# Movies in which the same actors play multiple roles - and which has the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148 "2008-05-13T08:19:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/41 "2008-05-14T02:57:26Z")
\*\*Ye-jin Son \*\* plays a dual role in the wonderful Korean romance [**The Classic**](http://www.dvdasian.com/_e/Korea/product/17813/Classic_The_Special_Edition_Region_3_2_Disc_Set_.htm). She plays a young college woman and, in flashback, her mother. \*\*Ziyi Zhang \*\* plays three roles in the film [**Jasmine Women**](http://www.dvdspot.com/dvd.php?d=1644265157). \*\*Joan Chen \*\* plays three roles as well. Both actresses do an amazing job. Especially Ziyi. She’s something else. ---
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/42 "2008-05-14T04:17:00Z")
[QUOTE=commasense] …either my source or my memory is wrong… [/QUOTE] Or someone will read this 5 years from now and prove us all wrong. Here is how I got 26 Keaton roles in [The Play House](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0012570/): 1 = ticket buyer. 2 = band leader. 3-5 = band players, left side. 6-8 = band players, right side. 9 = stagehand. 10-18 = minstrel show. 19-20 = couple in box seats. 21-22 = boy and older woman. 23-24 = other couple. 25-26 = dancers. Then Joe Roberts comes by to talk to Keaton, who I assume is the same as the ticket buyer. And that is just the start of the movie. Would anyone care to do a recount? Or a re-count? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/43 "2008-05-14T06:45:56Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] Hugo Weaving in the \*Matrix \* sequals. I win. [/QUOTE] I hate being in line behind you at the supermarket and to the OP: does Monty Python count? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/44 "2008-05-14T12:26:48Z")
Peter Jackson had a cameo role in each of the LotR films; respectively ‘drunken Bree villager’ / ‘Helm’s Deep spear chucker’ / ‘pirate’. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/45 "2008-05-14T12:53:00Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Not only does it unscramble, it does so with animated letters. You gotta watch the film – this is arguably an early example of “things at the end of the credits you have to see” [/QUOTE] I _almost_ bought the special edition DVD the other day but I already had several new DVDs in hand and couldn’t justify it. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/46 "2008-05-14T17:48:00Z")
IMDb credits Eddie Murphy with eight roles in **[Nutty Professor II: The Klumps](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144528/)**, so he’s at least up there. I swear, some actors seem to be addicted to the makeup chair. Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers are probably the worst offenders, but there are quite a few others. Martin Short springs to mind. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/47 "2008-05-14T19:07:43Z")
Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall both played multiple roles in _Coming to America_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/48 "2008-05-15T04:53:33Z")
Charlie Chaplin played two roles in _The Great Dictator._ (If someone’s already mentioned this, please forgive and/or ignore me) _The Wizard of Oz_ has Dorothy’s companions played by the same guys who played her family back in Kansas. Kinda cheating, but Haley Mills and Lindsey Lohan played two roles in their respective versions of _The Parent Trap._ Divine had two roles in _Female Trouble._ ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/49 "2008-05-15T07:43:39Z")
In ‘La Cite des enfants perdus’ (City Of Lost Children), Dominique Pinon plays ‘the clones’, being a rather manic set of henchmen at the beck and call of the main villain. I’m not sure from memory, but I think there are seven or eight of them, and they all inter-act on the screen in a complex fashion that must have been very difficult to achieve, even with modern, digital FX. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2008, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148/50 "2008-05-15T07:56:54Z")
While Guinness got the attention for playing several roles in _Kind Hearts and Coronets_, he wasn’t the only one who did it. Dennis Price also played two roles; Louis Mazzini and his father. One I missed the first time I watched it was _Jumanji_. I didn’t notice that Jonathan Hyde, who played Samuel Parrish, also played Van Pelt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-same-actors-play-multiple-roles-and-which-has-the-most/449148.md?page=2)