# Same Actor: Different Roles / Different Movies – Same Scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2015, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245 "2015-06-11T10:18:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/21 "2015-06-11T19:34:06Z")
Liam Neesen in Taken, Taken2, Taken3, TakenAback, the one about his son that got taken, the one about the gravestones and a walk… I don’t know if thats typecast or what - but pretty much every movie he’s in hes the same person. ---
**Author:** ![Nuveena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nuveena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuveena)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/22 "2015-06-11T19:45:06Z")
It’s probably a deliberate nod to the former scene, but I think it’s pretty subtle. In Reversal of Fortune, Alan Dershowitz calls Claus Von Bülow (played by Jeremy Irons) a very strange man to which he replies in a very Jeremy Ironsish way, “You have no idea.” In the Lion King, Simba calls Uncle Scar (Jeremy Irons) so weird, and Jeremy Irons delivers the same line with the same inflection. ---
**Author:** ![Nuveena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nuveena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuveena)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/23 "2015-06-11T19:47:51Z")
Also Denzel Washington loves to guarantee things. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg71ZNlZRX4) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/24 "2015-06-11T20:08:03Z")
William Daniels sang a bit of “It’s Hot as Hell in Philadelphia” in “Boy Meets World”, just as he had in _1776_. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/25 "2015-06-11T20:35:41Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > William Daniels sang a bit of “It’s Hot as Hell in Philadelphia” in “Boy Meets World”, just as he had in _1776_. He also sang it in an episode of _St. Elsewhere_, but those fall into self-parody. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/26 "2015-06-11T22:14:53Z")
Is **Star Wars Ep. 4** , Han Solo (_Harrison Ford_) yells and charges off screen after retreating Stormtroopers, only to come running back faster followed by a larger contingency of Stormtroopers. In **Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom** , Indiana Jones (_Harrison Ford_)yells and charges off screen after retreating Indian warriors, only to come running back faster followed by a larger contingency of Indian warriors. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/27 "2015-06-12T17:31:22Z")
I’ve mentioned this before: A couple of months ago, I was watching 2003’s _ **Columbo Likes the Night Life** _, in which Matthew Rhys is the villian who murders a guy by hanging him, and then leaves a suicide note on the victim’s computer. Two hours later, I was watching _ **The Americans** _ … and Matthew Rhys as Phillip murders a guy by hanging him, and then leaves a suicide note on the victim’s computer. Either Matthew had a hand in writing that episode, or he must have had one helluva feeling of _déjà vu_ while filming it! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/28 "2015-06-12T17:35:12Z")
Does Robert Morse singing “The Best Things in Life Are Free” in both _ **How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying** _ and _ **Mad Men** _ count? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/29 "2015-06-12T21:11:46Z")
Phil Harris in _Jungle Book_ and _Robin Hood_. Same scenes, different colours. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/30 "2015-06-13T19:43:43Z")
In both _ **Chasing Amy** _ and\*\*\* Gigli,\*\*\* there are scenes in which Ben Affleck is awkwardly (but ultimately successfully) flirting with a lesbian he has a crush on. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/31 "2015-06-13T20:18:59Z")
Jeff Goldbloom. In both Independence Day and Jurasic Park, he is the passenger in a chase scene and tells the driver/pilot “must go faster”. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/32 "2015-06-13T22:44:48Z")
Ciaran Hines and James Purefoy (somewhat) reprised their respective roles as Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony in a sci-fi movie (John Carpenter?) ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/33 "2015-06-13T22:48:35Z")
Much easier: all shooting and punching scenes by John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Sly, Ahnold, Chuck, and Stephen. All dancing by Fred, Gene and Donald. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/34 "2015-06-14T00:47:05Z")
[David Warner](http://statici.behindthevoiceactors.com/behindthevoiceactors/_img/actors/actor_52.jpg) was in _ **Titanic** _ (he played Lovejoy, the butler of Billy Zane’s character Cal). He was also in a movie made in 1979. The name? _ **SOS Titanic** _ and he wasn’t a bit player in it either, he was the lead role. Poor guy. On the Titanic twice. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/35 "2015-06-14T01:03:48Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Jeff Goldbloom. In both Independence Day and Jurasic Park, he is the passenger in a chase scene and tells the driver/pilot “must go faster”. I think this is the best example so far Does Shawn of the Dead/Hot Fuzz/(I’m assuming) World’s end “What? You’ve never taken a shortcut before?” count? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/36 "2015-06-14T06:28:04Z")
Not exactly what the OP asked for, but interesting. Kevin Pollak, in his stand-up comedy days, doing an [impersonation of Jack Nicholson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZHhHmqxhRg). Tom Cruise, in _A Few Good Men_, doing an [impersonation of Jack Nicholson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2H9WL0ph4) to Kevin Pollak. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/37 "2015-06-14T08:15:14Z")
James Mason as Erwin Rommel in both _ **The Desert Fox** _ and _ **The Desert Rats** _. On TV: Leo G Carroll as Alexander Waverly in both _ **The Man** _ and _ **The Girl from UNCLE** _. Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman in both \*\*\*The Six Million Dollar Man \*\*\*and _ **The Bionic Woman** _. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/38 "2015-06-14T09:10:45Z")
> [@Daddypants](#): > > Sean Bean dies in most of his roles. You got any idea how difficult it is to practice dying? It’s his most valued skill! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/39 "2015-06-14T10:03:39Z")
Here are six examples of this repetition of scenes with the same actor in different roles: > **[6 Actors Who Play the Exact Same Role in Multiple Movies](https://www.cracked.com/article_20208_6-actors-who-play-exact-same-role-in-multiple-movies.html)** > > Some actors find themselves in the same oddly specific situations in different movies. Not because they're typecast, but seemingly by pure coincidence. I think that of these six examples only Jennifer Connelly and the piers has been mentioned before in this thread. simster writes: \> Liam Neesen in Taken, Taken2, Taken3, TakenAback, the one about his son that \> got taken, the one about the gravestones and a walk… \> \> I don’t know if thats typecast or what - but pretty much every movie he’s in hes \> the same person. Not every movie he’s been in, just most of those since the first _Taken_ in 2008. It was a blockbuster, so somebody in Hollywood decided that henceforth they would offer him roles where his character gets revenge for something done to his family. This is a very blatant example of typecasting. Before the first _Taken_ he did lots of different sorts of characters and now he’s mostly the same character each time. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245/40 "2015-06-14T23:08:05Z")
British character actor [Peter Vaughan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891092/?ref_=tt_cl_t7) had similar death bed scenes in **Game of Thrones** and **The Remains of the Day**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-different-roles-different-movies-same-scene/722245.md?page=3)