I think I remember Gerard Depardieu reprising his role in the US remake of the same French film at some point.
That’s the one
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 MASH*.
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.
<nitpick> G. Wood played General Hammond in both the movie and TV series. <nitpick>
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.
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.
Baloo was in Jungle Book and in TailSpin!
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.
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.)
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.
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.
“I am not our father.”