# Has any actor other than Peter Dinklage ever done this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425 "2015-02-23T17:22:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/41 "2015-02-23T23:00:24Z")
I think I remember Gerard Depardieu reprising his role in the US remake of the same French film at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/42 "2015-02-23T23:34:33Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I think I remember Gerard Depardieu reprising his role in the US remake of the same French film at some point. [My Father the Hero?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Father_the_Hero_(1991_film)) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/43 "2015-02-24T00:08:54Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > [My Father the Hero?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Father_the_Hero_(1991_film)) That’s the one ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/44 "2015-02-24T00:30:40Z")
Connie Britton played Tami Taylor in the movie and TV versions of Friday Night Lights, I think she was the only cast member from the film who was also in the series. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/45 "2015-02-24T00:35:42Z")
> [@Sarahfeena](#): > > Connie Britton played Tami Taylor in the movie and TV versions of Friday Night Lights, I think she was the only cast member from the film who was also in the series. Along those same lines, Gary Burghoff was the only actor to play the same role in both the film and TV versions of _M_A_S_H\*. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/46 "2015-02-24T00:53:14Z")
A TV case: Tony Head played Stephen in both the UK and US versions of _Free Agents._ I haven’t seen the UK version, but it was made by the same producers, and it’s probably the same character. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/47 "2015-02-24T01:21:35Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Along those same lines, Gary Burghoff was the only actor to play the same role in both the film and TV versions of _M_A_S_H\*. \ [G. Wood](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939707/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_trv_sm#trivia) played General Hammond in both the movie and TV series. \ ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/48 "2015-02-25T07:30:27Z")
Vincent D’Onofrio has played Orson Wells in a couple of unrelated projects. Ed Herrman similarly played FDR in two “Franklin and Eleanor” projects as well as in “Annie.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/49 "2015-02-25T12:58:16Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Vincent D’Onofrio has played Orson Wells in a couple of unrelated projects. Ed Herrman similarly played FDR in two “Franklin and Eleanor” projects as well as in “Annie.” There are a lot of examples of actors playing the same character in unrelated works (Like Peter O’Toole playing Henry II in **Becket** and **The Lion in Winter** ), but we’ve been restricting ourselves to actors playing the same part in different versions of the same movie/play or adaptation of the same novel. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/50 "2015-02-25T19:48:41Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Along those same lines, Gary Burghoff was the only actor to play the same role in both the film and TV versions of _M_A_S_H\*. Well, if that counts, James (Hoover) Widdoes, Bruce (D-Day) McGill and Stephen (Flounder) Furst all reprised their \*\*\*Animal House \*\*\*roles in the short-lived TV series _ **Delta House.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/51 "2015-02-25T19:51:43Z")
Baloo was in Jungle Book _and_ in TailSpin! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/52 "2015-02-27T01:38:00Z")
Since we’re now moving a little further away from the exact limitations of the OP, Bob Hoskins played Smee in Hook, the major motion picture starring Robin Williams as Peter Pan, and 20 years later in Neverland, a made for Syfy miniseries based on Peter Pan’s supposed origins. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/53 "2015-03-01T22:02:41Z")
try and ring this back to the OP’s request – cases where the same actor played the same part in different productions (sorry, cases where the actor played the same character in different productions is just too damned easy) – I just finished watching both the British version sand the German version of **F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer** from 1932/33, and Philipp Manning plays the doctor in both. (There’;s a French version, too, but he’s not in that one.) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/54 "2015-03-03T03:41:38Z")
How could I forget this one? In a latter-day effort to do the same thing that was done in the thirties, the folks responsible for the 1979 remake **Nosferatu the Vampyre** filmed it twice, once in German and once in English. The entire cast appeared in both films, making them candidates for this thread: Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker Roland Topor as Renfield Walter Ladengast as Dr Abraham Van Helsing Dan van Husen as Warden Jan Groth as Harbormaster Carsten Bodinus as Schrader Martje Grohmann as Mina Rijk de Gooyer as Town official Clemens Scheitz as Clerk John Leddy as Coachman Tim Beekman as Coffin bearer Lo van Hensbergen Margiet van Hartingsveld (Klaus Kinski had previously played Renfield in Jess Franco’s 1970 film _Count Dracula_, mentioned above.) I’ve only seen the German version, with English subtitles. Reportedly the English-language version was laughed off the screen when first shown in the US, while the German version with subtitles looked “arty”. I’d love to see the English-language version sometime. > **[Nosferatu the Vampyre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre)** > > Nosferatu the Vampyre (German: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, lit. 'Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night') is a 1979 horror film written and directed by Werner Herzog. It is set primarily in 19th-century Wismar, Germany and Transylvania, and was conceived as a stylistic remake of F. W. Murnau's 1922 German Dracula adaptation Nosferatu. The picture stars Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula, Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker, Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker, and French artist-writer Roland Topor as Renfield. Ther... ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/55 "2015-03-04T07:24:44Z")
They probably don’t count as “remakes” enough for the OP, but: Leonard Nimoy as Spock in old and new Star Treks Peter Cullen voicing Optimus Prime in the 1986 animated movie and the newer CGI ones ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/56 "2015-03-04T10:10:03Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > They probably don’t count as “remakes” enough for the OP, but: > > Leonard Nimoy as Spock in old and new Star Treks > > Peter Cullen voicing Optimus Prime in the 1986 animated movie and the newer CGI ones Nimoy was THE spock in the original and A Spock in the reboot. That’s good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425/57 "2015-03-04T12:52:29Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Nimoy was THE spock in the original and A Spock in the reboot. “I am not our father.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-actor-other-than-peter-dinklage-ever-done-this/713425.md?page=2)