Lee, I’ll give you since Count Dracula wasn’t part of Hammer’s Dracula series, but Cushing no, his frequent Van Helsing roles were all a part of the same series (and not even always the same person, at least one was a decendant.) Also not counting his numerous times as Dr. Frankenstein, also all in a Hammer series.
Ghost is a sequel to Son (and the rest of the series) doesn’t count as a “different version of same movie” remotely.
Billy Bob Thornton played Karl Childers in both the short film Some Folk Call it a Sling Blade and the feature film expanded from it, Sling Blade.
Bruce Campbell and Ellen Sandweiss play essentially the same characters (with different names) in The Evil Dead that they did in the short film Within the Woods, both directed by Sam Raimi.
On UK TV, Kevin Stoney played Thrasyllus in the 1969 series The Caesars and in the 1976 series I,Claudius. He was excellent in each.
Not an actor, but in the same vein:
The enormous set of the Paris Opera House built for the 1925 version of the Phantom of the Opera was used as the set for the 1943 remake of The Phantom of the Opera, although they spent $100,000 to sound-proof it.
The set is still in existence, and in use. None of the other versions of Phantom were filmed there.
I think these should be excluded. There’s just too many of them. E.g., Cashback was a short turned into afeature film with the same leads. (Most notably the under-appreciated Emila Fox.)
There is also the question of “same movie”.
True, but it’s not invariably the case that actors from a short get recast in the feature film version. Look at George Lucas’ Electronic Labyrinth THX-1138 4EB. Nobody carried over from there to his feature film THX 1138.
Likewise, the 1939 version of Beau Geste (starring Gary Cooper) used the same sets and locations near Yuma, AZ, as the 1926 version (starring Ronald Colman).
I checked - there were no cast members from the 1930 Dawn Patrol who also appeared in the 1938 remake. But the entire script was reused as is, and many of the sets looked like it too.
There is a 1932 auto racing movie called “The Crowd Roars” starring James Cagney and Joan Blondell. In 1939 Warner Brothers decided to remake it calling it “Indianapolis Speedway” starring Pat O’Brien and Ann Sheridan. One actor played the same role in both movies: Frank McHugh.
Heh… the London set for Cleopatra (1963, with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton) was reused by the Carry On crew to make Carry on Cleo, (1964 with Sid James and Amanda Barrie). Even some of the costumes were reused.
But there were no actors in common, AFAIK.
Infamy…
Now this is some fine trivia!
(While people think that remakes are a modern phenomena, in the 30s the rate of recycling scripts was amazing.)