# Actors range in Sci Fi

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-range-in-sci-fi/970270>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** actor-characters\
**Created:** [August 25, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-range-in-sci-fi/970270 "2022-08-25T01:38:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-range-in-sci-fi/970270/21 "2022-08-27T13:50:29Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> Liberally abusing the word “recent,” I offer Christopher Plummer. Star Trek VI, The Sound of Music, Murder By Decree, Oedipus the King. The man had range.

You forgot his _magnum opus_, playing the Emperor of the First Circle of the Universe, in [Starcrash.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcrash)

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**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-range-in-sci-fi/970270/22 "2022-08-27T18:15:00Z")

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Jeffrey Combs, while maybe not being Gary Oldman level talent, has played a legion of Sci Fi characters, often in prosthetics, sometimes just as a voice actor. Sympathetic aliens, mad scientists, historical figures, etc. I often will see some weird alien in a show and question whether it is Jeffrey Combs again.  
[https://imgur.io/We9QIJ9](https://imgur.io/We9QIJ9)

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-range-in-sci-fi/970270/23 "2022-09-06T18:51:12Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> Steve Rogers is the polar opposite of Johnny Storm

Pretty sure the polar opposite of Steve Rogers is this guy:

[![](https://hips.hearstapps.com/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/27/1467994501-captain-america-red-skull.jpg) ](https://hips.hearstapps.com/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/27/1467994501-captain-america-red-skull.jpg)

Which, also, brings up Hugo Weaving. Elrond, Red Skull, and Mitzi Del Bra? Pretty good range, there.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-range-in-sci-fi/970270/24 "2022-09-07T17:59:59Z")

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I feel like you’re missing a big one there, _Mis_ter Miller.

And _V_, of course. Guy can act without showing his face.

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