# Same Actor, Same "Scene" -Different Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588 "2006-12-02T15:55:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/21 "2006-12-05T20:58:53Z")
[QUOTE=HelloKitty] The Firm Jerry Maguire Minority Report Mission Impossible Vanilla Sky Far and Away Collateral And I’m sure I’m forgetting a few. [/QUOTE] Well, how about just “Tom Cruise is the best [xxx] in the world”? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/22 "2006-12-05T21:14:40Z")
Sarah Silverman has a line in _School of Rock_ along the lines of “Stand up for yourself!” In _Futurama_, she did the voice of Fry’s on-again/off-again girlfriend of the past 1,000 years, Michelle, and has the line “Quit standing up for yourself!” ---
**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:** [December 5, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/23 "2006-12-05T21:43:10Z")
**Tommy Kirk** played a Martian invading Earth and trying to get women in 1964’s **Pajama Party** and 1967’s \*\* Mars Needs Women\*\*. Why? I can understand Bela Lugosi playing a vampire over and over, or Sean Connery playing James Bond for different companies, but what about Tommy Kirk says “Martian Invader”? Kirk also played the brother of **Kevin Corcoran** in five unrelated fims: **Old Yeller The Shaggy Dog Swiss Family Robinson Bon Voyage! Savage Sam** > **[Tommy Kirk - Biography - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0456565/bio/)** > > Tommy Kirk. Actor: Pajama Party. Scrappy, plucky-looking Kentucky-born Tommy Kirk, who was born on December 10, 1941, became synonymous with everything clean and fun that Disney Entertainment prescribed to in the late 1950s and very early 1960s. One... ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/24 "2006-12-05T21:56:03Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Kirk also played the brother of **Kevin Corcoran** in five unrelated fims: **Old Yeller The Shaggy Dog Swiss Family Robinson Bon Voyage! Savage Sam** [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t exactly call those movies “unrelated.” They were all done by Disney at the time when Tommy Kirk, Kevin (“Moochie”) Corcoran and Annette Funicello turned up in just about everything Disney produced. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/25 "2006-12-05T22:21:16Z")
> [@](#): > > I wouldn’t exactly call those movies “unrelated.” They were all done By “unrelated” I (and the guy who wrote the “trivia” entry I scarfed) mean that there was nothing related about the stories or their sources. Disney made them all, but they weren’t constrained to use the same actors in all five flicks. I can’t think of another case where they had such a run of unrelated actors playing relatives. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/26 "2006-12-05T22:31:14Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] By “unrelated” I (and the guy who wrote the “trivia” entry I scarfed) mean that there was nothing related about the stories or their sources. Disney made them all, but they weren’t constrained to use the same actors in all five flicks. I can’t think of another case where they had such a run of unrelated actors playing relatives. [/QUOTE] **Savage Sam** was the sequel to **Old Yeller** , and the two actors were playing the same characters in both. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/27 "2006-12-06T03:14:26Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] Well, how about just “Tom Cruise is the best [xxx] in the world”? -Joe [/QUOTE] What happens if Tom Cruise meets Starbuck? ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/28 "2006-12-06T03:21:00Z")
Harvey Keitel plays a “cleaner” in both **Pulp Fiction** and **Point of No Return**. That is, he is called in to dispose of a dead body. This is accomplished with a great deal more humor in Pulp Fiction. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/29 "2006-12-06T07:13:56Z")
In **Murder By Death** , Eileen Brennan faints and is not caught by Alec Guinness. In **Clue** , Eileen Brennan faints and is not caught by Tim Curry. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/30 "2006-12-06T12:56:18Z")
David Carradine plays the tough, ruthless racing-car driver in an almost no-rules, trackless race movie directed by Paul Bartels. **Death Race 2000** (1975) and **Cannonball** (1976) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/31 "2006-12-06T14:16:28Z")
Mel Gibson attacks someone with the American Flag - _The Simpsons_ and _The Patriot_. (While The Simpsons was a parody of _Mr Smith Goes to Washington_, if I’m not mistaken, it came before The Patriot, which means that The Patriot scene could be a parody of The Simpsons?) :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/32 "2006-12-06T18:13:40Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] What happens if Tom Cruise meets Starbuck? [/QUOTE] Starbuck kicks his ass because Tom Cruise is a total pussy? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/33 "2006-12-06T18:14:59Z")
In **North by Northwest** , Cary Grant sings from _My Fair Lady_ (“I’ve becomed accustomed to my bourbon”). In **Charade** , he takes Audrey Hepburn up an elevator and lets her off “On the street where you live” (and this was before the film version of _MFL_ came out). ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588/34 "2006-12-06T20:10:15Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] Starbuck kicks his ass because Tom Cruise is a total pussy? -Joe [/QUOTE] _snort_ Heh, probably. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-same-scene-different-movie/382588.md?page=1)