Eddie Valiant | |
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First appearance | Who Censored Roger Rabbit? |
Created by | Gary K. Wolf |
Portrayed by | Bob Hoskins |
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Species | Human |
Gender | Male |
Family | Theodore "Teddy" Valiant (twin brother) |
Significant other(s) | Dolores |
Roger Rabbit | |
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First appearance | Who Censored Roger Rabbit? |
Created by |
Gary K. Wolf Richard Williams Jeffrey Price Peter Seaman |
Voiced by | Charles Fleischer |
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Species | Toon Anthropomorphic Rabbit |
Gender | Male |
Family | Thumper (uncle) |
Spouse(s) | Jessica Rabbit |
Judge Doom | |
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First appearance | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Created by | Jeffrey Price Peter Seaman |
Portrayed by | Christopher Lloyd |
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Species | Toon (in Human guise) |
Baby Herman | |
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First appearance | Who Censored Roger Rabbit? |
Created by |
Gary K. Wolf Richard Williams Jeffrey Price Peter Seaman |
Portrayed by |
April Winchell (baby voice) Lou Hirsch (adult voice) Jim Cummings (adult voice, Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin) |
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Species | Toon Infant |
Benny the Cab | |
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First appearance | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Created by | Jeffrey Price Peter Seaman |
Voiced by |
Charles Fleischer Maurice LaMarche (Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin) |
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Species | Toon Taxicab |
Gender | Male |
Toon Patrol | |
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First appearance | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Created by |
Richard Williams Jeffrey Price Peter Seaman |
Voices by |
David Lander (Smart Ass voice) Charles Fleischer (Greasy, Psycho voice) Jeff Bergman (Greasy voice, Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin) Jim Cummings (Psycho voice, Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin) June Foray (Wheezy voice) Fred Newman (Stupid voice) |
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Species | Toon (Anthropomorphic Weasels) |
Gender | Male (All weasels) |
Dolores | |
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First appearance | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Created by | Jeffrey Price Peter Seaman |
Portrayed by | Joanna Cassidy |
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Species | Human |
R.K. Maroon | |
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First appearance | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Created by | Jeffrey Price Peter Seaman |
Portrayed by | Alan Tilvern |
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Species | Human |
Marvin Acme | |
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First appearance | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Created by | Jeffrey Price Peter Seaman |
Portrayed by | Stubby Kaye |
Information | |
Species | Human |
Lt. Santino | |
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First appearance | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Portrayed by | Richard LeParmentier |
Information | |
Species | Human |
The following is a list of characters who appeared in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its related works.
Eddie Valiant is the protagonist of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
In the original novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, Eddie Valiant is a fictional modern day California private detective hired by comic book star Roger Rabbit to investigate the workings of Roger's corrupt employers, the DeGreasy Brothers. When Roger is found dead, and his final words having been censored out, Valiant is soon sent on the case of tracking Roger's murderers. This original incarnation of Eddie is a heavy smoker and has a beard.
The 1988 film gives insight into the character, as portrayed by Bob Hoskins. Pictures and newspaper clippings in his office reveal that he and his brother Theodore ("Teddy" for short) were sons of a circus clown; they joined the police force in 1925 and started their own private investigation service in 1938. The brothers quickly established a reputation for helping Toons in trouble, such as solving the kidnapping of Donald Duck's nephews and clearing Goofy of espionage charges. In 1942, while they were investigating a robbery in Toontown, an unknown assailant (later revealed as Judge Doom) dropped a piano on them. Eddie survived with a broken arm, but Teddy was killed. The incident soured him on the idea of working for Toons, his business suffered greatly, and he became an alcoholic. Eddie began living in the office he and Teddy had shared and left Teddy's desk as a memorial to him, refusing to dust it or let anyone sit in its chair.
In 1947, R.K. Maroon, head of the Maroon Cartoons studio, hires Valiant to photograph Jessica Rabbit, Roger's wife; she is literally "playing pattycake" with Marvin Acme, owner of Toontown and founder of the Acme Corporation. When Acme is murdered and Roger becomes the prime suspect, Valiant teams up with Roger to find the culprit. Maroon is subsequently killed, and Valiant discovers that Doom is responsible for not only these two deaths, but Teddy's as well. He defeats Doom at Acme's warehouse, finds Acme's lost will that bequeaths Toontown to the Toons, and abandons his prejudice against them.