# Actors always associated with two separate roles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721 "2010-09-14T13:59:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/41 "2010-09-14T20:09:19Z")
Continuing with a Bonanza theme: Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright and Trapper John McIntyre. Incidently, Trapper John was earlier played by Wayne Rogers, and before that by Elliot Gould. There were three Trapper Johns but only one Radar O’Reilly! Okay, I think I’m losing focus now. This subject is more complex than one might think. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/42 "2010-09-14T20:10:34Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > > > Or on TV, William Shatner with James T. Kirk and Denny Crane. > > YMMV, I guess, but I think most people associate Shatner with Star Trek a lot more strongly then with Boston Legal. Kirk takes up a lot of space in the pop-culture hivemind, it would take a pretty big hit to match it. How about PRICELINE NEGOTIATOR!!! ? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/43 "2010-09-14T20:17:20Z")
> [@](#): > > There were three Trapper Johns but only one Radar O’Reilly! Yup. And he played him in three different places – the movie **M_A_S\*H** , the TV series, and the TV series **AfterM_A_S\*H**. Not to mention those IBM ads (where he wasn’t explicitly Radar, but he was in with all those other MASH cast members, so he effectively was). ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/44 "2010-09-14T20:20:34Z")
Mark Hamill, as Luke Skywalker and then much later as the voice of the Joker on the Batman cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/45 "2010-09-14T20:29:57Z")
I can’t find a link but it seems that we did something very similar to this topic years ago, under the title of actors who had had two or more successful TV series. I guess expanding it to cover movie roles solves that problem. Turning to the topic at hand I suggest: Carroll O’Connor:\* Archie Bunker\* and _Sheriff Bill Gillespie_ on “In the Heat of the Night” TV series. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/46 "2010-09-14T20:32:21Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Mark Hamill, as Luke Skywalker and then much later as the voice of the Joker on the Batman cartoons. Ahem, before he was Luke Skywalker, he was Corey from the Jeannie cartoon, don’t forget. Yapple dapple!😉 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/47 "2010-09-14T20:32:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Carroll O’Connor: Archie Bunker and Sheriff Bill Gillespie on “In the Heat of the Night” TV series. Already given in post #38 above. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/48 "2010-09-14T20:42:42Z")
John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino (Welcome Back Kotter) and Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction.) ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/49 "2010-09-14T20:42:48Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Mark Hamill, as Luke Skywalker and then much later as the voice of the Joker on the Batman cartoons. OK, now we’re just naming people who didn’t immediately retire after their signature role. The number of people who will remember Hamil equally for his role as Luke and the Joker is vanishingly small. He’s almost a poster child for an actor know for one big role. He’ll be lucky if his actual tombstone doesn’t read “Here lies Luke Skywalker”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/50 "2010-09-14T20:44:22Z")
Bill Bixby as Tim O’Hara, Tom Corbett (not the space cadet; Eddie’s father), Dr. David Bruce Banner. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/51 "2010-09-14T20:59:41Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Robert Preston: Harold Hill (_Music Man_) and Toddy (_Victor/Victoria_). You forget his greatest and nearly final role as Centauri in The Last Starfighter. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/52 "2010-09-14T21:40:43Z")
Robert Englund as Willy the good alien in V and Freddy Kruger in Nightmare on Elm St. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/53 "2010-09-14T23:21:48Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino (Welcome Back Kotter) and Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction.) I’d put Tony Manero (_Saturday Night Fever_) before Vinnie Barbarino. (Not chronologically, obviously.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/54 "2010-09-15T02:06:21Z")
If Dustin Hoffman drops dead tomorrow, I guaran-damn-tee that every televised news broadcast in the country will show (1) Benjamin Braddock awkwardly realizing Mrs Robinson may or may not be trying to seduce him; (2) Ratso Rizzo smacking the hood of a cab to point out that I’M WALKING HERE! I’M WALKING; (3) Michael Dorsey in drag as Dorothy Michaels; and (4) Tom Cruise’s autistic-savant brother, in his own little world. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/55 "2010-09-15T03:09:34Z")
[QUOTE=; (2) Ratso Rizzo smacking the hood of a cab to point out that I’M WALKING HERE! I’M WALKING.[/QUOTE] Wasn’t that Pacino? ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/56 "2010-09-15T03:17:37Z")
Mel Blanc: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,Yosemite Sam, Sylvster, Elmer Fudd, Barney Rubble, Mr Spacely, Jack Bennys violin teacher, many others. June Foray, Granny, Rocky Squirrel, Natasha Fatale. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/57 "2010-09-15T03:38:27Z")
Two is a much bigger number then I remember it being. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/58 "2010-09-15T05:08:47Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > (2) Ratso Rizzo smacking the hood of a cab to point out that I’M WALKING HERE! I’M WALKING. > > Wasn’t that Pacino? No. _Midnight Cowboy_ came out in 1969, several years before Pacino’s first big role in _Panic in Needle Park._ ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/59 "2010-09-15T08:02:40Z")
Roger Moore as Simon Templar and James Bond Robert Downey, Jr. has had a few good ones, but Chaplin and Tony Stark really jump out. Ioan Gryffud as Horatio Hornblower and Reed Richards Barry Humphries as Dame Edna and Bruce the Shark Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie and Mary Richards David Duchovny as Fox Mulder and Red Shoes Guy Williams as Professor Robinson and Zorro John Schneider as Bo Duke and Pa Kent William Peterson as Will Graham and Gil Grissom Tatum O’Neil as Amanda Whurlitzer and Addie Pray ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/60 "2010-09-15T08:11:28Z")
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