Back when Ed Beckley was the king of infomercials, he and Ed Begley (Jr. or Sr., take your pick, or take both).
Btw, I see on the former’s wikipedia page the report that he “nearly died in 1972, after being stabbed multiple times while being mugged by a street gang”. Well after Twelve Angry Men, but it adds some color to the old man’s role (They’re not like us! It doesn’t take much for them to stab someone" or such like). Let me add that I know nothing about the ethnic background of the younger’s attackers, nor was any specified for the accused in the Twelve Angry Men script, though you could guess it was probably not shared by any of the jurors.
Keith David/David Keith, yes, although I think I’m getting the hang of it. Still can’t remember which Hurt is which.
When I was younger, I remember hearing that Katharine Hepburn recently did such-and-such. “I thought she died!” Said I. Looked it up, yep, died in 1993. Then she finally died in 2003. D’oh!
I think it’s more a result of forgetting what the former looked like, but Bill Hader and Jon Heder fit similar milieus.
Thread’s not about lookalikes, but I’ll note that Katy Perry’s real last name is Hudson. No confusing the two by appearance, though.
I was reminded of an old confusion of mine while watching an episode of The Prisoner last night.
Eric Porter was a British actor who played Soames Forsyte in the original version of The Forsyte Saga and Moriarty in the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series.
Eric Portman was a British actor who starred in some of Powell’s and Pressburger’s film like A Canterbury Tale and The 49th Parallel.
Which one was No. 2 in The Prisoner I was watching? Not the one I thought it would be, and I know I’ve made this same mistake before.
I also can never keep James and Edward Fox straight. There was even a time when I thought there was only one actor Fox and I just couldn’t remember his first name correctly. Which one was the Jackal? Which was Lord Darlington? Which was in The Shooting Party. Both have been in Poirot episodes. One is married to Joanna David and is father to Emilia Fox. The other is Laurence Fox’s father. But I’d have to go look them up in IMDB to be sure which is which.
You would think it would be easy to confuse Grace Potter and Cat Popper but despite many similar admirable qualities there is no confusing them. Together on stage
Name-visually, whenever I see Katherine Heigl’s name on an upcoming movie, I think “Cool, that lady from Battlestar G… uh, nope.” (Tricia Helfer)
Face-visually, I sat through Bridesmaids and watched Kristen Wiig as one of the lead characters, absolutely convinced that I was watching Sarah Paulson.
Also not his real name, and it’s odd that his name somehow became less uncool by changing it to “Gene,” the only time in history that this has occurred.
Richard Dawson is not the same person as Richard Dawkins. (Although, Richard Dawson’s Wikipedia page specifically says "not to be confused with Richard Dawkins, so maybe I’m not the only one who used to be REALLY confused.)