# A different people, same name question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896 "2017-02-15T11:40:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/21 "2017-02-15T17:53:49Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > It’s sadly to late to cast Prince as Machiavelli. “ **too** late.” Edit window expired. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/22 "2017-02-15T18:03:09Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Brian Wilson as Woodrow Wilson? > Amy Adams as Abigail Adams? > Denzel Washington as George Washington? > Peter Jackson as Shoeless Joe Lackson? > Stephen Tyler as John Tyler? > Brad Pitt as William Pitt? > Isaac Hayes as Rutherford B. Hayes? > Aidy Bryant as William Jennings Bryant? > Leslie Jones as John Paul Jones? > Tonya Harding as Warren G Harding? > Rita Coolidge as Calvin Coolidge? > Dwayne Johnson as Lyndon B Johnson? > Cynthia Nixon as Richard Milhous Nixon? > Scarlett Johansson as David Johansson? > Will Smith as Adam Smith? > Julia Roberts as Justice Roberts? Isaac Hayes is dead. Not that it’s the primary problem with your list. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/23 "2017-02-15T18:19:57Z")
Howzaboot [Dave Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(actor)) pertrayin’ [da founder of Wendy’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(businessman)), eh? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/24 "2017-02-15T19:48:43Z")
Geraldine Chaplin as Hannah Chaplin (her grandmother). [Oh, wait …](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Chaplin#Chaplin.2C_Scorsese.2C_and_Zeffirelli.2C_1990-1999) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/25 "2017-02-15T20:05:47Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > If Paul Revere (Dick) of Paul Revere and the Raiders was still around, he could play Paul Revere. John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin is getting a little long in the tooth to play the naval hero (though maybe stage names shouldn’t count). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/26 "2017-02-15T20:38:05Z")
Oh, we _really_ need a Sinbad movie starring Sinbad. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/27 "2017-02-15T21:04:38Z")
Tangentially related, but The Right Stuff throws me off because it has Ed Harris as John Glenn, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, and Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/28 "2017-02-15T21:38:14Z")
He lost out on fame by being left behind in the spaceship. Now he comes to free Ireland. He is… Michael Collins. I would like to see Keith David and David Keith in a buddy comedy. Bill Nighy as Bill Nye. For that matter, if the former gets called back to start in another Pirates of the Caribbean, and doesn’t want to, Davy Jones of the Monkees could step in. Sure he’s dead, but then the character is undead. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > Geraldine Chaplin as Hannah Chaplin (her grandmother). > > [Oh, wait …](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Chaplin#Chaplin.2C_Scorsese.2C_and_Zeffirelli.2C_1990-1999) Oona Chaplin (Robb Stark’s wife) and her glorious rump as Oona (O’Neill) Chaplin. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/29 "2017-02-15T22:53:41Z")
Welsh singer Tom Jones could portray the romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones from the novel by Henry Fielding. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/30 "2017-02-16T00:39:40Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I would like to see Keith David and David Keith in a buddy comedy. When they were younger I thought they should do a remake of [The Defiant Ones.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051525/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_94) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/31 "2017-02-16T03:03:39Z")
If he was still alive, Robert “Jaws” Shaw could play conductor Robert “Chorale” Shaw. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/32 "2017-02-16T03:38:39Z")
A James Brown biopic, starring Jim Brown. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/33 "2017-02-16T04:05:20Z")
Reality TV host [Jesse James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James_(customizer)) could play the outlaw (who he claims was a relative). Chris Columbus is mainly a producer/director but has a couple of bit roles as an actor and could play the navigator. It would be amusing to see [Jaye P. Morgan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaye_P._Morgan) cast as the magnate J.P. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/34 "2017-02-16T07:12:54Z")
[Harry Potter](http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/veteran-ten-reporter-harry-potter-72-dies-of-cancer-20140509-zr7hx.html) reported on Harry Potter. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/35 "2017-02-16T08:00:55Z")
Brian Cox (actor) could play astrophysicist heartthrob Brian Cox in his biopic, provided that it included scenes from his future life, when he’d really let himself go. Madonna Australian actor John Howard has played Australian Prime Minister John Howard, in The Games, giving the [apology](http://https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh0MNIFezME) to the Stolen Generation that JH PM refused to give. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/36 "2017-02-16T08:20:35Z")
I’d like to see a movie filmed in Galicia, Spain, but set in medieval Galicia, the Eastern European region now variously part of Ukraine and Poland. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/37 "2017-02-16T08:32:10Z")
> [@Cugel](#): > > [Harry Potter](http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/veteran-ten-reporter-harry-potter-72-dies-of-cancer-20140509-zr7hx.html) reported on Harry Potter. Unrelated fun fact: the main character in the terrible film “Troll” is named Harry Potter. The sequel, Troll 2, which features exactly zero trolls but some vegetarian goblins, is more popular. > [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > I’d like to see a movie filmed in Galicia, Spain, but set in medieval Galicia, the Eastern European region now variously part of Ukraine and Poland. How about a Stalin biopic which follows his upbringing in the ATL hip hop scene? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/38 "2017-02-16T11:26:41Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Unrelated fun fact: the main character in the terrible film “Troll” is named Harry Potter. Also, on M_A_S\*H Sherman Potter was played by Harry Morgan. (There must be an alternate universe somewhere where Rowling named her character Sherman Morgan.) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/39 "2017-02-16T13:07:23Z")
Female Welsh TV presenter Alex Jones could play male American radio nutbag, Alex Jones. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/40 "2017-02-16T13:35:46Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Geraldine Chaplin as Hannah Chaplin (her grandmother). > > [Oh, wait …](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Chaplin#Chaplin.2C_Scorsese.2C_and_Zeffirelli.2C_1990-1999) Even better, sort of, would be Oona Chaplin playing her grandmother Oona Chaplin. (Although she went by “Oona O’Neill”, the press still generally called her “Oona Chaplin”.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896.md?page=3)