Character List

the Max Headroom chronicles: Characters

Characters A-E   *   CHARACTERS F-M   *   Characters N-Z

Character

Network 144 Commentator

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

J. Jay Smith *

Telebiography

Political commentator for Network 144.

* This casting match is pending verification.

Character

Network 66 Board Member (female)

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Karen Hensel

Telebiography

Female member of the Network 66 board.

Character

Network 66 Board Member (male)

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Male member of the Network 66 board who reluctantly votes to oust Thatcher. Name is "Subbs" or "Sudd" or perhaps "Sol."

Character

"Old Friend" Raker

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Raker who answers Max's questions and helps Edison Carter find Shawn's raking match.

Character

Other Board Member (Female)

Episodes

Telefilm, ?

Portrayed by

? (Telefilm)

Telebiography

Another Network 23 board member, anonymous.

Character

Other Board Member (Male)

Episodes

Telefilm, ?

Portrayed by

? (Telefilm)

Telebiography

Another Network 23 board member, anonymous.

Character

Other Producer

Episodes

1.4

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Other producer who speaks briefly with Murray as he's leaving for the night.

Character

Pancho

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Jenny Gago

Telebiography

Beautiful, blind, a Fringer and probably a Blank, Pancho is the first person Rik asks when he's looking for Blank Reg. Pancho is probably not her real name, but a monicker used to keep Blank Dominique from knowing about Reg's involvement with her.

Character

Patrick (ENG reporter)

Episodes

Telefilm

Portrayed by

Howard Samuels (Telefilm)

Telebiography

The other reporter withdrawn from the blipverts explosion scene. He and Carter clearly know each other.

Character

Paula

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Juliette Cummins

Telebiography

Fringer girl who steals Carter's vidicam and then trades it to Blank Reg, but sneers at a book as payment.

Character

Peller, Simon

Episodes

1.2, 1.6, 2.3

Portrayed by

Howard Sherman

Telebiography

Simon Peller is a tele-politician, apparently Network 23's own candidate. As is to be expected, he appears (repeatedly) to be completely for sale to the highest bidder... usually the Zik-Zak Corporation.

He seems to care about little except his ratings and his place in history. One of his goals in that vein is to stamp out the Blanks, for which he hopes the city will erect a hologram in his memory.

He is voted out of office, along with his major opponent Harriet Garth, in episode 2.3.

Character

Phil (Equipment Guy)

Episodes

1.5

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Network 23 equipment manager who lets Janie Crane sweet-talk him out of an RR-7 gun camera.

Character

Plantagenet

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

John Winston

Telebiography

Wealthy, powerful and corrupt, Plantagenet seems to care only for keeping his dying mother alive by any means, including illicit transplants stolen from living donors. With even that heinous practice failing to save her, he wants to preserve her mind with the Max Headroom process. Somehow, he knows about Cheviot and Formby's affair and uses it to blackmail Formby into giving him the process.

Character

Mother Plantagenet

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

The dying mother of Plantagenet; we apparently hear her go flatline and die in the fracas at the end.

Character

Police Chief

Episodes

1.5

Portrayed by

Yana Nirvana

Telebiography

The hard-as-nails police chief who orders a riot policeman to chase Edison Carter off of the first White Brigades explosion scene. (After all, Breakthru TV has paid for the rights!)

Character

"Porky's Landing" Amanda

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Actress playing "Amanda" on the awful Network 66 soap/drama "Porky's Landing."

Character

"Porky's Landing" Eric

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Actor playing "Eric" on the awful Network 66 soap/drama "Porky's Landing."

Character

Promoter (Raking)

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Joseph Ruskin

Telebiography

The unscrupulous promoter who is trying to sell the deadly sport of raking to Ped Xing, the Zik-Zak Corporation and Network 23.

Character

Raker Team Manager

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Lee DeBroux

Telebiography

Manager of Shawn's team of rakers.

Character

Rake-House Guard

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Heath Jobes

Telebiography

Security guard who first answers Rik's questions and is then overpowered by Rik.

Character

Rayna

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Peri Kaczmarek

Telebiography

A Fringer and probably a Blank, Rayna has a rare blood type that the body banks pay well for. On a trip into the city with Mel, she is captured by Breugal and Mahler to serve as a living pituitary gland donor for Mother Plantagenet.

Character

Rik

Episodes

1.2, 1.3, 1.4

Portrayed by

J.W. Smith (US Series)

Telebiography

Rik is a tough street honcho and a freelance "cabbie," with both motorized and foot-powered rickshaws. He and Edison Carter seem to have a history, and he's Carter's choice as a sidekick when a story leads into the darker corners of the streets.

Character

Mr. Rivas

Episodes

1.4

Portrayed by

Santos Morales

Telebiography

Edison Carter's landlord or concierge. He seems sympathetic but is unwilling to help Carter after telling him he has become a credit fraud fugitive.

Character

Mrs. Rivas

Episodes

1.4

Portrayed by

Julia Calderón

Telebiography

The wife of Edison Carter's landlord or concierge. She keeps her husband from helping Carter and calls the Metrocops on Carter.

Character

Ronald (Peller's Assistant)

Episodes

1.6

Portrayed by

John Fleck

Telebiography

Simon Peller's conniving and supercilious assistant.

Character

SS Guard

Episodes

1.4

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Guard who is first completely bamboozled by Murray and Theora's little distraction, and then helps arrest Carter and Bryce, and then Valerie Towne.

Character

SS Technician 1

Episodes

1.4

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

One of two completely clueless techs who totally trust their security procedures, even when the system makes stupid-appearing changes or enemies (with proper clearance) walk right by them.

Character

SS Technician 2

Episodes

1.4

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

The other of two completely clueless techs who totally trust their security procedures, even when the system makes stupid-appearing changes or enemies (with proper clearance) walk right by them. This one at least makes an attempt at checking things.

Character

Security Supervisor

Episodes

1.1

Portrayed by

Irene Olga López

Telebiography

Network 23 security supervisor who calls "Code Zed" and sends the guards after Edison Carter in Bryce's 13th-floor lab.

Character

Ted (Theora's stud)

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Lover with Theora when Carter calls her early in the morning. We never see him clearly, but get his name from Carter's peeking in her computer schedule.

Character

Television News Reader

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Rick Deats

Telebiography

On-screen newsreader who emotes a story about a rogue cannon taking out news satellites.

Character

Thatcher, Clive

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Stephen Elliott

Telebiography

Chairman of Network 66 who makes the unfortunate mistake of bringing the disgraced Ned Grossberg onto the board. Grossberg quickly sets up a triple-cross, leaving Thatcher to take responsibility for the false story of Harriet Garth's affair. With Thatcher voted out, the remaining board concedes the chairmanship to Grossberg.

Character

Towne, Valerie

Episodes

1.4

Portrayed by

Carol Mayo Jenkins

Telebiography

The brilliant and deceptive chief of Security Systems, Inc., Valerie Towne convinced Edison Carter that she was the victim of powerful takeover elements. In the end, SS's shenanigans proved to be according to her plan, and even the A-7 artificial intelligence she had programmed and befriended turned against her.

Character

Traker

Episodes

1.6

Portrayed by

Brian Brophy

Telebiography

Blank Bruno's more bloodthirsty cohort who urges running the overload program and affixed a demolition charge to the Solar Trigger.

Character

Transplant Doctor

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Robert Dowdell

Telebiography

Doctor preparing to perform the pituitary transplant between Rayna and Mother Plantagenet.

The identifier "F. Nightengale" appears on his viewphone screen while talking to Dr. Mason, and he refers to "our body bank." Is this Dr. Nightingale?

Character

Victorious Raker

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Raker who downs Shawn in his final match.

Character

Viper

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Raker presented as the "home team champion."

Character

Fresh Start Terminal (voice)

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Voice of the restaurant terminal where Carter orders drinks. Not clear if it is an AI or a remote link to a human. May be Tabi Cooper's voice in a second role.

Characters

Computer Court 9 - voice
Carter's Computer - voice
TV Election Announcer (female) - voice
TV Election Announcer (male) - voice
Gabrielle (Peller's Secretary) - voice
Bruno's Computer - voice
Solar Trigger - voice

Episode

1.6

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Computer voices in this episode, all female except for one, no credits. Some or all (particularly "Gabrielle") may be Sandra Sexton.

Character

Winnie [Jones]

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Lorilyn Huckstep

Telebiography

Shawn Jones' wife and Theora's sister-in-law. Although it is not clear if Shawn and Winnie are actually married, they are that or living common-law, and have an infant son.

Character

Xing, Ped

Episodes

1.2, 1.3, 1.5

Portrayed by

Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad

Telebiography

Chairman of the powerful Zik-Zak Corporation. Honored by signs on nearly every block of every city.


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