# Actors who have appeared in the same film/show but not as relatives **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717 "2009-08-26T00:38:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/41 "2009-08-26T22:14:23Z")
I almost forgot the infamous _Kickboxing Academy_ in Chyler Leigh’s romantic interest is played by her brother Christopher Lee. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/42 "2009-08-26T22:26:52Z")
I didn’t learn until today that Michael C. Hall is married to Jennifer Carpenter, his on-screen sister in _Dexter_. They met on the show. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/43 "2009-08-27T02:15:00Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Charlie played a private and Martin a going-round-the-bend Sergeant in “Cadence”. Ramon Estevez was also in that. He played one of the stockade guards. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/44 "2009-08-27T03:18:23Z")
Barbara Hale played Della street, secretary to Perry Mason, on the TV show and movies starring Raymond Burr. In nine of the Perry Mason TV movies, between 1985 and 1988, her son, William Katt, who was famous as the Greatest American Hero and as the Sundance Kid from Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, played Paul Drake, Jr., the son of the original Paul Drake from the TV series. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/45 "2009-08-27T03:58:18Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > In _The Royal Tenenbaums_ (2001), Owen Wilson plays tennis pro Richie Tenenbaum, while his brother Luke plays Eli, his friend from across the street. Just a minor nit-pick…Luke played Ritchie and Owen played Eli. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/46 "2009-08-27T08:48:22Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Examples: > > Jean Stapleton’s son had a walk-on as a Boy Scout in an _ALL IN THE FAMILY_ episode For those who don’t know him that’s John Putch who also played Bob on _One Day At A Time_, the tuba playing, shy boy, who secretly lusted after Barbara. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/47 "2009-08-27T09:53:40Z")
David Tennant’s dad had a cameo in _Doctor Who_, as a footman in the Agatha Christie episode. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/48 "2009-08-27T13:17:51Z")
Fredric March and his wife Florence Eldridge made six movies together; in three they played man and wife. In the 1936 _Mary, Queen of Scotland_, he played Bothwell, husband of Mary, while Eldridge played Elizabeth Tudor; in the 1949 _Christopher Columbus_, he played the title role to Eldridge’s Queen Isabella. And in the 1935 version of _Les misérables_, he played Jean Valjean to Eldridge’s Fantine. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/49 "2009-08-27T14:21:21Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > In _The Royal Tenenbaums_ (2001), Owen Wilson plays tennis pro Richie Tenenbaum, while his brother Luke plays Eli, his friend from across the street. > > Brian Doyle Murray appears in bit parts in many Bill Murray movies, usually as an unrelated character. But in _Scrooged_, BDM played Bill’s father. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/50 "2009-08-27T14:23:20Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson both appear in “Sleepless in Seattle,” but she plays Victor Garber’s wife, not Tom’s. > > Nia Vardalos’ husband, Ian Gomez, appears with her in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” but her character marries John Corbett, not Ian. > > Similarly, Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig, married in real life, co-starred in “Thirtysomething,” but their characters were married to other people. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson also appear in _That Thing You Do_! ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/51 "2009-08-27T15:00:29Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > But in _Scrooged_, BDM played Bill’s father. And his Brother [John](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615066/) played his brother. But his brother [Joel](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615063/) played a house guest of john who was not related. So Joel holds the distinction of appearing with three of his brothers in a film while being the only of the four siblings who was not cast as a relative. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/52 "2009-08-27T15:15:04Z")
Dom DeLuise and his sons all appeared on “Stargate”, but none of their characters were related. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/53 "2009-08-27T21:11:15Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Similarly, Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig, married in real life, co-starred in “Thirtysomething,” but their characters were married to other people. Olin has also recently appeared on “Brothers & Sisters” (which he produces and occasionally directs). Wettig is a regular cast member. William H. Macy guested in an arc on “Sports Night” which starred his wife, Felicity Huffman. Idina Menzel, the wife of Taye Diggs, recently guested on Taye’s show “Private Practice” but her character had a romantic interest in Tim Daly. When Tim Daly was starring on “Wings” his sister Tyne had a guest appearance as a woman who was not related at to him at all. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/54 "2009-08-27T21:55:11Z")
On _Battlestar Galactica_, [Edward James Olmos](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001579/) stars as Commander Adama, while his son [Bodie Olmos](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0647453/bio) has a bit recurring part as rookie pilot Hotdog. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/55 "2009-08-27T23:28:27Z")
Skirting the OP with a couple of twins… 🙂 Linda Hamilton’s twin sister Leslie appears in Terminator 2. Once as Sarah (in a flash back) but also once as the liquid terminator pretending to be Sarah. Nicholas Brendon’s twin brother Kelly Donovan appeared as the other half of Xander’s split personality in a Buffy: the Vampire Slayer episode. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/56 "2009-08-28T13:16:40Z")
Susan St. James appeared on the Drew Carey show as Oswald Harvey’s mother. Her niece Christa Miller played Kate. Brother and sister Christopher and Charlotte d’Amboise played in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song & Dance, and did a _pas de deux_ together that was most decidedly unsibling-like. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/57 "2009-08-28T14:02:16Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Skirting the OP with a couple of twins… 🙂 > > Linda Hamilton’s twin sister Leslie appears in Terminator 2. Once as Sarah (in a flash back) but also once as the liquid terminator pretending to be Sarah. > > Nicholas Brendon’s twin brother Kelly Donovan appeared as the other half of Xander’s split personality in a Buffy: the Vampire Slayer episode. Twins Don & Dan Stanton played a security guard & the T-1000 version of the guard in Terminator 2 as well. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/58 "2009-08-28T18:34:36Z")
Twins Deidre and Andrea Hall appeared on Days of our LIves, first as twin sisters Marlena and Samatha Evans. After the latter was killed, the actress reappeared as Hattie, a diner waitress who knew everybody’s secrets. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/59 "2009-08-31T13:16:57Z")
The Nanny had a plot where Fran Fine was casted as a dreadful Juliet, in a production designed to lose money for tax reasons. Her then husband Peter Marc Jacobsen played Romeo, leading to the following dialogue between him and another female actor, both dressed in Elizabeth garb: Actor: How did she get casted? She is horrible. Jacobsen: She must have slept with the producer. Actor: I slept with the producer and all I got was two lines Jacobsen, very smugly: I got Romeo. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-film-show-but-not-as-relatives/507717/60 "2009-08-31T18:50:26Z")
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