# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/21 "2015-03-09T15:20:55Z")
Joss Whedon has a pack of actors… just looking at the cast of _Much Ado About Nothing,_ there are only two or three who I don’t recognize as having been in Buffy, Angel, Dollhouse, or Firefly. TV, of course, but if you add Cabin in the Woods & The Avengers, a bunch of the characters in this movie were in those, too. Clint Howard seems to be fairly successful getting parts in Ron Howard’s movies, for some reason. ---
**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, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/22 "2015-03-09T15:23:27Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Clint Howard seems to be fairly successful getting parts in Ron Howard’s movies, for some reason. His Mom and his Dad (Rance Howard) have gotten a few roles in Ron’s movies, too! His mother played Jim Lovell’s Mom in _ **Apollo 13** _, and Rance appeared beside her as a clergyman offering consolation. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/23 "2015-03-09T16:43:59Z")
Frank Darabont seems to have a stable of actors: Jeffrey DeMunn Laurie Holden Dee Croxton Brian Libby Sam Witwer Melissa McBride William Sadler I know there are others. ---
**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, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/24 "2015-03-09T17:16:54Z")
Bruce Willis and his friend Michael Clarke Duncan appeared together in _ **The Whole Nine Yards** _, _ **Breakfast of Champions** _, _ **Armageddon** _ and _ **Sin City.** _ Willis also called the aforementioned Frank Darabont and told him “I have the perfect John Coffey for you” when he heard Darabont was making _ **The Green Mile.** _ ---
**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, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/25 "2015-03-09T17:20:10Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > 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”. That was the artifact from the old studio system. Actors were signed by a studio and were assigned to films by the studio. If they wanted to work for another studio, they had to get permission. One stumbling block to the production of _Gone With the Wind_ was that Selznick had to borrow Gable (the public’s choice for the role) from MGM. Gable made _It Happened One Night_ because MGM lent him out to Columbia – some sources say it was “punishment,” though it seems that MGM just didn’t have any roles for him. Davis couldn’t do _It Happened One Night_ because Jack Warner refused to lend her. When the studio system died in the 50s, this no longer occurred, since the actors didn’t have contracts except on a picture-by-picture basis. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/26 "2015-03-09T17:21:59Z")
In Divergent, Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort are brother and sister. In Fault in Our Stars, they are a dating couple. Icky. Not really at all since they are not related, but still kind of odd casting. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/27 "2015-03-09T17:28:14Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > His Mom and his Dad (Rance Howard) have gotten a few roles in Ron’s movies, too! His mother played Jim Lovell’s Mom in _ **Apollo 13** _, and Rance appeared beside her as a clergyman offering consolation. ::Slight hijack:: Rance and Clint were both in “Gentle Ben” on TV in the late '60s (yes, I’m old). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/28 "2015-03-09T17:28:35Z")
Tom Hanks and Sally Field were dating in _Punchline,_ and then in _Forrest Gump,_ she played his mom. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/29 "2015-03-09T17:40:37Z")
Aaron Taylor Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen played a husband & wife (with a son) in the most recent “Godzilla” remake. They are set to star as brother & sister superheroes Quicksilver & the Scarlet Witch in the upcoming “Avengers 2” flick. ---
**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, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/30 "2015-03-09T18:06:15Z")
Judd Apatow has a large group of actors that appear in his movies and other projects, detailed in [this handy wikipedia chart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_in_Judd_Apatow_films). ---
**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, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/31 "2015-03-09T18:54:35Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Clint Eastwood, Mel Brooks, and Chris Guest all have actors they prefer to work with. Good calls on all three- Clint has made multiple movies with John Vernon, Harry Guardino, Geoffrey Lewis, Pat Hingle, Bill McKinney, and Sondra Locke. Mel Brooks had Gene Wilder, Madalyn Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, and Harvey Korman. Guest has Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Jane Lynch, Paul Dooley, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Fred Willard, Parker Posey and Bob Balaban. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/32 "2015-03-09T18:57:42Z")
James Garner and Stuart Margolin. Johnny Galecki, Sara Gilbert, and Laurie Metcalf. Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan. ---
**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, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/33 "2015-03-09T19:00:52Z")
Ernest Borgnine and Robert Ryan appeared together in _ **Bad Day at Black Rock** _, _ **The Dirty Dozen** _, and \*\*\*The Wild Bunch, \*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/34 "2015-03-09T19:06:39Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > In Divergent, Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort are brother and sister. > > In Fault in Our Stars, they are a dating couple. Speaking of whom, Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller appear together in both Divergent and The Spectacular Now. ---
**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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/35 "2015-03-09T19:10:10Z")
Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin were together in _ **Violent Saturday, \*\*\* The Stranger Wore a Gun, \*\*\* Bad Day at Black Rock, The Dirty Dozen** _, and\*\*\* Emperor of the North Pole.\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/36 "2015-03-09T19:14:11Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Good calls on all three- Clint has made multiple movies with John Vernon, Harry Guardino, Geoffrey Lewis, Pat Hingle, Bill McKinney, and Sondra Locke. \ I know you can’t name everyone, but why not [Albert Popwell](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0691620/?ref_=rvi_nm)? “I gots to know.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/37 "2015-03-09T19:49:48Z")
There’s usually 3 or 4 Cusacks in every John Cusack movie, either in front of or behind the cameras. Joan, it seems, almost always. ---
**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, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/38 "2015-03-09T19:54:48Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > \ > > I know you can’t name everyone, but why not [Albert Popwell](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0691620/?ref_=rvi_nm)? “I gots to know.” 😉 Of course! He was also Big Ed Mustafa in _ **The Enforcer** _, and Horace in _ **Sudden Impact!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/39 "2015-03-09T19:58:36Z")
[Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, of course](http://www.imdb.com/search/title?roles=nm0000354,nm0000255&title_type=feature,tv_episode,video,tv_movie,tv_special,mini_series,documentary,game,short,unknown). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/40 "2015-03-09T19:59:00Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Of course! He was also Big Ed Mustafa in _ **The Enforcer** _, and Horace in _ **Sudden Impact!** _ AND the Drano-killer pimp in _ **Magnum Force** _. (How about those exhaust pipes on his Pimp-mobile? He must have sold that car to the Duke of New York.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565.md?page=3)