# movies where an actor imitates another actor in the same movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902 "2012-06-02T23:56:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/21 "2012-06-03T20:11:13Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The play was still running on Broadway, and the producers refused to let Karloff leave. Thank you for clearing that up for me! 🙂 I realize now that my post didn’t exactly match the OP’s requirements. This one does: In a '60s war flick called _The Secret Invasion_, William Campbell impersonated the German commandant of the fortress where he and his fellow commandos were being held prisoner. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/22 "2012-06-04T14:09:04Z")
I like the moment where Orlando Bloom imitates Capt. Jack Sparrow in the first _Pirates of the Caribbean_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/23 "2012-06-04T14:20:36Z")
There’s a 4th season episode of _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ where Buffy and Faith swap bodies, and Gellar and Dushku do a great job of imitating each other ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/24 "2012-06-04T14:25:21Z")
Well, there was “Turnabout Intruder” in **Star Trek**. Sandra Smith, as Janet Lester, does a great job of using Kirk’s mannerism. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/25 "2012-06-04T14:45:22Z")
> [@gonzoron](#): > > There’s a 4th season episode of _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ where > > Buffy and Faith swap bodies, and Gellar and Dushku do a great job of imitating each other Spike also does a spot-on impression of Angel, early on. “Say no more. Evil’s still afoot. And I’m almost out of that nancy-boy hair-gel I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away!” ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/26 "2012-06-04T18:07:58Z")
House, who is British, but is speaking with an American accent, imitates the Australian Dr. Chase. Eddie Murphy also imitates a young Damon Wayans and the Police Chief in Beverly Hills cop. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/27 "2012-06-04T18:12:13Z")
I think Eddie Murphy also imitates Charles Dance (Sardo Numspa) in “The Golden Child.” ---
**Author:** ![wellanuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@wellanuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wellanuff)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/28 "2012-06-04T18:17:15Z")
I seem to remember Kevin Kline doing some Monty Pythonesque outbursts in “A Fish Called Wanda.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/29 "2012-06-04T18:54:59Z")
In _Stakeout,_ Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez play two detectives on a stakeout. To pass the time they play a game of trivia. Estevez’s character gives Dreyfuss’ character a movie quote. “Okay, ‘This was no boating accident,’” imitating Hooper, Dreyfuss’ character from “Jaws”. Dreyfuss says, “I don’t know.” Esteves responds, “Man, you suck at this.” ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/30 "2012-06-04T19:40:37Z")
Enver Gjokaj does an uncanny imitation of Fran Kranz’s Topher character in an episode of _Dollhouse_. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/31 "2012-06-04T20:15:49Z")
Matt Damon birefly imitates his father, played by James Rebhorn, in **The Talented Mr. Ripley**. Tom Cruise does a one-line imitation of Jack Nicholson in **A Few Good Men**. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/32 "2012-06-04T20:43:55Z")
Jack Nicholson’s Joker imitates Jack Palance in **Batman**. (“YOU . . . are my number one . . . GUY!”) And as long as we’re including TV shows, Anna Torv does a surprisingly convincing impression of Leonard Nimoy in several episodes of _Fringe_. Her character is actually possessed by the character played by Nimoy, so this one falls under the same subcategory as _Dollhouse_ and other body-switching scenarios. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/33 "2012-06-04T20:56:39Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Matt Damon birefly imitates his father, played by James Rebhorn, in **The Talented Mr. Ripley**. Forgot to mention he imitates Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the same movie, imitating Hoffman’s character’s accent as well. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/34 "2012-06-04T21:27:05Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Well, there was “Turnabout Intruder” in **Star Trek**. Sandra Smith, as Janet Lester, does a great job of using Kirk’s mannerism. And _vice versa_: Shatner gives a good performance as the whacko Dr. Lester. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/35 "2012-06-04T21:31:25Z")
Jim Carrey does William Shatner in Pet Detective. He does Clint Eastwood in (I think) Pet Detective 2. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/36 "2012-06-05T06:51:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Jim Carrey does William Shatner in Pet Detective. He does Clint Eastwood in (I think) Pet Detective 2. Yes, but Shatner was not in the first Pet Detective movie and Eastwood wasn’t in the second one. The actor being imitated needs to be in the same movie with the actor imitating him or her. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/37 "2012-06-05T09:09:56Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Well, there was “Turnabout Intruder” in **Star Trek**. Sandra Smith, as Janet Lester, does a great job of using Kirk’s mannerism. Since we’re on Star Trek, Jeri Ryan does a rather good if overdone Robert Picardo in the episode of Voyager where Picardo takes over her body. The trick is that Picardo actually did all the parts himself on video and she just mimicked them. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/38 "2012-06-05T11:48:00Z")
In RIO BRAVO, Walter Brennan does a wonderful John Wayne imitation. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/39 "2012-06-05T12:43:05Z")
One of the few good parts of _The Matrix Revolutions_ is Ian Bliss’s spot-on Hugo Weaving impression when his character is possessed by Agent Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/40 "2012-06-05T13:08:50Z")
There’s an outtake from “Star Trek’s” “Squire of Gothos” where Shatner mimics William Campbell’s somewhat effeminate demeanor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902.md?page=3)