# Actors Who Followed Each Other Through Different Projects. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565 "2015-03-09T00:37:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chicago\_Faucet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chicago_faucet/32/13910_2.png) [@Chicago\_Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago_Faucet)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/1 "2015-03-09T00:37:23Z")
What are some interesting instances of actors following each other between works? One interesting one I just stumbled upon is that Scoot McNairy and Kerry Bishe (rawr!) play a married couple both in Argo and Halt and Catch Fire. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/2 "2015-03-09T01:00:21Z")
It was common in the 30s and 40s for actors to be cast together as romantic partners: Fred and Ginger, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald, Bogart and Bacall, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn (three films, but great ones), John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, William Powell and Myrna Loy (14 films together, including the _Thin Man_ series). ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/3 "2015-03-09T02:30:10Z")
Adam Sandler’s pack of friends should count. Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/4 "2015-03-09T02:33:43Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > It was common in the 30s and 40s for actors to be cast together as romantic partners: Fred and Ginger, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald, Bogart and Bacall, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn (three films, but great ones), John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, William Powell and Myrna Loy (14 films together, including the _Thin Man_ series). All that and you didn’t mention Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/5 "2015-03-09T02:37:37Z")
[Quote=Joey P] All that and you didn’t mention Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy? [/quote] Gah. Of course. Certain directors had “stock companies” of actors they cast in their films again and again. John Ford had about 40, so they often appeared together. They included John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond and others Preston Sturges had William Demerest, Eddie Bracken, Jimmy Conlin, Chester Conklin, and quite a few others. And, of course, there was the Rat Pack: Sinatra, Martin, Davis, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/6 "2015-03-09T02:44:42Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Gah. Of course. > > Certain directors had “stock companies” of actors they cast in their films again and again. John Ford had about 40, so they often appeared together. They included John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond and others > > Preston Sturges had William Demerest, Eddie Bracken, Jimmy Conlin, Chester Conklin, and quite a few others. > > And, of course, there was the Rat Pack: Sinatra, Martin, Davis, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, etc. I don’t know if still happens know, but I always found it interesting when I’d read some little bio or watch a documentary and hear something like “Bette Davis was on loan from MGM”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/7 "2015-03-09T04:18:37Z")
Woody Allen has had evolving casts of regulars. At one time, that included Tony Roberts and Diane Keaton. Later, it included Mia Farrow, Diane Wiest and Julie Kavner. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/8 "2015-03-09T04:19:50Z")
Martin Scorsese used to use Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel and Joe Pesci a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/9 "2015-03-09T04:32:07Z")
One noteworthy coincidence is Carrie-Ann Moss and Joe Pantoliano appearing together in three unrelated movies in a eighteen month period: _The Matrix_, _Memento_, and _New Blood_. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/10 "2015-03-09T04:37:59Z")
Clint Eastwood, Mel Brooks, and Chris Guest all have actors they prefer to work with. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/11 "2015-03-09T12:40:36Z")
For some reason, Robert Shaw, Nigel Davenport, and some other actors in the 1966 film adaptation of Robert Bolt’s play **as Man for All Seasons** showed up in the 1969 film adaptation of Peter Schaffer’s play **The Royal Hunt of the Sun** ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/12 "2015-03-09T12:58:25Z")
A lot of the Russian actors in “Moscow On The Hudson” also appeared in “2010”. Or would it be the other way around? I don’t remember which was first. I understand it wasn’t so much as solidarity/friendship as much as there were only so many Russian actors in LA at the time they were casting those films. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/13 "2015-03-09T14:08:37Z")
Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise Phillip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten Seems to me John Wayne worked a lot with Maureen O’Hara, Ward Bond and Walter Brennan, but I could be misremembering. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/14 "2015-03-09T14:18:48Z")
John Cassavetes used his friends Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara in several of the movies he directed, as well as his wife Gena Rowlands. The Coen brothers too have a stock company of favorite actors. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/15 "2015-03-09T14:25:32Z")
John Wayne, Ward Bond, Harry Carey, Jr, Victor McLaglen, and others appeared in several movies together. John Ford had a stable of character actors he liked to use. I’ve spotted three actors from _The Wire_ in _The Walking Dead_. Two other actors from _The Wire_ starred in _Treme_. In an overlap, one of the actors from Wire and Treme (Clarke Peters) also worked with Khandi Alexander (Treme) previously in _The Corner_. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/16 "2015-03-09T14:38:59Z")
This is really random, but yesterday I was watching a 1989 episode of _Murder, She Wrote_ featuring [Lane Smith](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Lane_Smith_as_Perry_White.jpg) (the D.A. in _My Cousin Vinny_) and [Mason Adams](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1617799936/nm0011199?ref_=nm_ov_ph), who would later appear together in _Son-In-Law_ (1993). ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/17 "2015-03-09T14:55:33Z")
Peter Billingsley, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau are all long time friends and work often together. Billingsley and Favreau are often behind the camera. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/18 "2015-03-09T14:58:39Z")
[QUOTE=aldiboronti;18192213 The Coen brothers too have a stock company of favorite actors.[/QUOTE] Yes they do- John Goodman and John Turturro are the most prominent of these. Turturro is ALSO part of two other stables! He’s one of Spike Lee’s regulars (along with Michael Badalucco) and one of Adam Sandler’s! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/19 "2015-03-09T15:01:28Z")
David Mamet also uses many of the same group as actors in his plays and movies. They include former wife Lindsey Crouse, current wife Rebecca Pidgeon, William H. Macy, Joe Mantegna and Ricky Jay. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/20 "2015-03-09T15:03:32Z")
Scatman Crothers has appeared in four movies with Jack Nicholson: \*\*\*The King of Marvin \*\*\*_ **Gardens** _, _ **The Fortune** _, \*\*\*The Shining \*\*\*and _ **One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest** _. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565.md?page=2)