One of Horace Vandergelder's clerks who travels to New York City to escape his mundane life. He initially pretends to be wealthy to impress milliner Irene Molloy but eventually confesses the truth. He grows to love Irene and later becomes Horace's business partner.
Cornelius is Michelle's uncle and the teacher of Abigail, Edgar, Russell, and Michelle. After the poisonous gas devastates Dapplewood, he explains its dangers, directs the search for healing herbs, and later helps care for Michelle. His old flying-machine designs also enable the rescue mission.
The naive son of Senex who has fallen in love with the courtesan Philia. Too underage to legally purchase her, he relies on Pseudolus to secure her. He is briefly captured by Gloriosus but ultimately wins Philia as a free woman of patrician class.
Woody is an imaginative but eccentric comic-book writer and illustrator who insists on realism in his work. After a failed personal flight test, he becomes involved in a CIA extraction mission involving Natalia. He invents a heroic identity, designs specialized equipment, protects Natalia, and leads the rescue operation.
An inept, idealistic, naïve, and relentlessly jingoistic wartime-commissioned officer who commands the platoon. His poor leadership and misguided attempts at heroism gradually lead to the demise of his unit, though he personally survives. He repeatedly compares the war to a game, a theme reinforced by the film's visual style of replacing dead soldiers with brightly colored, face-obscured actors.
An awkward, nervous schoolteacher observing London's 1960s sexual revolution with little personal experience. He evolves from passive observation and reliance on misguided advice to finding authentic romantic connection.
Michael Crawford has 43 screen credits in a career dating back to 1958. Signature works include Once Upon a Forest, Hello, Dolly!, Condorman. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
