Bertram
Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster
played by Hugh
Laurie |
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A young upper-class wastrel, good-natured and
kind-hearted, but mentally quite negligible. This combination
of traits frequently leads to trouble. A member in good standing
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Reginald
Jeeves
played by Stephen
Fry |
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Bertie Wooster's valet, a man of infinite resource
and sagacity. Must frequently use all his resources to extract
Bertie from whatever mess he's gotten himself into. |
| OTHER CHARACTERS
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Agatha
Gregson
played by Mary
Wimbush [Series 1-3], Elizabeth
Spriggs [Series 4]
Bertie's aunt, widely rumoured to eat broken glass and conduct
human sacrifices by the light of the full moon. Constantly
giving Bertie unpleasant jobs or trying to marry him off to
unsuitable females.
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Dahlia Travers
played by Brenda
Bruce [Series 1], Vivian
Pickles [Series 2], Patricia
Lawrence [Series 3], Jean
Heywood [Series 4]
Bertie's favourite aunt, in spite of the fact that she's
constantly lugging him into insane and illegal schemes.
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Tom Travers (series
1, 4)
played by Ralph
Michael
Aunt Dahlia's husband and father of Angela. Suffers from
a terrible digestion and a conviction that the world is going
to the devil in a handbasket.
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Angela Travers (series
1)
played by Amanda
Elwes
Aunt Dahlia's daughter. Engaged to Bertie's friend Tuppy
Glossop, except when she gives him the brushoff or he finds
some other female to chase after.
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Richard "Bingo"
Little
played by Michael
Siberry [Series 1-2], Pip
Torrens [Series 3-4]
Bertie's old school friend and fellow Drone. Constantly falling
in love with girls. Chronically short of money.
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Lord Bittlesham
(series 2+)
played by Geoffrey
Toone
Bingo Little's uncle and his main source of financial support.
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Hildebrand "Tuppy"
Glossop
played by Robert
Daws
Another friend of Bertie's, engaged to his cousin Angela,
but with a wandering eye.
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Augustus "Gussie"
Fink-Nottle
played by Richard
Garnett [Series 1-2], Richard
Braine [Series 3-4]
Yet another school friend of Bertie's, now living in Lincolnshire
surrounded by his beloved newts. Engaged to Madeline Bassett.
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G. D'Arcy "Stilton"
Cheesewright (series 4)
played by Nicholas
Palliser
An old schoolfriend of Bertie, now not so friendly. In later
episodes, he is engaged to Lady Florence Craye and suspects
Bertie of trying to steal her away from him.
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Cyril "Barmy"
Fotheringay-Phipps (series 1 - 2)
played by Adam
Blackwood [Series 1], Martin
Clunes [Series 2]
A friend of Bertie's. Has the IQ of a backward clam. Considered
by fellow members of the Drones Club to be a dangerous intellectual.
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"Oofy" Prosser
(series 1, 2, 4)
played by Richard
Dixon
The Drones Club millionaire.
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Roderick Spode,
later the Seventh Earl of Sidcup (series 2+)
played by John
Turner
Leader of the Black Shorts, an ineffectual British fascist
group. Frequently finds a reason to threaten Bertie with physical
violence, until Jeeves discovers his guilty secret. Secretly
in love with Madeline Bassett.
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Sir Watkyn Bassett
played by John
Woodnutt
A magistrate who once fined Bertie five pounds for stealing
a policeman's helmet and has since believed him to be an obvious
criminal type. Also the father of Madeline and the uncle and
guardian of Stiffy Byng.
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Madeline Bassett
played by Francesca
Folan [Series 1], Diana
Blackburn [Series 2], Elizabeth
Morton [Series 3-4]
Daughter of Sir Watkyn. The sort of soppy girl who believes
that the stars are God's daisy chain, and every time a fairy
blows its nose, a wee baby is born. Engaged to Gussie Fink-Nottle,
but believes that Bertie is hopelessly in love with her. It
is her express intention, if her engagement to Gussie ever
goes phut, to marry Bertie. The prospect fills Bertie with
a nameless dread.
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Stephanie "Stiffy"
Byng (series 2+)
played by Charlotte
Attenborough [Series 2 & 4], Amanda
Harris [Series 3]
An old friend of Bertie, the niece and ward of Sir Watkyn
Bassett. Engaged (most of the time) to The Rev. Stinker Pinker.
Constantly lugging Bertie and others into schemes which would
be best best left untouched.
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The Rev. Harold
"Stinker" Pinker (series 2+)
played by Simon
Treves
The curate of Totleigh-in-the-Wold and an old friend of Bertie's.
Engaged to Stiffy Byng, but can't get up the courage to ask
her guardian (Sir Watkyn) for her hand.
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Lady Florence Craye
(series 3+)
played by Fiona
Gillies [Series 3], Francesca
Folan [Series 4]
Engaged to Bertie for a while, then later to Stilton Cheesewright.
Writes novels and expects Bertie to read Nietzsche. Known
to her family's loyal servants as "Lady Caligula."
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Sir Roderick Glossop
(series 1, 2, 4)
played by Roger
Brierley [Series 1-2], Philip
Locke [Series 4]
A well-known "nerve specialist" (i.e., looney doctor).
Father of Honoria Glossop.
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Lady Glossop
(series 1 - 2)
played by Jane
Downs
Wife of Sir Roderick, mother of Honoria. Not quite certain
that Bertie would make the ideal son-in-law.
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Honoria Glossop (series
1, 2, 4)
played by Liz
Kettle
Sporty female who occasionally pops up to threaten Bertie
or one of his friends with marriage.
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Roberta "Bobbie"
Wickham (series 1 - 2)
played by Nina
Botting [Series 1], Niamh
Cusack [Series 2]
Girl who Bertie occasionally attempts to marry; generally
lugs Bertie into some horrible scheme or other.
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Marmaduke ("Chuffy"),
Lord Chuffnell (series 2)
played by Matthew
Solon
Another friend of Bertie's, one of the impoverished gentry.
Bertie rents a cottage from him when his apartment manager
evicts him over Bertie's trombone-playing.
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J. Washburn Stoker
(series 2 - 3)
played by Manning
Redwood [Series 2], Don
Fellows [Series 3]
American business magnate and father of Pauline Stoker. Lives
in dread of his daughter deciding to marry Bertie.
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Pauline Stoker (series
2 - 3)
played by Sharon
Holm [Series 2], Kim
Huffman [Series 3]
Former fiancee of Bertie, current fiancee of Chuffy.
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Claude and
Eustace Wooster (series 1, 4)
played by Hugo
E. Blick and Ian
Jeffs [Series 1], Jeremy
Brook and Joss
Brook [Series 4]
Bertie's twin cousins. Students at Oxford until their unruly
behaviour causes them to be expelled. Fun-loving chaps who
can always be relied upon to make Bertie's life far more exciting
than he'd like it to be.
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Brinkley (series
2, 4)
played by Fred
Evans
Bertie's valet for a brief period after Jeeves resigns. Later
tries to fix an election.
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Anatole (series 1)
played by John
Barrard
Aunt Dahlia's French chef. The king of his profession, and
the only man who can keep Tom Travers's stomach happy. Aunt
Dahlia can always secure Bertie's co-operation in her schemes
by threatening to withdraw Bertie's access to this master's
creations.
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