# People who played the same role in unrelated movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375 "2011-03-29T12:50:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/41 "2011-03-30T19:45:07Z")
Prison does … funny things to a man. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/42 "2011-03-30T20:09:37Z")
Tom Conway played Dr. Louis Judd twice. First in Cat People, where the character dies, then later in The Seventh Victim (haven’t seen the movie, maybe he’s a zombie). There are probably several people playing themselves in multiple movies. Newspeople have done it recently. Chick Hearn, former voice of the LA Lakers, played sports announcers in several movies, sometimes credited as himself, other times as just ‘announcer’. There must be many celebrities who fit in this category of playing themselves. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/43 "2011-03-31T13:20:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Isn’t the character named, though? Yeah, yeah, it could be an assumed name, but since when has Bond. James Bond. ever used one of those? The full theory includes James Bond not being his his real name, or else there wouldn’t be so many different Bonds. The name comes with the job. After no longer being 007, he would no longer be able to use that name. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/44 "2011-03-31T13:40:13Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > :rolleyes: So there’s a “Tony Blair” franchise going on? With those three projects, effectively yes, so you can put the roll-eyes away. Gene Hackman is pretty much the same character in _The Conversation_ and \*Enemy of the State \* ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/45 "2011-04-01T23:38:25Z")
Robert Patrick played the T-1000 in: Terminator 2, Waynes World, and Jingle All the Way. If you can come up with three movies that are more different, I’ll be floored. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/46 "2011-04-02T00:39:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Robert Patrick played the T-1000 in: Terminator 2, Waynes World, and Jingle All the Way. I think you mean _The Last Action Hero_, not _Jingle All the Way_. He also played it in the Universal Studios attraction and onvideo games. I’m not sure of the details on all of these to know if they’re related or not. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/47 "2011-04-02T12:09:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I think you mean _The Last Action Hero_, not _Jingle All the Way_. He also played it in the Universal Studios attraction and onvideo games. I’m not sure of the details on all of these to know if they’re related or not. 🙂 I was sitting here all discouraged because I could not remember a t1000 in _Jingle All The Way_. I figured old-age was kicking my butt worse than usual this morning. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/48 "2011-04-02T12:15:41Z")
E.G. Marshall as the President of the United States of America. Well, technically, I guess they were all different characters: Eisenhower, Truman, Grant, Lincoln, Washington. But I am fairly certain that, when Richard Donner cast Marshall as “The President” in _Superman II_, Donner was thinking of Marshall’s earlier performances. In the 1980s, a number of comedy films finished off their credits list with the line, “and E.G. Marshall as the President”. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/49 "2011-04-02T12:22:04Z")
Gary Sinise played [George Wallace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_(film)) in a TV movie of the same name, and also portrayed the governor in HBO’s [Path to War](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_to_war). ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/50 "2011-04-02T13:35:54Z")
Lon Chaney Jr and Boris Karloff reprising “The Wolfman” and “The Monster” in an episode of “Route 66”. You can add Chaney playing the Wolfman in an Abbott and Costello movie. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/51 "2011-04-02T21:55:56Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I think you mean _The Last Action Hero_, not _Jingle All the Way_. He also played it in the Universal Studios attraction and onvideo games. I’m not sure of the details on all of these to know if they’re related or not. Arrgh, my mistake. :smack: ---
**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:** [April 2, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375/52 "2011-04-02T22:54:13Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > E.G. Marshall as the President of the United States of America. > > Well, technically, I guess they were all different characters: Eisenhower, Truman, Grant, Lincoln, Washington. But I am fairly certain that, when Richard Donner cast Marshall as “The President” in _Superman II_, Donner was thinking of Marshall’s earlier performances. > > In the 1980s, a number of comedy films finished off their credits list with the line, “and E.G. Marshall as the President”. Helen Mirren has played at least eight different queens, so she’s in a very similar boat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-played-the-same-role-in-unrelated-movies/576375.md?page=2)