Craig Charles
    A professional comedian/poet, Craig appeared as a regular in Saturday Night Live when he came
upon producer Paul Jackson.  He auditioned for Dave Lister, whom the show revolves around.
    Being one who likes his career options open, he became a TV presenter for such shows as Them
and Us, Craig goes mad in Melbourne and Cyberzone.  When asked what he would do if he could
do anything, he said "I would like to be a footballer."
    In 1993, he co-wrote his first book Craig Charles Almanac of Total Knowledge.  Not only that,
but in the episode 'Timeslides', he wrote the 'Om song' for his brother Emile, 'Cash' in the part where
Lister is riding in the limo to his estate, and the musical 'Bad News' to which Kryten is dancing in the
beginning of the episode.

Chris Barrie
    A man of many impressions, Chris was in Rob and Doug's Spitting Image and was the voice to
Holly's forerunner-Hab-in Son of Cliché.  He auditioned as Dave Lister, but was chosen as the deeply sad and pathetic character, Arnold J. Rimmer.  He also plays a similar character, his interpretation of Gordon Brittas controller of BBC 1's Brittas Empire.  Although, portrayed differently, they have many uncanny similarities such as have bad moments in the Samaritans, persuading even the wrong numbers to commit suicide.

Danny John-Jules
    In the words of Craig Charles during a marathon "He is the Cat.  I mean, every other week he walks in with another girlfriend.  Just recently, he bought a house.  We were all like 'It's about
time, he's moving out from his mom's place, finally, man'.  But as it turns out, he just bought the
house to store his clothes and is still living with his mom.  We don't ask."
    Really, he didn't want to be an actor.  He wanted a career in music, he even learned professional
dancing and appeared in the broadway show Cats.  "Every show I star in, I make sure I can do some
music."  And some music he did, doing the 'Tongue Tied' song written by Howard Goodall at the
beginning of Parallel Universe.
    Preparing for the role of the Cat, he spent months researching cat characteristics and behavior, just
so he could be convincing.  "I think there is a cat in all of us.  Just more in me."

Hattie Hayridge
    Hattie had no intention of becoming an actress.  "There are a lot of actress in the world, but not that many female stand-up comedians.  I will probably stay a stand-up."  In fact, she hadn't even become a stand-up for some time, being a secretary for eight years, until one day, she just couldn't take it one day and left.
    She started as a stage performer and felt she failed, but the managers couldn't get her out of their minds and she soon got more and more roles in different places.  Soon she got a minor job as Hilly in a parallel universe in Red Dwarf and after series two, when Norman Lovette announced he wasn't going to be Holly anymore, Hattie was the logical choice.  Rob and Doug began series three
by claiming Holly had had a head exchange, basing his new head on his former love.

Robert Llewellyn
    "I'm completely covered from head to foot in very thick heavy rubber and plastic costumes and the
lights are quite astonishing temperatures.  I find it quite physically demanding, because it's so hot and
it's so uncomfortable.  It really stretches your patience to the absolute limit." he complains about his role of Kryten.
    Robert appeared in many stage performances, including Robot Born of Woman for which he was
recognized by the Red Dwarf producers.  He was at first happy, but then upset at the pressure he was
under both with the costume and the fact he had to remember long lines in front of an audience.  "But after series four, he began to mellow out and become more funny." said Craig in an interview.  In the same interview, Robert stated "I know now that that was an error in my judgment, but as you can tell I have a heavy English accent, and I based my Kryten accent on, ahem, Canadian accents.  I'm sorry, sorry, sorry...sorry!  Really, I could change the accent, but it wouldn't be the same."

Norman Lovett
    Originally a comic, Norman only played in Red Dwarf and I Lovette.  Norman actually auditioned for the part as Arnold Rimmer and was slightly disappointed when he was chosen as Holly.  "I felt he really wouldn't be a main character at any time in the show, but when we tried Queeg, which has Holly as a sort-of main character, I guess I decided being the character I was wasn't really that bad at all."  Norman decided to leave the show for series three, for reasons unknown.  Obviously, there is no truth in the rumor that he died, as seen when Norman decided to return as Holly in series seven.  On that he remarks "Well, I decided that I really enjoyed being Holly, and it brought back memories when I came back to the crew."

David Ross
    If anything, David had a worse time putting on the Kryten shoes than Robert.  Rob and Doug were impressed by David's acting ability and instantly signed up Kryten in series three.  They were upset to learn that David could not make it and chose Robert Llewellyn to replace him.  However, they were ecstatic to learn that David could replace John Lenahan as the new and improved Talkie Toaster for the episode 'White Hole'.

Ed Bye
    Ed was just a simple floor director for the BBC at first, but climbed the ladder of success to become a director in a good many shows, meeting producer Paul Jackson.
    He began to direct and produce Red Dwarf with Paul Jackson and continued to direct up to the end of series four.  When asked why he chose Red Dwarf instead of hundreds of other opportunities, he stated "I've actually always been a sci-fi freak on the quiet.  This actually is my kind of show."

John Pomphrey
    Other than Grant, Naylor, and certain cast members, lighting director John is one of only three credited people to have worked on Red Dwarf since it's creation.  Being a lighting director has it's moments and John is good-natured about it.  He has had an accident where in Terrorform, he and another production member fell into the swamp with a lamp and got he scripts soaking wet!  "It's a dirty job, okay it isn't.  I love it."

Howard Goodall
    This is the music man for not only Red Dwarf, but also Mr. Bean and The Thin Blue Line to name a few.  Another guy who has been with Red Dwarf to the end, making about 95% of all the music.  In fact, the popular song 'Fun in the Sun', which is played at the end of almost every episode was only supposed to be played for the first episode.  "You know, about Lister wanting to be home at Earth.  It was disappointing that the song stuck, because I had hundreds of musical ideas and most of them went down the drain.  I did use a couple though..."

Peter Wragg
    This is the special effects dude.  He has won awards for his outstanding ships (Red Dwarf, Starbug) and to good merit too.  Not only did he have to work with a low budget, but he had to find some way to make an ugly ship look beautiful.  "It was hard.  But I failed.  Red Dwarf is still ugly."
Not that anyone believes him.  Peter was responsible for all the pans of the ship and Rimmer going through objects and stuff.  But other than that?  "It's pretty easy."