Who played game warden Robert Muldoon in Jurassic Park?

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Bob Peck played game warden Robert Muldoon in Jurassic Park. Muldoon is the park’s experienced security and animal-control specialist, responsible for dealing with dangerous creatures when the facility begins to fail.

Peck was an English actor best known for major television and stage work, including the BBC thriller Edge of Darkness. His performance gives Muldoon a calm, practical authority: he repeatedly warns that the velociraptors are intelligent and dangerous, and he understands the park’s safety weaknesses better than many of its administrators.

Muldoon’s most famous moment comes when he prepares to shoot a velociraptor after the power failure. A second raptor ambushes him, prompting his memorable reaction, “Clever girl.” The line became one of the film’s most recognizable quotes, while Muldoon’s death demonstrates the animals’ coordinated hunting behavior.

The listed alternatives belong to other Jurassic Park characters or franchise roles. Arliss Howard played Peter Ludlow, Richard Schiff played Eddie Carr in The Lost World, and Pete Postlethwaite played Roland Tembo. None played Muldoon in the original film.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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