# Ever see a character an actor has played instead of the actor?

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**Created:** [May 18, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-see-a-character-an-actor-has-played-instead-of-the-actor/688679 "2014-05-18T14:49:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-see-a-character-an-actor-has-played-instead-of-the-actor/688679/61 "2014-05-26T18:16:22Z")

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Joseph Cotton. He was such an idiot in _ **The Third Man** _ that I could never accept him as the hero of Gaslight.

Ingrid Bergman. She was such a whimp in _ **Gaslight** _ that I was very happy when she took off with Victor Lazlo in _ **Casablanca** _.

> [@Morbo](#):
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> This was used in the Kenneth Branagh movie **Dead Again** , where knowledge of his stuttering as an actor was a kind of nod to the viewer about who the killer was.

I don’t quite remember what you are talking about, so thank you for a reason to watch the movie again.

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