The following is a list of characters from Say Cheese and Die! and its television adaptation in the order they are mentioned or appear.
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Characters[]
| Character | Medium | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Warner
|
Book | Michael is Greg's friend and one of the four characters who finds the camera. His photography's prediction is to fall down the staircase railing. |
| Greg Banks
|
Book and TV episode | Greg is the main protagonist of Say Cheese and Die!. He finds the camera in the abandoned Coffman House and use it to photograph things without knowing the consequences. |
| Doug "Bird" Arthur
|
Book and TV episode | Doug is Greg's friend. He practices baseball and is skeptical of the camera's powers. His photography's prediction is that his neck be bent into an unnatural angle. |
| Shari Walker
|
Book and TV episode | Shari is Greg's best friend and helps him face the camera's dangers throughout the book. She helps him return the camera to its original hiding place. Her photography's prediction is disappearing mysteriously. |
| Terry Banks
|
Book and TV episode | Terry is Greg's older brother. Greg takes a picture of Terry making a goofy face, but the photo shows an image of a worried Terry instead. |
| Dr. Fritz Fredericks (Spidey)
|
Book and TV episode | Spidey, whose real name is Dr. Fritz Fredericks, is a strange, spider-looking old man who lives in the Coffman House. He stole the camera because of his greed without knowing that soon he would end up carrying a curse in change. His photography's prediction is dying of fear. |
| The Camera
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Book and TV episode | The Evil Camera is the main antagonist of Say Cheese and Die!. It is a camera with the power to predict a horrible future event to everything that is photographed in it. |
| Mr. Banks and Mrs. Banks
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Book and TV episode | Greg and Terry's parents. They are never actually named. Mr. Banks bought a new car and his photography's prediction is to suffer a car accident. |
| Nina Blake
|
Book | Nina is Shari's friend. She appears as one of the guests on her birthday. |
| Mr. Walker and Mrs. Walker
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Book | They're Shari's parents. They are never actually named. They worry too much after her daughter's disappearance. |
| Officer Riddick
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Book and TV episode | Officer Riddick is a police officer who investigates Shari's disappearance and suspects Greg. When Greg tells him about the evil camera, he doesn't believe him. |
| Joey Ferris and Mickey Ward
|
Book and TV episode | Joey and Mickey are a pair of bullies who constantly harass Greg. They mock him for being fearful of a camera. After the events of the story unfold, they enter the Coffman house and use the camera on each other. |
| Jerry Norman
|
Book | Jerry is Greg's adult neighbor. He threatens to call the police on Spidey if he continues chasing Greg and Shari. |
| Spidey's lab partner
|
Book | He is the man who invented the camera. He was Spidey's old lab partner and also an evil master of the dark arts. He placed a curse on the camera to show horrible events to everything that is photographed with it. |