released credits.1

References

Footnotes

  1. Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman (Columbia Pictures, 1984), end credits. ↩

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