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Trancers is an American action-science fiction film series started in 1984 by Empire Pictures, and continued by Full Moon Features. All but the most recent film star Tim Thomerson as Jack Deth.
The series consists of 6 feature films, 1 short film, and 2 comic book series.
Jack Deth is a cop in the 23rd century who travels back in time to 1984 to attempt to stop the creation of Trancers, an army of zombie-like humans for the first three movies. In movies 4 and 5, Deth is transporter to a parallel world, the Land of Orpheus, to continue the fight against Trancers. [1]
| Film | Director | Writer(s) | Producer(s) |
| Trancers (1984) | Charles Band | Danny Bilson & Paul De Meo | Charles Band |
| Trancers: City of Lost Angels (segment of Pulse Pounders ) (1988) | |||
| Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth (1991) | Charles Band (story) & Jackson Barr | ||
| Trancers III: Deth Lives (1992) | C. Courtney Joyner | Albert Band | |
| Trancers 4: Jack of Swords (1994) | David Nutter | Peter David | Oana Paunescu & Vlad Paunescu |
| Trancers 5: Sudden Deth (1994) | |||
| Trancers 6 (2002) | Jay Woelfel | C. Courtney Joyner | Johnnie J. Young |
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- This table shows the principal characters and the actors who have portrayed them throughout the franchise.
- A dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film, or that the character's presence in the film has not yet been announced.
- A C indicates a cameo appearance.
- A P indicates an appearance in onscreen photographs only.
- A A indicates an appearance in archival footage only.
- A U indicates an uncredited role.
- A V indicates a voice-only role.
- A Y indicates a younger version of the role.
| Character | Trancers | Pulse Pounders Trancers: City of Lost Angels | Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth | Trancers III: Deth Lives | Trancers 4: Jack of Swords | Trancers 5: Sudden Deth | Trancers 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 1988, 2013 | 1991 | 1992 | 1994 | 2002 | ||
| Jack Deth | Tim Thomerson | Tim Thomerson A Zette Sullivan (as Jo Deth) | |||||
| Leena Deth | Helen Hunt | Helen Hunt P | |||||
| Cmdr. Ruth "Ruthie" Raines | Telma Hopkins | Mentioned | |||||
| Police Commissioner "Little" "Baby" McNulty I | Alyson Croft | ||||||
| Police Commissioner McNulty II | Art LaFleur | Mentioned | |||||
| Hap Ashby | Biff Manard | Biff Manard | Mentioned | ||||
| Detective "Whistler" Weisling | Michael Stefani | ||||||
| Santa Claus | Pete Schrum | ||||||
| The Warden | Grace Zabriskie | ||||||
| Edlin Shock | Velvet Rhodes | ||||||
| E.D. Wardo | Richard Lynch | ||||||
| Alice Stillwell-Deth | Mentioned | Megan Ward | Mentioned | ||||
| Harris | Stephen Macht | ||||||
| Shark | R. A. Mihailoff | Mentioned | |||||
| Colonel Daddy Muthuh | Andrew Robinson | ||||||
| R.J. | Melanie Smith | ||||||
| Josephine "Jo Deth" Forrest | Samantha Jordan | Zette Sullivan | |||||
| Lyra | Stacie Randall | ||||||
| Prospero | Ty Miller | ||||||
| Shaleen | Terri Ivens | ||||||
| Lucius | Mark Arnold | ||||||
| Lord Caliban | Clabe Hartley | ||||||
| Farr | Alan Oppenheimer | ||||||
| Harson | Jeff Moldovan | ||||||
| Tessa | Rona Hartner | ||||||
| Angelo | Ion Haiduc | ||||||
| Shauna Wilder | Jennifer Capo | ||||||
| Dr. Paul Malvern | Robert Donavan | ||||||
| Mr. Castle | Ben Bar | ||||||
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