List of characters on The Red Green Show

The Red Green Show includes a large number of minor and guest characters.

Minor characters
The following characters appear less frequently on the show and usually have less involvement in a given episode's plot.

Buzz Sherwood
*Actor: Peter Wildman
Buzz Sherwood, real name Kenneth Staples Sherwood, is a bush pilot in the Possum Lake area who runs Buzz Off Airlines. He is very affectionate towards his plane, 'Beauty' although his ability to properly take care of it and actually pilot it were shown to be very poor. Buzz is a burned-out 1960s hippie who is very laid back. He is usually shown greeting Red by affectionately punching him in the arm, which would usually cause him to flinch in pain. He stopped appearing on the show in the last few seasons and was seen in the retrospective special Hindsight is 20/20 wearing a sport jacket and a short haircut, but still very burned out. He claimed to be 19 at the first Woodstock Festival.

Bob Stuyvesant
*Actor: Bruce Hunter
Ostensibly working for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Bob spends all of his time playing golf, although he is not very good at it. He is most prominent in season 3, when Red would often catch him playing golf while pretending to do his job. "I'm not golfing Red, I'm uh, checking the gradient of this land by watching how these balls roll.... Boy, this is some gradient..." By the end of the segment, he would usually get so frustrated at his game that he would destroy his clubs. In The Red Green Book, his house is shown to be right next to the ski and golf resort.

Glen Brackston
*Actor: Mark Wilson
The local marina owner. Brackston is extremely lazy, preferring to avoid actual work whenever possible. His true passion is his recreational vehicle, which he is usually working on whenever Red visits him. He is also a big fan of slot cars. Brackston and his wife have seven daughters. He has also survived two heart attacks.

Dougie Franklin
*Actor: Ian Thomas
Dougie Franklin is an American who now lives in Canada and owns the local wrecking yard. Franklin is very proud of his monster truck with dual quads. He was born in 1953, and apparently remembers it by knowing it is the same year the first Chevrolet Corvettes came out. He is very prejudiced towards Canadians, and once thought the abbreviation for kilometers, km, meant "Kanadian Miles". He thus drove at 100 mph on the highway.

Ben Franklin
*Actor: Dave Thomas
Dougie's brother. Dougie is very jealous of Ben whom he thinks was their mother's favorite of the two.

Kevin Black
*Actor: Paul Gross
A stereotypical yuppie land developer who is always trying to buy the Lodge property. He bought Bluff Point, a local land area nicknamed 'Blood Point' due to its mosquito infestation, and built a 400,000 square foot cottage on it.

Arnie Dogan
*Actor: Albert Schultz
Arnie Dogan is a roofer/country singer-songwriter who always has some sort of injury from roofing. He claims to have written thousands of songs, usually about his injuries.

Dwight Cardiff
*Actor: George Buza
Succeeded Glen as the local marina owner. Dwight is even lazier than Glen. He doesn't like to bend or exert himself in any way (he is always sitting down whenever we see him). Dwight has even sat out in the rain, because he had rather not move. He also once had a pet snail that ran away from him. He eventually disappeared, and Glen came back as the marina owner.

Adventurer Walter
*Actor: Joel Harris
Bill's replacement in the later seasons, new lodge member Walter is just as accident-prone as Bill was. Bill eventually came back near the show's concluding seasons, but Walter continued to stick around as his co-star.

"Young" Walter, unlike everyone else in the lodge, is very strong and athletic. Unlike Bill, he doesn't usually go looking for trouble, it finds him.

Bonnie
*Actress: Laurie Elliott
Harold's girlfriend (starting with the 14th season), Bonnie is a licensed commercial truck driver from Port Asbestos. She is virtually the female version of Harold - she shares his voice, mannerisms and geekiness. The final season of the show features the courtship of Harold and Bonnie, who get married in the final episode. A flash-forward reveals that Harold and Bonnie will have two children (a son and a daughter).

Brian Jacobs
*Actor: Derek Edwards
The local funeral director. Appropriately for his line of work, Brian is usually rather sad and morose (in the introduction to one of the 'Stuffed and Mounted' DVDs, Steve Smith says this is exactly why he picked Derek Edwards - ironically, a stand up comic in his native Canada - to play the role).

Unseen characters
A number of characters exist in the show's plot and storyline but are never actually seen or heard from directly.

Bernice Green
Bernice is Red's wife. Red concludes every episode with a message to Bernice, usually in the form of a double entendre or an excuse for his actions in the episode. With the exception of a "network-approved" stand-in (played by Laura Catalano in "The Network Deal"), Bernice has only appeared onscreen once (after Red attempts to retrofit his front door with mood rings, Bernice's arm appears from the other side of the door) and her voice is almost never heard (though in "The Auto Club", Red yells at her over the phone without realizing she's on the line). It is strongly suggested that Red and Bernice lead an active, healthy sex life after years of marriage.

Buster Hatfield
He believes the seventh commandment should read "Thou Shalt Commit Adultery". His wife divorced him after he won Man of the Year for spending 364 days at the lodge.

Flinty McClintock
owner of the local scrap metal yard, and a 'giant chihuahua" (actually a bouvier that had its hair blown off after a gas station storage tank was being scrapped.)

Junior Singleton
is very unlucky with women. He was married in Episode #141 "The Stag Party".

Wally "Kickback" Kibbler
Red's rival in high school and the mayor of Possum Lake. as his name suggests, he is quite corrupt.

Moose Thompson
Moose is as big, strong and smart as an ox. Had a fridge in every room, before he up-graded to a walk-in meat locker. Trying to set a world record for going the longest without eating a salad. His full name is Mooseworth Hugo Largess Thompson.

Old Man Sedgewick
Old Man Sedgwick is very old - his son is in his 90's. His parents are still alive. He's cranky, sour, senile, mean, and in bad health. After badgers were in his pants while he was wearing them, he went from skin-and-bone to just bone. He ended up in Shady Acres.

Stinky Peterson

True to his nickname, Stinky is very unhygienic. His real name has been said on two different occasions to be George Peterson and Stephen Riechen Puanteur Peterson.

Guest stars
In addition to the regular cast, there have been a number of guest stars who have appeared on the show, the most notable of which include Don Harron, reprising his Hee Haw character Charlie Farquharson (who became Possum Lodge's first Honorary Life Member), and Canadian Colin Mochrie from the television comedy improv Whose Line Is It Anyway? (playing Frank Kepke, a hobbyist/store owner who makes things entirely out of hotdogs). Various people have also been taken directly from the live studio audience to appear as lodge members at the end of the show.

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