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.
How about PRICELINE NEGOTIATOR!!! ?
Yup. And he played him in three different places – the movie MAS*H, the TV series, and the TV series AfterMAS*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).
Mark Hamill, as Luke Skywalker and then much later as the voice of the Joker on the Batman cartoons.
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.
Ahem, before he was Luke Skywalker, he was Corey from the Jeannie cartoon, don’t forget.
Yapple dapple!
Already given in post #38 above.
John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino (Welcome Back Kotter) and Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction.)
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”.
Bill Bixby as Tim O’Hara, Tom Corbett (not the space cadet; Eddie’s father), Dr. David Bruce Banner.
You forget his greatest and nearly final role as Centauri in The Last Starfighter.
Robert Englund as Willy the good alien in V and Freddy Kruger in Nightmare on Elm St.
I’d put Tony Manero (Saturday Night Fever) before Vinnie Barbarino. (Not chronologically, obviously.)
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.
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Wasn’t that Pacino?
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.
Two is a much bigger number then I remember it being.
No. Midnight Cowboy came out in 1969, several years before Pacino’s first big role in Panic in Needle Park.
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
Harry Morgan: Bill Gannon and Sherman Potter