# Portrayed/appeared in same film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123 "2008-10-29T18:14:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/61 "2008-10-30T18:14:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > That’s just what J(ohn) K(enneth) Rowling _wants_ you to think. And W(inifred) E(llen) B(arabara) Dubois. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/62 "2008-10-30T18:28:08Z")
> [@Arglefraster](#): > > In the Little Rascals movie, one of the kid’s parents was played by the actor who played the kid in the original series. I _think_ it was Alfalfa, but I won’t swear to it. Does that count? Defintely not Alfie, who died in '59, I think. Didn’t see any recognizable names in the credit list, so if it’s true, whoever it is is probably uncredited. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/63 "2008-10-30T18:53:27Z")
In a [movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068171/)about Spike Milligan’s experiences as a WW2 conscript, Spike played his own father. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/64 "2008-10-30T21:30:26Z")
Special mention must also go to _BAADASSSSS!_ (2003), about the filming of _Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song_ (1971). Melvin Van Peebles is played by his son Mario. Mario also appeared in the original movie, as a younger version of his father’s character, so a young Mario appears in _BAADASSSSS!_ as well. For something a little less complex than this, Pee Wee Herman has a cameo in the film-within-a-film in _Pee-wee’s Big Adventure_. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Frink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Mr.Frink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Frink)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/65 "2008-11-01T08:54:42Z")
> [@Arglefraster](#): > > In the Little Rascals movie, one of the kid’s parents was played by the actor who played the kid in the original series. I _think_ it was Alfalfa, but I won’t swear to it. Does that count? This is hard to believe…the youngest rascal would have been at least 60 when this movie was released (1994). Grandparent, maybe, but parent??? ---
**Author:** ![Stopfordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Stopfordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stopfordia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/66 "2008-11-01T15:07:05Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > [24 Hour Party People](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274309/fullcredits#cast) has two cases of this. Paul Ryder of the happy mondays is played by Paul Popplewell, but appears in person as a thug. Also of course the main protagonist Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan) and has a cameo in person. There’s a third one - Howard Devoto, played by Martin Hancock. The real Howard Devoto plays a toilet cleaner. A quick check on [the film’s Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hour_Party_People) has a fourth - Vini Reilly of the Durutti Column, played by Raymond Waring in the film, has a cameo somewhere in the film. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/67 "2008-11-01T15:28:40Z")
In _Searching For Bobby Fischer_, Ben Kingsley plays Bruce Pandolfini, and the real Pandolfini has a line calling a boy a “young Fischer”. ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/68 "2008-11-03T13:40:28Z")
> [@Mr.Frink](#): > > This is hard to believe…the youngest rascal would have been at least 60 when this movie was released (1994). Grandparent, maybe, but parent??? Hmm, now that you mention it, I think you’re right. None of the parents in the movie seemed old enough to be the kids from the old series. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the movie, so it may have been a grantparent or some other older character. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/69 "2008-11-03T15:16:54Z")
Stephen King played Jody Verrill (and his son Joe had a cameo) in the film adaption of five of his short stories [Creepshow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepshow) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/70 "2008-11-03T15:46:57Z")
In the _Brady Bunch Movie_ (or was it the sequel?), Florence Henderson (who played Carol in the TV show) played Carol’s mother, and Ann B. Davis (who played Alice in the show) played a truck driver. There was a 1980’s made-for-TV movie about Ryan White, the teenager with AIDS who would later die. White had a small bit part in that movie. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/71 "2008-11-03T17:37:59Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > In the _Brady Bunch Movie_ (or was it the sequel?), Florence Henderson (who played Carol in the TV show) played Carol’s mother, and Ann B. Davis (who played Alice in the show) played a truck driver. You missed a couple! Barry (Greg) Williams was the agent who wouldn’t sign “Johnny Bravo.” Christopher (Peter) Knight was the blurry guy who told Bobby’s bully to get lost. Mike (Bobby) Lookinland was a cop. Susan Olsen apparently had her scene as a reporter cut, but I could swear that was her comforting Marsha’s lesbian pal near the end of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/72 "2008-11-03T18:11:24Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > A nice twist on the O.P.'s scenario would be the original Broadway production of _Arsenic and Old Lace_. The villain of the play, Jonathon Brewster, becomes extremely violent whenever anyone points out his resemblance to Boris Karloff (the result of a botched face alteration procedure performed by a hungover plastic surgeon). Naturally, the role of Jonathon was played by…Boris Karloff. In this same vein, in the movie “His Girl Friday,” Cary Grant describes Rosalind Russell’s fiance as looking like, “that actor, Ralph Bellamy.” Of course, the fiance is played by Ralph Bellamy. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/73 "2008-11-03T18:42:56Z")
> [@Raza](#): > > Frank Abagnale had a brief cameo as the cop that takes his character into custody near the movie’s end in **Catch Me if you Can**. Wow, and I thought he was already dead. The pictures of him on imdb look a lot better than the one they showed at the end of the film. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/74 "2008-11-03T20:13:37Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > You missed a couple! Barry (Greg) Williams was the agent who wouldn’t sign “Johnny Bravo.” Christopher (Peter) Knight was the blurry guy who told Bobby’s bully to get lost. Mike (Bobby) Lookinland was a cop. Susan Olsen apparently had her scene as a reporter cut, but I could swear that was her comforting Marsha’s lesbian pal near the end of the movie. Well, I’ll be a monkey’s bare-assed uncle. I never knew so many cast members from the show were in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/75 "2008-11-04T05:59:40Z")
Continuing in the vein of not really what the OP wanted… For some reason tonight I remembered a horrible Bob Hope special from the '70s (as opposed to all the good Bob Hope specials from the '70s) in which a bunch of comedians were murdered at a party. The guest list included what was left of Groucho Marx. He was barely capable of speaking at the time, much less moving, so his presence was augmented by Billy Barty running around him in Groucho drag. At one point, George Burns asks, “Who’s that?” and Groucho replies “Me as a kid.” This debacle was titled “Joys,” which was funny because “Jaws” was a popular movie of the time about a shark that terrorized a resort town, and this was a TV special featuring comedians at a party at Bob Hope’s… meh. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/76 "2009-02-15T20:52:01Z")
BUMP! In the Longest Day, [Richard Todd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Todd) played the part of Major Terence Howard, and he meets up with another officer later, the officer being; Richard Todd! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/77 "2009-02-15T23:17:40Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Stephen King played Jody Verrill (and his son Joe had a cameo) in the film adaption of five of his short stories [Creepshow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepshow) King has a cameo in damn near every adaptation of his work. The real Pappy Boyington had a cameo appearance as a visiting general in an episode of **Baa, Baa, Black Sheep** , playing against Robert Conrad as, of course, Boyington. The judge in **Anatomy of a Murder** was played by real-life lawyer Joseph N. Welch, of the Army-McCarthy hearings. For some reason, judges seem to be popular roles for these sort of cameos. Perhaps because there usually isn’t a whole lot of acting required. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/78 "2009-02-16T05:31:11Z")
Steve McQueen played Ralph “Papa” Thorson in _The Hunter_, in which Ralph Thorson played a bartender. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/79 "2009-02-16T07:23:40Z")
> [@Stopfordia](#): > > There’s a third one - Howard Devoto, played by Martin Hancock. The real Howard Devoto plays a toilet cleaner. > > A quick check on [the film’s Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hour_Party_People) has a fourth - Vini Reilly of the Durutti Column, played by Raymond Waring in the film, has a cameo somewhere in the film. Aaaaaaand Mark E. Smith plays a doorman. Smith was supposed to be played by Sam Riley but the scene was cut out. It does appear on the DVD, though. The scene with Howard Devoto may be my favorite in the whole movie: “I definitely don’t remember this happening.” ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123/80 "2009-02-16T07:36:10Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Real-life Doors drummer John Densmore played a recording engineer in **The Doors**. > > ETA: And the real Paul Rothchild also appeared. Jim Morrison’s real-life Pagan “wife” Patricia Kennealy plays the Priestess that handfasts Jim & the movie version of her, played by Kathleen Quinlan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portrayed-appeared-in-same-film/470123.md?page=5)