# Parents and children playing parents and children **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282 "2008-05-06T13:00:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/1 "2008-05-06T13:00:17Z")
I did a cursory search to see if this has been done before and didn’t find anything, so here goes. I caught a bit of “Wall Street” yesterday, wherein Martin Sheen plays Charlie Sheen’s father. What other movies/TV shows/whatever feature real life parents playing their real life children’s parents? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/2 "2008-05-06T13:31:04Z")
The Nelson’s (Ozzie and Harriet (parents) Ricky and David (sons)) were a real-life family who played one on [The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Ozzie_and_Harriet) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/3 "2008-05-06T13:31:54Z")
On _The Partridge Family_, Shirley Jones played David Cassidy’s mother. In real life, Shirley Jones was David Cassidy’s stepmother. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/4 "2008-05-06T13:35:21Z")
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt] I caught a bit of “Wall Street” yesterday, wherein Martin Sheen plays Charlie Sheen’s father. What other movies/TV shows/whatever feature real life parents playing their real life children’s parents? [/QUOTE] Martin Sheen shows up as Charlie Sheen’s father all the time. Pretty much any movie they’re in together has them playing father and son. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/5 "2008-05-06T13:38:16Z")
Triple-play! [It Runs In The Family](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311110/) had Kirk Douglas playing Michael Dougas’s father and Diana Douglas playing his mother, as well as having Cameron Douglas playing Michael Douglas’s son and Kirk and Diana Douglas’s grandson. Which is some kind of Hollywood Nepotism Nirvana or something… ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/6 "2008-05-06T13:38:16Z")
Patty Duke was Sean Astin’s mother in _Please Don’t Hit Me, Mom_. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/7 "2008-05-06T13:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] Martin Sheen shows up as Charlie Sheen’s father all the time. Pretty much any movie they’re in together has them playing father and son. [/QUOTE] I think it would be tough for them to appear in a film together and not play some kind of relatives, considering the startling resemblance! ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/8 "2008-05-06T14:32:19Z")
Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/9 "2008-05-06T15:10:18Z")
In the BBC series _Jam & Jerusalem_ (released in the US as _Clatterford_) has Jennifer Saunders real daughters playing her own daughters. Her character talks about a made-up son and a made-up husband (she’s married to Ade Edmondson) but she’s always bickering with her real life teenage girls. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/10 "2008-05-06T15:15:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] I think it would be tough for them to appear in a film together and not play some kind of relatives, considering the startling resemblance! [/QUOTE] In Cadence, they weren’t related, even though IIRC when Martin went nuts at the end of the movie he kept calling Charlie his son. And in an odd twist, when Martin showed up in 2.5 Men, he played Charlie’s stalker’s father, and wound up stalking Charlie’s mother. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/11 "2008-05-06T15:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] Martin Sheen shows up as Charlie Sheen’s father all the time. Pretty much any movie they’re in together has them playing father and son. [/QUOTE] [Obligatory clip](http://www.clipland.com/Live/video/5212) of Martin playing Charlie. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/12 "2008-05-06T15:56:52Z")
Bob Elliott has played Chris Elliott’s father in the movie “Cabin Boy” and in the TV show “Get a Life.” ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/13 "2008-05-06T17:26:23Z")
Henry Fonda and daughter Jane in On Golden Pond. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/14 "2008-05-06T18:32:04Z")
Will and Jaden Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/15 "2008-05-06T18:58:23Z")
The superpopular kidcom _Hannah Montana_ features Billy Ray and Miley Ray (_née_ Destiny Hope) Cyrus as father and daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/16 "2008-05-06T19:01:36Z")
In a little bit different take on the OP in The Ten Commandments Charlton Heston played Moses of course, but the part of the baby Moses was played by Frasier Heston. Later on, in the mini-series _Moses the Lawgiver_ Burt Lancaster played the older Moses, and his son played Moses as a young man. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/17 "2008-05-06T19:12:15Z")
Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli in **In the Good Old Summertime** (for a single shot). ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/18 "2008-05-06T19:50:44Z")
Ryan and Taum O’Neal in **Paper Moon**. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/19 "2008-05-06T20:06:46Z")
[Susan Sarandon and Eva Amurri](http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/1798805.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939057D9939C83F106985C6852744A0A555A5397277B4DC33E) played mother/daughter in _The Banger Sisters_. (Bad movie. Don’t watch it.) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282/20 "2008-05-06T21:19:23Z")
Chips Fields appeared _The Facts of Life_, playing Kim Fields’ mother. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-and-children-playing-parents-and-children/448282.md?page=2)