Well-meaning but clumsy father obsessed with creating perfect family vacations.
Clumsy patriarch obsessed with perfect family vacations, often causing hilarious chaos.
Mysterious technician who maintains the time-traveling hot tub.
Clark is Rusty's father and Ellen's husband. He runs a bed and breakfast with Ellen in San Francisco, where the exhausted family stays after the road trip collapses. Clark encourages Rusty the next morning, helping him borrow the family Wagon Queen Family Truckster and continue the vacation to Walley World.
Relaxed, philosophical golfer and club co-founder's son who teams up with Czervik against Smails in the final match.
One of the three Hollywood actors mistaken for real heroes, known for botching a magical ritual and crashing into Carmen's quarters during the rescue mission.
Dr. Grant is an original Zenith Project scientist who discovers that Connor Shepard survived inside a dimensional rift and is returning. His later revelation that Connor can be saved gives Jack Sheppard and the new Team Zenith a solution beyond simply destroying him, helping resolve the central conflict.
A Manhattan financial publisher who escorts lawyer Diane Lightson on a road trip that detours into the cursed town of Valkenvania. He becomes the primary target of the Judge due to his profession, enduring multiple capture attempts, forced marriage threats, and execution machines before ultimately rescuing Diane and surviving the town's destruction.
Well-meaning but clumsy father obsessed with perfect family vacations.
Bumbling, enthusiastic father who plans chaotic family vacations with relentless optimism.
A stock analyst who accidentally becomes invisible after a lab accident. He evades CIA agents, relies on Alice Monroe for help, records his memoirs to blackmail his pursuers, and ultimately outsmarts his enemies to start a new life in Switzerland.
Wisecracking, pencil-pushing son of an envoy who takes the foreign service exam under peer pressure. Promoted alongside Millbarge to GLG-20 operatives as expendable decoys. They escape enemy attacks, uncover a secret SDI laser test, launch a Soviet ICBM by mistake, and eventually help divert it using Millbarge's expertise. Later becomes a nuclear disarmament negotiator.
Chevy Chase has 148 screen credits in a career dating back to 1952. Their work spans 6 cinematic universes — most prominently National Lampoon Vacation with 4 titles. Signature works include National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, National Lampoon's Vacation, ¡Three Amigos!. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
Universe traveler — spans 6 universes
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