The OP explicitly ruled that out:
David Bowie (David Jones) could have played Davy Jones (the seafaring one) but probably not the Monkees one.
I know they did, I was responding to a post.
My apologies for misinterpreting!
It’s happened many times:
That article is a mix of actors playing their actual parents (which is what @BlankSlate was asking about), and actors playing the same fictional character that their parents had.
And, even then, there are only two examples in that article in which the child has the same as the parent:
- O’Shea Jackson Jr., who played his father, O’Shea Jackson Sr. (better known as Ice Cube)
- Ruben Amaro Jr. playing his father, baseball player Ruben Amaro Sr.
Will Rogers, Jr. played his father in the biopic The Will Rogers Story
Brian Cox (crusty actor) could play a future version of Brian Cox (boyishly goodlooking ex-pop musicial and astrophysicist) where Prof. Brian really lets himself go and becomes perpetually irritated with everyone.
He could have also played David Jones , creator of a famous department store chain in Australia and apparently the oldest still extant department store in the world.
The 2nd time you’ve been 2nd in this thread :).
Not really. Her Grandmother’s name was Alison.
Decent mini-series if anyone looking for something to watch. A rather strange family mystery.
I’m just playing my namesake.
Honestly! FFS! Twice!!
Last night I saw Andrew Jackson in the credits on Criminal Minds.But, l doubt he played the former president of the US.
That’s an oversimplification. His character is actually playing John Howard (the prime minister). There is an additional level of indirection (The actor is playing an actor playing the PM), but that level of indirection is only visible to some of the characters. To some of the characters, he is the PM. To achieve that, the physical actor is playing the physical PM.
It only works internally because the ignorant characters don’t know what we know about the scene, but that is true of lots of movies and plays. The writer breaks the third wall, but that too is true about a lot of movies and plays.
I wonder if Brian Cox has ever made music with Brian May.
Ian Fleming the writer could have played Ian Fleming the actor, or vice versa. They overlapped.
Tom Jones could have played the Joseph Fielding character Tom Jones, but never did AFAIK.
Henry Fielding. (Perhaps you were thinking of his title character Joseph Andrews?)
Here’s a list of famous people (actors mostly) who share a name with other famous people.
There’s a third Kevin McCarthy, who used to direct episodes of Jeopardy
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It just occurred to me that Steve Martin could still play the Raymond Burr character of the same name in the current Godzilla franchise.
(Burr played Steve Martin in the original Americanized version of Gojira and then again in the Americanized Godzilla 1985)