Alastair Sim not only starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in the classic 1951 version of a Christmas Carol, he reprised the role for the Chuck Jones-produced Richard Williams-directed 1971 animated version
Ivor Novello played the same character in Hitchock’s “The Lodger” in 1927 and in the 1932 sound remake “The Phantom Fiend”.
At least two characters, in reshot flashback form (I’d call it a sequel). The main actor is in both, but in different roles.
The same guy played Wilfred in both the US and Australian versions of the series, even though all the other actors were different.
Odd example, but David Belle stars in both Banlieue 13 and its recent and pointless American remake Brick Mansions.
Patrick Stewart played Claudius in two different TV versions of Hamlet, the 1980 BBC Complete Works version with Derek Jacobi and the 2009 one with David Tennant.
Alan Hale Sr. played Little John in three different Robin Hoods, with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Errol Flynn, and John Derek.
Several actors reprised their movie roles in radio adaptations of the works back in the 1940s and 1950s. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that some actors reprised roles on TV that they did in the movies.
Jimmy Stewart, for instance, played Elwood P. Dowd in both the movie Harvey and a version of the same play on TV.
Going the other way, EstherMinciotti and Augusta Ciolli played the same roles in the movie Marty that they did in the original TV teleplay.
Almost the entire Danish cast of Reptilicus filmed it a second time in English.
Jesse White, by the way, played the same role in the 1972 TV version of Harvey that he did in the 1950 movie, too.
Robert Vaughn played Lee in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Gelt, essentially the same role, in the SF remake of it in 1980, Battle Beyond the Stars
Carlos Gallardo was the Mariachi in El Mariachi, and one of the backup mariachis in Desperado.
Oh, and Desperado is a sequel, not a remake.
One I just thought of: Jimmy Stewart played Elwood P. Dowd in the 1950s movie Harvey and then again in a 1970s remake for television.
Christopher Lee has played Dracula many times, of course, but he has twice played Dracula in direct adaptations of Bram Stoker’s original novel – in the 1958 Hammer film Horror of Dracula (released in the UK as simply Dracula) and in Jess Franco’s underappreciated 1970 film ** Count Dracula**, which is pretty good and surprisingly faithful, at least in the first half.
Mentioned in my post #27. Jesse White was in both versions, as well, playing the same nurse.
Maybe that’s why I had just thought of it.
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Lon Chaney, Sr. played Professor Echo in both the 1925 silent film and the 1930 sound remake of The Unholy Three.
Harry Earles {of whom I know nothing aside from this factoid) played the role of Tweedle Dee in both films, too.
Ethel Merman played Reno Sweeney in the 1936 version of Anything Goes and played the role again in a TV version in 1954.
It was done all the time in radio: there would be a radio version of a popular movie with one or more of the original stars (e.g., Miracle on 34th Street had several radio version, including one with all the original main cast). Lux Radio Theater had many examples: Lillian Gish in Way Down East, Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer, Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur, Jean Arthur and Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Walter Huston in Dodsworth, Gable and Colbert in It Happened One Night and many others.
When they moved to TV and Lux Video Theater, there was Raymond Massey in Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Also mentioned in post #27, but not with examples. There are a LOT more of these.
Melissa George played the character Rosie in the Australian version of The Slap and in the American one.
Similarly, the American Red Dwarf pilots (both of them) featured Robert Llewellyn as Kryten. (Chris Barrie was offered the role of Rimmer in the second pilot, but decided against it.)