Lieutenant William Gorman

Lieutenant William Gorman was played by William Hope in Aliens.

About
Gorman was sought out by Weyland-Yutani representative Carter Burke to lead an operation to investigate the terraforming colony Hadley's Hope, with which contact had been lost; unbeknownst to Gorman, Burke had specifically arranged for the inexperienced Lieutenant (Gorman had only a  single combat operation to his name at the time) to be placed in command of the mission.

One of Gorman's first duties was to assist Burke in the recruitment of Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of the USCSS Nostromo 's encounter with a Xenomorph lifeform on LV-426 57 years previously. She reluctantly agreed after a while.

After enlisting Ripley, Gorman and the men posted under his command set out for the colony on board the USS Sulaco. His men didn´t like him very much. Because of his inexperience he couldn´t handle the Xenomorphs, when they first encountered them, and became traumatized. Vazquez became incensed because of it and thought about assaulting him, but was restrained by Hicks.

He recovered and then worked together with the others to get of the planet at the first opportunity. He helped save Ripley and Newt from two aliens, who were relaesed by Burke in an atttempt to impregnate them. When the aliens attacked the place, where they were hiding after that and managed to penetrate it he fought with the others, but then he became stuck with Vazquez with nowhere to go. Because of that, he blew himself up with a grenade together with Vazquez to prevent both of them from being caught by the Aliens. Vazquez agreed with his intentions and reconciled with him before they died together.