# Examples of family casting good enough that you noticed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262 "2010-03-29T22:18:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/41 "2010-03-31T06:56:13Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > You’re right that many people seem to share this opinion. Just popping in to say that I have always been amazed by this, because to me they look nothing like siblings. I guess it just goes to show how subjective it all can be. I never thought that Kelsey and David Hyde looked anything like siblings either, but… I do think that DHP looks an awful lot like Kelsey Grammer looked when he first appeared on _Cheers_ (skinny and a full head of hair), so that has to count for something. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/42 "2010-03-31T09:47:17Z")
Jack Cassidy playing Ted Knights brother on “Mary Tyler Moore”. Wasn’t there some TV movie from 1980 where Sophia Loren played herself and her mother? ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/43 "2010-03-31T11:52:38Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I never thought that Kelsey and David Hyde looked anything like siblings either, but… I do think that DHP looks an awful lot like Kelsey Grammer looked when he first appeared on _Cheers_ (skinny and a full head of hair), so that has to count for something. That was a bit of a running joke on the show. That Niles looked like how Frazier USED TO look. When Sam Malone was visiting Seattle from Boston and met Niles for the first time, he said something along he lines of “He looks just like you did… What happened to you??” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/44 "2010-03-31T14:53:00Z")
Niles and Frasier looked like they could be the type of brothers where Niles clearly took after his Father’s side of the family and Frasier probably looked more like the people on his Mother’s side. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/45 "2010-03-31T14:58:15Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Tobey McGuire and Jake Gyllenhal (sp?) from the movie _Brothers._ I haven’t seen the movie, but I agree. You could cast those two as identical twins and I would believe it. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/46 "2010-03-31T15:03:44Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > Really? Other than red hair, the siblings don’t look related at all. The twins have thin angular features and pointy noses (in profile), Ron has a full face with a wide, full-lipped mouth, and the oldest brother has curly hair, big ears, and looks, a little weird. > > Ron looks like the dad and Ginny looks like the mom though. Most Americans wouldn’t pick up on this, but, aside from the twins, no two members of the Weasly family have the same regional accent. They’re from all over the British Isles. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/47 "2010-03-31T18:16:18Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > I always felt that the casting of Frances Conroy, Michael C Hall, Peter Krause and Lauren Ambrose as mother and children on Six Feet Under was totally bang-on. I never saw any resemblance between Krause and Hall on Six Feet Under. But the first time I saw the promo poster for Dexter, I thought I was looking at Peter Krause. Similarly, I didn’t see David Hyde Pierce & Kelsey Grammer until watching a Cheers rerun when Grammar was thinner & younger. Then it was uncanny how much they looked alike. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/48 "2010-03-31T19:39:52Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Supernatural is really great at casting people to play older and younger versions of the characters. If we’re including aged/younger versions of the same characters, I have to go with the guy they got to play the young Henry Hill in **Goodfellas**. They did a transition from his face to Ray Liotta’s as the older Hill and I was stunned at the good resemblance. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/49 "2010-03-31T22:33:46Z")
In **Four Christmases** - [Reese Witherspoon](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm33459712/nm0000702) and [Kristen Chenoweth](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1704560640/nm0155693) play sisters. They should always play sisters in every movie they are in. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/50 "2010-03-31T22:50:13Z")
No one has mentioned the Bluths in **Arrested Development**!? :eek: Gob and Buster particularly look like brothers, and Michael and George Michael in particular look like father/son. [http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/a/r/r/arrested-development-stv-01-g.jpg](http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/a/r/r/arrested-development-stv-01-g.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/51 "2010-03-31T23:05:10Z")
I second the mentions of Roseanne and D.J., and Conroy, Hall, and Ambrose (Krause not so much but if you try hard you could see it). Tempestt Bledsoe, Vanessa, on _The Cosby Show_ really looked like she could be the daughter of Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad. Denise and Sandra, no. Theo and Rudy, maybe. Also, Jane Curtis (_Kate and Allie_) could definitely have been the mother of her two – Frederick Koehler and Allison Smith. Amazingly, Susan Saint James and Ari Meyers worked pretty well and mother/daughter too. ---
**Author:** ![Pigs\_in\_Space](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@Pigs\_in\_Space](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pigs_in_Space)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/52 "2010-04-01T03:13:05Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I agree, but Sam and Dean look nothing alike. It’s like they didn’t even try when it came to casting. I keep waiting for the “Sam’s Adopted” or “Mary and the Milkman” episode. 🙂 But if you take their parents and rearrange their features with no overlap, you get Sam and Dean. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/53 "2010-04-02T04:25:09Z")
Just caught the episode of Three’s Company titled Lee Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother, which has a good example of it - John Getz, who plays Jack’s brother, Lee, looks very much like John Ritter…from certain angles, especially when he’s smiling. Which is a very sibling-type resemblance. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262/54 "2010-04-02T13:14:38Z")
The worst example of supposed family castiung was all those blond daughters on “Full House.” Both Danny and his dead wife Pam had very dark hair. Yet the daughters all look like Joey. I think Danny should have demanded some DNA tests. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-family-casting-good-enough-that-you-noticed/534262.md?page=2)