# Movie Characters Cast in TV Roles inspired by Their Movie Role **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [October 19, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467 "2022-10-19T04:11:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467/41 "2022-10-20T20:44:14Z")
You know given everything we’ve talked about…i’m beginning to think if you watch Happy Days from the beginning and pretend it was written by David Lynch, it works. Fonzie has his own weird powers with his finger snaps and jukebox powers. His office is a bathroom. Chuck vanishes…etc…On Laverne and Shirley, Lenny and Squiggy have the power to magically appear when you talk about them. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467/42 "2022-10-20T20:47:59Z")
There is definitely something surreal about mixing milk and Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467/43 "2022-10-20T20:50:22Z")
Somewhere amongst the extensive filmography and television performances of James Garner, there has to be an example of this, although I think it might be more a case of generalised typecasting in his career ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467/44 "2022-10-20T20:50:59Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > How have I not even heard of _National Lampoons Movie Madness_?? Do not watch any edited for television version, which completely removes the “couple having sex in bed” spoof. See, she goes topless and they _sound_ like they’re making love – while both spend the entire time on their backs and talk. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467/45 "2022-10-23T23:14:23Z")
Nia Vardalos obviously appeared in the TV show **My Big Fat Greek Life** because of her movie **My Big Fat Greek Wedding**. The TV series wasn’t a direct sequel to the movie, even though her father and mother are still played by Michael Constantine and Andrea Martin. Would William Daniels have appeared as John Adams in the TV miniseries **The Rebels** (or as Sam Adams in **The Bastard** ) if he hadn’t played John Adams in **1776** on Broadway and its movie adaptation? It might also have snagged him the part of John Quincy Adams in **The Adams Chronicles.** Fess Parker pretty famously played Davy Crockett on the **Disneyland** TV show. The episodes were later released theatrically, so this pretty much counts. Because later he played **Daniel Boone** on TV, and I have no doubt that he played both of those often-confused pioneers because of his earlier role. Speaking of which, I’m sure that Buddy Ebsen ended up playing backwoodsman Jed Clampett on **The Beverly Hillbillies** because he’d played backwoodsman George Russel in those same Davy Crockett shows and movies. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467/46 "2022-10-24T00:02:53Z")
There was his cameo on “Malcom in the Middle” as a history-obsessed grandfather who dresses up in Civil War uniforms. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467/47 "2022-10-24T07:37:55Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > If you ever watch _Forbidden Planet_ you’ll notice that Leslie Nielson’s character is a humourous version of the guy he plays in that movie. Wow, absent the knowledge that it was a response to **Author\_Balk** ’s comment on Frank Drebin, that’s a _really_ hard sentence to parse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467.md?page=2)