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.
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.
Also Denzel Washington loves to guarantee things.
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.
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.
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!
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:
Phil Harris in Jungle Book and Robin Hood. Same scenes, different colours.
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.
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”.
Ciaran Hines and James Purefoy (somewhat) reprised their respective roles as Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony in a sci-fi movie (John Carpenter?)
Much easier: all shooting and punching scenes by John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Sly, Ahnold, Chuck, and Stephen. All dancing by Fred, Gene and Donald.
David Warner 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.
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?
Not exactly what the OP asked for, but interesting.
Kevin Pollak, in his stand-up comedy days, doing an impersonation of Jack Nicholson.
Tom Cruise, in A Few Good Men, doing an impersonation of Jack Nicholson to Kevin Pollak.
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.
You got any idea how difficult it is to practice dying? It’s his most valued skill!
Here are six examples of this repetition of scenes with the same actor in different roles:
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.
British character actor Peter Vaughan had similar death bed scenes in Game of Thrones and The Remains of the Day.