# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/41 "2015-03-09T22:20:01Z")
Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Cater have appeared in 5 films together so far (usually directed by Tim Burton). ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/42 "2015-03-09T22:28:31Z")
All this and no mention of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and company yet? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/43 "2015-03-10T00:14:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > 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_. Looking at The Wire and Treme, add HBO’s OZ and Homicide. Tom Fontana and David Chase behind the scenes. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/44 "2015-03-10T00:30:22Z")
**Penelope Wilton** and **Bill Nighy** play a married couple in both _Shaun of the Dead_ and _The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel_. ---
**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 10, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/45 "2015-03-10T00:55:37Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > **Penelope Wilton** and **Bill Nighy** play a married couple in both _Shaun of the Dead_ and _The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel_. You…didn’t…call…the…doctor, did you? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/46 "2015-03-10T01:50:34Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Adam Sandler’s pack of friends should count. Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James and so forth. And he’s appeared in three films with Drew Barrymore. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/47 "2015-03-10T07:03:51Z")
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau appeared together in a number of movies: The Fortune Cookie, The Odd Couple, Kotch, The Front Page, JFK, Grumpy Old Men, Grumpier Old Men and The Odd Couple II. How about Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour in the road pictures? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565/48 "2015-03-10T07:36:59Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > 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). I was channel surfing once and caught an old movie with Peter Riegert and Mary Beth Hurt in it, and I remembered that they played a married couple in an episode of _Law & Order_. IMDb tells me the movie was _Chilly Scenes of Winter_, released in 1979 and very early in both their careers. The L&O episode came 17 years later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-followed-each-other-through-different-projects/714565.md?page=2)