Alan Grant

Alan Grant is a fictional character from the Jurassic Park franchise. In the film trilogy he is portrayed by Sam Neill. In the Jurassic Park novel, Grant is described as a barrel-chested, forty-year old chief paleontologist. At the time of the InGen incident, and the time of the publication of the book, it can be assumed that Grant was born in either the year 1950 or 1949. In the novel, Grant tells Tim Murphy that he is a widower. In the book, it... more

Alan Grant is a fictional character from the Jurassic Park franchise. In the film trilogy he is portrayed by Sam Neill. In the Jurassic Park novel, Grant is described as a barrel-chested, forty-year old chief paleontologist. At the time of the InGen incident, and the time of the publication of the book, it can be assumed that Grant was born in either the year 1950 or 1949. In the novel, Grant tells Tim Murphy that he is a widower. In the book, it says he helped describe the Maiasaura with Jack Horner. Actually, Grant is based on Horner himself - one of the scientific advisers for Jurassic Park - than on "Bob" Makela (1940-1987), Horner's co-author for Maiasaura. Grant had uncovered a Velociraptor skeleton in Montana, when he was invited to Jurassic Park, a jungle island where genetically engineered dinosaurs were being created. It was there that he met Tim Murphy, and supposedly becomes good friends with him. He was the one who confirmed the breeding problem in among the Jurassic Park... less