# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/61 "2010-09-15T08:19:04Z")
Aahnold as Conan and The Terminator. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/62 "2010-09-15T08:40:21Z")
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster and The Mummy. Mel Gibson in Road Warrior and in Lethal Weapon. David B. in Buffy/Angel and in Bones. Christopher Heyerdhal (probably misspelled) as multiple characters (especially John) on Sanctuary and as the demon Alistair on Supernatural. whatsisname, the guy who was on Quantum Leap and then Stargate. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/63 "2010-09-15T13:26:47Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Mark Hamill, as Luke Skywalker and then much later as the voice of the Joker on the Batman cartoons. Cock Knocker ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/64 "2010-09-15T13:33:20Z")
Literary types remember Neal Cassidy as the protagonist in Jack Kerouac’s classic “On The Road” (under the name of Dean Moriarty), and the bus driver for Ken Kesey’s band of Merry Pranksters in Tom Wolfe’s classic “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/65 "2010-09-15T13:36:38Z")
Harry Morgan: Bill Gannon and Sherman Potter and Pete Porter William Conrad as Cannon and Jake and the Fatman (both sucked). He maybe had more acting roles on radio than tv. He did tons of voice over work/naration for tv and radio, his voice is way better known than his face. Shatner is a far better comedic lawyer than dramatic cop or Starfleet captain. Though i think Star Trek was a comedy, the little bit i watched i was always laughing which didn’t go well with others. ---
**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, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/66 "2010-09-15T13:37:44Z")
Bogart as Rick Blaine and Sam Spade ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/67 "2010-09-15T13:39:43Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > William Conrad as Cannon and Jake and the Fatman (both sucked). He maybe had more acting roles on radio than tv. He did tons of voice over work/naration for tv and radio, his voice is way better known than his face. Perhaps most memorable to me was his Matt Dillon on radio’s _Gunsmoke_! ---
**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, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/68 "2010-09-15T13:42:00Z")
Orson Welles: Charles Foster Kane and Harry Lime. Alec Baldwin: Jack Donaghy and Blake ( **from Glengarry Glen Ross** ). ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/69 "2010-09-15T13:50:35Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Orson Welles: Charles Foster Kane and Harry Lime. I think the two things he’s most often remembered for are _Citizen Kane_ and his _War of the Worlds_ radio broadcast. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/70 "2010-09-15T13:52:06Z")
Gordon Jump: Arthur Carlson and the chld molester on Different Strokes. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/71 "2010-09-15T14:23:44Z")
Jesus on Star Trek! Nobody has mentioned Jeffrey Hunter yet? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/72 "2010-09-15T14:30:47Z")
Dare I mention Carroll Spinney? He played a rather large bird and a trash-talking grouch. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/73 "2010-09-15T14:31:35Z")
Agnes Moorehead did decades of radio, was Margo Lane (one of them) on the Shadow. She was also Endora on tv Bewitched, which she didn’t think serious, didn’t think would succeed and didn’t want to be remembered as because she liked drama. Orson Welles was one of the actors doing the Shadow on radio. He did lots as producer and directing in radio. He also was Harry Lime on radio as well as film. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/74 "2010-09-15T20:35:25Z")
Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas and Warden Hazen ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/75 "2010-09-15T20:41:05Z")
Alan Rickman: the Sheriff (of Nottingham) and Severus Snape. And Hans in Die Hard. And the Colonel in Sense & Sensibility. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/76 "2010-09-15T21:25:34Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Alan Rickman: the Sheriff (of Nottingham) and Severus Snape. And Hans in Die Hard. And the Colonel in Sense & Sensibility. i’ll always think of him as Marvin ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/77 "2010-09-15T21:57:57Z")
in my foraging for a bit of other trivia Parley Baer who did a lot of radio work, periodic reoccurring roles, maybe best known as Chester on Gunsmoke. He was in lots of singular roles on tv and periodic reoccurring roles like Dr. “Doc” Appleby in the The Dukes of Hazzard; Miles Dugan in The Young and the Restless. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/78 "2010-09-15T22:06:05Z")
[Similar thread here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=390656) I think no one in this thread has mentioned Julie Andrews; who, to the not-really-into-musicals-crowd, is vastly better known for **The Sound of Music** and **Marry Poppins** than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/79 "2010-09-15T22:19:38Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > Dirk Benedict: Starbuck & Face > > Dwight Shultz: Murdock & Barclay Mr. T: B.A. Baracus and Clubber Lang George Peppard: Hannibal Smith and Lt. Bruno Stachel (The Blue Max). Yeah the last one’s a huge stretch, but I wanted my all A Team post. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721/80 "2010-09-15T22:30:49Z")
Personally, I don’t associate Orson Welles with roles at all, but rather, with his directing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-always-associated-with-two-separate-roles/553721.md?page=5)