# Celebrity Doppelgangers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-doppelgangers/837528>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 24, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-doppelgangers/837528 "2019-07-24T04:01:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-doppelgangers/837528/1 "2019-07-24T04:01:48Z")

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Albert Finney and Brian Cox are either Doppelgangers or twins separated at birth, and you can’t convince me otherwise.

Which celebrities can you not keep straight?

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**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:** [July 24, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-doppelgangers/837528/2 "2019-07-24T14:00:10Z")

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There’s a [zombie thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=331735) that was bumped just last week.

I’m tattling to a Mod! 😉

You will be assimilated!

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**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-doppelgangers/837528/3 "2019-07-24T14:34:56Z")

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> There’s a [zombie thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=331735) that was bumped just last week.
> 
> I’m tattling to a Mod! 😉
> 
> You will be assimilated!

Well, crap.

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**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:** [July 24, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-doppelgangers/837528/4 "2019-07-24T15:18:51Z")

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Resistance is futile.

(Don’t sweat it, **Def** , happens all the time.)

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**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:** [July 24, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-doppelgangers/837528/5 "2019-07-24T20:50:33Z")

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I don’t confuse them, but I do see a resemblance between the late Edward Andrews and today’s Brent Spiner:

[![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7c0i1C4suik/Udy4tOdzmRI/AAAAAAAALDs/C4ZvXTiYYW4/s1600/tve409-19670114-1241.jpg) ](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7c0i1C4suik/Udy4tOdzmRI/AAAAAAAALDs/C4ZvXTiYYW4/s1600/tve409-19670114-1241.jpg)

[![](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Brent_Spiner_4474.jpg) ](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Brent_Spiner_4474.jpg)

Given their age difference, they could have been father and son.