Who are the main characters of Blackhawk Down book and movie?

Answer 1

It is important to note that the events depicted in the book and movie titled Blackhawk Down are based on the very real events of the First Battle of Mogadishu (also called the Battle of Black See--for the neighborhood in which most of the fighting took place) that occurred 3 & 4 October 1993.

Personalities Portrayed in the Movie (2001) Blackhawk Down:

75th Rangers:

• PVT Clay Othic - Played by Kent Linville
• PVT John Wadell - Played by Ian Virgo
• PVT Mike Maddox - Played by Michael Roof
• PFC Richard "Alphabet" Kowalewski (Casualty) - Played by Brendan Sexton III
• PFC Todd Blackburn - Played by Orlando Bloom
• CPL Jamie Smith (Casualty) - Played by Charlie Hofheimer
• CPT Mike Steele, the commander of Bravo Company, 3rd Ranger Battalion - Played by Jason Isaacs.
• SPC Dale Sizemore - Played by Matthew Marsden
• SPC John "Grimesey" Grimes - Played by Ewan McGregor, based on John Stebbins.
• SPC Lance Twombly - Played by Tom Hardy
• SPC Mike Kurth, the ground radio and telephone communications operator- Played by Gabriel Casseus.
• SPC Shawn Nelson, a squad gunner - Played by Ewen Bremner.
• SGT Dominick Pilla (Casualty) - Played by Danny Hoch
• SGT James Casey Joyce - Played by Chris Beetem
• SGT Keni Thomas - Played by Tac Fitzgerald
• SGT Lorenzo Ruiz (Casualty) - Played by Enrique Murciano
• SGT Mike Goodale - Played by Carmine Giovinazzo
• SGT Scott Galentine - Played by Gregory Sporleder
• SFC Kurt "Doc" Shmidt - Played by Hugh Dancy
• LT John Beales - Played by Ioan Gruffudd
• LTC Danny McKnight, the commander of the 3rd Ranger Battalion - Played by Tom Sizemore.

Delta Force:

• SSG Daniel Busch (Casualty), a sniper flying on Black Hawk Super Six-One - Played by Richard Tyson.
• SFC Jeff Sanderson - Played by William Fichtner
• SFC Norm "Hoot" Hooten - Played by Eric Bana
• SFC Randy Shughart (Casualty), a sniper flying on Black Hawk Super Six-Two - Played by Johnny Strong.
• MSG Gary Gordon (Casualty), a sniper flying on Black Hawk Super Six-Two - Played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
• MSG Tim "Griz" Martin (Casualty) - Played by Kim Coates
• LTC Gary Harrell, the commander of Delta Force, based on Joint Deputy Commander Gary Harnell - Played by Željko Ivanek.
• LTC Joe Cribbs - Played by Steven Ford

160th SOAR Night Stalkers:

• CW2 Clifton "Elvis" Wolcott (Casualty), the pilot of Super Six-One - Played by Jeremy Piven.
• CW2 Donovan "Bull" Briley (Casualty), the co-pilot of Super Six-One - Played by Pavel Vokoun.
• CW3 Michael Durant (Captured), the pilot of Super Six-Four - Played by Ron Eldard.
• LTC Tom Matthews, the commander of 1st Battalion, 160th SOAR - Played by Glenn Morshower.
• Tech. SGT Timothy A. Wilkinson, United States Air Force Pararescue - Played by Ty Burrell
• Maj. GEN (Ret.) William F. Garrison, the commander of Task Force Ranger, Mission Commander of Operation Gothic Serpent - Played by Sam Shepard.
• Osman Hassan Ali "Atto" (Cismaan Xasan Cali Caato) Somali warlord, affiliated with the Somali National Alliance - Played by George Harris.
• Yousuf Dahir Mo'alim, the Somali Militia Group Leader - Played by Razaaq Adoti.
• Abdullah Firimbi Hassan, Somali War Chief, Propaganda minister of Warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, and captor of CW3 Michael Durant - Played by Treva Etienne.

Not Portrayed in the Movie:

• SFC Earl Fillmore (Casualty)
• SPC James Cavaco (Casualty)
• SGT Casey Joyce (Casualty)
• SSG William Cleveland (Casualty)
• SSG Thomas Field (Casualty)
• CW4 Raymond Frank (Casualty)
• PFC James Martin Jr. (Casualty)

Characters of the Book:

• PVT Adalberto Rodriguez - Ranger, assigned to a humvee in the main ground convoy.
• PVT Ed Kallman - Ranger, driver of a Humvee in the main ground convoy.
• PVT John Waddell - Ranger rifleman assigned to Chalk Two and witnessed the first helicopter crash.
• PV2 Mark Good - Medic assigned to Chalk Four.
• PFC Carlos Rodriguez - Ranger assigned to Chalk One, ran to assist and defend Super 61 at the crash site.
• PFC Clay Othic - Assigned to the ground convoy in the initial assault. Was with Kowalewski when he was killed.
• PFC Jason Moore - Radio operator assigned to Chalk Four.
• PFC Kevin Matthews - Ranger assigned to the vehicle platoon.
• PFC Richard "Alphabet" Kowalewski - Ranger, driver of a five-ton in the main ground convoy.
• PFC Todd Blackburn, member of Chalk Four. Fell 70 feet to the street when he missed the rope jumping from the insertion chopper.
• PFC Tory Carlson - Ranger assigned to a humvee with the main ground convoy in the initial assault.
• CPL Jamie Smith - Ranger, wounded by a bullet in the upper thigh. Died in battle from his injury.
• Chief Signalman John Gay - Navy SEAL assigned to Task Force Ranger. He was in the initial ground convoy.
• QFC Homer Nearpass - Navy SEAL who rode with the ground convoy.
• SPC Aaron Hand - Ranger, assistant driver and gun for a five-ton in the ground convoy during the assault.
• SPC Dale Sizemore - Ranger, waiting to DEROS.
• SPC Dave Diemer - machine gunner for Chalk Four.
• SPC Eric Spalding - Assigned to the ground convoy in the initial assault.
• SPC James Cavaco - Assigned to the ground convoy in the initial assault.
• SPC John "Brad" Thomas - Ranger assigned to Sgt. Streucker's humvee. Held his friend SGT Pilla when he died from battle injuries.
• SPC John Stebbins - Ranger, assigned to Chalk One, ran to support and defend Super 61 at the crash site.
• SPC Peter Squeglia - Ranger company armorer who volunteered to join the fight on a ground convoy after Super 61 and 64 were shot down.
• SPC Phil Lepre - 10th Mountain Division, volunteered for the rescue effort.
• SPC Rob Phipps - Ranger, roped down from the combat search-and-rescue Blackhawk to Super 61 crash site.
• SPC Shawn Nelson - Ranger, Machine gunner for Chalk Two.
• SPC Steve Anderson - 21-year-old Ranger, injured on one of the earlier missions in Mogadishu. (Detailed, left behind at the base).
• Tech SGT Tim Wilkinson - Air Force Parajumper.
• Tech. SGT Scott Fales - Air Force Parajumper, team leader with the airborne Search and Rescue team.
• SGT Aaron Williamson - Assigned to Chalk One.
• SGT Alan Barton - Ranger assigned to the airborne Combat Search and Rescue Team.
• SGT Bob Mabry - Delta Force medic at Super 61 crash site.
• SGT Chuck Elliot - Machine gunner, Chalk One.
• SGT Dominick Pilla - Machine gunner assigned to SSGT Jeff Struecker's humvee. First American to die in the battle when he was shot in a humvee racing to evacuate a wounded Ranger.
• SGT James ''Casey'' Joyce - Member of Chalk Four.
• SGT Jeff McLaughlin - Team leader on Chalk Four.
• SGT Jim Telscher - Ranger, roped in with Chalk Four. While with the main convoy, he ran into heavy enemy fire to extract wounded CPL Casey Joyce from the street where he had been shot.
• SGT Kevin Snodgrass - Machine gunner assigned to Chalk Four.
• SGT Lorenzo Ruiz - Assigned to the ground convoy in the initial assault.
• SGT Mike Goodale - Assigned to Chalk One.
• SGT Raleigh Cash - Ranger with the vehicle platoon (Detailed, left behind at the base).
• SGT Scott Galentine - Assigned to Chalk Four.
• SGT Tommy Field - crew member aboard Super 64.
• SSGT Bill Cleveland - crew member aboard Super 64.
• SSGT Charlie Warren - Crew chief on Super 61.
• SSGT Dave Wilson - Assigned to the ground convoy in the initial assault. SSGT Wilson was one of only two African-American soldiers on the mission, and was slured as a traitor by the locals.
• SSGT Ed Yurek - Ranger, team leader assigned to Chalk Two.
• SSGT Jeff Struecker - Assigned to the vehicle platoon in Mogadishu. Led multiple convoys into the battle.
• SSGT John Burns - Ranger with the main ground convoy.
• SSGT Matt Eversmann - Leader of Chalk Four.
• SSGT Ray Dowdy - crew chief on Super 61.
• SFC Al Lamb - Ranger, roped down from the combat search-and-rescue Blackhawk to Super 61 crash site.
• SFC Bart Bullock - Delta Force medic assigned to Chalk Four.
• SFC Bob Gallagher - Platoon sergeant assigned to the Ranger vehicle platoon.
• SFC Chuck Esswein - Delta Force, assigned to the vehicle platoon.
• SFC Glenn Harris - Medic assigned to Chalk Four.
• SFC Matt Rierson - Delta Force team leader who stormed the target house and captured 24 prisoners.
• SFC Paul Howe - Delta team leader who stormed the target house.
• SFC Randy Shughart - Delta sniper aboard Super 62.
• SFC Sean Watson - Leader of Chalk Three.
• Delta Steve - Delta Force soldier, who led the team of Delta soldiers inserted by chopper and stormed of the target house. Did not want to be identified.
• MSG Gary Gordon - Delta Force sniper on Super 62.
• MSG Tim ''Grizz'' Martin - Delta medic.
• CWO Cliff Wolcott - Pilot of Super 61, the first Blackhawk shot down.
• CWO Dan Jollota - Blackhawk pilot who flew the Combat Search and Rescue team.
• CWO Donovan Briley - co-pilot of Super 61. First Blackhawk shot down in the battle.
• CWO Karl Maier - Copilot on Star 41.
• CWO Keith Jones - Pilot of Star 41, the MH-6 "Little Bird" that dropped Delta assaulters on the target building and landed at the first crash site to rescue two men from wrecked Super 61.
• CWO Michael Durant - Pilot of Super 64. Shot down, and captured. Sole Survivor of Super 64.
• CWO Mike Goffena (Deceased) - Pilot of Super 62.Flew air cover over Mogadishu for ground troops and downed choppers.
• CWO Ray Frank - co-pilot on Super 64.
• 1LT Larry Perino - Leader of Chalk One and second-in-command to Ranger Commander, CPT Mike Steele.
• 1Lt. Tom DiTomasso - led Chalk 2 to the northeast corner of the target house.
• CPT Mike Steele - commander of the Rangers assigned to the task force, roped in with Chalk One, and was the commander of the Chalk teams that roped in at the target house.
• LTC Bill David - ground commander of the 10th Mountain Division's Quick Reaction Force.
• LTC Danny McKnight - Commander of the ground convoy in the initial assault.
• LTC Gary Harrell - Delta Force ground force commander, monitored the fight from the C&C chopper over Mogadishu.
• Maj. GEN William F. Garrison - Commander of Task Force Ranger.
• Abdikarim Mohamud - Secretary for a U.S. firm that provided support to military forces in Mogadishu under U.N. command.
• Abdiaziz Ali Aden - 18-year-old Somali who lived in the house clipped by Blackhawk Super 61 as it crashed.
• Ali Hussein - A Somali shop clerk working at a pharmacy in southern Mogadishu.
• Kassim Sheik Mohamoud - Owned a garage in Mogadishu, hid when the fighting began. Risked his life to bury the dead while the fighting continued.
• Mohamed Farrah Aidid - Leader and Warlord of the Habr Gidr, the focus of Operation Gothic Serpent.
• Omar Salad - Political adviser of Aidid. Primary target of the Oct. 3 raid and was captured.
• Mohamed Hassan Awale - foreign minister of Aidid. A target of the Oct. 3 raid. Captured.
• Abdullahi "Firimbi" Hassan - Propaganda minister for Aidid, stayed with and protected Durant after his capture.
• Yousef Dahir Mo'Alim - Militia leader of the group who shot down Super 64 and captured Durant.
• Ali Hassan Mohamed - Somali combatant.

Answer 2

75th Rangers

Sam Shepard as MG William F. Garrison, commander of Task Force Ranger

Josh Hartnett as SSG Matt Eversmann, the leader of Chalk 4

Ewan McGregor as SPC John "Grimesey" Grimes, a desk clerk

Tom Sizemore as LTC Danny McKnight, the commander of the 3rd Ranger Battalion

Ewen Bremner as SPC Shawn Nelson, a squad gunner

Gabriel Casseus as SPC Mike Kurth

Hugh Dancy as SFC Kurt "Doc" Schmid, a medic of Chalk 4 (portrayed as a Ranger in the film; was Delta Force in real life)

Ioan Gruffudd as LT John Beales

Tom Guiry as SSG Ed Yurek

Charlie Hofheimer as CPL Jamie Smith

Danny Hoch as SPC Dominick Pilla

Jason Isaacs as CPT Mike Steele, commander, Bravo Company, 3rd Ranger Battalion

Brendan Sexton III as PVT Richard "Alphabet" Kowalewski

Brian Van Holt as SSG Jeff Struecker

Ian Virgo as PVT John Waddell

Tom Hardy as SPC Lance Twombly

Gregory Sporleder as SGT Scott Galentine, the ground radio and telephone communications operator of Chalk 4

Carmine Giovinazzo as SGT Mike Goodale

Chris Beetem as SGT Casey Joyce

Matthew Marsden as SPC Dale Sizemore

Orlando Bloom as PFC Todd Blackburn

Enrique Murciano as SGT Lorenzo Ruiz

Michael Roof as PVT John Maddox

Delta Force

Eric Bana as SFC Norm "Hoot" Gibson (based on SFC John Macejunas, SFC Norm Hooten and SFC Matthew Rierson)

William Fichtner as SFC Jeff Sanderson (based on SFC Paul Howe)[4]

Kim Coates as MSG Tim "Griz" Martin

Steven Ford as LTC Joe Cribbs

Željko Ivanek as LTC Gary Harrell, the commander of C Squadron

Johnny Strong as SFC Randy Shughart, a sniper flying on Black Hawk Super Six-Two

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as MSG Gary Gordon, a sniper flying on Black Hawk Super Six-Two

Richard Tyson as SSG Daniel Busch, a sniper flying on Black Hawk Super Six-One

160th SOAR - Night Stalkers

Ron Eldard as CW4 Michael Durant, pilot of Super Six-Four

Glenn Morshower as LTC Tom Matthews, the commander of 1st Battalion

Jeremy Piven as CWO Clifton Wolcott, the pilot of Super Six-One, the first Black Hawk down

Boyd Kestner as CW3 Mike Goffena, pilot of Super Six-Two who inserts Gordon and Shughart

Miscellaneous

George Harris as Osman Atto

Razaaq Adoti as Yousuf Dahir Mo'alim, the Somali militia leader

Treva Etienne as Firimbi, Somali war chief and Michael Durant's captor

Ty Burrell as United States Air Force Pararescue Timothy A. Wilkinson.

Answer 3

blackburn never fell because of an rpg. it was because he had just been assigned m60 gunner assistant

Answer 4

Josh Hartnett - Eric Bana - Ewan McGregor - Tom Sizemore - William Fichtner and Sam Shepard .