# Actors who played the same character in two different versions of the same movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252 "2017-01-15T19:21:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/41 "2017-01-17T16:21:44Z")
> [@Mr.Bill](#): > > Bela Lugosi apparently played Dracula at least 5 times, in 2 feature movies, 1 short movie and 2 TV episodes. He also did a Spanish-language version of _Dracula_ at the same time he did the English-language version in 1931. Laurel and Hardy also did Spanish versions of their films after talkies came in. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/42 "2017-01-17T16:26:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s not the same story, but **Peter O’Toole** notably played the same character – Henry IV of England – in _The Lion in Winter_ and in _Becket_. Henry II actually. With 2 very different Eleanors. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/43 "2017-01-17T16:36:36Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > He also did a Spanish-language version of _Dracula_ at the same time he did the English-language version in 1931. No, Dracula was played in the Spanish-language version by Spanish actor Carlos Villarías. Some footage of Lugosi seems to have been used in long shots, but otherwise Lugosi did not appear in the film. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/44 "2017-01-17T16:42:56Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > He also did a Spanish-language version of _Dracula_ at the same time he did the English-language version in 1931. A completely different cast was used for the Spanish-language version. The only thing the two movies shared were the sets. [Dracula\_(1931\_Spanish-language\_film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%C3%A1cula_(1931_Spanish-language_film)) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/45 "2017-01-17T18:00:48Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Not quite the same, but Glenda Jackson played Elizabeth I in two different productions. One was the BBC production _Elizabeth R_. Then, in the movie _Mary, Queen of Scots_, Jackson again played Elizabeth I. Also not responsive to the OP, but Cate Blanchett has played Queen Elizabeth I in two different movies, too, and may do even more. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/46 "2017-01-17T18:23:12Z")
In 1989, there was a TV movie called _Nick Knight_. In 1992, the show was re-made as the pilot episode of a series called _Forever Knight_. The new version was almost a shot-for-shot remake, but had a completely different cast, except for John Kapelos, who played the hero’s sidekick, Detective Don Schanke. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/47 "2017-01-17T18:52:08Z")
Keith Mitchell played King Henry VIII in both a 1970 six hour television mini series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII’ and a 1972 two hour film “Henry VIII and his Six Wives”, which has many different actors and actresses from the first. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/48 "2017-01-17T20:29:15Z")
If TV programs count, Amanda Pays and Mark Hamill repeated their roles from the 1990 CBS series _The Flash_ (Dr. Tina McGee and the Trickster, respectively) in the current CW series. John Wesley Shipp, who played the title role in the first series, also plays the Flash (albeit a different Flash) in the new one. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/49 "2017-01-17T20:39:40Z")
I think TV does count, as long as it’s a direct remake of the same same story. The Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents had remakes with the same story. If anyone reprised their role, this would count. But two Flash TV series, with different stories, wouldn’t count, IMHO. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/50 "2017-01-17T21:04:47Z")
**Charles Gray** played Sherlock Holmes’ older, heavier brother in the film of Nicholas Meyer’s _The Seven per Cent Solution_. I was delighted to see him return to the role in the Granada/WGBH _Sherlock Holmes_ series. Sorry about mistaking Henry IV for Henry II. Mental Rolodex stuck at Shakespeare. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/51 "2017-01-17T21:11:53Z")
I thought for certain someone would get here first with this but: Hugh Jackman, as Wolverine, in any of the approximately 40 million incarnations of the X-men and the stand-alone Wolverine movies. He keeps _saying_ this is the last one, but, hey whatcha gonna do: daddy wants a new yacht. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/52 "2017-01-17T22:44:58Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I thought for certain someone would get here first with this but: > > Hugh Jackman, as Wolverine, in any of the approximately 40 million incarnations of the X-men and the stand-alone Wolverine movies. He keeps _saying_ this is the last one, but, hey whatcha gonna do: daddy wants a new yacht. Which of the movies with his Wolverine are “two different versions of the same movie” per the OP? ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/53 "2017-01-17T22:54:31Z")
Stumbled on this by accident: Ronald Lacey played a character named Oswald in, “Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in 1984. He played the same character in, “Gawain and the Green Knight,” from 1973. This tidbit is completely tossable if not accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/54 "2017-01-17T23:14:17Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Stumbled on this by accident: Ronald Lacey played a character named Oswald in, “Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in 1984. He played the same character in, “Gawain and the Green Knight,” from 1973. Once again, not versions of the same story. Please, people, pay attention to the question as asked. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/55 "2017-01-18T00:24:40Z")
How are those not versions of the same story? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/56 "2017-01-18T00:27:45Z")
D’oh. Sorry, misread it. Comment withdrawn. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/57 "2017-01-18T00:36:35Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Laurel and Hardy also did Spanish versions of their films after talkies came in. And German ones too. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/58 "2017-01-18T20:09:28Z")
The _Monty Python_ crew also did at least one TV special in both German and English. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/59 "2017-01-18T20:47:45Z")
Another case of multiple versions of the same film completely redone for three different languages is Kurt Siodmak’s _FP1_ (AKA _FP1 Does not Answer_), a 1932-3 science fiction film. Although most of the actors differ from version to version (as with the Universal 1931 versions of _Dracula_), some actors redid their roles in two languages. **Philipp Manning** played the Doctor in the German and English versions I’m sure there are others, but a quick survey doesn’t turn them up. Interesting casts. Charles Boyer is in the French version, Conrad Veidt in the English, and a young Peter Lorre is in the German version. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252/60 "2017-01-18T23:11:14Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It’s a bit of a stretch, but Judi Dench played two separate "M"s in two different James Bond continuities. > > (Inasmuch as James Bond has continuity). He doesn’t. If he did, the fact that he was disassociated into a cloud of ionized particles would have saved us eleven thousand Bond flicks in the franchise. And instead we could all be having a rollicking good time watching the eleven thousand flicks of the _Chitty-chitty Bang-bang_ franchise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-played-the-same-character-in-two-different-versions-of-the-same-movie/777252.md?page=4)