List of Jurassic Park characters

The following is a list of characters from Michael Crichton's novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World. Details are also given on the characters' roles in Steven Spielberg's film adaptations, Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, as well as Jurassic Park III, directed by Joe Johnston. The latter is not an adaptation but contains characters and events based on Crichton's novels.

Recurring characters

These characters appear more than once in the franchise.

Dr. Alan Grant

Main article: Alan Grant (Jurassic Park character)

Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film), Jurassic Park III

Dr. Alan Grant is one of the main characters in Michael Crichton's novel and in the films Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. In the novel, Grant is described as a wide chested, bearded man that has a strong affinity with children, specially due to their liking for dinosaurs. Grant is said to be one of the world's most renowned paleontologists, his speciality being the hadrosaurs, or duck billed dinosaurs such as Maiasaura. He is mentioned only once in the sequel novel The Lost World by Richard Levine, who claims he had proposed a ridiculous theory that the Tyrannosaurus rex could not function in rainy climates.

In the movies, he was played by Sam Neill. The movie's Dr. Grant does not like children at all and seems to be a rather introvert person. He is never said to be a widower, and instead, he is dating paleobotanist Ellie Sattler. In the first movie, Grant is asked by John Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park, to take a tour of Jurassic Park and endorse it, so that Hammond's investors will be more confident about the park. Grant agrees, not knowing that Hammond has managed to clone real dinosaurs. However, when the creatures escape and start killing people, Grant becomes stranded in the park with Hammond's grandchildren. Although this experience changes his mind about children, he decides not to endorse Jurassic Park, and so Hammond's project never becomes public. In the movie, Alan Grant is a specialist in Velociraptor, and he is among the many paleontologists that believe birds are descended from that kind of dinosaurs. In Jurassic Park III, Alan Grant is having trouble financing his dig, and so he reluctantly agrees to join a wealthy couple for an aerial tour over Isla Sorna. Eventually they become stranded on the island once again, and Grant realizes, much to his dismay, that his theories about the extremely advanced intelligence on raptors were correct. Fortunately, he escapes the island. He is rumored to return in Jurassic Park IV, but Sam Neill has repeatedly stated that he was not asked to reprise his character. The character of Alan Grant is based mainly on paleontologists Jack Horner and Robert T. Bakker. He also has some elements similar to adventure hero Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford was the original choice to play the character), such as the fact that his hat always returns to him (perhaps a parody to the earlier character).

Dr. Ian Malcolm

Main article: Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film), The Lost World (novel and film)

Dr. Ian Malcolm, alongside Dr. Grant, is another key figure in the Jurassic Park films and novels, He is a mathematician specializing in the study of the chaos theory and refers to himself as a "chaotician". Jeff Goldblum portrayed Malcolm in both the Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park film adaptations. Malcolm is John Hammond's primary critic in both the novel and film, accurately predicting the instability of Hammond's creation. Malcolm is seriously injured in the first book, and supposedly dies from his injuries. However, he returns in the sequel novel, The Lost World, alive but crippled, stating that his apparent death was a "gross exaggeration". He survives the film with a comparatively minor leg injury, and was returned with a minor limp for the film adaptation of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In both the films and books, Malcolm is an eccentric character who dresses entirely in black, and is described as having the mannerisms of a rock star in the original Jurassic Park film adaptation by Hammond. After the events in the first film, he is sobered by his experiences there and returns as a much more moody, darker character in The Lost World. Acting as the protagonist in "The Lost World", Ian serves as Grant's opposite and rival.

John Hammond

Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film), The Lost World (film)

John Parker Hammond is the creator of Jurassic Park and founder of InGen. He is portrayed by Richard Attenborough in the films his character is in, and is loosely modeled after famed Scottish-American industrialist and dinosaur collector Andrew Carnegie. In the films, he appears as a sympathetic grandfather, but in the book he is depicted as an eccentric, polite CEO solely interested in profit and dinosaurs. In the novels, he is killed near the end of Jurassic Park and is mentioned briefly in the sequel. In the films, he survives in the first film, and is seen again in the second film. He was also briefly mentioned in the third film.

In the original novel, he survives until after the power has been turned back on, when he denies that his park has become a failure. Once all of the raptors are away from the lodge, he goes outside for a walk and hears a Tyrannosaurus roaring. Not knowing that it is just his grandchildren fooling around with the speakers, he jumps down a hill and breaks his ankle. Before he can climb up the hill, he is killed by a large group of Procompsognathus. This was reworked into The Lost World film adaptation, but with Dieter Stark replacing Hammond, and the Procompsognathus being Compsognathus.

Dr. Ellie Sattler

Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film), Jurassic Park III

Dr. Ellie Sattler is Dr. Alan Grant's graduate student specializing in paleobotany. She joined him on the tour of InGen's dinosaur preserve. In the first film, it could be interpreted that she is in a relationship with Grant, but Grant's dismissive confirmation to Malcolm in the car could also be seen as simply friendly protection from the rock-star mathematician.

In the book she is engaged to a doctor. (In the film Jurassic Park III, we learn that the relationship between her and Dr. Grant did not work out, although they remain close friends. She is married to a man named Mark Degler, a man who works for the State Department and specializes in International Relations and Treaty Law.)

Ellie is portrayed by Laura Dern in both films.

Dr. Martin "Marty" Guitierrez

Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel), The Lost World (novel)

A doctor from the United States who moved to Costa Rica to learn, he plays an expository role in both novels. He is Richard Levine's best, and perhaps only, friend. He did not appear in any of the three films produced.

Alexis "Lex" Murphy

Apears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film), The Lost World (film)

"Lex" is Tim Murphy's sister and John Hammond's granddaughter. She is the younger sibling. In the novel, she is a sporty young girl who loves baseball and is relatively outgoing. She was played in the first and second film by Ariana Richards. In the film version, she was made the older sibling and was a computer genius which is what Tim was in the novel. Her knowledge of them eventually helps the survivors escape the raptors at the end of the first movie. In the film, she is saved from the T. rex by Dr. Grant when he grabs her and rapples down the wall of the tyrannosaur's paddock. In the novel, she manages to escape the T. rex by herself and hides from the dinosaur in a pipe (much like Robert Muldoon after being chased by the raptors).

Tim Murphy

Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film), The Lost World (film)

Tim is Lex Murphy's brother and John Hammond's grandson. He is easily annoyed by and annoys his sister. In the film, he and Dr. Grant strike up a friendship because of Tim's interest in and knowledge of dinosaurs. Tim is older than Lex in the novel but younger in the film version. He was portrayed by Joseph Mazzello in the first film, and also made a brief cameo in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

Dr. Lewis Dodgson

Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film), The Lost World (novel)

An ambitious, unethical rival scientist, Dodgson is not above corporate espionage and theft to advance Biosyn's technology. In the first novel and film, Dodgson hires Dennis Nedry to steal embryo samples for reverse engineering.

In the sequel novel, Dodgson is much more ambitious. He takes a team to Isla Sorna in an attempt to collect fertilized dinosaur eggs. He is ultimately killed when a Tyrannosaurus feeds him to a nest of T. rex newborns. In the first and only film his character is in, he is played by Cameron Thor.

Dodgson's name is a reference to Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Dodgson.

Jurassic Park

These characters appear in the novel and movie Jurassic Park.

John (Ray) Arnold

Ray Arnold (played by Samuel L. Jackson in the film) ran the main control center from within the visitor center. After Dennis Nedry turned off the power to the park, Arnold volunteered to go outside and restore it, but was killed by a velociraptor in the shed before he could. In the book, Arnold's first name was John, though in the movie he was renamed Ray Arnold. His killing was confirmed when Ellie found his arm behind some tangled wires in the maintenance shed when it dropped on her shoulder.

Donald Gennaro

Gennaro, portrayed by Martin Ferrero in the first film, was the lawyer that accompanied the first group to Isla Nublar. In the film he was killed by a Tyrannosaurus while hiding from it in one of the park's bathrooms. In the novel Gennaro survives but is mentioned as having died of dysentery sometime in between the first novel and its sequel. In the film he is portrayed as an egotistical, worried, greedy person. Also in the film, he abandons Tim and Lex when the Tyrannosaurus escapes its paddock, though ironically that leads to him being eaten by the carnivore while everyone else survives. In the novel he's a large, brave man who helps Muldoon shoot the Tyrannosaurus but is afraid of the raptor nest; while in the movie he is neither large nor seemingly brave. Also of note is the fact that in the novel, he was one of only two characters to be attacked head-on by a Velociraptor and survive.

Dr. Gerry Harding

Jurassic Park's chief veterinarian, who makes a brief appearance with the sick Triceratops in the first Jurassic Park film. In the first novel he appears to help a sick Stegosaurus and then helps Ian Malcolm recover from his injuries. He survives a Velociraptor jumping onto him from the roof of the visitor center, unlike Henry Wu, and is rescued at the end of the book. He assumes that Malcolm is dead, but actually manages to revive him in time. It is not made clear whether he is related to Sarah Harding in the novel nor film; although Michael Crichton later revealed that this was the case. In the novel The Lost World, Sarah informs Ian Malcolm that her father was a veterinarian specializing in birds at the San Diego zoo, which was noted of Harding's character in the first novel. Harding is played by Gerald R. Molen, the film's producer. The character is not given a first name in the novel, but it is assumed that "Gerry" is derived from "Gerald." It is unknown what happens to him in the film, but it can be assumed that he left before the power went out.

Robert Muldoon

Jurassic Park's game warden. Muldoon comes from Kenya, and had been a long-time employee of John Hammond, working at Hammond's animal park in his homeland. Muldoon was aware of the dinosaurs' threats and felt that they should be destroyed. In the novel, Muldoon has a larger arsenal of weapons including a rocket launcher or two and is an alcoholic, while the film counter-part only has a Franchi SPAS-12, though this probably wasn't his full arsenal seeing that he got his gun from the emergency bunker locker, and is much more serious (several other firearms, including M16 rifles can be seen inside it). In the film, Muldoon is killed by raptors, but in the novel, he survives the initial attack by wedging himself in a pipe, during which he severely injures one raptor with a gun. He manages to kill a few of them instead and escapes the island. He is not mentioned in the novel's sequel. Interestingly, the non-canon Jurassic Park comic sequels published by Topps comics depict Muldoon surviving the Raptor attack as well. The pretense for this was that Muldoon had become so acquainted with the raptors that they were prone to play around, and the attack seen on film was ostensibly just the raptors playing with him. This heavily contradicts Muldoon's very negative opinion of the creatures in both the novel and film. Muldoon was portrayed by Bob Peck in the film adaptation but the action figure released by Kenner in 1993 looked entirely different with a muscular frame and crew hair cut.

Dennis Nedry

Dennis Nedry was an obese computer networker. Nedry worked for John Hammond and was in charge of networking Jurassic Park's computers. In the novel, Nedry doesn't know what InGen does: he was ordered to program without many details, and was called to the island to fix numerous bugs. However, Hammond refused to pay him any extra money for his work. Eventually Lewis Dodgson of Biosyn offered Nedry $1.5 million to steal embryos from Jurassic Park's labs (coincidentally, in the novel, Henry Wu later reveals that the embryos Nedry steals are worth at the very least 2 million.) In order to do this - and make a swift escape from the visitor center - Nedry had to shut down the park's security systems, including the electric fences surrounding the dinosaur paddocks. Without power, the fences go out, and the creatures escape. His death in the novel is far more graphic than in the film adaptation, as Nedry's stomach is slashed open and his corpse is eaten by a Dilophosaurus. Just before he dies, he drops the shaving cream can that contains the frozen embryos. What results from this is never explained in the series, although it is possible that it may resurface as a major plot point in the fourth installment, after scripts surfaced for a fourth Jurassic Park film involved this (although Dodgson mentioned in the first movie that there was only enough coolant in the can to last 36 hours).

Wayne Knight played the role of Nedry in the film adaptation.

Dr. Henry Wu

Wu was the chief geneticist in Jurassic Park and head of the team that created the dinosaurs. In the movie he reveals that all the dinosaurs on the island are female. In the novel, Wu has a much larger part; he proposes genetically altering further saurian creations to make them more manageable, something that Hammond opposes.

In the novel, he and the other survivors are holed up in the lodge while Ellie is making a distraction for the raptors so they won't attack Grant, who is trying to restore the park's power. However, two raptors already inside the compound which the survivors had kept in sight suddenly disappear, so Wu goes out to warn Ellie that they are on the move. As he does, one of the same raptors jumps down from the roof and kills him. The film does not explain Wu's fate, but it's likely he left the island on the last boat to the mainland before the power failure. In the film Wu was portrayed by B.D. Wong.

Ed Regis

Appears in novel only

Regis was a publicist for InGen who acted as a babysitter during Dr. Grant's visit to the park. He meets a fate similar to the film version of Donald Gennaro, namely that of being eaten by Tyrannosaurus after running out of the car (though he hides between two rocks and is instead eaten by the younger T. rex). He was written out of the movie, and certain aspects of his character were given to Gennaro.

Mr. DNA

Appears in film only

Mr. DNA was a cartoon character that looked like a strand of DNA, hence the name. He only appeared in the film and he was used to explain how the dinosaurs were cloned and created by appearing in a movie presentation that Jurassic Park's first visitors saw. Mr. DNA was voiced by actor Greg Burson.

The Lost World

These characters appear only in The Lost World.

Dr. Sarah Harding

Dr. Sarah Harding (played by Julianne Moore in the film adaptation) is a behavioral paleontologist, and the girlfriend of Ian Malcolm in the film. In the novel, it is revealed they once had a relationship which did not work, causing them to become close friends instead. She is very intelligent, but has little common sense at moments, and puts herself in danger many times. Michael Crichton confirmed that she was Dr. Gerry Harding's daughter.

Eddie Carr

Eddie is the group's field equipment expert. He becomes a part of the team sent to the island since the vehicles he designed were Field tested. He is described as a slender and strong 25 year old who prefers the city. He has black hair and is balding. He is also African-American in the novel while he is caucasian and middle age in the film. In the novel, Eddie is killed by a pack of raptors while fighting them off with an iron pipe. In the film he is ripped in half in mid-air by a group of Tyrannosaurus but successfully saved Ian Malcolm, Sarah Harding, and Nick Van Owen from the overturned trailers. Furthermore, his heroic actions earn him a mention later on in the film, when Roland Tembo claims, "The Rex just fed," to which Malcolm counters, "Just fed? I assume you were talking about Eddie. You might show a little respect, the man just saved our lives by giving his." In the movie he is played by Richard Schiff.

Kelly Curtis

Appears in novel and edited in film

Kelly is the closest friend of Arby's. Like Arby, she is smart, yet, in all other issues she is completely different; she is caucasian, adventurous and free-spirited. She lives with her recently divorced mother in a middle-class neighborhood. Unlike her classmates, Kelly is fascinated by science and idolizes Sarah Harding. It was her idea to accompany Malcolm and Thorne once she learned that Harding would join the group later, but she left the planning to Arby. The film adaptation features Kelly, however, her character was merged with Arby's, creating a female African-American. In the film she is Malcolm's daughter, and is a skilled Gymnastic, despite being cut from her school's team. She was played by Vanessa Lee Chester in the film. She is the only character in the film to kill a Velociraptor.

R.B. "Arby" Benton

Appears in novel only

Better known as Arby, R.B. Benton is a young African American who is friends with Kelly.

Howard King

Appears in novel only

Howard is an assistant to Lewis Dodgson. Once a successful biologist employed by Biosyn, he lost credibility when his research on blood-coagulation factors failed, but Dodgson hires King as his assistant in the reverse engineering department. In time, he learns how to deal with Dodgson and how to cover his mistakes. In the novel, he accompanies Dodgson to the island, but they separate when they fail to retrieve eggs from a Tyrannosaurus nest. Eventually, he is slashed in the back and has his head bitten off at the neck by Velociraptors as he tries to escape from a field. His death is worked into Jurassic Park III, with Udesky replacing King.

George Baselton

Appears in novel only

Baselton is Stanford University's Regis Professor of Biology and assistant to Lewis Dodgson. It is his job to keep Dodgson and Biosyn in the clear, no matter what happens. He has hardly any spoken dialogue in the novel, and is the second casualty on the island. When he and Dodgson are trying to steal Tyrannosaurus eggs, the sonic device Dodgson is using to keep the rexes at bay becomes unplugged and both men stand absolutely still, falsely believing the rexes' vision is based on movement. The rex knocks Baselton over, steps on him and rips off his arm. He is then eaten by the rex, and possibly fed to the baby rexes. Dr. Sarah Harding sees his severed foot later in the novel, which is apparently all that is left of him.

Richard Levine

Appears in novel only

Levine is one of the world's most brilliant paleontologists, as well as one of the richest; unfortunately, he is also one of its most egotistical. Dr. Marty Guitierrez seems to be his only real friend, though he eventually forms a prickly working relationship with Ian Malcolm. His egotism and enthusiasm about the "aberrant forms" from Costa Rica annoy Malcolm severely. The children Arby Benton and Kelly Curtis look up to him, and he eventually he develops a somewhat paternal attitude towards them.

Diego

Appears in novel only

Diego is Levine's guide on Isla Sorna. He is a young, enthusiastic Costa Rican. He went to the island several times as a boy and thus knows the land better than anyone else. However, he does not believe there are dinosaurs there and when Levine warns him to be quiet he simply says that they have nothing to fear, as only birds live on the island. He seems to annoy Levine many times, not only through his insistence that only birds live on the island, but disobeys his orders when using items like cigarettes while on Isla Sorna. Diego is killed by a Carnotaurus when, while he and Levine watch a Mussaurus in total awe, a Carnotaurus silently ambushes Diego and pulls him into nearby bushes. Carter seams to have inherited his attitude in the film adaption

Jack 'Doc' Thorne

Appears in novel only

Jack Thorne is a Material Engineer who specializes in building field equipment, vehicles and weaponry for scientists all over the world. He is an eclectic mix of character traits, relying on both practical expertise and Eastern philosophy, and claiming that one needs to know philosophy and history to succeed in engineering. His company, Mobile Field Systems, is hired by Richard Levine to outfit his expedition to study the dinosaur population on Isla Sorna. Thorne's contribution to Levine's mission includes a large research trailer called the "Challenger," along with a smaller, second trailer; an electric SUV and Motor Bike; a pair of Lindstradt air rifles; and a modified one-pound Satellite phone. When Levine goes missing on the island, Thorne ends up heading to Sorna along with Ian Malcolm and Eddie Carr to retrieve him. Once the rescue team reaches Site B, they often find that they are in need of rescuing, and Thorne ends up saving his friends multiple times, and is one of the survivors of Isla Sorna.

Nick Van Owen

Appears in film only

Nick Van Owen is a well-traveled and experienced "documentarian," photo journalist and environmentalist, who travels with Malcolm and Eddie to Isla Sorna to rescue Sarah Harding. He did not appear in the novel. With the help of Sarah, Nick was able to free all the Dinosaurs that the InGen hunters have caught, destroying most of their equipment. But was forced to team up with them after their own equipment was destroyed. He disable Tembo's rifle before heading to an old InGen radio station to call for help. After getting through the Velociraptor nesting site, Nick went ahead of the others to call for help at the station. He then escaped the Island along with the others (Malcolm, Sarah, and Kelly). He did not take part of the San Diego incident. He was played by Vince Vaughn.

Peter Ludlow

Appears in film only

Peter Ludlow is the newly elected CEO of InGen and John Hammond's nephew. He attained the position during an impromptu meeting with InGen's board of directors after an accident involving the Bowmans and a pack of compies prompted them to unanimously oust Hammond with Ludlow as his replacement.

Ludlow was responsible for assembling the InGen team to recover Isla Sorna's dinosaurs for display in San Diego. In the end, he only managed to bring back the male Tyrannosaurus rex and its infant, with disasterous results. He met his demise when, while trying to recover the infant in the hold of an InGen cargo ship, he was confronted by its monstrous parent, whom he'd thought dead after ordering him to be put down. The rex chomped onto Ludlow's leg, breaking it, and then gave him alive to the infant so it could make its first kill.

Ludlow's character could best be described as based upon the novel's Lewis Dodgson: ruthless, selfish, greedy, and rather condescending to those who worked for him or that he disliked. As a result he was not very well respected by the members of his team as demonstrated when they chose to follow Roland Tembo, or Nick van Owen but basically ignored Ludlow. He was least respected by Roland Tembo, due mostly to Ludlow's inexperience (he suggested camping in the middle of a game trail until Roland coldly informed him that carnivores hunt on game trails).

Ludlow further mirrors Dodgson in that he is responsible for breaking the infant tyrannosaur's leg and is basically killed the same way (although in Dodgson's case, he was killed and devoured by three rex infants and this takes place in the rex nest).

Ludlow was portrayed by Arliss Howard.

Roland Tembo

Appears in film only

Roland Tembo is a famous animal hunter, hired by InGen. He did not appear in the novel. He came to Isla Sorna along with his hunting partner, Ajay Sidhu, in hopes of capturing the ultimate trophy, a male T. rex. Dieter Stark was hired by InGen to be his second-in-command, but shows little respect to him. When a T. rex attack the campsite, Tembo couldn't fire at it as Nick Van Owen disabled Tembo's rifle. He instead tranquilize it. Despite the fact that he finally got his trophy, he was saddened when he realized that he was the only survivor, besides Ludlow. Everyone else was killed by Velociraptors, including Ajay. He leaves the island by helicopter, with a different view of hunting. He was played by Pete Postlethwaite.

Ajay Sidhu

Appears in film only

Ajay Sidhu, played by Harvey Jason, is Roland Tembo's hunting partner from India. He appears only in the film, and helps Tembo in many ways. He tries to tell Tembo's men to stay out of long grass, which is where velociraptors are hidden. He is ultimately killed by raptors. Ajay's passing changes Roland Tembo's mind about hunting.

Dieter Stark

Appears in film only

Dieter Stark was appointed by InGen to be Tembo's second-in-command. He only appeared in the film. Despite being his second-in-command, Tembo does not respect him as much Ajay Sidhu. He is cruel to the Dinosaurs, mainly the Compsognathus, and doesn't seem to be nice to his comrades. After getting separated from the others, he was attack by a group of Compsognathus. After being chased across a river, Dieter was finally killed and eaten by the Compys. He was played by Peter Stormare. His death mirrors John Hammond's death in the original novel.

Dr. Robert Burke

Appears in film only

Dr. Robert Burke is the InGen Hunter's pompous paleontologist. Despite being one of their few, and possible their only, paleontologist, his facts seem to be mostly untrue. He is eaten by a T. rex, while he was hiding under a waterfall along with Nick, Sarah, and Kelly, after a snake slithered down into his shirt. The snake, ironically, was a milksnake. He was played by Thomas F. Duffy.

Carter

Appears in film only

Carter is Dieter Stark's driver. Stark is killed by Compys, after Carter does not hear his cries for help when listening to some music. He also, despite Malcolm's warnings, alerted the camp of the Tyrannosaurus with his screams of terror. He was killed while running from the Tyrannosaurus after he slipped on the wet mud, and was consequentially trampled by the fleeing mercenary camp before being finally stepped on and smashed underneath by one of the Tyrannosaurus's foot multiple times, until his smashed corspe was left floating in a footprint puddle. His death is ironic as he was the first to see the dinosaur and was the first one to be killed by it.

Jurassic Park III

These characters only appear in the third film.

Paul Kirby

The owner of a hardware store who poses as a wealthy businessman in order to lure Grant onto Isla Sorna to help the Kirbys search for their son. He is played by William H. Macy in the film.

Amanda Kirby

Paul's ex-wife who accompanies the group to Site B, feeling guilty for having lost Eric. She is played by Téa Leoni in the film.

Billy Brennan

A young and overenthusiastic graduate student at Grant's digsite whose impulsive actions land the entire rescue party in danger. He later redeems himself by saving them from pterosaurs. Although the pterosaurs gave him many injuries, he survived and was rescued by the navy and marines who were sent by Ellie Sattler. He is played by Alessandro Nivola in the film.

Erik Kirby

The 12-year-old son of Paul and Amanda who ends up stranded on Site B for eight weeks, and must fend for himself. He found a way to collect T. rex urine and to collect a Raptor Claw. Dr. Grant said he had a fossil one, from the first film, but Erik's reply was that this was a new one. He is played by Trevor Morgan in the film.

A separate series of books entitled 'Jurassic Park Adventures' documented Erik's time on Isla Sorna (as well as other related stories) before Grant and the others arrive. The book series was written by Scott Ciencin.

Udesky

A meek but sardonic mercenary "booking agent" who travels with his two associates to the island when the man who was supposed to go falls ill. He gets lost when the group runs through a forest (and climb up a tree) and is wounded by raptors, who allow him to approach the tree in order to draw the others down. Their plan fails, and the raptors ended up killing Udesky by snapping his neck in their anger. He is played by Michael Jeter in the film. His death was based on Howard King's death in The Lost World novel.

Mr. Cooper

A tough and quiet mercenary who is killed by a Spinosaurus on the Site B runway. He was played by John Diehl in the film. He was eaten by the Spinosaurus while trying to get to the plane to leave the island. His death was very similar to Dino Crisis, where one of the characters (also named Cooper) is eaten by a T rex.

M.B. Nash

The Kirby's mercenary pilot who abandons Cooper and is subsequently eaten by a Spinosaurus. He was carrying a satellite phone given to him by Paul Kirby at the time he was eaten, which acts as a warning to the other humans. When they hear the chimes of the phone, audible from within the dinosaur's belly, they know that the Spinosaurus is near, a parody on the crocodile with the clock from Peter Pan.

Charlie Degler

The young son of Ellie and Mark, who thinks of Alan Grant as "The Dinosaur Man".

Enrique Cardoso

The operator of the illegal para-sailing service, "Dino-Soar," which brings visitors to sightsee along the coast of Isla Sorna. He is hired by Ben Hildebrand and Eric Kirby to take them to the island; however, Enrique and his Boat Driver are attacked by a Pteranodon [1] when they enter a fog bank, causing the vessel to crash and the tourists to become stranded on Site B.

Ben Hildebrand

Amanda's boyfriend, Ben is known for being adventurous and even reckless. He takes Eric para-sailing near Isla Sorna. When the Boat Crew is killed by Pterosaurs, Ben's quick thinking saves the pair, as he disconnects the para-sail from the vessel and glides onto the island; however, they crash-land in a tree, and Ben dies from a supposed Velociraptor attack shortly after; his corpse is later found with his parachute.

External links

• Jurassic Park Legacy
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