Player Characters in General
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Unlike the heroic mimes from most of the other games, we know their thoughts through their journal entries at the beginning of each mission. Oddly enough, this leaves them with more characterization than many future protagonists in the series starting with Modern Warfare.
- Heroic Mime
Private Martin
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Part of the famous 101st Airborne Division.
- Player Character: The first in the series!
Sergeant Jack Evans
- Elites Are More Glamorous: After taking part in securing Pegasus Bridge during D-Day, he, Waters and Captain Price are moved into the SAS for covert operations.
- Player Character: For Call of Duty's British campaign.
- One-Man Army: He singlehandely infiltrated a German-occupied dam and killed his way in-and-out to destroy its anti-air defenses.
Sergeant Waters
Voiced by: Jason Statham (English)note
- Calling Your Attacks: Zigzagged. In the fourth mission, if you're not firing the panzerfausts fast enough, he yells "Fire it damn it!".
- Elites Are More Glamorous: He is the axillary soldier involved with Evans and Price's covert operations. He plays a supporting role while Price and/or Evans goes into the enemy's territory.
Sergeant James Doyle
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Starts with the RAF (Royal Air Force) and moves on to the SOE (Special Operations Executive) and receives back up from the SAS (Special Air Service).
- Player Character: For United Offensive. And later also Call of Duty 3 for that matter.
Sergeant Alexei Ivanovich Voronin
- Cold Sniper: Literally. He is quick to choose sniping as his mode of fighting when forced into combat at gunpoint.
- Field Promotion: Starts off as a fresh private being forced at gunpoint to go into battle. Ends up promoted during the missions of the first game until he reached Sergeant.
- Player Character: For Call of Duty's Russian campaign.
- Suddenly Voiced: He speaks in the mission Warsaw Factory.
Captain Foley
Voiced by: Steve Blum (English)note
- Bash Brothers: With Sgt. Moody.
- The Captain: He's your CO during the American Campaign.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Part of the 101st Airborne.
Sergeant Moody
Voiced by: Gregg Berger (English)note
- Badass Driver: Manages to drive a Peugeot through enemy lines to try to get to HQ.
- Bash Brothers: With Cpt. Foley.
- Deadpan SnarkerOh yes, sir, you bet! We ride through enemy lines in a French tin can! Want me to paint a bullseye on it, sir?
- Also:Pvt. Elder: I can't believe I agreed to do this!
Sgt. Moody: (matter-of-factly) You didn't, remember? You were volunteered.
- Also:
- Drives Like Crazy: When he and the privates needed to deliver a message to HQ while traveling through German lines.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Part of the 101st Airborne.
- Indy Ploy: Oh yes. While driving through a German convoy.Pvt. Elder: What the hell are you doing Sarge?!
Sgt. Moody: (quietly) I don't know, I sure hope it works. - The Lancer: To Captain Foley.
- Sergeant Rock: The first in a long series of them.
- Pun: Sgt. Moody is moody.
Private Elder
Voiced by: Giovanni Ribisi (English)note
- Badass Driver: He handles the second leg of the drive through enemy lines after the Peugeot gets destroyed and you steal a Kubelwagen.
- Deadpan Snarker: When Moody gets the car stuck in a dead end and destroys the car, Elder is not amused. Moody doesn't want to hear it.Elder: Oh. hey great, good move! Remind me to thank the captain.
Sgt. Moody: Shut up Elder, and get your ass out! Let's go Martin, move it, move! - Elites Are More Glamorous: Part of the 82nd Airborne.
- Got Volunteered: He didn't offer to join the dash for headquarters with Moody and Martin, as Moody reminds him.
- Mauve Shirt: He's a prominent character early on, but he can die during Brecourt Manor just like any other generic soldier.
- Recruiting the Criminal: Implied by this conversation when Sergeant Moody needs him to hotwire a Nazi vehicle.Sgt. Moody: Elder, ever steal a car?
Elder: Only when I need one Sarge. - What Happened to the Mouse?: He's not mentioned again after Brecourt Manor. It's possible given his attitude and accomplishments that he was promoted and transferred to another squad. It's just as likely he was killed or wounded and taken out of combat. Lastly, since Pvt. Elder was from the 82nd rather than the 101st, he got separated from his original unit during the drops, and went back to them after things settled down; Captain Foley describes in a slide show that the 101st and 82nd formed mixed groups because everyone got dropped everywhere with little rhyme or reason, and Elder could have just been pulled along for the ride by Moody.
Sergeant Yakov Pavlov
Voiced by: Michael Bell (English)note
- Historical Domain Character: He's based and named after the real Pavlov.
Captain Price
Voiced by: Michael J. Gough (English)note
- Authority Equals Asskicking: He's a Captain and a skilled soldier.
- Badass in Distress: Was captured by the Germans and rescued by the Americans.
- Badass Family: Has a presumed grandson who's even more awesome.
- Deadpan Snarker:Made quite a racket, didn't you. That's quite alright, I can still walk.
- Also:We're in luck! The Germans haven't responded to our, erm... stellar landing.
- Also:
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: In Call of Duty, he's killed rather unceremoniously during the mission on the Tirpitz.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: He gets transferred to the SAS with Evans and Waters.
- Killed Off for Real: In Call of Duty, dies during the Tirpitz mission.
- Porn Stache: Runs in the family.
- Sacrificial Lion: He dies during the infiltration of the Tirpitz.
Major Gerald Ingram
Voiced by: Robin Atkin Downes (Call of Duty and Call of Duty: United Offensive); Mark Deklin (Call of Duty 3) (English)note
- Badass in Distress: Like Price, he was captured and the Americans needed to rescue him. In Call of Duty 3 he gets gaptured again, leaving it to Doyle and Keith to rescue him.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Major in the SAS.
- Majorly Awesome: Did work with the resistance movements in France and the Netherlands. When you rescue him in the first game, he was just about to break free having incapacitated a guard there.Ingram: Yanks? Well there's a spot of luck.
- Sacrificial Lion: Subverted, he appears to die after raiding a fuel plant in Call of Duty 3, but you end up rescuing him later on.
Sergeant Antonov
Voiced by: S. Scott Bullock (English)note
- Political Officer: He's a Commissar, though he is more active in combat compared to the usual "shoot the coward" or Obstructive Bureaucrat.
- Sergeant Rock: Technically Commissar Rock by his position, he leads the squad from the front and make quick decisions in thick of battle.
Major Sheppard
Private Ender
Voiced by: Quinton Flynn (English)
- Deadpan Snarker: Again, Sgt. Moody doesn't appreciate it.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: 101st Airborne.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Private Elder of the original campaign.
Cpl. Scott Riley
Voiced by:
- Elites Are More Glamorous: 101st Airborne.
- Player Character: Of the American campaign in United Offensive.
Private Anderson
Voiced by: Cam Clarke (English)note
- Deadpan Snarker
- Elites Are More Glamorous: 101st Airborne.
Private Yuri Petrenko
- Player Character: For United Offensive's Russian campaign.
Private Korolov
Voiced by: Jay Gordon (English)
