Clive Owen
Bravo! Nice work!
Just a note and perhaps a challenge. As I was trying to find what wound up being Sam Neill, I ran across several actors who appeared to have few if any roles that had surnames. I found one with fewer than the five we need to use in this Game Room exercise.
If you happen to run across somebody with NO surnames, it might be worth the trouble to mention that actor or actress.
Next most notable would be the performer whose ONLY surname role is the title role he or she is best known for.
Gandolfini is so Tony Soprano that it’s hard to pull back from that connection and think of other roles that weren’t so obviously Italian-American, which would be too much of a giveaway. There ought to be many others with that cross to bear. Maybe you can think of one for a nice puzzle here.
as for the full name of the character who has been portrayed by the most actors?
Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad Dracul, aka Dracula?
No big surprise there. Is there a page or section of IMDB or the like where such statistics are available?
Sam Neill and Clive Owen are both correct.
And if we can count real people, I’d say Hitler would be a good candidate for being played by the most actors. I mean, they’re still cranking out WW2 movies, and he’s portrayed in a fair amount of them.
I didn’t really look beyond specifically looking up Dracula on an IMDB character search and verifying that like I thought, there were a VERY large number of appearances of the character and submitting that as my guess for the question
Thanks for the clarification, critter42.
Puzzle # 19
Rooney
Manning
Blake
Ross
Sullivan
Groves
Galvin
Puzzle # 20
Potts
Dean
Perkins
Sherwood
Taylor
Bell
Hunt
Gwynneth Paltrow?
Bravo! And fast!
I’m a comic geek - only character I could think of with Potts was “Pepper Potts” 
Paul Newman
(I just watched The Verdict last week so Galvin was still in my head, otherwise would have been spinning my wheels on this one )
Still miss him
It may not be true for everybody, but there are some more or less common names that I will associate with just a few (maybe just one) actors, like you did with Potts, and if I go to that person’s IMDB page and spot the other names in the puzzle, I’m home free.
One with too few names to make the list requirements would be
Stark
Rink
Trask (anagram of Stark)
Looking up less-well-known character names (mostly from TV) would fill out the minimum five, but I’d wager that anybody over 30 ought to get it with just those three.
I won’t even bore you with the star-maker names like
Corleone (how many individual characters from that family?)
Soprano (ditto)
Spade
Bond
Lebowski
Ocean
but those names would need at least two others in the list to separate the main actor from the also rans. Maybe Lebowski would be a one-off?
#21
Allnut
Blaine
Dobbs
Larrabee
Marlowe
McCloud
Bravo! 10-4 on the missing. I thought he would live forever. Should have.
OK, I’m trying #22
Devine
Noakes
Swigert
Ross
Caine
McCormack
Bogie?
That’s Humphrey Bogart:
Charlie Allnut – The African Queen
Rick Blaine – Casablanca
??
older brother Larrabee from Sabrina
Det. Marlowe – The Big Sleep
??
Will produce my list of names in a minute…
#23 [I think]:
Anderson
Parker
Pendrake
de Winter
Hale
Christensen
Mars
Crawford
Joy
I deleted the one standout name that likely would’ve given it away to the most people (and for extra credit, name that role); otherwise, it would be too easy.