Robert Mitchum as Max Cady and Lt. Elgart in Cape Fear
Roundtree actually plays the same role in both ‘Shafts’. Sam Jackson is playing Roundtree’s relative.
I included Harry Morgan since, unlike your examples, he wasn’t playing an offshoot version of himself (cousin, robot, doppleganger) ala Patty Duke in her TV series. He played two distinct unrelated characters within the story arc of the series. Your examples are somewhat tongue-in-cheek so I thought Morgan just might get a pass for this little exercise.
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I have no idea what you’re talking about. My examples aren’t tongue-in-cheek, and no one is playing a cousin, robot, or doppelganger in any of them. Your example is completely unlike anything I’ve suggested.
William Conrad played Leiningen in the radio adaptation of Carl Stephenson’s Leiningen and the Ants in the radio series Escape in 1948, then again in the series Suspense in 1957. But when they made the movie version in 1954, The Naked Jungle, Charlton Heston played the role. William Conrad played the commissioner.
I think that Conrad was a victim of his girth. His voice is superb, and he could play tough yet sympathetic characters on the radio, but when people saw him, they thought he was too fat for a leading role. It happened not only with Leiningen, but also with Gunsmoke. Conrad played Marshall Dillon on the radio from 1952 to 1961, but when the series moved to TV in 1955 they got Tall, slim James Arness for the part.
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1.) Michael Caine playing Milo Tindle in the 1972 version and Andrew Wyke in the 2007 version of Sleuth
Thus making him the only actor I know of to have played all the parts in any movie
James Whitmore played all the roles in Give Him Hell, Harry. He also got an Oscar nomination, making it, like the original film of Sleuth, one of the few films where the entire cast was nominated.
Lon Chaney starred in both the silent and sound versions of The Unholy Three
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But he played the same part in both, so it’s inappropriate for this thread. (I already mentioned it in the Dinklage thread)
I’d think that most classic horror stars would qualify.
E.g., Lon Chaney, Jr. played the Monster in the Ghost of Frankenstein and the Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Boris Karloff played the Monster in Frankenstein, but in House of Frankenstein he was the mad doctor.
Universal shuffled their guys around like cards.
True, but the examples you gives aren’t for actors playing different parts in versions of the same story. House of Frankenstein isn’t a version of Frankenstein, and The Ghost of Frankenstein isn’t Frankenstein Meets the WolfMan (nor The Mummy’s Hand, for that matter). I can’t think of a single one of the Universal films tat qualifies, in fact. To fit this thread, you’d have to have someone who played a part in Universal’s Frankenstein and, say, the Hammer Curse of Frankenstein.
Here’s another example:
Dean Stockwell played Wilbur Whately in the 1970 version of The Dunwich Horror. In the 2009 TV movie he played Dr. Henry Armitage.
(and they’re BOTH terrible adaptations. Maybe they should try it without Stockwell, but I don’t think he’s the problem.)
Speaking of Michael Caine…
He played the lead role in the brilliant, noirish British gangster film Get Carter, and a large but lesser role in Sly Stallone’s terrible remake.
Not quite the same thing (mixing in a different genre), but the great Colm Wilkinson played Jean Valjean on stage in the original London production of Les Miserables. Hugh Jackman got the role in the movie version, but Wilkinson got to play the kindly bishop who sets Valjean on the road to redemption.
Also not the same thing but interesting…
The two Sherlocks, Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch, were in a stage version of Frankenstein together. They switched off between the two lead roles on alternating performance days.
Gregory Peck was in the remake too, but I don’t know if his role was substantial or just a cameo.
Faye Dunaway was the heroine of the original version of The Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen.
Her role in the Pierce Brosnan remake was much smaller (she played Brosnan’s psychiatrist), but she was still memorably funny and charming.
Anthony Quinn and Laurence Olivier switched their roles (Henry II and Thomas Becket) regularly during the initial Broadway run of Becket in 1960
a recently made TV movie of The Sainthas both Roger Moore and Ian Ogilvy in the cast. Both of them played the Saint in earlier TV series. Their roles look to be more than mere cameos. It remains unsold and unbroadcast so far.
Patrick Troughton was the first actor to play Robin Hoodin a TV series. Later, as a character actor he made numerous guest appearences playing various roles in the Richard Greene series.
Gregory Peck and Martin Balsam did the same thing in the “Cape Fear” remake.
Just to make it clear, you’re saying that the *episodes *weren’t versions of each other, not the characters. You’re asking about actors who played a different character in a remake of the same story, not in two different episodes or films in a series. Correct?
Funny. I don’t remember anyone else in the film.