# Movies where three (or more) actors play the same character

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
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**Created:** [March 24, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-three-or-more-actors-play-the-same-character/1016028 "2025-03-24T13:27:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-three-or-more-actors-play-the-same-character/1016028/61 "2025-04-12T14:34:17Z")

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On a technicality, wasn’t DAY OF THE DOCTOR released in cinemas? So you’ve got, what, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, John Hurt, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, [all twelve,](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0e71KWwE5Fk) unless someone wants to point out that I’m forgetting someone…

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-three-or-more-actors-play-the-same-character/1016028/62 "2025-09-25T01:44:16Z")

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The Incredible Hulk, 1970’s TV series and TV movies, Bill Bixby as David B\_\_\_\_\_\_, Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, and Ted Cassidy or Charles Napier as the voice if the Hulk.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-three-or-more-actors-play-the-same-character/1016028/63 "2025-09-25T12:42:28Z")

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**The Life of Chuck**

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> - Tom Hiddleston as Charles “Chuck” Krantz, an accountant who grows up loving dancing.
> - Jacob Tremblay as 17-year-old Chuck
> - Benjamin Pajak as 11-year-old Chuck
> - Cody Flanagan as 7-year-old Chuck

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-three-or-more-actors-play-the-same-character/1016028/64 "2025-09-25T16:30:03Z")

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A River Runs Through It, 1992

Craig Sheffer as Norman Maclean  
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as young Norman  
Robert Redford as the voice of older Norman

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