# I just realized \_\_\_\_\_ is the same actor/actress who was \_\_\_\_\_ in \_\_\_\_\_ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692 "2014-04-22T16:24:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/81 "2014-04-25T19:18:33Z")
The kid who tries to steal the guitar from Ray’s Music City in _The Blues Brothers_ is the chauffeur who drives Bruce Willis to the Nakatomi Building in _Die Hard_. I was channel surfing once and came across _Downton Abbey_ for the first time. The actor who plays Mr. Carson was also in _Top Secret_ (the one with Val Kilmer). I thought, almost literally, “whoa, deja vu, that’s Deja Vu.” ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/82 "2014-04-25T19:54:52Z")
Hermes Conrad from _Futurama_ is also Marvin in _Pulp Fiction_. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/83 "2014-04-25T20:27:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > In _Zoolander_, Derek’s [brothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU0NLheu8mU) were played by Judah Friedlander (_30 Rock_) and Vince Vaughn. Meekus is played by the same guy who plays Eric Northman in _True Blood_, Aleksander Skarsgard. The guy who plays Al Capone on _Boardwalk Empire_ is also in _Snatch_ which I just watched. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/84 "2014-04-25T20:54:30Z")
The one that always gets me is that Vincent D’Onofrio, the actor from Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Detective Robert Goren) was also Thor/Dawson in Adventures in Babysitting. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/85 "2014-04-25T21:15:13Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > The one that always gets me is that Vincent D’Onofrio, the actor from Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Detective Robert Goren) was also Thor/Dawson in Adventures in Babysitting. And Pvt. Pyle in _Full Metal Jacket_. And Edgar in _Men in Black_. Courtney B. Vance, the ADA on L&O:CI was also the sonar operator in _The Hunt for Red October_. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/86 "2014-04-25T21:17:11Z")
I missed an easy Kevin Bacon connection once because I forgot that the doctor who testifies in the trial in _A Few Good Men_ was also Count Rugen (the six-fingered man) in _The Princess Bride_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/87 "2014-04-25T21:41:13Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > In _Zoolander_, Derek’s [brothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU0NLheu8mU) were played by Judah Friedlander (_30 Rock_) and Vince Vaughn. > [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Meekus is played by the same guy who plays Eric Northman in _True Blood_, Aleksander Skarsgard. And James Marsden is in _Zoolander_ in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him scene. He plays John Wilkes Booth. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/88 "2014-04-26T02:10:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Several years ago (as I reported on this Board) I was surprised to learn that Sig Ruman, who played Groucho Marx’ nemesis Hermann Gottlieb in **A Night at the Opera** , also played Sergeant Schultz in **Stalag 17** Speaking of Stalag 17, I watched it for the second time a couple of years ago and I knew I knew the actor who played Hoffy from somewhere else. It took me forever to figure out who else he played. Richard Erdman is more than a half century older now but I still managed to recognize him as Leonard, the old guy in NBC’s Community. I think it was more his voice than his face that I found familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/89 "2014-04-27T16:59:09Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > I think it was more his voice than his face that I found familiar. I knew British actress Joan Greenwood from her circa-1950s work in films such as “Kind Hearts & Coronets” and the Anthony Asquith version of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Many years later, she showed up in one of the Miss Marple mysteries–“Bertram’s Hotel”–as an old friend of Jane Marple. I wouldn’t have recognized her, if it were not for the plummy way she said “Extraordinary!” \*That \*hadn’t changed in 35+ years. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/90 "2014-04-27T20:57:53Z")
My interest in _Sleepy Hollow_ sent me looking for other work by Tom Mison. His Mr Bingley in [Lost in Austen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twHZ2UrRItQ) looks totally different from his Ichabod Crane–but I was expecting that. It took a long time for my mind to register that Mrs Bennet was also River Song… ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/91 "2014-04-28T14:20:42Z")
Both of mine are _Vacation_ franchise tie-ins: **Johnny Galecki** was Russ in _Christmas Vacation_ as well as Leonard Hofstadter on _Big Bang Theory_. **Jane Krakowski** was Cousin Vicki (about age 15) on _National Lampoon’s Vacation_ as well as Jenna Maroney on _30 Rock_. ---
**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 28, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/92 "2014-04-28T14:33:07Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Bilbo Baggins is Arthur Dent. Not nearly as interesting to me as that Justin Hammer is Zaphod Beeblebrox, who is also Guy Fleegman. (Something about his face really appears to change depending on his haircut and shaving status. I would never have guessed that Zaphod was Guy, and with Hammer only had a nagging feeling that I recognized him until I checked the movie’s IMDB entry. Not quite Gary Oldman level (I never spot Oldman without already knowing he was in the movie), but, man…) ---
**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:** [April 28, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/93 "2014-04-28T14:41:03Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > I knew British actress Joan Greenwood from her circa-1950s work in films such as “Kind Hearts & Coronets” and the Anthony Asquith version of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Many years later, she showed up in one of the Miss Marple mysteries–“Bertram’s Hotel”–as an old friend of Jane Marple. I wouldn’t have recognized her, if it were not for the plummy way she said “Extraordinary!” \*That \*hadn’t changed in 35+ years. Yes, those Ealing Studio films with Alec Guinness were great. She also played Lady Fairchild in the 1961 Ray Harryhausen film **The Mysterious Island**. She says “Extraordinary!” the same way in that film. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/94 "2014-04-28T14:53:42Z")
I was watching _American Hustle_ and I knew the guy playing Carmine was somebody I should recognize but I couldn’t pull up the name. It was Jeremy Renner. For some reason, seeing him with his [hair](http://cdn-media.hollywood.com/images/638x425/2068902.JPG) [like](http://images.moviefanatic.com/iu/t_full/v1384291573/american-hustle-jeremy-renner.jpg) [that](http://moarpowah.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/00290065-0000-0000-0000-000000000000_913e6ef8-b8d5-4f20-9d47-e99c063550a6_20130514162749_FFN_Renner_Jeremy_RM_051113_51094300.jpg) and playing a different kind of role made it impossible for me to recognize him. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/95 "2014-04-28T22:37:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I was watching _American Hustle_ and I knew the guy playing Carmine was somebody I should recognize but I couldn’t pull up the name. It was Jeremy Renner. For some reason, seeing him with his [hair](http://cdn-media.hollywood.com/images/638x425/2068902.JPG) [like](http://images.moviefanatic.com/iu/t_full/v1384291573/american-hustle-jeremy-renner.jpg) [that](http://moarpowah.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/00290065-0000-0000-0000-000000000000_913e6ef8-b8d5-4f20-9d47-e99c063550a6_20130514162749_FFN_Renner_Jeremy_RM_051113_51094300.jpg) and playing a different kind of role made it impossible for me to recognize him. Same here, it took me a bit to realize who he was. The hair really drastically changed his appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/96 "2014-04-28T23:47:16Z")
Hyacinth Bucket (It’s Bouquet!) AKA Patricia Routledge is in **To Sir With Love.** She plays “Clinty” Clintridge, the young teacher who the kids actually like. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen the movie but I think she even dances with Sidney Poitier once in the film. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/97 "2014-04-29T05:58:14Z")
Another thread just reminded me of this one. Craig Ferguson (from _The Drew Carey Show_, and his own late-night talk show) was in a first-season episode of _Red Dwarf_. It’s the one where Lister gets sick and his confidence and paranoia manifest as other people. Ferguson played his confidence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692.md?page=4)