# Serial supporting-player partnerships **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764 "2006-07-16T18:40:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/1 "2006-07-16T18:40:08Z")
Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=379897) thread, I was thinking about supporting cast members who seem to pop up together a lot. In that thread, it was noted that Vince D’Onofrio and Vince Vaughn seem to work together quite a bit. One example is Steve Buscemi and Shawnee Smith- she was his bar date at the beginning of _Armageddon_ and his live-in girlfriend in _The Island_. Another was the _Aliens_ crew (Paxton, Henricksen, Goldstein)- all of them were also seen in _Near Dark_ and a couple of other films together. Who else seem to pop up in the same movies a lot? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/2 "2006-07-16T20:16:32Z")
Back in the day, many of MGM’s very best sissies (Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes, Edward Everett Horton) appeared with each other in various combinations in supporting roles. One of the best being _Top Hat_, which featured three of the four. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/3 "2006-07-16T20:51:11Z")
It seems that Matthew Lillard can only get a job if Freddie Prinze jr. is in the film. Ditto with Clint Howard and his brother. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodrigues use the same people for csating most of their movies. Same with Kevin Smith. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/4 "2006-07-16T21:27:38Z")
Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/5 "2006-07-16T22:46:15Z")
Geoffrey Lewis did six movies with Clint Eastwood. But Eastwood did this a lot, especially in his earlier movies. ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/6 "2006-07-17T01:41:29Z")
It’s not necessarily the actors themselves causing it. Watch anything Aaron Sorkin’s ever done and you’ll see the same people over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/7 "2006-07-17T02:07:26Z")
Directors like [John Ford](http://imdb.com/name/nm0000406/), [Robert Altman](http://imdb.com/name/nm0000265/), and [Howard Hawks](http://imdb.com/name/nm0001328/), each had (or have) a pool of actors they often cast in their respective movies. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/8 "2006-07-17T03:21:16Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Directors like [John Ford](http://imdb.com/name/nm0000406/), [Robert Altman](http://imdb.com/name/nm0000265/), and [Howard Hawks](http://imdb.com/name/nm0001328/), each had (or have) a pool of actors they often cast in their respective movies. [/QUOTE] I immediately thought of Ford, who often had Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen in supporting roles in his pictures. For that matter, Hector Elizondo seems to show up in supporting roles in most of Garry Marshall’s movies. Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel are among the guys who show up in supporting roles in loads of Martin Scorsese movies. In the old days, you’d see Tony Roberts and Diane Keaton in most of Woody Allen’s movies. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/9 "2006-07-17T04:55:36Z")
Dom DeLuise seemed to stooge for Burt Reynolds a lot in the 70s. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/10 "2006-07-17T06:15:16Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] Dom DeLuise seemed to stooge for Burt Reynolds a lot in the 70s. [/QUOTE] Dom was also a regular in Mel Brooks films, as were Marty Feldman and Madalyn Kahn. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/11 "2006-07-17T07:19:46Z")
For years Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus were _always_ cast together for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-supporting-player-partnerships/364764/12 "2006-07-17T09:02:36Z")
Steve Buscemi has appeared with Adam Sandler in _Airheads_, _Big Daddy_, _Billy Madison_, _Mr. Deeds_, and _The Wedding Singer_