Ethan Hawke has a lot of scenes where he’s out in the snow. Probably a lot of actors do, but in his early career, it was almost obligatory.
Stanley Tucci, early in his career, seemed to be tied to chairs a lot.
Judy Davis has been in a couple of movies where she is killed via decapitation or head injury.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is frequently seen kicking stuff.
And when it was learned he could do the splits, most of his movies had scenes written in of him doing the splits. A sort of modern day version of the Marx Brothers trope where Harpo would inexplicably find a harp in each if his movies.
Somewhat OT: A friend of mine from school is known for dying in his roles. He even got a NY Times article out of it: TV Actor Chalks Up Dramatic Demise No. 7. I know he’s died on TV a few more times since this was published in 2009. 
Nobody’s mentioned yet that Mel Gibson is constantly getting tortured?
And John Cusack stands out in the rain in most of his movies.
This isn’t the kind of thing I’d prefer – I like when the situations and roles are unrelated – but this one is too weird not to point out.
Duncan “Dean” Parkin’s entire acting career consists of playing one-eyed, brain-impaired, face-altered bald giants in Bert I. Gordon movies. He replaced Glenn Langan as Glenn Manning in War of the Colossal Beast(1958), and played a similar character in The Cyclops (1957).
No, since “The Best Things in Life Are Free” was not in How to Succeed.
Really? Huh! I thought that was the whole joke.
Didn’t know, never saw the musical. 
Yes, he is a man who enjoys a good piss.
This one isn’t what the OP is looking for, either. But it’s close enough that I’ll put it here, rather than starting another thread.
Similar scenes in movies released about the same time, even though there aren’t any actors in common.
Consider this: In a science fiction film released in 2015 but felt to “bomb”, our heroine is somehow special, although she doesn’t know how. She is pursued by a team of assassins with super-science weapons and abilities, and is guided to to a lonely house well out in the country by a mysterious Protector who is More Than HUman. The house is in pretty sorry shape, badly in need of repairs and a paint job. Our heroine goes inside and asks help of the guy inside. He’s a good guy, but he’s grizzled and disillusioned and badly in need of a shave. Worse, he isn’t in a hurry to help the heroine and wants to know why he should.
Not all that long after the heroine arrives, the Assassin team also arrives at the Lonely House and begins attacking, doing destruction to the house. But the grizzled Good Guy responds with unexpected super-science of his own, taking a toll on the pursuers. Eventually, Grizzled Hero and Heroine escape, although still pursued by some assassins, and are joined by the Mysterious Protector.
Jupiter Ascending and Tomorrowland.
You can argue that I’m cherry-picking, and I am a little, but those elements are in both films in just that way. I could add that Our Heroine shows off some of what makes her special while at the house, but that’s not that surprising. I sure can’t think of another movie where anything quite like all of this happens.
In fact, we’ve done that before:
My favorite example, which I mentioned in both threads, is that there are two mid-1980’s films about a young housewife, married a businessman husband who ignores her, who is fascinated by the adventures of a free-spirited young woman. When she falls and hits her head, she imagines that she is the young woman she has been fantasizing about. She gets into adventures where her life is in danger and falls in love with a more exciting man than her husband. Since she has amnesia, neither she nor this man realize that she is married. The adventures end happily with the crooks being caught, but the woman recovers her memories. Her boring husband wants her to come back home and the exciting new man is willing to give her up. She realizes that she actually loves the new man, so she leaves her husband for him.
The two films are American Dreamer (1984) and Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Yeah, but these movies just came out, and wouldn’t be in the previous threads.
Max von Sydow plays chess in The Seventh Seal (1957) and plays chess again in the horror film The Night Visitor (1971). Sly allusion? Perhaps.
I haven’t seen The Night Visitor, but the “Death Plays Chess with Man” scene has to be one of the most copied and parodied in the world, with the short subject The Dove (death plays badminton), Woody Allen’s playlet Death Knocks (Death plays Gin Rummy), the National Lampoon article “Bobby Fischer Teaches you how to Beat Death at Chess”, and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (which was originally to be called Bill and Ted go to Hell) (Death plays Battleship, Clue, and Twister).
I’m sure there are others*. But I don’t know of any others involving Max von Sydow
*According to Wikipedia, it’s even parodied in Muppets Most Wanted, which I haven’t seen.
In Three Days of the Condor, Max the Assassin collects and paints miniature soldiers. Close, kinda.
In 1964 there were two films about the U.S. accidentally starting a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Both movies showed bomber crews while their planes ran a gauntlet of Soviet defenses. Both had scenes taking place in a military situation room complete with large, real-time displays showing the progress of the bombers. Both showed the U.S. President talking by phone with the Soviet Chariman, trying to convince him the attack is an accident, and an adviser recommending that the accidental attack be followed by an all-out first strike. Both movies are in black-and-white. One of them has Larry Hagman and Dom DeLuise; the other is a comedy.
If a motorist’s car breaks down in the rain, he’s heading for Tim Curry’s house.
Michael Rooker had a sword for a hand in The Walking Dead. He played a treasure seeker on CSI: Miami (2003) and he had a hook for a hand.