Leon Vanaugh was the manager of a hotel on Great Skull Island, until his niece, Lisa Vanaugh, came of age at 18.
Physical appearance[]
Leon is depicted as being a man with short, dark brown hair. He primarily wears an orange-brown suit, with a white shirt and an orange tie.
Personality[]
Leon at first comes across as being a kind and fatherlike figure, who loves his niece, Lisa, dearly. However, he was later revealed to be cold, calculating, jealous and selfish, manipulating his own niece to cheat her out of her rightful inheritance. He even implicated his own dead father as being a vampire.
History[]
The Scooby-Doo Show[]
Season two[]
Uncle Leon unmasked.
Lisa introduced Leon to the gang. He claims to be proud to be working for Lisa once she inherits the hotel the next day; he showed the boys to their room just as his wrist alarm went off, prompting him to get back to work.
He later finds the gang and Lisa after finding the dog whistle where they informed him of the vampire that's been haunting the hotel. He proceeds to tell them about the family's secret. He explains that Lisa that her grandfather is a vampire, who followed the family to turn Lisa into a vampire.
He was unmasked as Gramps the Vamp, and it was revealed he didn't want Lisa to take over running the hotel, so he tried to get her to think she was a vampire, so she would want to be put away for her own protection. His scheme had several elements: fake newspaper clippings, faked images of her grandfather as a vampire, six bats from a pet shop on the mainland (sent via a coffin which he opened during the trip from the ferry's dock to the hotel), an ultrasonic whistle to control the bats, and a post-hypnotic suggestion on Lisa that she would put on vampire fangs when she heard the phone ring and her wrist watch alarm go off.
Appearances[]
Notes/trivia[]
- Since Leon was also her legal guardian, it's implied that Lisa would've lost her parents, although it isn't mentioned what happened to them.
In other languages[]
| Actor | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Per Skjølsvik | Norwegian |