Fred Mumford

Fred Mumford is one of the ghostly staff at the Rentaghost agency, a spectral figure recruited into the business of haunting for hire. He carries himself with old-fashioned formality, taking the peculiar arrangement of ghosts-for-work in stride, and settles into the show's gently absurd world of spirits doing odd jobs among the living.

Anthony Jackson brings a straight-faced steadiness to the character that anchors Rentaghost's daffier flights of whimsy. Playing a ghost with plain, unfussy dignity rather than spookiness or slapstick, he lets the comedy come from the premise itself, making Fred a reliable, likeable presence amid the show's parade of eccentrics.