# Interesting Q. regarding Oceans Eleven and Sword Fish... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 5, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-q-regarding-oceans-eleven-and-sword-fish/112479 "2002-06-05T13:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3be4f8/32.png) [@vance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vance)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-q-regarding-oceans-eleven-and-sword-fish/112479/1 "2002-06-05T13:41:07Z")
In sword fish there is an acotor ( Don Cheadle ) playing the fbi detective after john travolta’s character. And in Oceans Eleven there is on of Daniel Ocean’s ( George Clooney) crew who bears an english acent but appears to be the same person as don cheadle… However don and his character appear unregistered in the credits, i would just like to know if these two characters are played by the same person in these two different movies? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-q-regarding-oceans-eleven-and-sword-fish/112479/2 "2002-06-05T13:51:45Z")
[Yes](http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0240772). ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-q-regarding-oceans-eleven-and-sword-fish/112479/3 "2002-06-05T13:55:13Z")
Sorry, I meant that to say: [Yep](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Cheadle,+Don). ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-q-regarding-oceans-eleven-and-sword-fish/112479/4 "2002-06-05T14:04:11Z")
Apparently, he was unhappy with his character’s treatment, ie his screen time was cut, and he asked that he not be credited as a form of protest. Roger Ebert dealt with this question on his website a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-q-regarding-oceans-eleven-and-sword-fish/112479/5 "2002-06-05T14:39:46Z")
It’s the same guy. Check out [Cheadle’s IMDB entry](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Cheadle,+Don). It seemed to me his English accent in _Ocean’s Eleven_ was pretty good. I wonder what actual English people thought about it (as well as Renee Zellweger’s in _Bridge Jones’s Diary_).