Prisoner of Zenda (1979) he played Rudolf IV, Rudolf V, and Syd Frewyn
The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu (1980) – he played both the Villain (Fu Manchu) and the Hero (Nayland Smith)
Undercovers Hero (sic) (1976) – he played SIX roles, including Adolph Hitler
The Mouse that Roared (1959) he played three roles – Tully Bascomb, Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy, and Grand Duchess Gloriana XII (who was much prettier in the book, as I recall)
Let’s Go Crazy (1951 – short) Five roles, including Groucho Marx
Penny Points to Paradise (1951) a miserable two roles
—besides Dr. Strangelove, of course.
You could also argue that in Casino Royale (1967) he was Evelyn Tremble and James Bond, but I think that’s cheating.
He also played five different characters on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Cromartie, George Laszlo, The Beast Wizard, Agent Kester and John Henry.
Let’s see:
T-800 from the first Terminator.
Uncle Bob from T2
The T-850 in T3 (and Sgt. Candy in a deleted scene)
The T-RIP in T4 (CGI)
The T-800 (older) in T5 along with a CGI T-800 (younger)
You’d think these guys come off an assembly line or something.
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[li]Sebastian, aka ‘Jack’ in the season two episode Comes the Inquisitor [/li][li]Lorien in Season 4. [/li][li]Narn named “G’Dan” in the season 4 episode And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place [/li][li]Drazi in the season four episode Intersections in Real Time [/li][li]Drakh in the season five episodes Movements of Fire and Shadow and The Fall of Centauri Prime. [/li][li]Drakh in Babylon 5: A Call to Arms [/li][li]unnamed soul* in Babylon 5: The River of Souls*[/li][/ul]
MJS got his money’s worth out of the guy.
Stark was basically Sellers’s best mate and lackey. While few others seem to have liked him, his reputation still managed to take a post-Savile tumble.
Alyssa tells of having sex with Gwen in Chasing Amy. And Gwen was named after filmmaker/actress Guinevere Turner who called Alyssa up to sing in Chasing Amy.
Stan Lee appeared in Mallrats playing Stan Lee, of all people.
Jason Lee appeared as both Brodie and Banky in J&SBSB.
For Kevin Smith, having the person play multiple roles in the same movie started with Clerks. No budget meant making do.
There was also Meg Ryan in Joe Versus the Volcano. I thought the director was trying to make some New Age point about all women being the same woman, but lost interest due to all the film’s other suckage.
Also, Moira Kelly in Chaplin as Hetty Kelly / Oona O’Neill Chaplin.
On the flip side, there’s two or more actors playing the same character in a movie. Usually it’s because they’re in different time periods (like Ralph Fiennes and David Kross in The Reader) or because an actor died (Bela Lugosi and some other guy in Plan Nine from Outer Space), but sometimes different actors play different aspects of a character’s personality (Brad Pitt and Ed Norton in Fight Club, Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino in Norma Jean & Marilyn, or the best, Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina as Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire). Also, all the people who played Bob Dylan in I’m Not There. Dammit, if *anybody’s *gonna derail this thread, it’ll be me!
On the flip flip side, how about the BACK TO THE FUTURE movies? Same actor as a different character in sequel after sequel – both Michael J. Fox as a succession of McFlys, and Thomas F. Wilson as a succession of Tannens.
Of course, the only one of those he wasn’t in a full-body, face-covering costume was Weazel in TPM (created on the fly, when Lucas decided he wanted WD’s face to actually be seen, which his other character, Wald, would not allow), which makes that a lot easier to get away with.
(They’ve also all got ‘W’ names, aside from Yoda, who he did some doubling for in TPM.)
Speaking of Xena, her sidekick Gabrielle, was played by Renee O’Conner, who herself had previously played Deianeira in one of the Kevin Sorbo Hercules TV movies that predated the Legendary Journeys series.
I came in to mention him. That actually angered an English acquaintance of mine enough for him to stop watching the show. I found it a little odd myself, I mean there’s no sad shortage of actors, but it really pissed this guy off. Admittedly, he was a few cars short of a full deck anyway.
There were probably a number from The Godfather. Here’s two more:
In Godfather I, Frank Sirvero played an uncredited, but very interested onlooker on the street when Sonny beats his brother-in-law, Carlo Rizzi.
In Godfather II, he plays young consigliere, Genco Abbadando.
In Godfather II, Carmine Caridi plays Carmine Rosato
In Godfather III, he play Albert Volpe, “Lucky Coat Guy”
