| Character |
Actor |
Description |
| Seth Gecko |
George Clooney |
Seth Gecko is the main protagonist and brief antagonist in the 1996 horror film, From Dusk till Dawn and it's 2001 spin-off video game of the same name. Seth Gecko and his brother Richie are two dangerous criminals on a wild crime spree. Compared to his violent brother, Seth is a more calm, rational individual, always intending to keep his word to release his hostages if they comply with his demands. He was hampered by his brother's more violent nature. After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Geckos head South to a Mexican bar to hide out in safety. After they face the bar's vampire clientele, they're forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive. In the spin-off video game, Seth has been condemned to death for the Titty Twister murders and is now in the Rising Sun high-security prison, a converted tanker floating off the coast of New Orleans. Seth briefly appears in a photo cameo in the black comedy Curdled. |
| Richie Gecko |
Quentin Tarantino |
Richie Gecko is a deranged rapist and murderer who, along with his brother Seth, kidnaps a preacher and his two kids and flees for the safety of a remote nightclub in Mexico. Unluckily for Kate Fuller (daughter of the preacher), she is the prime priority of Richie's intentions. He suffers from schizophrenia. It also appears that he only rapes those he thinks that want to have sex, for example, when he sees Kate Fuller he thinks she asked him "Richie, would you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me... please?" He imagined that. Unfortunately for the Geckos, the nightclub is anything but a safe haven; Richie is murdered by exotic dancer Satánico Pandemonium when she morphs into a horrible creature, jumps on Richie's back and sinks her fangs into his neck. Later, Richie briefly comes back to life as a vampire. Seth kills him by jamming a pool cue into his chest. Richie briefly appears in a photo cameo in the black comedy Curdled. |
| Jacob Fuller |
Harvey Keitel |
Jacob Fuller and his two children, Kate and Scott, have been kidnapped by outlaws Seth and Richie Gecko. The Geckos demand that the family sneak the convicts across the border and into Mexico using Jacob's RV. After doing this, the Geckos force the family to join them at the Titty Twister, where all hell breaks loose. Jacob and his family are forced to team up with the outlaws in order to make it out alive. Sadly, Jacob is bitten, but manages to help the others battle the vampires for quite a bit of time before he changes. Upon changing, he bites his son Scott, who then destroys his now-undead father using holy water and a revolver. |
| Kate Fuller |
Juliette Lewis |
Kate is kidnapped, along with her father and brother, by the Gecko brothers. Immediately, Richie is smitten with her, albeit only with lustful intentions. When the vampires reveal themselves, Kate is quick to jump into action and help destroy the monstrosities. Apart from Seth Gecko, Kate is the only person to make it out of the Titty Twister alive. In the end, she is left with the camper (and money Seth gave her) after Seth refuses to let her go with him to El Rey. |
| Scott Fuller |
Ernest Liu |
Scott is kidnapped, along with his father and sister, by the Gecko brothers. He was bitten by his father Jacob, who had just transformed into a vampire. Scott managed to destroy his undead father, but was then attacked by a group of vampires who proceeded to dismember him. He was killed by his sister Kate in an act of mercy, along with the vampires that were attacking him. |
Esmerelda/
Satánico Pandemonium |
Salma Hayek
Ara Celi |
She was portrayed by Salma Hayek in the first film and Ara Celi in the third. Santanico is the vampire princess and main attraction at the Titty Twister. She begins the vampires' feeding frenzy when she kills Richie Gecko in a spur-of-the-moment surge of bloodlust, triggered by his bleeding hand. She kills a second character in the Deleted Scenes section of the DVD. Santanico, in human form, sits on the lap of a dazed and wounded biker (played by Gregory Nicotero of KNB Effects). Holding his gaze for a moment, a second mouth that resembles a monstrous snake erupts from her mouth and bites his head off. She is killed by Seth Gecko, who shoots down a chandelier to impale her. |
| Kelly Houge |
Kelly Preston |
Houge is a newscaster who is reporting on the Gecko Brothers rampage early on in the film. Houge appears in the black comedy Curdled. |
| Earl McGraw |
Michael Parks |
McGraw is a Texas Ranger who is killed by Richie Gecko in the opening scene of the film. After appearing here, he has since made cameos in other films. His son Edgar McGraw appears in From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money. |
| Character |
Actor |
Description |
| Buck |
Robert Patrick |
Buck is a bank robber who, with a group of friends goes south of the border in order pull off a bank robbery worth $1 million heist. But when one of the key crooks wanders into the wrong bar and crosses the wrong vampire, one by one they develop a thirst for blood to match their hunger for the money. Buck is forced, to join arch rival Sheriff Lawson in an action-packed, kill-or-be-killed battle to stop these evil creatures and save their own lives. Together they, and a Mexican deputy fight off the other four bank robbers and a cop turned into a vampire. Buck kills three, Lawson kills one, and the sun takes care of the last one. The deputy is killed in the battle and Buck escapes with the money and Lawson more or less lets him go. |
| Luther |
Duane Whitaker |
Luther, one of the five bank robbers, escapes to Mexico with blueprints for a million-dollar heist. But on his way to the rendezvous point, he gets into an accident and stumbles upon the Titty Twister Bar. This little detour sets up the terror that awaits the outlaws and the officers on their trail. He's staked from behind by Buck while trying to get away. |
| Edgar McGraw |
James Parks |
He appears briefly in two scenes in From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money. Bo Hopkins references his cold demeanor and distracted nature: "Oh, them Gecko brothers killed his daddy." |