Buck
Buck is the affable and comic driver of the stagecoach. He is well-intentioned, kind-hearted, and a bit simple-minded. One of his more humorous affects is his constantly cracking voice. He cares about his passengers and about getting them safely to Lordsburg, and his fear of danger often leads him to want to choose the easy road. He is not a fighter.
Marshal Curley Wilcox
Marshal Curley Wilcox is an even-handed Marshal who rides shotgun on the stagecoach. He believes in upholding the law, doing what's right, and being brave, and he acts as a kind of leader in the trip to Lordsburg. He arrests Ringo for breaking out of jail, but he also sympathizes with and likes Ringo, knowing deep down that Ringo is on the side of good.
Lucy Mallory
A wealthy woman from the South traveling to see her husband, a cavalry soldier in Lordsburg. She is pregnant, and chooses to face unthinkable dangers in order to be reunited with her husband. While she is very brave, she is also very snobbish and rude to people who she deems to be beneath her, such as Dallas, a prostitute. When Dallas steps up and helps her with the baby following its birth, she softens and becomes more appreciative.
Doc Boone
Doc Boone is a drunken doctor with a good heart and a strong moral conviction, in spite of his near-constant intoxication. He is driven from town for not paying his rent and serves as comic relief on the stagecoach's journey. His affectionate if confused dynamic with Peacock is especially humorous. After Ringo proposes to Dallas, she goes to Doc Boone for counsel, wondering if it could ever work with the outlaw. Boone doesn't know, but gives his blessing and does all he can to help the couple unite. Boone is a perfect example of a person who doesn't have a good reputation in society, but has a strong sense of what is right.
Mr. Peacock
Mr. Peacock is a comically effete and polite whiskey salesman. His behavior is so mannered that people often mistake him for a member of the clergy, a comedic contrast with his actual job in liquor sales. He speaks fondly of his wife and many children, and along the journey strikes up an unlikely friendship with the sloppy Doc Boone. In the run-in with the Apache warriors, he is shot in the chest unexpectedly, but luckily is not killed.
Dallas
Dallas is a classic example of a prostitute with a heart of gold. Like Doc Boone, she is driven out of town for not being a respectable member of the town. Ringo takes an immediate liking to her, and his acceptance gives her the courage to begin respecting herself more and imagining a better life for herself. She is conflicted, however, about going to live with Ringo because she fears that his affections are conditional, that he won't love her once he finds out about her bad reputation.
Gatewood
Gatewood is a greedy banker who flees town with several thousand dollars embezzled from the bank. Because he is running from the law, he is anxious to get a move on at various points in the journey, getting into contentious fights with the other passengers.
Hatfield
Hatfield is a former Confederate soldier who takes an interest in Lucy Mallory and feels protective of her on the stagecoach journey. He is a notorious gambler, and many of the other men do not trust him. He does not get along with the other characters in the stagecoach, and looks out for Lucy with a chivalrous attention.
The Ringo Kid
Ringo is a rugged outlaw who was wrongfully put in jail after the Plummer brothers killed his father and brother. At the start of the film he has escaped, and the stagecoach encounters him on their journey. Curley arrests him and he joins the travelers. He is an outlaw, but also a brave and noble fighter who becomes an asset to the stagecoach when they encounter danger. While he is not a particularly respectable individual in society's eyes, he has a strong sense of what is right, and is loyal to his father and brother's memory, vowing to avenge their deaths.
The Plummer Brothers
The Plummer brothers are a brutish trio of brothers. They killed Ringo the Kid's brother and father and participate in a shootout with him at the end of the film.
